Event

Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years Vancouver Premiere Screening

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia (http://grsj.arts.ubc.ca) presents:

Vancouver Premiere screening of "Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992"
Director-in-Attendance Q & A
Dagmar Schultz, Producer/Director with Q&A with Dr. Annette Henry

www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com

Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 brings to light a little-known chapter of the writer's prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while she challenged white German women to acknowledge and constructively use their white privilege.

Event Co-Sponsor: The Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships (http://csis.arts.ubc.ca)
This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's personal archive, including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.