Newcomb Art Museum is excited to screen “The Veil”, a brave documentary film shot in New Orleans by Raven Ancar (’22), a current student at Tulane majoring in Sociology and Digital Media Practices. Ancar is also President of Tulane Black Student Union, a founding member of Les Griots Violets, and a College Track Scholar. In January of 2019, during her first year at Tulane, Ancar filmed several sit-down interviews with fellow Black students about their experiences on campus to interrogate W. E. B.

Friday, February 19, 12:00-2:00 pm

Faculty and Staff Taking Action on Anti-Black Racism: Viewing of “The Veil”

Join us for a viewing of Tulane student Raven Ancar’s “The Veil” - a documentary about the experiences of Black students on Tulane’s campus. Raven is a junior at Tulane and shares why this documentary is required viewing for all in our community. After the documentary showing and dialogue with Raven, faculty and staff join break-out groups to identify ways they can immediately take action on anti-Black racism in their teaching and learning environments.

New Orleans Center for the Gulf South will host the fifth iteration of Women and Movement with When I Get Home: Black Women Directing in the Gulf South.

The event will feature the acclaimed short film When I Get Home (36 min.), directed by visual artist and singer/songwriter Solange Knowles. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion with Houstonian visual and performance artist Autumn Knight and renown filmmaker and Tulane professor Angela Tucker. New Orleans Center for the Gulf South assistant director and Denise Frazier will moderate.

For the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS has partnered with museums, galleries, universities, and organizations around the world to present over 100 free screenings of STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.

Anthropocene River Campus Public Programs welcomes Campus participants and collaborators and the public to gather together for a slate of experiences open to all. Programming includes offerings by Campus participants, members of the Anthropocene Working Group, and additional Gulf South artists, scholars, and scientists from Tulane University and beyond.

Anthropocene River Screenings Monday, November 11, 2019, 7:30pm

Kendall Cram, Lavin Bernick Center, Tulane University

Free screening of the Academy Award winning film Boys Don't Cry which stars Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, and Peter Saarsgard.  It is the story of young female-to-male transgender Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) who leaves his hometown under threat when his ex-girlfriend's brother discovers that he's biologically female. Resettling in the small town of Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon falls for Lana (Chloë Sevigny), an aspiring singer, and begins to plan for their future together.

Please join us on Friday, March 22, 2019 at 2pm for a free screening of "Yemanjá: Wisdom from the Heart of African Brazil," a documentary film about the Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition of Candomblé as told through the voices of elder woman leaders.

Please note screening will not be at The Latin American Library, but rather across the street at The Labyrinth, 7102 Freret St, New Orleans.

 A picture of life on the coast and a historical retrospective in three short films from the Post Coastal series.  Hosted by A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC)

 In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two teams of 12-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of history. Sixty-years later, the players of the first racially integrated little league baseball game in the South reflect on this revolutionary event in the documentary, building a bridge to healing the social divide that still exists in our country today.

Nir Baram, award-winning author and filmmaker, will be presenting his documentary film "Land Without Borders".  "Land Without Borders" is based upon Baram's book and won the 2017 Ophir Award for best documentary movie.  Some of Baram's other works include fiction novels: World Shadow (2013), Good People (2010), and The Remaker of Dreams (2006).  In 2010, Baram received the Prime Minister's Award for Hebrew Literature.  Discussion and Q/A session to follow the film showing.