Join us for a film screening of 'Moana 2 (2024)' the animated Disney musical film about Moana's journey to find the lost island of Motufetu and break its curse.
Moana receives a call from her ancestors to journey to the far seas of Oceania to break a curse and reconnect the people of Oceania. She reunites with Maui and recruits a crew of unlikely seafarers to help her on her quest.
Families welcome.
Content Rating: Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Rated PG for action/peril. For detailed trigger warnings please visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622970/parentalguide/
All films will be held at the LLC Cinema followed by a short discussion with snacks.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.
Join us for the Building Inclusive Communities workshop! In this workshop, participants actively engage with how society has taught us to think, feel, and behave towards different identities. Through several activities, the group can reflect, dialogue, discuss, and debrief where these messages came from and how they fit into systems of privilege, oppression, power, and bias. Participation in this session counts toward DoCS digital badges in DEIA.
- Instructor: Darnell Thompson, Assistant Director of Education at the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities (SJE).
- Location: LLC Room 150 (Hybrid). This session will be in a hybrid format, the zoom link will be sent to event participants.
- Schedule: Lunch (pizza) will be served at 12:00 PM (noon), and the workshop will begin at 12:30 PM.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button
Join us for a film screening of 'Hidden Figures (2016)' a biographical drama based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, it follows the true story of three African-American women who worked for NASA as 'human computers' at the Langley Research Center.
Content Rating: Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Rated PG for thematic elements and some language. For detailed trigger warnings please visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/parentalguide/
All films will be held at the LLC Cinema followed by a short discussion with snacks.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.
Join us for the Building Inclusive Communities: Advocacy In Action workshop! In this session participants will explore social identities while examining how power and values impact professional spaces. We will then consider how critical leadership within professional spaces needs to a focus within our DEI initiatives and goals.
- Instructor: Darnell Thompson, Assistant Director of Education at the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities (SJE).
- Location: LLC Room 150 (Hybrid). This session will be in a hybrid format, the zoom link will be sent to event participants.
- Schedule: Lunch (pizza) will be served at 12:00 PM (noon), and the workshop will begin at 12:30 PM.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.
Join us for a film screening of 'Origin (2023)' a biographical drama film about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she writes her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson travels the world to research caste systems in Germany, India, and the United States, while also experiencing personal loss. The film explores themes of racism, and links between slavery in America, the Holocaust, the Nazis, and India's caste system.
Content Rating: Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving racism, violence, some disturbing images, language and smoking. For detailed trigger warnings please visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13321244/parentalguide/
All films will be held at the LLC Cinema followed by a short discussion with snacks.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.
Join us for a film screening of 'The Meaning of the Seed (2020)' a documentary film that focuses on the cultural significance of seeds within the Native American community, particularly the Ramapough Lenape tribe in New Jersey, highlighting their efforts to restore their traditional farming practices and achieve food sovereignty through seed preservation, while also addressing issues of environmental justice and resilience against historical injustices faced by indigenous populations; the film is often centered around the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm where these practices are actively being implemented.
Content Rating: Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated. For detailed trigger warnings please visit: The Meaning of the Seed - Our Land, Our Stories
All films will be held at the LLC Cinema followed by a short discussion with snacks.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.
Join us for a film screening of '13th Documentary (2016)' a film that explores the prison system in the United States and how it's connected to the country's history of racial inequality. The film examines the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States. It argues that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865, has been used to continue involuntary servitude in the form of penal labor.
Content Rating: Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated. For detailed trigger warnings please visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5895028/parentalguide/
All films will be held at the LLC Cinema followed by a short discussion with snacks.
To Register: Click on the button below to login into docshr.rutgers.edu, under session details click the 'enroll' button.