Celebrating Gloria Rolando's Eyes of the Rainbow

We are excited to share details about a series of upcoming film screenings at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State and Goucher College, celebrating the ouevre of award-winning Afro-Cuban film maker Gloria Rolando. Events take place Nov. 11th (JHU), Nov. 13th (Morgan State) and Nov. 18th (Goucher College).

Since 1991, Gloria has created and publishing a series of documentaries she calls "Histories and Images of Our People" (with information on AfroCubaWeb), inlcuding Oggun: An Eternal Present (1991), My Footsteps in Baraguá (1996), (1997), Raices de Mi Corazon/Roots of My Heart (2001), and Reembarque / Reshipment (2014).

We welcome you to gather with us to screen Eyes of the Rainbow/Ojos del arco iris (1997) at Johns Hopkins University. The screening will include a panel discussion with Angela Caroll, Dr. Amaka Okechukwu, Dr. Guadalupe García, and Sharayna A. Christmas.

Where: JHU | Gilman 50

When: Nov. 11th

When: 6:00 pm - 8:00 PM

These events are sponsored by LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, African Diaspora Alliance, the JHU Center for Africana Studies, the JHU Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, the Black Women Cultural Workers Archive, the JHU Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Morgan State University and Goucher College.

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