Defying Limits: Women's Voices in Challenging Professions
Schedule
Tue Mar 18 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS University of London | London, EN
About this Event
Join award-winning filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper for a 90-minute Women's History Month event featuring:
- The Jill of the Trade (22 minutes), a Best Documentary winner showcasing five women in male-dominated professions. Trailer:
- Guest speaker from a woman in a male-majority field
- Q&A with filmmaker and guest speaker
Bio of Charysse Tia Harper
Being a dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, Charysse Tia Harper has focused projects on her Trinidad culture: award-winning film, The Other Side of Carnival; T&T 50 in Fifteen and Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan and Part 2: Pan Worldwide; and on her American identity: award-winning documentary, 12 Months, First Weekend February and Insurance: Putting Newark on the Map. She created Xplore the World in 2010 to further this mission.
Amidst the Covid-19 lockdown, Charysse made The Jill of the Trade (2021), a documentary short that highlights women from around the world who work in male-dominated industries. She is in pre-production for Las Matadoras, a feature-length documentary about three female bullfighters. Charysse resides in London.
Where is it happening?
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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