Sanctuary Cinema FREE Film Screening

SCREENING | THURSDAY, MAY 28 | 5:30 PM | FREE Sanctuary Cinema & Explora! Present GATHER Film Screening Join Sanctuary Cinema, in collaboration with W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Expora, and Xstudio, at FUSION on Thursday, May 28, at 5:30 PM, for a community screening of GATHER: Illumine Presents In association with Ager Meillier Films and First Nations Institute  A film by Sanjay Rawal  Director: Sanjay Rawal Producer: Tanya Meillier  Website: www.gather.film Instagram @gatherfilmproject  Facebook @gatherfilm  Executive Producers: Jason Momoa, Brian Mendoza, Jennifer Buffett, Wendy Schmidt, Christine Schantz. GATHER is a 74 minute feature documentary. GATHER is an intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide.  SYNOPSIS: Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to re connect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.  Am indigenous chef embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon.  All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a way forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people.  SCHEDULE Thursday, May 28 5:30 PM: Doors 6:00 PM: Film Screening 7:30 PM: Panel + Discussion Learn more about Sanctuary Cinema in this conversation between Sanctuary Cinema founders, shiloh burton and Luis Peña-Álvarez, and FUSION staff writer, Rudolfo Carrillo, “Shelter from a Storm: Narrative Sovereignty at Sanctuary Cinema.” FREE RSVP READ Article WEBSITE Instagram FACEBOOK About Explora! Explora is a unique place that puts people’s learning in their own hands. Explora has been from the very beginning, a collaboration of great visions.  It began around 1983 with two individual groups who with no knowledge of each other’s existence had similar ideas: the first group envisioned a “children’s exploratorium,” while the second had the idea of a “science and technology exploratorium.” Since the merging of the two ideals in 1995 Explora has been, and will continue to be, a learning place for people of all races, ages, genders, abilities, and backgrounds. We believe that family, caregivers, peers, and colleagues are essential partners in learning. Explora advocates for lifelong, materials-rich inquiry, while acknowledging that it isn’t always easy. We value curiosity, hands-on trial and error, and the agency and growth that comes with both failing and...