Pine Bluff, AR – The Micheaux Award & Film Labs launches a two-day event aimed to educate and uplift creatives of color in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The program, Nurture the Narrative, will support the community by providing a podcast lab for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Multimedia Communication students, and hosting a social where creatives and community residents can connect, featuring a short film screening by UAPB Alumna, Neba Evans, focused on nurturing the narrative of the city.
The Nurture the Narrative event will begin on November 3, 2023, on the campus of the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff. Students who register will take part in a half-a-day intensive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. focused on podcast creation. The following day, November 4, 2023, the event will continue with a networking social and documentary screening of A Song of the Bluff at the ARTSpace on Main.
“The Micheaux Award & Film Labs initiative is determined to build a sustainable success for creatives of color in Arkansas. One of our most powerful assets is our own community narratives. MAFL is honored to partner with the Pine Bluff community with its wealth of historical context and current resources to cultivate the next generations of storytellers and provide them with space to shape new narratives for the city. We are grateful to our partners and invite the entire state to join us in celebrating our creatives of color.” – Dr. Airic Hughes, Chairperson, MAFL
Tickets are free. Registration is required.
Micheaux Social and Screening at ARTSpace on Main:
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 5:30 pm to 9 pm. Click To Register:
Micheaux Film Lab at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: Friday, November 3, 2023, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Click to Register (Note: This lab is for Multimedia students only. The program’s department chair has the access code for those students.) ACCESS CODE FOR MULTIMEDIA COMM DEPARTMENT: MAFLxUAPBmmc
For more information, contact Dr. Airic Hughes, Micheaux Awards & Film Lab Chairperson info@micheauxfilmlabs.org
About Micheaux Award & Film Labs: The Micheaux Award & Film Labs strives to create spaces for artists and creatives of color to learn and grow together. Through direct funding, environments, and experiences curated for strategic alignment and organic mentorship generation, the program vision is to focus resources and accelerate the capacity for creative communities of color throughout the state of Arkansas.
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