CAL TH GET BOXL OR ESE FRTICKE OFF VISIT EE E TS FO ICE. TH VEN R 704 E BA TS! .233 TTE .830 ENGAGING AUDIENCES WITH FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS 0 The Southern Circuit is the South’s only tour of emerging and respected filmmakers,
RSITY providing communities with a free and interactive way of experiencing independent film. Featuring six films over six months, The Circuit presents filmmakers screening and discussing their work with campus and community audiences at The Batte Center at Wingate University.
MIND|GAME: Rick Goldsmith THE UNQUIET JOURNEY OF CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW Feb. 7, 2017 7PM McGEE THEATER Mind/Game tells the compelling story of basketball phenom Chamique Holdsclaw, the “female Michael Jordan,” from her rise to WNBA stardom to her struggle with mental illness and the strength she called on to speak out about it. The film debuted at the 2015 Nashville Film Festival where it won its first of many Audience Awards.
MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE Mar. 14, 2017 7PM McGEE THEATER
Bob Hercules Rita Coburn Whack
Maya Angelou has lived not one life, but half a dozen: from her hardscrabble roots in the Depression-era South to supper club chanteuse, coordinator for Martin Luther King’s SCLC, journalist in Egypt and Ghana, comrade of Malcolm X, Presidential medal of freedom honoree and bestselling author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Her life has uncannily intersected with some of the most profound moments in modern American history.
This is a collaborative project of The Batte Center and the Union County Community Arts Council with support from the Wingate University Lyceum program, Writing Center and Department of English.
THE IF PROJECT Apr. 4, 2017 7PM RECITAL HALL
Kathlyn Horan
The If Project follows a group of inmates incarcerated in a maximumsecurity women’s prison who are part of a writing workshop co-created by a Seattle police detective and a repeat offender serving a nine-year sentence. The workshop challenges the women to answer, in their own words, a simple question with a difficult answer: What if things had been different?
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Screenings are supported in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.