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Film & Discussion Evenings 2013

Past Films

Wednesday,  January 30, 2013
“The Children’s March”
7:00pm
Paradise Library Conference Room, 5922 Clark Rd
"The Children's March" tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham, Alabama, braved fire hoses and police dogs in 1963 and brought segregation to its knees.
Discussion led by Cindy Ratekin, PhD & Chico State professor

Thursday, February 21, 2013
Co-sponsored by Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence & Catalyst Services
“Reviving Ophelia”
7:00pm
Paradise Library Conference Room, 5922 Clark Rd
Inspired by psychologist Mary Pipher's best-selling book, this Lifetime drama shines a light on abusive relationships through the story of two sisters and the girls they're raising -- one of whose "wonderful" beaus may not be so wonderful after all.
Discussion led by Kristy Haber of Catalyst Services

Tuesday, March 12,  2013
“A Class Divided”
7:00pm
 Paradise Library Conference Room, 5922 Clark Rd
This film is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives. William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. The episode intercuts footage from Eye of the Storm with new footage of the students, who are now adults. The film takes us through the journey of a young class learning the unfairness of racism. Elliot teaches the lesson through eye color and different treatment. All of the students admit that this is wrong. In footage of the students as adults, we are able to see how the experiment changed their lives.
Discussion led by Valerie Singleton, MA & Chico State lecturer