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The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre
Film Screening & Discussion - Celebrating World Refugee Day
Saturday, June 20
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Bexley Public Library
Bexley Library AuditoriumCelebrate World Refugee Day with a screening of The Foreigner's Home, a film on Toni Morrison's guest exhibition at the Louvre that explores race, identity, "foreignness," and art's redemptive power.
Celebrate World Refugee Day with a screening of The Foreigner's Home: Toni Morrison at the Louvre followed by a community conversation. The documentary screening (57 minutes) will be followed by a community conversation discussing the themes of race, identity, "foreignness," and art's redemptive power explored in the film. Sara Abou Rashed, Palestinian American poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself, will facilitate the community conversation.
Find out more about the documentary on The Foreigner's Home webpage.
About the Moderator:
Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian American poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, Sara’s work has been commended by the UK Forward Prize and received the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Arab Lit Quarterly, 9-12 McGraw Hill Language Arts Curriculum, and in the anthologies A Land With a People, Heaven Looks Like Us, and Ask the Night for a Dream, among others. A graduate of Denison University, Sara lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she serves on the Columbus City Council’s Commission on Immigrant and Refugee Affairs while pursuing a PhD at The Ohio State University. Theories of Return is her debut poetry collection.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Global and Cultural Awareness | Civics, Current Events, and History | Art Music and Culture |
Bexley Public Library
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
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