01/19/2024
From Parent Laura Shackelford (daughter is in 11th grade at SOTA).
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High School Women.
You are invited to join us for a film screening of a series of Finnish Women Directors’ Short Films at the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman House on Wednesday, January 31st at 7:30-9:00 p.m. (https://www.eastman.org/event/film-screenings/finnish-women-filmmakers-shorts-program).Gathering Stories, with the generous support of the Cornelia T Bailey NEW ERA Women Writers Grant, will pay for your ticket and for those who are free for a pre-screening dinner at 6:00-6:15 p.m. at the nearby Old Pueblo Grill (https://www.oldpueblogrillroc.com/), we will pay for your dinner before we all walk across the street together to the film screening.You can find out more about our Gathering Stories workshops, organized through the Center for Engaged Storycraft at the Rochester Institute of Technology, at https://www.rit.edu/storycraft/high-school-storytelling-workshopsThere is no registration process for this event, but please do email Professor Laura Shackelford at [email protected] to RSVP if you are coming. Please indicate your name and school, and whether you will attend the dinner and film, or just the film screening so we know to expect you and confirm that you have your parent’s consent to join us.In the meantime, we hope you willStay warm, keep writing, keep reading!Best,Laura Shackelford, Karen ‘Ren’ vanMeenen, Rashida Burch-Washington, Emily Offerman, and Kenzie Vanacore – Gathering Stories Workshop leaders
