Welcome to the DCAAN community calendar! Below you will find events and programs with accessibility services in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.
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February 21, 2024(1 event) Mother Tongue Film Festival: Frybread Face and Me – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. For our opening night, we are pleased to present Billy Luther’s first narrative feature, “Frybread Face and Me,” followed by a Q&A with one of the film’s protagonists, Charley Hogan (Navajo). “Frybread Face and Me” (dir. Billy Luther, 2023) Content warning: For mature audiences. Contains coarse language. Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian - Rasmuson Auditorium |
February 22, 2024(1 event) Mother Tongue Film Festival: Regeneration – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. Stories of loss, revelation, and recovery can lead us on the path to restoring a sense of wholeness. In this program, youth confront generational trauma and seek to break through for a brighter future. Following the screening, stay for a Q&A with director Xun Sero. Registration at the link below is encouraged. “Mother’s Tongue” (dir. D. Wilmos Paul, 2022) “Mamá / Mom” (dir. Xun Sero, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Ring Auditorium |
February 23, 2024(4 events) Mother Tongue Film Festival: Reclaiming Knowledge – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. As a result of colonization, much Indigenous knowledge was destroyed or extracted, with many sacred objects finding their way to museums overseas. How can Indigenous scholars and communities reclaim their patrimony and reconnect with the knowledges embedded in their objects? We’ll explore questions of return and reclamation in this film and the Q&A that follows with the director and Ñuu Savi cultural experts. Registration at the link below is encouraged. “Ñii Ñu’u” (dir. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Q?rius Mother Tongue Film Festival: Redrawing the Lines – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. How can we find balance when on opposing sides? Can we build spaces for listening and leveling the playing field? A discussion with director Francisco Huichaqueo will follow the screening. Registration at the link below is encouraged. "I Am Home" (dir. Kymon Greyhorse, 2022) "Künü" (dir. Francisco Huichaqueo, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History - Q?rius Mother Tongue Film Festival: Memory and Renewal – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. We invite you on a poignant journey through identity and cultural revival. These films paint a vivid portrait of the struggles and triumphs in reclaiming Indigenous languages. "Grape Soda in the Parking Lot" and "ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)" each uniquely testify to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of erasure, highlighting the vital role language plays in connecting us to our past, present, and future. Join us for an evening screening that reflects on and celebrates the power of memory and words to create change. Registration at the link below is required. Grape Soda in the Parking Lot (dirs. Megan Kyak-Monteith, Taqralik Partridge, 2023) "ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)" (dirs. ᎤᎶᎩᎳ/Schon Duncan, Michael McDermit, 2023) ___ Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Planet Word - Friedman Family Auditorium Mother Tongue Film Festival: Bridging Worlds – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. In this program, two films intersect at the crossroads of love and resistance. "Aikāne" and "Y SŴN" illustrate the spiritual connections that can be formed and the cultural ties that can be broken in the fight against political repression. Though artistically varied, both display the transformative power of commitment, be it to a person or a cause, iterating the fight for identity as a universal narrative. Join this evening screening, followed by a Q&A, and celebrate the indomitable spirit of humanity in its many facets. Registration at the link below is required. "Aikāne" (dirs. Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, 2023) "Y SŴN" (dir. Lee Haven Jones, 2023) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Planet Word - Friedman Family Auditorium |
February 24, 2024(4 events) Mother Tongue Film Festival: Sustenance (Shorts Program) – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. These collected shorts from around the world explore different dimensions of finding sustenance—whether through connecting to place and kin, cooking and eating food, or different forms of artistic expression. Evoking the many dimensions and transformations in these ongoing practices, these films reveal the various ways humans connect to their world. Stay after the films for a Q&A with attending directors. Registration at the link below is encouraged. "Imalirijit" (dirs. Vincent L’Herault, Time Anaviapik Soucie, 2021) "Bhaskar Chitrakar: Painting Kalighat Moderns" (dirs. Matthew Raj Webb, Ihaab Syed, Rohan Sengupta, 2024) "Wa’yûna" (dir. Serena Mosquito, 2023) "Ekbeh" (dir. Mariah Hernandez-Fitch, 2023) "Mutsoóngo Malaávu" (dir. Rosa Vieira, 2023) "Burros" (dir. Jefferson Stein, 2021) "Silt" (dir. Emilie Upczak, 2022) "A Bata do Milho / Corn Beat" (dirs. Eduardo Liron, Renata Mattar, 2023) "Nhakpoti / Star Girl" (dirs. Pat-i Kayapó, Paul Chilsen, 2023) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Baird Auditorium Mother Tongue Film Festival: Hidden Letters – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. Nüshu, a clandestine language created and used solely by Yao women in Hunan Province, offers a unique legacy that unites its practitioners. Delving into the lives of women in modern China bound by the once-secret script, "Hidden Letters" is a poignant exploration of female bonds and the generational echoes of gendered oppression in China. The documentary artfully portrays two women’s journeys as they grapple with the complexities of independence and traditional expectations that both define and confine them. Join us for this inspiring screening followed by a Q&A with director Violet Du Feng, diving deeper into Nüshu’s enduring legacy. Registration at the link below is encouraged. "Hidden Letters" (dirs. Violet Du Feng, Qing Zhao, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art - Meyer Auditorium Mother Tongue Film Festival: The Wind & the Reckoning – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. What lengths would you go to keep your family together? Inspired by real-life events, "The Wind & the Reckoning" explores Native Hawaiians’ stand against government-mandated exile due to leprosy. This film is a powerful statement about the dynamics of resistance and is a point of reflection on the dislocation caused by disease and settler-colonialism in Hawai‘i. Stay after the film for a discussion with Smithsonian curator Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. Registration at the link below is encouraged. "The Wind & the Reckoning" (dir. David L. Cunningham, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Baird Auditorium Mother Tongue Film Festival: We Are Still Here – The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives. Join us for a ceremonial drum blessing closing out our festival, leading into our final film screenings. How does one find balance in the wake of disruptive events? We explore this process through two films that use humor and empathy to make sense of the experience of colonialism and survivance. Each film is a multilayered exploration of the power of telling and retelling stories as a way of finding balance. Registration at the link below is encouraged. "A Bear Named Jesus" (dir. Terril Calder, 2023) "We Are Still Here" (dirs. Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne, 2022) Accessibility at the Mother Tongue Film Festival: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Ring Auditorium |
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