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Film School - What Happened, Miss Simone?

With Charity Marsh & Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot

Join RPL Film Theatre online on Thursday, April 1st at 7:00pm CST for a live discussion with Charity Marsh and Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot

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This event will also be livestreamed on RPL Film Theatre YouTube channel and RPL Film Theatre Facebook page.

What Happened, Miss Simone? is a documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."

USA | 2015 | 1h 41 min | STC |
Directed by Liz Garbuz

This film series explores the lives of women in the music industry. It is curated by Dr. Charity Marsh.

You may access the Regina Public Library collections to borrow a copy of the film with your RPL card. Use #RPLFilmSchool and @RPLFilmTheatre to post questions or comments.

Photo by Evie Ruddy

Dr Charity Marsh (she/her) is Director of the Humanities Research Institute and Director of the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs at the University of Regina, which is located on Treaty 4 lands. She is Associate Professor in Creative Technologies and Interdisciplinary Programs in the Faculty of MAP. Dr Marsh's research focuses on Hip Hop Cultures, gender and technology, community arts-based education, and artists such as Bjork, Madonna, and Peaches. She directed and produced the documentary, I’m Gonna Play Loud: Girls Rock Regina and the Ripple Effect (2020), as well as We Need Rock Camp, a series of shorts about the importance of GRR on youth. Her co-edited collection, We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel, was published in 2020 with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Along with her kiddos, Ilse and Aksel Lena, Charity produces the weekly radio show Imagine This Music! for 91.3 FM CJTR Regina Community Radio.

Photo courtesy of artist

Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot is an artist, writer and administrator who currently works and resides between Treaty 1 and Treaty 4 territories. They have received funding from municipal, provincial and national arts councils as well as awards from local and transnational arts organizations. Their practice engages with themes of place and it’s abstraction from a diasporic, queer and feminist perspective. Currently, they are the Executive Director at the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Co-Director of WNDX Festival of Moving Image and guest editor of the forthcoming Art&Wonder publication.

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