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Film School - Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé

Join RPL Film Theatre online on Thursday, June 3 at 7:00pm CST for a live discussion with Dr. Charity Marsh and Dr. Fredara Hadley.

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

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
USA | 2019 | 77min | STC
Directed by: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Ed Burke

Homecoming is a 2019 concert film about American singer Beyoncé and her performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, written, executive produced and directed by Beyoncé herself.

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. 

Fredara Mareva Hadley, Ph.D. is an ethnomusicology professor at The Juilliard School. She specializes in researching, writing, and teaching African American music. Committed to sharing knowledge about black music by any means possible, Dr. Hadley has been published in academic journals and outlets including Billboard Magazine and PBS where she's written on a variety of topics including Beyoncé and the effect of gentrification on the music of Black communities. She's presented her research topics at universities at conferences both domestic and abroad. Her commentary is featured in several docu-series, most recently she is featured in the PBS documentary, The Black Church, hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates. Her ongoing projects focus on the musical impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and on Shirley Graham DuBois, one of the earliest Black women musicologists and opera composers. Dr. Hadley a proud alumna of two HBCUs: Florida A&M University and Clark Atlanta University.

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