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Mark Your Calendar! MCC Takes Part in Rochester's First Native American Film Festival


This year, MCC will host four of the twelve movie nights as part of Rochester's first Native American Film Festival.  MCC will open it's part in the film festival on March 11th with a day of activities including traditional dancing by local Six-Nations dancers at 12:30 in the Campus Center Atrium and a film screening of Expiration Date in the Forum at 6:30.

Other MCC events of note include an Evening with James Luna on March 24th at 6:00 pm in the theater with a screening of the film Vis. a Vis. Luna, a member of the LaJolla band of Luiseno Indians, is a performance artist who infuses form and function into his awareness of Indian Identity. On April 8th at 6:30 in Monroe A/B, MCC will screen three short films on the Film Festival's theme of Indian identity, then Keynote speaker N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning author of House Made of Dawn, will speak at 7:30 in the theater on the crisis of identity facing Native Americans and Indigenous People.

For a full schedule of the Rochester Area Film Festival and MCC's schedule, please visit the website, HYPERLINK "https://www.rocnafilm.org"www.rocnafilm.org.

The festival is a collaborative effort from the Rochester Area Native American Studies Consortium (RANASC) made up of Rochester Area Colleges, The Friends of Ganondagan, and supporters George Eastman House and Kodak. It is part of a larger goal to increase awareness and studies of Native American Issues. Founders hope that those attending the film festival's events this year will explore issues present in the Native American community today, such as identity, stereotypes, history, myth, and spirituality.

MCC's festival is sponsored by the Division of Liberal Arts, Campus Center Visiting Scholar Series, The Native American Club, Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology Department and the English Department in cooperation with the RANASC.

Angelique Stevens
English / Philosophy
02/12/2008