Event overview
Join us for a FREE exclusive screening of a brand new film, Sugar Island (2024), followed by a Q&A discussion with the Director on Tuesday 4 February. Popcorn is included.
For nearly four centuries, the plantation system served as the economic basis of the Caribbean's Sugar Islands, marked by enslavement, and various forms of labour exploitation that have shaped whole societies and cultural expressions.
When Makenya, a Dominican teenage girl discovers she is pregnant, it throws her community's history of marginalisation into sharp relief. Abortion is illegal. Her grandfather is a prominent pensions rights activist in a town encased by sugarcane fields, so Makenya鈥檚 transition into adulthood extends beyond the physical changes brought about by motherhood: it encompasses profound political and spiritual awakening as she comes to terms with her identity in her context.
Through Makenya's coming of age story, Sugar Island makes a sophisticated, visually breathtaking case for reckoning with history as necessary for experiencing freedom in the present.
Currently touring the film festival circuit, join us for a very special screening of Sugar Island (2024) followed by a Q&A with the director Johanne Gomez Terrero. This is not to be missed.
Come for the film, stay for the conversation.
FREE ENTRY, registration is essential.
History on Film is a series of free monthly film screenings run by the history department at 吃瓜网. Join us on the first Tuesday evening of every month for great films from and/or about historical moments, expert panelists, and lively discussions accompanied by free popcorn.
Every other month the History on Film screening is Black history themed. The MA in Black British History at 吃瓜网 is the first taught MA programme in the UK to focus exclusively on the histories of peoples of African origin and descent. Applications are now open for for September 2025 entry. The early bird deadline for applications is 28 February. 吃瓜网 is also home to the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, the MA in Black British Literature, MA Race Media and Social Justice, MA Social Justice in Education and many more.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Feb 2025 | 6:30pm - 10:00pm |
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