Are you looking for something to do on Friday evenings? CineCulture offers free screenings of independent films nearly every Friday during the school year to Fresno State campus students, faculty and staff and the broader community. The movies are followed by a discussion with someone involved in the film or an expert on the subject.

All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.

"Left on Pearl" (2017)
When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 13
Where: Peters Education Center Auditorium (west of the Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center building)

Discussant: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, executive producer

"Left on Pearl" is a documentary about a highly significant but little-known event in the history of the women’s liberation movement, namely the 1971 takeover and occupation of a Harvard University-owned building by hundreds of Boston-area women. The 10-day occupation of 888 Memorial Drive by local women demanding a women’s center and low-income housing for the community in which the building stood, embodied within it many of the hopes, triumphs, conflicts and tensions of "second wave" feminism. One of the few such takeovers by women for women, this action was transformative for the participants and led directly to the establishment of the longest continuously operating women’s center in the United States.

Sponsors: College of Social Sciences and the Center for Creativity and the Arts

Coming next — "The Condor and the Eagle" (2019) in honor of World Water Day on March 22

Four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on an extraordinary transcontinental adventure from the Canadian plains to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice.” The "Condor and the Eagle" offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as the film’s four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacies of resistance to colonialism and its exploitive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another.

For a complete schedule, visit the College of Arts and Humanities blog.