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Skin Raises Issues of Race, Gender, Class in Apartheid South Africa
The multiple award winning independent feature film, Skin, directed by Anthony Fabian, tells the real-life story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman with dark skin and black curly hair, born to white Afrikaner parents in Apartheid South Africa, unaware of their own black ancestry. Skin is a reflection on the devastation of institutional racism exemplified by South African Apartheid, and exacerbated by existing patriarchal structures. Despite her appearance, Sandra Laing was raised by her parents as a white girl. Her father fought the court system to classify her as “white” and even sent her to a white school, from which she was expelled. Eventually at age 17 Sandra chose to leave white society and follow her heart, living as a black woman for the first time in her life. For black South Africans, life in the bantustans of Apartheid South Africa was quite different and much harder than Sandra’s childhood. While the film explores a number of intersecting issues of race, gender, class, and politics, at it’s heart it is also about the complex relationship between Sandra and her parents. Skin opens in select theaters this Friday.
GUEST: Helene Muddiman, Award winning film Composer for Skin
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4th Annual Fair Trade and Conscious Gifts Holiday Bazaar featuring local and international fair trade and hand made items
WHEN: Saturday December 12th 2009, 11 am – 4 pm
WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 …
The multiple award winning independent feature film, Skin, directed by Anthony Fabian, tells the real-life story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman with dark skin and black curly hair, born to white Afrikaner parents in Apartheid South Africa, unaware of their own black ancestry. Skin is a reflection on the devastation of institutional racism exemplified by South African Apartheid, and exacerbated by existing patriarchal structures. Despite her appearance, Sandra Laing was raised by her parents as a white girl. Her father fought the court system to classify her as “white” and even sent her to a white school, from which she was expelled. Eventually at age 17 Sandra chose to leave white society and follow her heart, living as a black woman for the first time in her life. For black South Africans, life in the bantustans of Apartheid South Africa was quite different and much harder than Sandra’s childhood. While the film explores a number of intersecting issues of race, gender, class, and politics, at it’s heart it is also about the complex relationship between Sandra and her parents. Skin opens in select theaters this Friday. 
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