Hear the filmmaker speak about her experience directing and producing Black Diamonds, then stay for a panel discussion dealing with issues brought up in the film, such as, how do social movements evolve from citizen complaints to civil disobedience? What are the connections between destroying the environment and destroying a culture? How can social activism be effective in challenging and changing public and corporate policy?


Featured panelists:

Catherine Pancake, producer, director, filmmaker, and artist, has shown her work at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Philadelphia International Film Festival, Millennium Theater, NYC, and many more venues. In 2001, she won a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for a video demonstration tape of Black Diamonds. Catherine is also an award-wining producer for commercial web site projects and online marketing.


Anita Puckett (PhD linguistics anthropology, Texas) researches language and economic relations in Southern Appalachia. She teaches courses in Appalachian folk culture, community heritage, Appalachian languages and cultures, and critical issues in Appalachian Studies . Virginia Tech's Appalachian Studies Program is housed within the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Brian Grogan is a Graduate Assistant in the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society. The center brings together faculty and students with a range of disciplinary interests to examine the role of language in individual and social transformation and to share this scholarship with the public.

These events are sponsored by the student organization Mountain Justice at Virginia Tech and the Department of English's Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society
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Location:	370/380 Shanks Hall (upper quad near Schultz)
Price:	free
Sponsor:	Department of English's Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society
Contact:	Anita Puckett apuckett@vt.edu 231-9526
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