Film Screening: "12 Years a Slave"
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Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall72 Porter Field Road
Middlebury, VT 05753 View in Campus Map
Free
Open to the Public
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Join us for the public screening of “12 Years a Slave” [2013], the Academy Award-winning film based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir of the same name. It was Henry Bliss Northup, Middlebury Class of 1829, who rescued Solomon from slavery. The film will be introduced by Associate Professor of History William Hart, whose research of this highly dramatic historical event is in the current Middlebury College magazine. Co-sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Film & Media Culture Department. Free
- Sponsored by:
- Museum of Art
Contact Organizer
Museum Of Art Information
mlane@middlebury.edu
443-5007