Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Ben Allred, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture

Susan Rodriguez will discuss designing in the public realm and the creation of buildings and spaces that distill the essence of cultures and communities. She will share a series of projects that serve a diverse range of communities from off-the-the-grid rural locations to dense urban neighborhoods of New York City.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

USA - 2024 - 100 minutes - Written and Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.

Watch the trailer here.

HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS:

MAMBAR PIERRETTE, a free-spirited seamstress navigates poverty and patriarchy in the Cameroonian city of Douala.

Cameroon/Belgium - 2023 - 93 minutes - A Film by Rosine Mbakam.

Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.

Watch the trailer HERE
Co-Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment

Join us for a screening of a music-related movie! 

HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS: A WOLFPACK CALLED ERNESTO.

Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

Mexico, France - 2023 - 81 minutes.

DIRECTOR EVERARDO GONZALEZ will be with us for a Q&A after the screening.

Our unique once-a-month event. Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM

OFFICIAL TRAILER

Coordinating with the President and Provost’s Offices, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Climate Action Program, and others, we have the great privilege of bringing Frank Sesno ‘77 to campus for a week-long residency April 29-May 4. In this talk, he will share his strategies and secrets to telling great climate change stories through a variety of media.

The History of Tenryumura: A documentary on the World War II history of a small village in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan and how one community reckons with a significant, tragic, and painful segment of its past. The screening will be followed by a reception and Q&A with village leaders, the documentarians, and student translators. Japanese with subtitles.

Suzanne Slarsky Dael ‘02 will return to campus for a conversation moderated by students Tashi Sherpa ‘24 (International and Global Studies) and Finn Warner ‘24.5 (Environmental Economics). The European Union has cut greenhouse gas emissions by almost a third since 1990 and is working towards its next target: net 55% reductions by 2030. Suzanne graduated as a Geography major and will share insights from her journey from Midd’s GIS lab to her current role monitoring this climate progress as Head of group on climate change mitigation, energy and transport at the European Environment Agency.