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Within the Shadowz of Belize: A Green Day Arises

A poetry reading and film screening by Belizean artist Clyde Gillett

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
1:00 PM
Presentation Room
Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA

Belizean artist Clyde Gillet captures both his country's beauty juxtaposed with the hard lives of its people in his writing, photography, and filmmaking. At this event he will read from his poetry and screen his short documentary Within the Shadows of Belize: A Green Day Arises (2011), which explores this formoer British colony's attempts to find its freedom by optimizing its green economy.

A Q&A session with Gillet will follow.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Special Instructions

Seating is on a first-come basis

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, ThinkGreenWorldWide.org