DAYS OF THE WHALE EVENT RECAP: Street Art, Community, & Medellin!

Thank you to all who attended our film screening and panel discussion!

The event was a big success! 

On April 8^th, Spanish for Community held a screening of Days of the Whale, followed by a discussion with film director, Catalina Arroyave Restrepo, Colombian writer and muralist Santiago Rodas, and UBC faculty members María Adelaida Escobar Trujillo, Alessandra Santos and Jon Beasley-Murray.

We had a lively conversation, centered around cooperative art, urban resilience, graffiti, Medellin, & more!

¡GRACIAS!

Special thanks to

• Film producer Jaime Guerrero and Rara Colectivo Audiovisual, for facilitating the screening of Days of the Whale
• Alessandra Santos and Jon Beasley-Murray, panelists
• Maria Adelaida Escobar Trujillo, moderator and liaison
• María Julieta Cordero, event translator
• Celine Diaz, communications coordinator
• Michael Ferrazzi, event co-administrator
• Lorenia Salgado-Leos, event co-organizer
• Our co-sponsors, the French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Department (FHIS) and the Latin American Studies (LAS) program