Threads: The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
Directed by Cathy Stevulak. Produced by Cathy Stevulak and Leonard Hill.
2015. 30 minutes. In Bengali and English with English subtitles.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 7:00 pm
Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana IL
A special pre-screening introduction by co-producer Leonard Hill will be presented by the Spurlock Museum Guild Lecture and Performance Series. Madhu Viswanathan, the Diane and Steven N. Miller Centennial Chair in Business, will lead a post-screening discussion with Leonard Hill.
Special Engagement: Join a discussion with co-producer Leonard Hill earlier in the day at the Asian American Cultural Center's (1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL) Food for Thought program at 12:00 pm.
A self-trained and passionate artist, Surayia Rahman is an unconventional Bengali woman who frees herself, other women and families from poverty and social hardships, by guiding hundreds of underprivileged women in Bangladesh to create masterworks of exquisitely hand-embroidered art that has been gifted to dignitaries and admired in collections throughout the world.
For more information on this and future events: http://www.aems.illinois.edu/events/asialens.html