Event Information

Details for Cultural Awareness: Indian Culture Film Screening

Date(s): 05/05/2024 - 05/05/2024

Time:  2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Overview:
The Metroparks’ DEI Cultural Awareness Series provides a way to serve our diverse staff and community to build relationships, continue inclusive programming, and improve equitable practices for Metroparks.

The Metroparks, in partnership with the Ypsilanti District Library-Whittaker, brings a free community screening of the 2022 documentary film “Essential Arrival: Michigan's 21st Century Indian Immigrants”. Following the film, Producer Dr. Arifa Javed will host a live Q&A discussion.

This film focuses on Indian immigrants. For as large a role as this group will play in the coming decades, surprisingly little is known about who Indian immigrants are, what values drive them, and what they have to contribute to the contemporary American economy, striving to remain on top in a complicated globalized world. Interviewing experts from fields like law, sociology, and public policy, in addition to many families of Indian immigrants in Michigan, this film paints a comprehensive, essential picture of Indian Americans

Doors open at 1:15 pm. A reception will take place before the film begins. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information about Dr. Arifa Javed please visit: https://transculturalbridges.com/

Ages: 13 and up.
Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: Free!
Location: Ypsilanti District Library-Whittaker. 5577 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti, MI 48197