Student Coffee Talk with Filmmaker Beth Harrington
- Sponsor
- Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
- Speaker
- Beth Harrington
- Registration
- Registration
- Originating Calendar
- CEAPS Events Calendar
- The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS) will be hosting a coffee discussion with filmmaker Beth Harrington. This event is open to any student interested! Coffee will be provided!
🗓️ Monday, September 14th
⏱️ 1:30pm - 2:30pm
đź“Ť 111 Coble Hall.Click here to register as capacity is limited.
After the coffee chat, be sure to visit the Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum at 5:30 pm to catch a film screening of Beth Harrington's film "Our Mr. Matsura." Beth Harrington will be at the film screening and will hold a Q&A with the audience about her movie. For more information about the screening of "Our Mr. Matsura", please visit our calendar page for the event here.
Beth Harrington is an Emmy award–winning independent filmmaker whose work focuses on American culture, history, art, and music. Her film Welcome to the Club—The Women of Rockabilly about the pioneering women of rock and roll was honored with a 2003 Grammy nomination and was seen on PBS stations across the country. In 2014, her film The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music premiered at SXSW and won numerous festival awards including many Best Documentary laurels, as well as Critics’ Picks from both the New York Times and the Village Voice. Harrington has also worked with public television stations WGBH in Boston and Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland, producing, directing, researching, and writing shows for local and national broadcast. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Communication from Syracuse University and a Master’s in American Studies from University of Massachusetts-Boston.