TONIGHT:
Join Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights (PARR), the African and Caribbean Students Association (ACSA), and Invisible Children at University of Chicago for a screening of "Rain In a Dry Land"!
When: Wednesday, February 8th at 8:30pm
Where: Harper Building, Room 103, 1116 E 59th street, Chicago, IL
Samosas will be served
"In 2004, thirteen thousand Somali refugees realized their dream of coming to America. They are now living in fifty cities across the country, becoming the largest African group from a single minority to settle in the United States at one time. RAIN IN A DRY LAND chronicles two years in the lives of two extended Somali families as they leave Africa to face new challenges in a strange new land. The film begins in January, 2004, at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where our featured families are stunned by what they learn about America in their "Cultural Orientation" class: refrigerators, stoves, bathtubs, elevators, stairs, buildings taller than one storey, schools. How will these families who speak no English manage to survive in America?"
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