Our expected attendance was about 200 people and we ended up filling the auditorium to 250+ people! We were delighted with the number and diversity of the attendees.
For our panel discussion after the film, we had invited Angela Rola, the Director of the Asian American Cultural Center and the Chairperson for the Asian Pacific American Coalition of Connecticut, Dr. Saud Anwar, also the Co-chair for the Asian Pacific American Coalition of Connecticut and a great leader and activist within the Pakistani community and William Howe, Secretary of the Asian Pacific American Coalition of Connecticut as well as an Education Consultant for the Connecticut State Dept of Education. With these three great leaders, we addressed many questions that the audience had.
With about 35 people in the discussion, we began the discussion with Dr. Anwar's slideshow on the basics of hate crimes, how to report it and why. Some topics that were brought up included what things can we do to make a difference even if we are not human rights majors, issues around the violence and bias attacks of Timothy McVeigh, the backlash of the Virginia Tech shootings, the Japanese American Internment. There was also a great topic that was brought up which was if there has been any change in the educational system or curriculum after September 11th.
Overall, our screening of Divided We Fall was a great success! We received great feedback from the attendees and had an overwhelming response afterwards when everyone read our article (front page of 2nd section) in our school newspaper the following day.
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