Join us for a memorable evening to view the screening of award-winning documentary feature film UNSPOKEN (2022) directed by Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna Stephanie Calebrese ('91, BFA) and share a thoughtful conversation moderated by former Georgia Bulldog All-American and NFL Hall of Famer Champ Bailey. The conversation will include UNSPOKEN film director Stephanie Calabrese, and cast members Dorcas Jernigan, one of the first two students to integrate Monroe Area High School, and Elizabeth Jones ('21, MHP), who leads the restoration and preservation of Zion Hill Cemetery, Monroe’s oldest and largest African American burial ground. An audience Q&A will follow.

Film screening and panel discussion are free and open to the public. To attend, register here.

This event is presented in partnership with the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program and the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

About UNSPOKEN

Can a town marked by the last mass lynching make peace with its past? UNSPOKEN is a documentary feature film that traces the journey of resident Stephanie Calabrese who picks up an iPhone camera to uncover buried truths and explore how the community has been impacted by its racial divide through the lens of her own whiteness. Stephanie’s foray into filmmaking offers an insider’s intimate look at the impact of the 1946 quadruple lynching, segregation and integration through today in Monroe, Georgia, and shatters a code of silence that has distanced neighbor from neighbor for generations. (Total Run-Time: 78 mins.)