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Dear Iola, Love South Film Festival
Dear Iola, Love South LA – a digital film festival created within a year (2020) of historic upheaval, based on a study of Iola Leroy, a novel by one of France E.W. Harper, one of the foremost Black woman authors, poets and activists of the 19c. Taking experimental documentaries (Sophia Nahli Allison, A Love Song For Latasha; Wexler AC’s Cinetracts 2020) as inspiration, students translated Harper’s 19c media formations (poetry, oration, novel) into films about racial uplift and Black love.
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Guest Speakers
Dear Iola, Love South LA Guest Speakers Series featured five scholars leading South LA teens through topics related to students’ study of Iola Leroy. Open to visitors of our communities, The Dickens Project, UCLA, USC, NAI, Foshay, and affiliated organizations and individuals, the series presented a rigorous and inspiring opportunity to study the novel alongside its historical context and contemporary connections.
This series is a part of Dear Iola, Love South L.A., a LitLabs production in collaboration with the Dickens Project, UCLA English Department, UHI & EPIC.
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About LitLabs
LitLabs are a public humanities project hub fusing visual performing arts and site-specific research with the study of literary texts, in order to document, animate and uplift the life-worlds of communities who interpret them. LitLabs blends traditional literary studies with the emerging field of urban humanities, an interdisciplinary approach to spatial research blending methods from architecture, urban studies and the humanities. LitLabs’ first projects are the subject of the upcoming book project, Dear Charles Dickens, Love South LA, about the ways the project centered the history and daily life of South LA teens through leading them in creative engagements with the 19c long-form novel.