The Flute Player

• Event Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
• Time: 7:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film
• Family-Friendly tag

Film Screening
(Jocelyn Glatzer, 2003, 53 min.)

This one-hour documentary focuses on the life and work of Cambodian musician and internationally recognized human rights leader Arn Chorn-Pond, who survived the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields as a boy and works today as a peacemaker and the founder of Cambodian Living Arts, a project of World Education that is dedicated to the revival of traditional Khmer performing arts and the cultural and economic promise of young Cambodian artists. This film screening and discussion are held as a prelude to the appearance of Arn Chorn-Pond as a CAS MillerComm lecturer on Thursday, October 23, at 7:00 pm in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum.

This series of public film screenings and lecture/discussion programs is organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) at the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. It is planned in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum and presented in the Knight Auditorium. Among the films offered for discussion this year, several were chosen with the exhibit “Children Just Like Me” in mind because of the meaningful and often dramatic ways in which they focus on youth and childhood experiences. Guest scholars and members of the campus and C-U communities will introduce the films and lead post-screening audience discussions.