APL'S arts portfolio panel discussion and film screening of Banana Manifesto (2018), Big Duran Big Apple (2018), and Halal (2017).

About this Event

Arts Partners for Learning is hosting this arts portfolio panel discussion and film screening featuring panelists: Grace Modi, New Generations; Ekrem Serdar, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center; Jalen Law and Jay Hawkins Sr., Buffalo’s Own 716. They will be discussing best practices for artist portfolios and applications in their craft.

Later we will be screening three films by muslim, Indonesian artist and UB Ph.D. Candidate graduate Azalia Muchransyah. Short films Banana Manifesto (2018) and Big Duran Big Apple (2018); and the evening’s feature film, Halal (2017).

“Since the event of 9/11 in 2001, Islamophobia has spread all over the world, especially in the United States of America. Earlier last year, President Donald Trump also banned people from a number of Muslim countries from entering the USA, with an idea to eventually ban all Muslims from coming to the USA. As a Muslim student from Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, I am amazed to encounter so many misconceptions of Islam and the concept of Halal in the United States."