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Cal Poly Cross Cultural Centers Dinner featuring Spike Lee

February 10, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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The inaugural Cross Cultural Centers dinner will bring together the Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo community to support the CCC’s efforts to create a culturally rich environment at the university and within the broader community. The funds raised will contribute to our ability to provide and grow programs and services that support the retention of underrepresented students.

Featured speaker Spike Lee, an Oscar-award-winning director, writer, actor and producer, will engage in conversation with a student and faculty member during the event.

If you are unable to attend and would like to support the efforts within the Cross Cultural Centers you can do so here: https://crowdfund.calpoly.edu/project/13938

About the Speaker

Spike Lee is an Oscar-award-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and author whose films showcase outspoken and provocative socio-political critiques that challenge cultural assumptions about race, class and gender identity.

Lee’s recent film “BlacKkKlansman,” based on Ron Stallworth’s autobiographical book about an African-American police officer who infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan during the 1970s, was honored with an Academy Award. It also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and received the esteemed Prix de la Jeunesse Award.

Lee has directed and produced over 30 films since his first feature film, “She’s Gotta Have It,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986 and received the esteemed Prix de la Jeunesse Award. His film “Do the Right Thing,” released in 1989, earned Lee an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and still remains relevant today.

Lee began teaching a course on filmmaking at Harvard University in 1991. In 1993, he joined the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Graduate Film Program, where he received his Master of Fine Arts and was appointed artistic director in 2002.

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  • Cal Poly MAC (Multi-Activity Center)
  • 1 Grand Ave
    San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 United States     + Google Map

The inaugural Cross Cultural Centers dinner will bring together the Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo community to support the CCC’s efforts to create a culturally rich environment at the university and within the broader community. The funds raised will contribute to our ability to provide and grow programs and services that support the retention of underrepresented students.

Featured speaker Spike Lee, an Oscar-award-winning director, writer, actor and producer, will engage in conversation with a student and faculty member during the event.

If you are unable to attend and would like to support the efforts within the Cross Cultural Centers you can do so here: https://crowdfund.calpoly.edu/project/13938

About the Speaker

Spike Lee is an Oscar-award-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and author whose films showcase outspoken and provocative socio-political critiques that challenge cultural assumptions about race, class and gender identity.

Lee’s recent film “BlacKkKlansman,” based on Ron Stallworth’s autobiographical book about an African-American police officer who infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan during the 1970s, was honored with an Academy Award. It also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and received the esteemed Prix de la Jeunesse Award.

Lee has directed and produced over 30 films since his first feature film, “She’s Gotta Have It,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986 and received the esteemed Prix de la Jeunesse Award. His film “Do the Right Thing,” released in 1989, earned Lee an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and still remains relevant today.

Lee began teaching a course on filmmaking at Harvard University in 1991. In 1993, he joined the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Graduate Film Program, where he received his Master of Fine Arts and was appointed artistic director in 2002.