Film Fundraiser for Communities Hit by Hurricane Ida, Oct. 1-3
The Academy Award-winning 1951 film of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” set in New Orleans and starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, will be shown at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 1-3. Friday and Saturday’s screenings will be in Blackman Auditorium, and on Sunday, Oct. 3, there will be an outdoor screening in front of the B.C. Rain location is Blackman Auditorium.
At the Sunday evening screening, Professor Jim Crawford of the Theatre Department and Professor Virginia Craighill of the English Department will lead a discussion and Q&A after the film.
Admission is free. All audience donations and proceeds from concession sales will go to Post-Hurricane Ida Relief Effort (PHIRE) of the Coastal Community Relief <https://www.coastalcommunityre...;, where funds will be divided between the Mayor’s Community Fund for the Town of Grand Isle, and the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw’s nonprofit organization, and to Lower Nine <lowernine.org>, a nonprofit group dedicated to restoring the damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orlean’s historic Lower Ninth Ward.
Sponsored by OCE, Sewanee’s English and Theatre departments, and the SUT.