Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee is visiting UBC Okanagan’s campus this week.
Min Sook, a ground-breaking artist and Canadian filmmaker, will be a visiting scholar, meeting and working with students and professors in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.
She has a diverse and prolific portfolio of multimedia work and films and an interdisciplinary background in labour, border politics, documentary film/video, art, and social change.
“Min Sook’s powerful and wide-ranging work in the media arts will appeal to diverse audiences,” said Ruthann Lee, assistant professor of cultural studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus. “Her background in social and political justice combines issues of race, labour, sexuality, and gender in unexpected and profound ways.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have Min Sook share her insights and award-winning film work during her stay as the FCCS visiting scholar.”
Min Sook is an assistant professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, where she teaches art and social change.
Min Sook’s documentary, The Real Inglorious Bastards (2012), was honoured with the Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary in 2013. Her latest documentary, Migrant Dreams (2016), a portrait of migrant workers in Canada, debuted at Hot Docs this spring.
Min Sook will spend a week at the UBCO campus from Feb. 19 to 25 working with students, faculty and participating in a series of free, public events:
– Monday is a film screening of Min Sook Lee’s Tiger Spirit: A Journey Through Korea’s Divided Heart at the Kelowna Forum, 1317 Ethel St., Kelowna. Hosted by the Okanagan Korean Culture and Knowledge Society
– Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in the ARTS 368, Arts Building, 1147 Research Rd, UBC Okanagan, Starting a Conversation Brown Bag series discussion, Building Resistance Through Art, hosted by the Institute for Community Engaged Research.
– Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. film screening of Min Sook Lee’s Badge of Pride: Gay Cops Come Out at the University Theatre, Administration Building, ADM 026, UBC Okanagan.
– Friday at 6 p.m., film screening and community forum of Min Sook Lee’s Migrant Dreams: Migrant Workers Resist, at the Mary Irwin Theatre, 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna. Hosted by the AlterKnowledge Discussion Series and the Cultural Studies Annual Visiting Speaker Program. While this event is free, pre-registration is required at migrant-dreams.eventbrite.ca
For more details about upcoming events, contact Ruthann Lee at ruthann.lee@ubc.ca