As part of Open Design Cape Town 2017, Learning In Reach will be hosting two free feature film screenings in Lavender Hill. We encourage you to join the conversation and break the gender stereotypes.
Feature Film: The Mask You Live In
TIME TO REDESIGN OUR SOCIETY!
Learning in Reach, in collaboration with Open Design Cape Town, will present a free screening of the film “The Mask You Live In”. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.
Join us for a better understanding of how society is failing our boys and men through our narrow definition of “masculinity” and the expectations we place on them.
SYNOPSIS
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become “real” men.
Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it.
The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.
We’ll be asking:
- How do we raise a healthier generation of men and male role models?
- What are the changes you would want to see happen in communities on the Cape Flats, including Lavender Hill?
- How we can use this to redesign our communities on the Cape Flats, including Lavender Hill?
- What can you do as an individual, NGO, media representative or business to better support and empower boys and men?
Strictly no under 18s.
Light refreshments will be on sale.
Feature Film: Miss Representation
IN CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S MONTH
TIME TO REDESIGN OUR SOCIETY!
Learning in Reach, in collaboration with Open Design Cape Town, will present a free screening of the film “Miss Representation”. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.
Join us for an eye-opening look at how society portrays women and girls in mainstream media and leadership roles.
THE ISSUE
The media is selling young people the idea that girls’ and women’s value lies in their youth, beauty, and sexuality and not in their capacity as leaders. Boys learn that their success is tied to dominance, power, and aggression. We must value people as whole human beings, not gendered stereotypes.
We’ll be asking:
- What impact does this have on women, and in particular women of colour?
- What are the changes you would want to see happen in communities on the Cape Flats, including Lavender Hill?
- How we can use this to redesign our communities on the Cape Flats, including Lavender Hill?
- What can you do as an individual, NGO, media representative or business to increase positive representation?
Strictly no under 18s.
Light refreshments will be on sale.
