BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.1//EN X-WR-CALNAME:"My Louisiana Love" Film Screening X-WR-CALDESC:All My Relations Arts X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20231105T070000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20231105T070000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"My Louisiana Love" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening of My Louisiana Love on Thursd ay\, Jan. 11th\, 6-8pm at All My Relations Arts.\n\nMy Louisiana Love t races a young woman’s quest to find a place in her Native American com munity as it reels from decades of environmental degradation. Monique Ve rdin returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Nation fam ily. But soon she sees that her people’s traditional way of life is th reatened by a cycle of man-made environmental crises. Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil leak are just the latest rounds in this century-old cycle that is forcing Monique’s clan to adapt in new ways. Monique must ove rcome the loss of her home\, her father\, and her partner – and redefi ne the meaning of home.\n\nMy Louisiana Love is a  film by Sharon Linez o Hong\, Mark Krasnoff and &\; Monique Verdin\, directed by Sharon Li nezo Hong. Run time: 1h 6m\, followed by a live virtual discussion with Monique Verdin. This screening is part of arts programming for our curre nt exhibit\, Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh.\n\n \;\n\n[caption id="a ttachment_1873" align="alignnone" width="300"] Monique Verdin. Photo cou rtesy of the artist's website.[/caption]\n\nMonique Verdin is an transdi sciplinary artist and storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment\, culture\, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation\, director of The Land Memory Bank &am p\; Seed Exchange and is supporting the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail)\, a network of Indigenous gardeners\, as the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network's Gulf South food and medici ne sovereignty program manager. Monique is co-producer of the documentar y My Louisiana Love and her work has been included in a variety of envir onmentally inspired projects\, including Cry You One the multiplatform p erformance\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and the collaborat ive book Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations. URL;VALUE=URI:https://amra.stpaulmedia.net/exhibitions-events/events/my- louisiana-love-film-screening/ UID:urn:uuid:cbdd8b49-7690-4bd0-a384-e5f8fef8be18 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260116T054851Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240111T200000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR