Join graduate student writers to share goals and write in community. The writing workshop will begin with group introductions and a moment to share what we're working on. The bulk of the time will then be dedicated to writing in community and end with the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a supportive group of peers. For those who can't make it at 5 pm, feel free to drop in at any point.

This writing group, while open to all graduate and professional students, aims to make a place for multilingual writers in particular.

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Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Latina/o Studies Program.

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The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital -- head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha) --plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia's film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence.

All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

Part of our "New Visions, New Voices" series. Courtesy of Variance Films. In Malayalam, Hindi, with English subtitles.

Sasha is a young vampire with a very serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! Frustrated by their daughter's empathy for humans, Sasha's parents decide to cut off her blood supply to force her to learn how to huntÉ or starve! Just as she decides to reject her vampire instincts and embrace a final death, she meets a lonely teenager named Paul who is willing to give his life to save hers, on the condition that she help to fulfill his final wishes before day breaks.

Part of our "Nosferatu Afterlives" series. Courtesy of Drafthouse Films. In French with English subtitles.