Screening | Scenes from the City in a Garden
March 28, 20262:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sadie Benning, still from Jollies, 1991. Courtesy of Video Data Bank.
About the Event
Explore another dimension of queer activism with this afternoon of short films curated in conjunction with the exhibition. Films include Sadie Benning’s Jollies, Tom Kalin and Gran Fury’s Kissing Doesn’t Kill, Bill Stamets’s Joan Jett Blakk: Queer Nation’s Candidate for President, 1992, Stephanie Coleman’s Having a Ball! with the House of Avant Garde, Derrick Woods-Morrow’s Much handled things are always soft, The AIDS Connection: Hour V, and Mary Patten’s Hokey Sapp Does SPEW.
Access Information
English CART captioning is provided at this event. To request additional accessibility services, please contact us at [email protected] or 312-397-4076.
Funding
Lead support for the 2025–26 season of MCA Talks is made possible by The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lecture Series through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.
Generous support is provided by The Antje B. and John J. Jelinek Endowed Lecture and Symposium on Contemporary Art; the Kristina Barr Lectures, which were established through a generous gift by The Barr Fund to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign; The Gloria Brackstone Solow and Eugene A. Solow, MD, Memorial Lecture Series; and the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chair of the Board of Trustees.