February Events from Kansas Humanities Council

KHC Events in February

26 TALK book discussions

26 Speakers Bureau presentations

3 FLIKS events

4 Grant-funded events

42 communities

Visit KHC's Calendar of Events for details.

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Middle Eastern Culture & Society Film Festival
Women Without Men poster

Women Without Men, the award-winning debut film by Shirin Neshat, will be featured at the Middle Eastern Culture and Society Film Festival on February 10 at 7:00 p.m. at Liberty Hall in Lawrence. Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Women Without Men follows the lives of four women in 1953 Iran. Each woman's life is affected by the political turmoil surrounding the coup to overturn Iran's democratically elected government. Watch the film's trailer here.

The film festival is presented by the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas with the support of a KHC grant.

The Story of Nicodemus

Nicodemus, Kansas is the only remaining all-Black settlement west of the Mississippi. Angela O. Bates details the story of Nicodemus from the slave experience, as told by those who endured its horrors, to the story of the organized effort to solicit former slaves as town settlers and homesteaders in Kansas. Bates' presentation includes stories of the 1877 migration to Kansas, the hardships of the dust bowl years and the Great Depression, and the town's preservation as a National Park. Bates will present The Story of Nicodemus in Kansas City on February 7 and Russell on February 10.

The Story of Nicodemus is one of over 70 Kansas-themed presentations available in KHC's Statehood Speakers Bureau catalog.