Jacob Perlin, artistic and programming director of Metrograph, the inventive new independent movie theater in New York City, will provide a free, public talk, "Variations on a Form," on Tuesday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Theatre. He will provide information on how films gets produced, distributed, exhibited, preserved, promoted and written about for a major metropolitan audience.

The film "Let the Fire Burn" will be screened in the Campus Theatre on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with the film's director Jason Osder.  The event is part of the The Griot Institute for Africana Studies' Spring Lecture and Performance Series on the theme of “Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility.”