MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman sdickman@rochester.edu
585.275.4128

February 13, 2006

Haitian Food and Movie Night

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in room 1-101 in Dewey Hall on the University of Rochester's River Campus

ADMISSION: Free and open to the University community and the public

Food specialties of Haiti and the screening of Reginald Lubin's 2004 film VIP (Vanite, Intrigue et Passion) combine for a second "Voices of Haiti" program. The event is sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, the Black Student Union, the Department of English, the Department of History, and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester.

In French with English subtitles, VIP tells the story of office romance and intrigue in the latest film by Haitian director Lubin.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact (585) 275-7235 or (585) 274-0196.

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