Join us on Monday (May 9th) on our Movie Showing at the Corner at 13:30 o'clock where we will showcase the movie "The Grace Lee Project" in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace Lee." But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were nice, dutiful, piano-playing bookworms?
This refreshing film reveals the intriguing contradiction of the “Grace Lee” persona—simultaneously impressive and forgettable, special and generic, an emblem of a subculture and an individual who defies categorization. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT challenges the cultural investments made in the idea of Grace Lee, all the while sending her a love letter.
Note: Please reserve your spot at bitola@americancornersnmk.org