Join us for a film screening of Castles in the Sky (a 30-minute short film) directed by Pearl Gluck, Penn State Associate Professor of Film Production, on September 5 from 3:30-5:00pm.

The film depicts Malke, a Holocaust survivor and beloved sex-ed teacher living in a cloistered Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Malke has a secret life slamming poetry in New York’s Lower East Side, defying all communal norms and laws until her transgressive pursuits are discovered by one of her bridal students. Is Malke willing to risk it all for her poetry?

Following the film will be a poetry reading and conversation with the film’s director Professor Pearl Gluck, along with Penn State Professor of English Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Penn State Professor of English Shara McCallum, and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, a poet, writer, and translator.

Please see the attached poster for more details about the event.

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