Join us at Garfield Park Arts Center for Cesar Chavez: Film and Lecture on Labor Rights in America as part of our NEA Big Reads Programming. 

Public historian and preservation activist Glory-June Greiff will provide opening comments to contextualize the history of labor movements, followed by a screening of Cesar Chavez (2014) conducted by Indy movie historian Eric “Dr. Film” Grayson. The film follows renowned labor organizer and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

Date and time may be subject to change.

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Glory-June Greiff is a professional narrator, photographer, performer, public historian, and preservation activist who has written approximately eighty successful nominations to the National Register of Historic Places around the state. In the early 1990s she served as statewide director of Indiana’s Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) survey. A native of Hudson Lake in northern Indiana, Grieff earned a B.S. in Radio-Television/English from Butler University and worked several years on the air in radio; she holds a master’s degree in Public History from Indiana University. Recent books include People, Parks, and Perceptions: A History and Appreciation of Indiana State Parks and Remembrance, Faith, and Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana.  Currently Glory is working on a book incorporating the letters of her parents, who met while both were serving in the Navy in World War II, tentatively titled Dear Muggs . . . Love, Cuddles.