Discover the power of Miss Mary Mack! The documentary, Let’s Get the Rhythm, invites the viewer to explore the history of hand-clapping games on playgrounds around the world. Through wars and migrations, across language barriers and oceans, young girls connect with each other through thousands of variants—ancient as they are global—the film chronicles these rhythmic and recreational practices. Guided by three 8-year-olds from diverse cultural backgrounds in the New York area, it is a charming and beautiful survey with universal insight into the budding social mind.
Q&A with filmmaker, Irene Chagall, will follow the film screening. Chagall is a San Francisco-based music teacher who discovered a passionate interest in girls' hand-clapping games during a trip she took to Ghana. She took her research to the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and became a Smithsonian Research Fellow. She and directing partner, Steve Zeitlin, received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013, which helped underwrite this film.
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Q&A with filmmaker, Irene Chagall, will follow the film screening. Chagall is a San Francisco-based music teacher who discovered a passionate interest in girls' hand-clapping games during a trip she took to Ghana. She took her research to the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and became a Smithsonian Research Fellow. She and directing partner, Steve Zeitlin, received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013, which helped underwrite this film.
Discover the power of Miss Mary Mack! The documentary, Let’s Get the Rhythm, invites the viewer to explore the history of hand-clapping games on playgrounds around the world. Through wars and migrations, across language barriers and oceans, young girls connect with each other through thousands of variants—ancient as they are global—the film chronicles these rhythmic and recreational practices. Guided by three 8-year-olds from diverse cultural backgrounds in the New York area, it is a charming and beautiful survey with universal insight into the budding social mind.
Q&A with filmmaker, Irene Chagall, will follow the film screening. Chagall is a San Francisco-based music teacher who discovered a passionate interest in girls' hand-clapping games during a trip she took to Ghana. She took her research to the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and became a Smithsonian Research Fellow. She and directing partner, Steve Zeitlin, received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013, which helped underwrite this film.
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Q&A with filmmaker, Irene Chagall, will follow the film screening. Chagall is a San Francisco-based music teacher who discovered a passionate interest in girls' hand-clapping games during a trip she took to Ghana. She took her research to the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and became a Smithsonian Research Fellow. She and directing partner, Steve Zeitlin, received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013, which helped underwrite this film.
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