Free local showing of "Maestra" -- for teachers!

As part of the May Day Labor Film Festival, Prof. Linday Turner Bynoe of CSUMB will talk about how literacy helped transform Cuba. Her speech will follow the showing of Maestra, a film that depicts how literacy in Cuba was transformed when young women were sent to the countryside in 1961 to work with families. A view of what service to the community can mean for young people and a reminder how much literacy is needed and how it can transform communities.

Bynoe received her Ed. D. in Multicultural Education. She has lectured throughout the United States and at the Cuban Association for the Analysis of Contemporary Education in Cuba.

The event will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27, a the Museum of Monterey.

MAESTRA (Catherine Murphy, 2012, 33 min). Teenage women made up majority of 1961 Cuban literacy brigade.

Other films will be shown as part of Reel Work. For more information, click here.