Solar Mamas film screening at The Arts at Marks Garage

Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking & Hawai‘i Peoples Fund present

COMMUNITY CINEMA | SOLAR MAMAS

Rafea is 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village close to the desert. With encouragement from the country's Ministry of Environment, she leaves her village for the first time to go to the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer. She is the first Jordanian woman ever to attend such a program, and she dreams of returning to bring much-needed income and talents to support her family and village. In her journey away from home, back, and then away once more, Rafea goes through a profound transformation, returning as an educated woman with the skills to earn an income and achieve for her community what others could not.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Post-screening discussion will follow with: Teresa Bill, UH System-Wide Coordinator of Bridge to Hope, and Sierra Dew, The Refuge Co-Director and Program Manager

NOVEMBER 6 @ 6:30 | The ARTS at Marks Garage

1159 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu HI 96817

Event cost details: Free