Movies on the Grass is back this year with three exciting films related to K-State’s First Year Book, “Deaf Utopia” by Nyle DiMarco. This is a free event for K-State and the Manhattan community. Movies on the Grass highlights the annual K-State common read and brings light to social justice issues impacting the world today. Come learn and grow with us as we learn in community about Deaf culture through our featured films.

Come to Town Hall in Leadership Studies at 6:30pm on September 22nd for our third and final film of the series. Film will begin at 6:30pm, with a speaker before at 6:00pm. 

September 22nd’s film is “Sound and Fury: The Communication Wars of the Deaf”:

"Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture - and their bonds with each other. For Peter Artinian and his wife, both of whom are deaf, a surgical ear implant for their five-year-old daughter Heather means a choice between two worlds - an unfamiliar hearing world and the deaf world, a robust culture in its own right united by a uniquely visual and artistic language. Heather Artinian - precocious, vivacious, and avidly curious about implant surgery - is caught between her deaf parents and her hearing grandparents, as they argue passionately about her future. The debate is sometimes silent, but by no means quiet."

(Sound and Fury)