"DRAG" Part of LVC's Colloquium Film Series on Sept. 22

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ANNVILLE, PA (09/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College's Gender Colloquium Series will present the film "DRAG" (2012) Monday, Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. at Annville's Allen Theatre. Discussion with filmmakers Scott Church and Michael Donati will follow immediately after the film. Admission is $3 for the public, $1 for non-LVC students, and free for LVC students with student ID.

The film captures award-winning glamor photographer Scott Church's decision to replace his trademark subject matter of beautiful women for a study on drag performers. In candid interviews, the performers speak up about their lives in drag and how the taboo format is not only harmless entertainment, but an important form of self-expression. The outrageous experiment becomes a quick lesson in the gender bending art form for Church's unsuspecting Pennsylvania hometown.

Gender is a year-long integrated series of keynote presentations, guest speakers, films, and academic courses. Gender actively and passively shapes our shared destinies. More than an idea, its practice and performance unfold within the constellations of biology and culture, bodies and institutions. In the face of powerful social conventions and the culturally constructed binaries of "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," the complexities of gender challenge us to think beyond the genus, to reach beyond the type and category, and to step into the spectrum of being and becoming. For more information, visit: http://www.lvc.edu/colloquium.