FROM TCC TO THE GRAND >>>

Only six films compose the Diversity Film Festival at the Grand (April 6 - 18), each one a meditation on the theme of cultural diversity. The concept began a few miles (and years) away from the Grand, at Tacoma Community College. Dr. Scott Earle, a TCC English and Humanities instructor since 1999, along with fellow teachers and staff, has hosted on-campus film screenings of this sort for some time. A suggestion was made to Earle and his colleagues in late 2010 to graduate their young program - let it leave the classroom and test its wings in the community.

To read Christopher Woods's full story, click here.

[The Grand Cinema, Diversity Film Festival, April 6 - 18, 606 S. Fawcett, Tacoma, 253. 593.4474]