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How I Got Over: A Conversation with Ethan Hawke

In the new reboot of 1960s western action film The Magnificent Seven, Ethan Hawke plays one of seven rifle-wielding mercenaries hired by the people of a small town under siege by a ruthless industrialist. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), and also stars Denzel Washington, Byung-hun Lee and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as fellow outlaws.

It’s not often that you see such a racially diverse cast in a western—or in any Hollywood films for that matter. Hawke joins us for a conversation about race, guns, violence, and white accountability in an era of heightened racialized police brutality and gun violence. Hosted by author, cultural critic, and WNYC’s Producer for Special Projects on Race Rebecca Carroll.

How I Got Over

Join us for a new project reinventing language around race through a series of conversations and performances that explore, express and examine what it means when a social construct becomes the social order. We want people to get personal. We want provocative dialogue. We want to generate new language to execute real change. We want to talk about fear – and how it’s different if you are black or white. We want to hear people explore racism.











When: Mon., Sep. 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: The Greene Space
44 Charlton St.
646-829-4000
Price: $25
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In the new reboot of 1960s western action film The Magnificent Seven, Ethan Hawke plays one of seven rifle-wielding mercenaries hired by the people of a small town under siege by a ruthless industrialist. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), and also stars Denzel Washington, Byung-hun Lee and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as fellow outlaws.

It’s not often that you see such a racially diverse cast in a western—or in any Hollywood films for that matter. Hawke joins us for a conversation about race, guns, violence, and white accountability in an era of heightened racialized police brutality and gun violence. Hosted by author, cultural critic, and WNYC’s Producer for Special Projects on Race Rebecca Carroll.

How I Got Over

Join us for a new project reinventing language around race through a series of conversations and performances that explore, express and examine what it means when a social construct becomes the social order. We want people to get personal. We want provocative dialogue. We want to generate new language to execute real change. We want to talk about fear – and how it’s different if you are black or white. We want to hear people explore racism.

Buy tickets/get more info now