Zoot Suit with Q&A with director Luis Valdez

Zoot Suit is a play and a film by Chicano director, producer, and writer Luis Valdez, a close friend of the late artist José Montoya. Zoot Suit is based on actual events from the 1940s: the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots. To commemorate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the film, the Fowler and CSRC will present a special screening, with an introduction by Luis Valdez and a Q&A session moderated by CSRC director Chon A. Noriega. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition José Montoya’s Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper/Works on Life, on view at the Fowler Museum through July 17, 2016.

The screening is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. See the Facebook event here.

Co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.