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Directed by Tunde Wey & Theo Schear, Hard to Swallow (2025) is an essayistic and reflexive, docuseries that recounts Wey’s explosive career while building a critique of the social structures that disenfranchise Black peoples globally. Traveling across the United States, Tunde investigates the ways food culture is shaped by race and class. Through unsparing interviews, poetic narration, and reflections on the filmmaking process, Tunde calls out individuals, systems and himself, prompting viewers to rethink their own position in system inequality. Official Selection at the 2024 SeriesFest and 2024 Cannes Series: Docuseries Competition.

A reading and conversation with writer + artist Krista Franklin. Presented in partnership with Great Meadows Foundation and The Carnegie as part of Altered States: (A) Critical Response, the inaugural symposium dedicated to advancing critical discourse around contemporary art. 

Taft is proud to sponsor The Carnegie and KADIST's collaborative exhibition that explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and the temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. Thinking of movement, fluidity, ephemerality, and environmental activation, this exhibition consists of outdoor pop-up video exhibitions that spans six venues across six cities in Kentucky, once a month from June to November 2025. The traveling exhibition is composed of two videos and a soundscape that represent international and regional voices that interweave disruption and contemplation through placid yet subversive temporalities. 

The MetaClassics lecture series aims to provide self-reflective explorations of the discipline of Classics, celebrating innovative approaches and contributions to the field and encouraging an expansive vision of the materials and methods that we bring to bear on our understanding of ancient and modern worlds. This year’s speaker is Dr. Nadhira Hill, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology at Randolph-Macon College. Co-hosted with UC Classics.