The guest speaker this month is Amy Reid, an AAUW Fund scholarship recipient, artist, and filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of gender, national identity, and labor. Through feature-length films, video installations, and written texts, Reid examines how labor is represented and constructed within cinematic form.

She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Film and Digital Media Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women’s Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting, investigates the aesthetic and political practices of feminist filmmakers from the 1970s, connecting their work to her own filmmaking and experience as a film programmer.

Reid earned a BFA from The Cooper Union, an MFA from University of California, San Diego, and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Agenda
6:00 p.m. — Social
6:30 p.m. — Branch Business
7:00 p.m. — Program

Location
Half Moon Bay Library — Community Room