Visiting Filmmakers Series presents: Peggy Oki and Dogtown and Z-Boys

Monday, April 23, 2012 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Cinema

Peggy Oki is an artist, surfer, and activist currently living in California. While she was growing up in the 1970s, Peggy was the only female member of the Zephyr Skateboard team, featured in the award-winning 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys. 

She was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2012. Skateboarding led her to a love of surfing and the ocean; Peggy has taken a passionate interest in the marine animals that she encounters in her travels, particularly cetaceans, like whales and dolphins. In the past several years, Peggy has organized the collective creation of thousands of Origami whales, each of which represents a whale killed by human hunters.

On April 23, a screening of Dogtown and Z-Boys in the Johnson Center Cinema at 12:00pm will be followed by Peggy Oki speaking and a reception at 3:00pm in Johnson Center Room 116.