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Tue, 11/06/2012 - 7:00pm
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Laguna Pueblo children grab the food items being tossed from the rooftop above.

Image Courtesy of Idris + Tony.

A community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks and renewal, Grab Day exists at the intersection of traditional Native and contemporary Western cultures. GRAB, airing Tuesday, November 6 at 7 p.m. on WXXI World (DT21.1/cable 524), is an intimate portrait of the little-documented Grab Day in the villages of the Laguna Pueblo Tribe, who annually throw water and food items from the rooftop of a home to people standing below them. Billy Luther's film, which is narrated by Parker Posey, follows three families as they prepare for the annual event, chronicling their lives for the year leading up to this day.

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