Events

Sunday, November 11, 2007

• November 11, 2007 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Be The Media! Workshop with Carlos Pareja: Media Art in Your Activist Toolbox
November 11, 2007 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Be The Media! Workshop with Carlos Pareja: Media Art in Your Activist Toolbox

You know that media is your #2 issue, but what can you do about it?  This workshop will examine an array of highly successful strategies and models of using media to advance social causes from around the world.  Participants will learn how to use media as an organizing tool, and will have an opportunity to […]

Monday, November 12, 2007

• November 12, 2007 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Author Michael Yates
November 12, 2007 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

Author Michael Yates

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. In Michaels Yates’s Cheap Motels and a Hot Place: An Economist's Travelogue (monthly review press, 2006) an economist hits the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic […]

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

No events on this day.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

• November 14, 2007 7:00 am - 9:00 pm

  Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
November 14, 2007 @ 7:00 am - 9:00 pm EST

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

A Map With Gaps (2006), directed by Alice Nelson, uses a combination of archive audio recordings, still photographs, drama reconstruction, and animation. This surreal and comic tale is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 1970s in a van he built and named "Supervan." Truth can indeed […]

Thursday, November 15, 2007

• November 15, 2007 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Eye Music Portraits, 11/15 – 12/15/07
November 15, 2007 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

Eye Music Portraits, 11/15 – 12/15/07

Photographers Andrzej Pilarczyk and Don McKever have specialized in photographing musicians across a broad spectrum of musical styles for several decades. By combining the visual principles of portraiture with a fine-arts aesthetic they have been independently documenting the ongoing evolution of jazz, blues, folk, African and Latin music- genres which are often overlooked and neglected […]

Friday, November 16, 2007

• November 16, 2007 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  “Meeting Resistance” with Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors
November 16, 2007 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

“Meeting Resistance” with Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors

Meeting Resistance (2007) is set in the streets, alleyways and ubiquitous teashops of the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad.  It enters the physical and psychological heart of the "insurgency" against the American occupation.  Presented by photojournalist/directors Steve Connors and Molly Bingham, who spent ten months among the insurgents there to create the exclusive, unique, and at […]

Saturday, November 17, 2007

No events on this day.