Events

This hands-on workshop will change the way you watch TV forever!  It will give young people and adults a basic introduction to critical thinking and media literacy as well as a behind-the-scenes experience of creating messages. First, an interactive presentation will explore advertising, identity creation, and the role that media plays in our everyday lives.  […]

The author of The Small-Mart Revolution and Going Local introduces a screening of a thought-provoking new documentary by Hanson Hosein, Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop (2005), which uncovers the growing opposition to big box retail across the U.S. and the often desperate fight being waged by independent retailers to stay […]

Multi-disciplinary artist Ben Coonley presents a selection of underground art videos, Internet curiosities, and avant – PowerPoint performances that defy the logic of corporate aesthetics in favor of an ecstatic self-reflexive personal vision. In his Trick Pony videos, singing hobby-horses teach the audience how to play football, dance the Texas Two-Step, and explain the logic […]