Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]