Check out this website I found at ow.ly
Go to website to listen online or to download the audio track.
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Okay ladies and gentleman,I'm only going to say 3 words...Sade,Superbowl,and Allstar! With those words being said let's start the day off right.
Me along side my homies Dj Doc and Dj Finesse,have cooked up a classic. We all got in the lab and put together "Kiss of Life, the best of Sade". Yes I said it,the best of Sade. One of the most prolific bands in modern music history.
Hailing from the London area,Sade has been a staple in fans musical minds since day one. With over 50 million records sold,a new studio album due out next week,it only made sense that we put together this classic tribute.
The "Kiss of Life" mixtape is comprised of Sade hits,live performances,and rare remixes. A true collectors item,just in time for valentines day. I'm so proud of my team for pulling together on this on. Ladies and gentleman,your ipod just got cool again.
For all of my party people who are going to Miami for Superbowl,and Dallas for Allstar weekend..I got you! Here's a rundown of all the spot that I will be spinning at. If you are in the area please come holla! And as always,download now and thank me later!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BEST OF SADE MIXTAPE
Short Fiction Contest 2010
Submissions will be accepted February 1st-February 28th, with the winner announced in late spring. Submissions must be 1200 words or less. There is no entry fee. Louise Erdrich, winner of the 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, will be the final judge. The Kenyon Review will publish the winning short story in the Winter 2011 issue, and the author will be awarded a scholarship to attend the 2010 Writers Workshop, June 19th-26th, in Gambier, Ohio.
Submission Guidelines
- Writers must be 30 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
- Stories must be no more than 1200 words in length.
- One submission per entrant.
- Please do not simultaneously submit your contest entry to another magazine or contest.
- The submissions link will be active February 1st to February 28th. All work must be submitted through our electronic system. We cannot accept paper submissions.
- Winners will be announced in the late spring. You will receive an e-mail notifying you of any decisions regarding your work.
- For submissions, we accept the following file formats only:
- .PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- .DOC (Microsoft Word)
- .RTF (Rich Text Format)
- .TXT (Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad, Apple TextEdit
Submissions will be accepted February 1-28, 2010
April 15, 2009 — Gambier, Ohio
We are pleased and excited to announce the winners of the second annual Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, for writers under the age of thirty.
- First Place: Alexandra Zobel “The Miles Tape Hypothesis”
- Runner up: Jessica Lacher “A Hypothesis”
- Runner up: Mika Taylor “Anchor Point”
Richard Ford, acclaimed author of the Frank Bascombe trilogy, including the novels The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land was the final judge.
Zobel's story was published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Kenyon Review. Lacher and Taylor saw their pieces published concurrently on KR Online in October 2009. Congratulations to all!
via kenyonreview.org
TransitionsAbroad.com hosts an annual student writing contest for all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, students who have graduated within the past year, and students currently on leave from school are eligible.
The following prizes will be awarded for the winning student writing submissions:
- 1st Place: $500
- 2nd Place: $150
- 3rd Place: $100
- Runner-up: $50
All winning pieces will be published on the Transitions Abroad website and in the monthly Webzine (TAzine).
Transitions Abroad has long featured regular articles on the subject of Student Participant Reports, Student to Student Advice, Student Volunteer Service Learning, and Internships Abroad where students share information and experience with other students contemplating educational travel abroad, whether formal study abroad, internships, volunteering, or short-term work abroad.
What We Are Looking For in the Student Writing Contest
Think about what you were looking for when you were planning to study, travel, work, or live abroad as a student:
- What did you need to know?
- Once you were abroad, what did you wish you had known before you left?
- Since you returned, how have you been able to fit what you did and learned abroad into your life—academic, career, and otherwise?
- Think of yourself as an adviser or counselor and your reader as a student like yourself before you decided to study abroad.
- Be specific: Vague and flowery evocations of the place(s) you were and what a wonderful time you had there are not helpful to someone preparing for his or her own trip.
- Think of yourself as a journalist seeking to tell a story with as much objectivity as possible in order to reach a wide and educated audience.
- If you write about your experience as a student with a specific program, remember that the appropriateness of the program depends upon the individual.
- If you write about one program or independent activity, please provide a list of similar programs or opportunities you researched for your reader to choose from.
- Emphasize essential practical information such as how you selected a program or arranged your own independent study or job or internship.
- Include a sidebar with relevant information or related programs which you considered.
- Optionally provide photographs or a Youtube.com video which will help evoke what you experienced abroad and inspire others to do so.
Word Count
1,000-3,000 words. One or more photos preferred.
Student Writing Contest Deadline
The Contest begins May 1, 2009, and all entries must be received by March 1, 2010. Transitions Abroad Publishing, Inc. will require first-time Worldwide Electronic rights for all submissions which are accepted as contest winners and for publication. In addition, Transitions Abroad Publishing, Inc. will reserve the right to reprint the story in a future publication, with additional compensation. The writer may republish the unedited submission as desired six months after initial publication on TransitionsAbroad.com.
Winners will be chosen on or about March 15, 2010 and notified by phone, mail, or e-mail by April 1, 2010 for publication by May 1, 2010 or at such time as all winners have received and cashed payment.
Student Writing Contest Terms
- There is no entry fee required for submissions.
- Submissions that have been published during the current academic year by home academic institutions are eligible.
- Transitions Abroad Publishing, Inc. is not responsible for late, lost, misdirected, incomplete, or illegible e-mail or for any computer-related, online, or technical malfunctions that may occur in the submission process.
- Submissions are considered void if illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error, or obtained through fraud or theft.
- Submissions will be considered made by an authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry.
- The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners—along with any other runners-up accepted for publication—will be paid by Transitions Abroad Publishing, Inc. either by check or Paypal as preferred by the author.
- All federal, state, and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the Contest winners.
- Decisions of the judges are final.
Format
Typed in Microsoft Word and sent by e-mail to studentwritingcontest@TransitionsAbroad.com. Your name and your email address should be on the document and the "Student Writing Contest 2010" as the subject of the email. Please let us know as webeditor@transitionsabroad.com if your submission did not get through for any reason.
Cover sheet
Please provide a cover page with your name and contact information (address, email address, telephone number), your college or university, and your year in school or year that you graduated or expect to graduate. If you traveled on your own, list the countries and dates and what you did (worked, backpacked, etc.) If you traveled with a program, list the program name and institution, and the dates. Include your current and permanent address, your current and permanent phone number, and e-mail address if applicable. Include a short biographical note (hometown, major, etc.).
Send to
Send electronically as an attached MS Word file which includes title, your name, your email address, and the story to studentwritingcontest@TransitionsAbroad.com. If you cannot attach as MS Word file, then please paste the article into an email message. If you have any questions about the contest, please write to the webeditor@transitionsabroad.com.
* Please do not send a hard copy submission by mail, as it will not be judged.
For an Adobe .pdf version of this document, please see http://www.transitionsabrod.com//information/writers/Transitions Abroad 2010 Student Travel Writing Contest.pdf.
CONTEST STARTS AT 6:00 AM EST 2-1-2010 AND ENDS MARCH 1,2010 AT 6:00AM EST. DON'T USE SUBMISSIONS PAGE FOR CONTEST.
TSJ has been honored by being the first to recognize and publish excellent works. Such is the case with Amy L. George whose first poem was published on these very pages. Amy holds an MFA in Creative Writing from National University, San Diego, CA. Her poetry and writings have been published in various journals including Poesia, The Orange Room Review, The Foliate Oak Online and Word Catalyst Magazine. And this is the short list!
Amy is the general editor of Bird's Eye reView and also served on the editorial staff for The GNU, the student literary journal of National University. You'll be able to find her article in the forthcoming textbook-anthology, "The Working Poet," to be edited by Scott Minar and published by Autumn House Press. Her collection, The Fragrance of Memory is forthcoming from Amsterdam Press.
She and her husband reside in Texas, where she enjoys teaching English at Southwestern Assemblies of University.
TSJ is most proud and grateful that Amy, a talented and gifted writer, has agreed to judge our “Let’s See Your Shorts” annual flash fiction contest .
FREE to enter.
First Place 100.00
Second Place 50.00
Third Place 25.00
Winners will be announced in June.
Rules:
NO ATTACHMENTS ACCEPTED.
ONE story per person.
SEND TO:
In subject line put: Flash Fiction Contest 2010
In the body of the email put:
Author's full legal name
Name of story
Word Count
Then your story.
No gratutious sex, violence or profanity.
DO NOT indent paragraphs. Single Space within paragraphs and double space between paragraphs.
1000 word limit excluding title.
CONTEST STARTS AT 6:00 AM EST 2-1-2010 AND ENDS MARCH 1,2010 AT 6:00AM EST.
Good Luck!
Pamela
ALABAMA WRITERS' CONCLAVE 2010
WRITING COMPETITION GUIDELINESDeadline: April 20, 2010 (postmark). P Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions.
WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED at the AWC Conference Banquet at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 17, 2010.
Contest Rules: Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won a money prize in any contest. (Sitting AWC voting Board Members are not eligible.) Multiple entries are accepted, but only one prize is awarded for each category.
Send one copy of each entry on standard white paper in standard manuscript format (double-spaced, one-inch margins, 12pt. Courier or Times Roman font). (Note: manuscripts are not returned, so applicants should retain a copy).
Entry Fees
- On first page include: Title, Category and Word Count (DO NOT show author name on the manuscript).
- Please number the pages.
- Enclose a separate cover sheet for each piece submitted showing: Contest category; manuscript title; your name, mailing address, e-mail address and phone number; and whether you are an AWC Member or non-member.
- Please be sure to provide a separate cover sheet for each piece submitted.
For all categories (EXCEPT Poem and First Chapter Novel): $5.00 per entry if AWC member, $8.00 per entry if non-member.
For First Chapter Novel: $10.00 if member, $12.00 if non-member.
For Poem: $3.00 per poem if member, $5.00 if non-member.
Make checks to: Alabama Writers' Conclave. (Note: Membership and conference fees must be submitted separately to the AWC Treasurer)
Send contest entry manuscripts and checks to: Marian Lewis, AWC Contest Chair, 250 Hartside Rd., Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763.
NOTE: Please include a #10 SASE if you would like to receive a Winners' List after the AWC conference in July. If you would like confirmation that your entry has been received, also include a self-addressed stamped postcard (SASP)
Writing Competition Categories
Fiction - maximum 2500 words.
Short Fiction - maximum 1000 words.
Juvenile Fiction (stories for ages 4-12) - maximum 2500 words. MUST LIST GENRE AND TARGETED AGE GROUP (i.e. picture book, 3 & up).
Nonfiction - maximum 2500 words (PLEASE SPECIFY IF WRITTEN FOR ADULT OR CHILDREN).
Humor (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry) - maximum 2000 words or 50 lines (for poems).
Traditional Poem (any "form" poem, i.e. villanelle, sonnet, sestina) - maximum 40 lines.
Free Verse Poem - maximum 60 lines.
First Chapter of Novel - up to 10 double-spaced pages, first chapter ONLY.
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Larry Blumenfeld on Ned Sublette’s ‘The Year Before the Flood’
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Once alight with bulbs that spelled out Armstrong, the large steel archway where North Rampart and St. Ann streets meet in New Orleans was dark, its white paint overtaken by rust. Beneath it, a thick, carelessly wound chain bound two iron gates, from which dangled a steel padlock. The whole assembly looked as if meant to secure some oversized bicycle rather than the entrance to a 32-acre city park named for trumpeter Louis Armstrong and modeled after Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens. Armstrong Park was closed, had been since the flood following Hurricane Katrina. You could see the bronze statue of Louis, trumpet in his left hand, handkerchief in his right, but only from a distance through iron bars.
Armstrong in prison. That’s what it looked like, in early 2006. Or maybe Louis was on the outside. Maybe it wasn’t he but the city—its residents and those of us who are drawn to New Orleans for music or love or just escape—locked away. I remember something author Ned Sublette said around that time, in an interview: “We’re not watching history disappear, history is watching us disappear.”
A cobblestone plaza behind the park’s closed gate marked Congo Square, where two centuries ago enslaved Africans and free people of color drummed and danced to thebamboula rhythm each Sunday, exerting their right to free expression as their masters prayed at church, seeding the beat of the earliest jazz and just about all New Orleans music to follow. Nowhere else in the North American colonies had slaves been allowed to play their drums, let alone freely assemble. For anyone with even a passing knowledge of New Orleans culture, Congo Square was sacred ground long before drummer Luther Gray lobbied successfully for a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, including even the period from the late 19th century through 1971 when the spot was officially named Beauregard Square in honor of a Confederate general.
The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
By Ned Sublette
Lawrence Hill Books, 496 pages
Not everyone in New Orleans knows the word bamboula. But beat out the rhythm and folks nod in recognition, clap correctly (on beats two and four) and get their shoulders and hips moving in knowing dance. That sort of cultural response spans generations and contexts: Listen to Louis Armstrong’s jazz or Fats Domino’s rock ’n’ roll, the Neville Brothers’ funk or Lil Wayne’s chart-topping rap and a straight line emerges, through most of the city’s history, via music, undisturbed by two prior levee failures in the 20th century alone and a fire that destroyed most of the city’s structures in 1788.
What about after 80 percent of the city was submerged for two weeks, when the clearest mark of connection was the scum line left by floodwaters? What about now, more than four years later? The gates to Armstrong Park are freshly painted and lit each night, Congo Square open daily. Yet also, according to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, some 6,500 homeless are living in abandoned buildings and rents have risen 40 percent since Katrina; some 4,500 public housing units, razed despite much protest in 2008, are yet to be replaced.
“Let’s not lose sight of these as what they are: homes,” Marshall Truehill, pastor of the First United Baptist Church and former chairman of the city’s planning commission, told me then, nine months before his passing. “When you destroy neighborhoods, you tear apart a culture too.”
Which brings us back to the flood, and its prehistory. “The destruction of buildings in 2005 was fearful, but so was the loss of something intangible,” Sublette wrote in his 2007 book, “The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square.” “African America took a blow when the collective knowledge of black New Orleans was scattered to the four winds. Dispersing that population was like tearing up an encyclopedia in front of an electric fan.” If that volume attempted to restore some of that information, Sublette’s new “The Year Before the Flood: A New Orleans Story” explains how he got his hands on the encyclopedia in the first place, just before the cruel winds blew, and what it means to him.
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Sublette tends to begin at the beginning. For his first book, the sprawling and essential “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo,” he took as a starting point Cadiz, circa 1104, and spent 600 pages just to get to 1952, when mambo was still a craze and Fidel Castro a rabble-rousing lawyer. He tempered such ambition with the last volume: “My story begins in 1492,” he wrote, “in Roman Catholic Europe.” His goal? To explain “how New Orleans got to 1819,” drawing that date from a traveler’s description: “On Sabbath evening, the African slaves meet on the green, by the swamp, and rock the city with their Congo dances.” Along the way, he detailed how those Africans got to that green, what their dances probably looked like, why they were identified as “Congo,” and how we came to say that they “rocked” in the first place. Sublette, a musician, music producer and, above all, a crafty and diligent scholar, constructed a social history staked to the course of the slave trade in the Western Hemisphere with a backdrop of musical development. In “The Year Before the Flood,” music jumps to the front seat, but the legacy of slavery rumbles along throughout the ride.
“New Orleans presents a peculiar challenge for a writer,” Sublette writes. “Because it moves not only in linear time but also cyclical time. … [E]ach year is the same as the last—as in ancient Egypt, where the years weren’t numbered. Cyclical time relies on an elaborate schedule of festivals associated with the calendar to reinforce its timelessness, creating a rhythm that propels the year. Cyclical time is pagan, and local; it is the time myth takes place in.”
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 catchavibe.co.uk is proud to be part of the Black Londoners Appeal, an initiative launched on 28th January 2010 by various London-based grassroots organisations.As part of this appeal, catchavibe.co.uk and Black Londoners Appeal are going to publish an anthology: A Word for Haiti (working title)
A Word for Haiti - A Call for SubmissionsCall for submission open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and visual / graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. We invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. You can send us poems, song lyrics, short stories, opinion pieces, drawings, paintings or photographs. The work must be about or inspired by Haiti, its people and its culture.The entries shortlisted will be made into a book. Proceeds of the book sales will be donated to Lambi Haiti Fund. A book launch will take place in London, with writers & poets invited to read excerpts of the book.
Submission deadline: Thursday 18 March
Guidelines: - Please send poems of 1000 words max. Short pieces of prose should be 2500 words max. Include a short bio about yourself and / or a link to your blog. Documents must be sent as an attachment in .doc format. You can submit up to 3 different pieces- Drawings / paintings / photographs: send a high resolution picture in a jpeg or gif format. They can be in colour or in Black and White. B&W will be used in the internal pages of the book, colour will be used for the cover.- Upon agreeing to publication, catchavibe.co.uk and Black Londoners acquires first rights and retains the right to archive the work for an indefinite period. The author retains all the rights upon publication.- We'll accept only original, non published work, no reprints. All submissions and info requests must be sent to: wordforhaiti@googlemail.comThere is no fee involved as this is a charity project. Submission deadline: Thursday 18 March. We are also looking for volunteers to fill roles as Researchers, Editorial Assistant, Desktop Publishing Specialist and Publicist. Send us an email of interest to wordforhaiti@googlemail.com and we'll send you detailed specifications. More info catchavibe.co.uk |
Friday,
Feb. 5
7:30 pm
HARLEM HOMEGROWN
Films made for Harlem, by HarlemChisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed
Dir. Shola Lynch, 2004, 76 min.
Unbought & Unbossed is the first historical documentary on Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1972. Following Chisholm from the announcement of her candidacy in January to the Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida in July, the story is like her- fabulous, fierce, and fundamentally right on.
Film website>Followed by a Q&A with director Shola Lynch.
Sponsored by Sugar Hill Beer
Sunday,
Feb. 7
7:00 pm
KEELING'S CARIBBEAN SHOWCASE
Curated by Keeling Beckford of Keeling's Reggae Music and Videos>Heartland Reggae: Bob Marley Peace Concert
1981, 60 min.
In Jamaica, 1978, Bob Marley organized a concert in the midst of intense political violence, of which he himself was victim. Following performances including Jacob Miller Dennis Brown, Bob Marley takes the stage and makes history by bringing political foes Norman Manley and Edward Seaga together on the stage. With exclusive interviews.Plus at 8pm:
Babylon
Dir. Franco Rosso, 1980, 91 min.
"Criminally Underrated!"
Babylon is set in South London at the start of the ’80s, a time when reggae music was at its peak, along with a distinctively British brand of xenophobia and racism that saw American boxer Marvin Hagler pelted with bottles at Wembley after beating Alan ‘I’ll never lose to a black man’ Minter. The plot concerns Blue, lead chanter for Ital Lion Sound (played by Aswad singer and former Double Decker Brinsley Forde), in the run-up to a competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka (who appears as himself). Over the course of the film Blue socialises with his friends and clashes with his family, employer, and a local clan of racists, before going on a spiritual and physical journey through small hours London where he encounters a series of trials and temptations that set up the film’s violent climax.
Heartland Reggae:
Bob Marley Peace Concert
Monday,
Feb. 8
7:00 pm
DOC WATCHERS PRESENTS: Boy Scouts 100th Anniversary
Doc Watchers Website >The Boy Scouts of Rahway
Dir. Tom Mason, 2009, 10 min.
The Boy Scouts of Rahwa takes a tongue-in-cheek look at a Boy Scouts competition in New Jersey, the Klondike Derby.759: Boy Scouts of Harlem
Dir. Jake Boritt & Justin Szlasa, 2009, 72 min.
Scout Troop 759 heads from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa. Eleven year old new scout Keith Dozier spends his first week at camp facing the challenges of the woods - the dock test in the deep dark lake, creepy creatures of the night, the daunting climbing tower, the raucous dining hall and the seductive Siberian sirens of the kitchen. With help from his fellow Scouts KC, Devon and Manny and wise Scoutmaster Sowah, young Keith faces the challenges and earns his place as a Scout. 759: Boy Scouts of Harlem is a warm, tender, and funny family documentary about Scouting in an unexpected place.Followed by a reception.
Tuesday,
Feb. 9
7:30 pm
STRAIGHT OUTTA MEXICO
Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo (Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies)
Dir. Yulene Olaizola, 2009, 83 min.
The lodging house at the intersection of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City has been a shelter for all sorts of magnificent and singular individuals, under the management of its owner, my grandmother Rosa. When I was ten years old I met one of its guests. He used to sing for me and paint my portraits; his name was Jorge Riosse, a charming schizophrenic and virtuous individual who became my grandmother’s close friend. One night in 1993, his room set on fire and Jorge died. My grandmother started to investigate this fatal accident and she soon discovered different clues that connected it with a serial killer who had strangled at least 13 women in different hotels in the popular La Merced district. However, in spite of her doubts and suspicion, my grandmother still remembers Jorge as the talented young man who shared his art, his music and above all, his affection.
Wednesday,
Feb. 10
7:30 pm
STRAIGHT OUTTA MEXICO
Los Ladrones Viejos: Las Leyendas del Artegio (The Old Thieves)
Dir. Everardo González, 2007, 97 min.
Ladrones Viejos is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.
Thursday,
Feb.11
7:30 pm
STRAIGHT OUTTA MEXICO
DeNADIE (NoONE)
Dir. Tin Dirdamal, 2005, 82 min.
María’s story, a Central American immigrant who is forced to abandon her family searching for the American dream. On her way to the United States, she has to cross México, where she lives a nightmare. DeNADIE is a documentary about the courage and injustice that thousands of Central Americans live. These migrants are tortured, robbed, raped and even murdered by several groups in Mexico. Before we say goodbye to María, we promised to find her family in Honduras and give them a message.
Friday,
Feb. 12
7:30 pm
Sugar Pathways
Dir. Johanna Bermudez-Ruiz, 2009
Sugar Pathways tells the riveting story of the unwilling migration by Puerto Rican families from the small Caribbean island of Vieques to the U.S. Virgin Islands. This powerful and vibrant film recounts their will to survive, integrate and contribute to the culture, economy and politics of the Islands through personal interviews, new and archival footage and historic documentation. Sugar Pathways is narrated by actress Lauren Vélez of the Emmy Award-winning Showtime series Dexter.Curated by Dr. Steeve Coupeau
Saturday,
Feb.13
5:30 pm
STRAIGHT OUTTA MEXICO
Al Otro Lado (To The Other Side)
Dir. Natalia Almada, 2005, 70 min.
An aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico faces two choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the United States. From Sinaloa, Mexico to the streets of South Central and East L.A., Al Otro Lado explores the world of drug smuggling, illegal immigration and the corrido music that chronicles it all.
Saturday,
Feb.13
7:30 pm
STRAIGHT OUTTA MEXICO
En El Hoyo (In the Pit)
Dir. Juan Carlos Rulfo, 2006, 84 min.
A Mexican legend recounted that for every bridge built the devil would ask for one soul, so that the bridge never falls. This film tells the story of the workers who are participating in the construction of a second deck to Mexico’s City inner Periférico freeway. This second deck is about to transform the city, its landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. It is the story of those whose hands and sweat go into the making of this mammoth work of concrete, steel and asphalt. The workers’ daily lives, their hopes, their emotions and small moments that will culminate in the loss of a soul taken by the devil, a soul that will remain as a memory of the workers who build the second deck.
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
Wednesday, February 17th - Sunday, February 21stA Retrospective of a Great Documentary Filmmaker
Wednesday,
Feb. 17,
7:30 pm
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
Men of Bronze
Dir. William Miles, 1995, 60 min.
Men of Bronze is the definitive story of black American soldiers of the 369th U.S. combat regiment, the 15th Infantry from New York, know as the "Harlem Hellfighters," who served with the French army in World War I. The film uses photographs, interviews with veterans, and film from the French and American national Archives to recount the saga of the "Harlem Hellfighters," offering an inspiring tribute to these unsung heroes and an unforgettable look at World War I.
Film trailer>Discussion with filmmaker William Miles to follow screening.
Thursday,
Feb. 18,
7:30 pm
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
Liberators
Dir. William Miles, 1992, 90 min.
The unknown story of African-American battalions, focusing on the heroic actions of the 761st, which spearheaded General Patton's third Army and helped liberate concentration camps in the second World War. This powerful film vividly records the experiences of the soldiers, who were utterly unprepared for the atrocities they witnessed, as well as the astonishment of the camp inmates - some of whom had never seen a black person before. Liberators bears witness to the courage of Holocaust survivors and the heroism of men who were forced to fight on two fronts - battling racism at home as they fought for their country overseas.Discussion with filmmaker William Miles to follow screening.
Friday,
Feb. 19,
7:30 pm
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
I Remember Harlem
Dir. William Miles, 1980, 60 min.
[Full four-hour version to screen Sunday, Feb. 21]
A 60 minute, condensed version of this seminal four-hour series tracing Harlem's 350-year history, evoking one of America's most vibrant and volatile communities. As a visual counterpart to the oral histories in the film, Miles unearthed old photographs and motion picture films and newsreel footage, much of it rare and never before seen on television. In early 1982, one year after it was broadcast, I Remember Harlem won an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Citation and an American Film Festival Award.Discussion with filmmaker William Miles to follow screenings.
Sponsored by Sugar Hill Beer
Saturday,
Feb. 205:00 pm
7:00 pm
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
Black Stars in Orbit
Dir. William Miles, 1990, 90 min.
This film takes a look at Black astronauts and black Americans' contributions to America's space program. Includes personal interviews with archival footage, family photographs, and news headlines to profile such individuals as Edward Dwight, Jr., Guion Bluford, Jr., Ronald McNair, Frederick Gregory, Patricia Cowings-Johnson and Robert Shurney.The Black West
Dir. William Miles, 1993, 90 min..
The Black West, narrated by Danny Glover presents the story of African Americans in the U.S. west in the late nineteenth century.Discussion with filmmaker William Miles to follow screenings.
Sunday,
Feb. 21,
2:00 pm
MASTERCLASS: William Miles
I Remember Harlem
Dir. William Miles, 1980, 240 min.
This seminal four-hour series traces Harlem's 350-year history, evoking one of America's most vibrant and volatile communities. As a visual counterpart to the oral histories in the film, Miles unearthed old photographs and motion picture films and newsreel footage, much of it rare and never before seen on television. In early 1982, one year after it was broadcast, I Remember Harlem won an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Citation and an American Film Festival Award.Screening Includes:
Part 1: The Early Years (1658-1930)
Part 2: The Depression Years
Part 3: Toward Freedom
Part 4: Toward a New DayDiscussion with filmmaker William Miles to follow screenings.
Sunday,
Feb. 21
7:00 pm
KEELING'S CARIBBEAN SHOWCASE
Curated by Keeling Beckford of Keeling's Reggae Music and Videos>Heartland Reggae: Bob Marley Peace Concert
1981, 60 min.
In Jamaica, 1978, Bob Marley organized a concert in the midst of intense political violence, of which he himself was victim. Following performances including Jacob Miller Dennis Brown, Bob Marley takes the stage and makes history by bringing political foes Norman Manley and Edward Seaga together on the stage. With exclusive interviews.Plus at 8pm:
Babylon
Dir. Franco Rosso, 1980, 91 min.
"Criminally Underrated!"
Babylon is set in South London at the start of the ’80s, a time when reggae music was at its peak, along with a distinctively British brand of xenophobia and racism that saw American boxer Marvin Hagler pelted with bottles at Wembley after beating Alan ‘I’ll never lose to a black man’ Minter. The plot concerns Blue, lead chanter for Ital Lion Sound (played by Aswad singer and former Double Decker Brinsley Forde), in the run-up to a competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka (who appears as himself). Over the course of the film Blue socialises with his friends and clashes with his family, employer, and a local clan of racists, before going on a spiritual and physical journey through small hours London where he encounters a series of trials and temptations that set up the film’s violent climax.
Heartland Reggae:
Bob Marley Peace Concert
Thursday,
Feb. 25
7:30 pm
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF EGO TRIP
Curated with Andreas VingaardElectric Boogie
Dir. Gary Wiess, 1979, 67 min.
This film intimately follows four African-American and Latino young people coming up in the early ’80s South Bronx, and their unflagging devotion to the art b-boy-ing and breaking.
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History
Dick Fontaine, 1984, 60 min.
This tremendous, highly stylized BBC production features dynamic appearances by a veritable who’s who of original school luminaries: Kool Herc (in what are perhaps his most revealing and personal public interviews), Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, the Cold Crush Brothers, Lisa Lee, Sha-Rock, graffiti writer Brim of Tats Cru, and Officer Kevin Hickey of the NYPD’s infamous Vandal Squad. Rhymed narration provided by NYC broadcasting legend Gary Byrd.Q&A with Electric Boogie Dir. Tana Ross and Freke Vuijst and special guest.
Sponsored by Sugar Hill Beer
Friday,
Feb. 267:00 pm
&
9:00pm
REMEMBER THE MOVEMENT
Presented by 360 Media365 Days of Marching - The Amadou Diallo Story
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Dir. Veronica Keitt , 2008, 90 min.
“365 Days of Marching” - The Amadou Diallo Story recounts the bitter and yet compelling part of New York City history—documenting the series of marches and protests that was set into motion after the death of Amadou Diallo. It’s a story that’s told through the eyes of the marchers (the protesters) exploring the history of New York City Police Department, police - community relations and how Diallo’s death galvanized a city to fight for justice—not only for Diallo, but for all injustices plaguing New Yorker’s during that time. SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Rev Al Sharpton, Seiko & Kadiatou Diallo— the parents of Amadou Diallo, David N. Dinkins—former NYC Mayor, US Congressmen Charles Rangel, Gov. David Paterson, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblyman Keith Wright, Councilman Charles Barron, Chairman Percy Sutton—Inner City Broadcasting, Norman Siegel—ACLU, family members of victims of police brutality, community activists, and others.
Sunday,
Feb. 28
4:30 pm
Democracies in Chinatown: 1974-1994
Dir. Susan L. Young, 1994, 60 min.
This documentary portrays two women's roles in an immigrant community as activists and how mainstream society views its Asian community. Two women of Chinese descent discuss and reminisce in 1994 their growth in NYC's Chinatown after the Civil Rights movement in 1974.Panel with Nellie Hester Bailey, Director of the Harlem Tenants Council and Susan L. Yung, artisit and member of Chinese Americans Against Asian Violence (CAAAV).
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th Streets)
Suggested Admission: $10 (unless otherwise noted). Box office opens 1 hour before show time.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
in partnership with the City Council.
February schedule for an independent cinema house in New York City.
>http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/calendar.html
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