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FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Discussion with Ramona Africa and Pam Africa
Dir. Louis Massiah | Narrator Toni Cade Bambara | 1986 | 58 mins
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FILM & DISCUSSION
Discussion with Elombe Brath
Dir. Raoul Peck | 2001 | 115 mins | France / Belgium / Haiti / Germany | In French and Lingala with English subtitles
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REVOLUTION SERIES
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
(Que la fête commence…)
Discussion with Mike Lardner
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier | 119 min | 1975 | France
ertrand Tavernier's Let Joy Reign Supreme, is a detailed look at French monarchy, diplomacy and debauchery on the threshold of the French Revolution...
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PERFORMANCE
Ron Crawford Plays Mark Twain in a Docudrama by Adam Klasfeld
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PERFORMANCE
Ron Crawford Plays Mark Twain in a Docudrama by Adam Klasfeld
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1968 REVISITED
A DRAMATIC READING
A Play by Barbara Garson
Director: Jim Zidar
MacBird originated in August, 1965, as a slip of the tongue when Barbara Garson, speaking at an anti-war rally in Berkeley, California, quite accidentally referred to the First Lady of the United States as Lady MacBird Johnson...
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PERFORMANCE
Ona Aya Osato
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FILM SCREENING
Radical Urban Cinema
Urban guerilla films from Truth 2 Power, a progressive filmmakers collective based in NYC...
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EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Artists in Spite of Retail
The Retail Action Project (RAP) presents a multi-media art exhibit displaying the creative visions of NYC retail workers.
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PERFORMANCE
1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli
Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri
Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997...
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EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
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PERFORMANCE
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
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4-DAY FESTIVAL BEGINS
Presented by the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective
The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th Annual New Play Festival...