Friday, Aug 13: The Black August Hip-Hop Project at the Highline Ballroom

The Black August Hip Hop Project 2010

Dead Prez, Pharoahe Monch, Cody Chestnutt, Homeboy Sandman, Sadat X , Divine of the Dey, ADM, Hasan Salaam, Hakim Green, Bajah & the Dry Eye Crew , Akir, Kalae All Day, La Bruja, Lah Tere, & surprise special guest!

August 13,2010

Concert starts @ 9PM
Doors open @ 8PM
Tickets $15.00 in advance
$20.00 day of show.

Info: Highline Ballroom

Get your tickets now for Black August! Aug 13 @ Highline Ballroom

The Black August Hip Hop Project 2010 – August 13, 2010

Featuring performances by:

• Dead Prez
• Pharoahe Monch
• Cody Chestnutt
• Homeboy Sandman
• ADM
• Kalae All Day
• Sadat X
• Hasan Salaam
• Akir
• La Bruja
• Divine of the Dey
• Hakim Green
• Lah Tere
• Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew

& Surprise Special Guests!

Date: Sunday, August 13, 2010
Time: Doors Open at 8:00pm – Concert Starts at 9:00pm
Location: Highline Ballroom 431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
(212) 414-5994

Tickets $15 in advance / $20 day of show.

Sunday, Aug 8: Radical Educators Meetup @ Bluestockings

Sunday, August 8th @ 12:30PM - Free
Radical Educators Meetup

Join a group of educators engaged in inquiry of critical texts for a meetup and collaborative discussion of pedagogical values and practices. Please bring an article or an excerpt to contribute. Please contact stina@riseup.net for more information.

Tonight! Film: I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Tribute to James Baldwin

Monday August 2nd, 2010 7:30 PM

Visual Liberation Film Festival

Co-sponsor: Red Channels

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

An Event Marking the 86th Anniversary of James Baldwin's Birth

Alexis Birdsong, Farah Jasmine Griffin & Ajamu Sankofa. Moderated by Rich Blint

Dick Fontanie | 85 min | 1982 | USA

This striking documentary charting the post-civil rights return of James Baldwin to cities of struggle in the South begins with a central question posed by the author: “What has happened to those people? What happened to this country? And what does this mean for the world?” Over the course of the film, Baldwin and the leaders he meets with (Sterling Brown, Hoyt Fuller, Amiri Baraka, Chinua Achebe, and others) offer preliminary answers to these questions with great resonance for our time.

Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15

Info: Brecht Forum

Monday, July 26: Urban Word NYC & John Jay College present AMIRI BARAKA @ John Jay College

"Poet, playwright, activist AMIRI BARAKA joins us for a free reading and lecture at John Jay College. Don't miss this opportunity to hear the poetry legend talk about the impact of hip-hop on social justice and read some of his most important poems. Special performance by Urban Word NYC youth."



Monday, July 26, 2010
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

John Jay College
North Hall
Multi-Purpose Room
445 59th Street
(Corner of 59th Street & 10th Avenue)"

Info: Urban Word NYC

Saturday and Sunday, July 17-18: Know Your Rights Workshop pt 1 @ Maysles Institute

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Know what to do if a police officer stops you on the street? Know what to do if a police vehicle pulls you over while driving?

Know Your Rights!
Come & learn with original Black Panthers, Young Lords, Black Spades, Zulus, Combat Veterans, Martial Arts Experts, Cop Watch Soldiers & Activist Attorney's At War!

- See & Discuss: Anti-Police terror films / handouts.
- Get self defense training & weapon disarming tactics.
- Learn what to do in case of arrest, in jail, in court, and more about your legal rights.
- Participate in street, vehicle & home role-play
- Free food, refreshments & materials for youth.

More information and reservations contact Bro. Shep:
panthershepcat@aol.com or (212) 650-5008"

Saturday July 17th and July 18
1:00pm - 4:00pm SHARP!

Free For All Youth (aged 13-23)
$10.00 Suggested Donation For Adults (No one turned away for the lack of funds)

Info: MAYSLES INSTITUTE

Wednesday, July 14: Reel Harlem Film Festival: Nina Simone Tribute - Marcus Garvey Park

Reel Harlem Film Festival: Nina Simone Great Performances (Free!)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Venue: Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
Rain Venue: Inside the Pelham Fritz Recreation Center

Music: The National Jazz Museum All-Stars' Tribute to Nina Simone (7:00 p.m.)

Film: Nina Simone Great Performances: College Concerts and Interviews (8:30 p.m.) (Andy Stroud, USA, 60 mins.)
A rare film of this radical artist in performance and in interviews where she shares her opinions on the role of the artist and race relations.

Info: New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Wednesday July 7: The Woman’s Film + Shorts @ BAM

The Woman’s Film + Shorts
Part of the BAMcinématek series Contraband Cinema


Wed, Jul 7 at 6:50pm
Directed by Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, Ellen Sorren
(1971) 86min

"This invaluable cultural document traces the history of the women's movement in America, through interviews with women from all walks of life who discuss their reasons for getting involved with the cause and what feminism means to them.

Screens with the shorts:

Up Against the Wall Miss America, Newsreel Group (1968, 8min)
"Here she comes..." At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. It is an interesting document of the early women's movement in action.

Janie’s Janie, Dir. Geri Ashur & Peter Barton (1972, 25min)
First I was my father’s Janie, then I was my Charlie’s Janie, now I’m Janie’s Janie. “Janie’s Janie, a fine documentary, unreels the self discoveries of a woman who married at fifteen to escape the constrictions of her own threadbare family.” —New York Times

Jeanette Rankin Brigade, Newsreel (1968, 8min)
In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises questions about the forms of protest engaged by women and the role of women in the anti-war."

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $8

Info: BAM

Sat Jul 3 and Tues July 6: Weather Underground film @ BAM

Underground
Part of the BAMcinématek series Contraband Cinema


Sat, Jul 3 at 9:30pm
Tue, Jul 6 at 4:30pm
Directed by Emile de Antonio & Mary Lampson
(1976) 87min

"This documentary on the Weather Underground—then members of the FBI's “Most Wanted” list—features shrouded interviews with Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Cathy Wilkerson. After production of the film was completed, the footage was subpoenaed by the government with the hopes that it might lead to arrests—but the filmmakers refused to hand it over. Within a couple years of the film's release, the Weather Underground dissolved."

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $8

Info: BAM

Fri July 2 and Wed July 7: The Garden film @ BAM

The Garden
Part of the BAMcinématek series Contraband Cinema


Fri, Jul 2 at 4:30pm*
Wed, Jul 7 at 9:30pm
*Intro by and discussion with Jonathan Wilson of Active Citizen Project

Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
(2008) 80min

"Scott Hamilton Kennedy records the backroom politics and shady courtroom machinations that ensue when a thriving community garden operated by Mexican-American immigrants in LA is suddenly and inexplicably condemned to make way for warehouse development. The farmers' refusal to relinquish the land results in a David vs. Goliath battle that exposes a mess of bureaucratic corruption extending all the way to City Hall."

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $8

Info: BAM

Thurs July 1 and Sun July 4: Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak + Jerusalem Tapes: (Israeli) Black Panthers on the Street @ BAM

"Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak + Jerusalem Tapes: (Israeli) Black Panthers on the Street
Part of the BAMcinématek series Contraband Cinema

Thu, Jul 1 at 4:30pm
Sun, Jul 4 at 2pm

Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak
Directed by Eli Hamo & Sami Shalom Chetrit
(2002) 55min

With Jerusalem Tapes: (Israeli) Black Panthers on the Street
Directed by David Cort/Videofreex
34min

"The footage in these films reveals the mostly unknown story of an Israeli political consciousness that tried to align itself with the 1970s civil rights struggle in the US and third world Marxism internationally."

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $8

Info: BAM

Thursday, July 1: Karla Lara concert @ El Museo del Barrio

Summer Nights at El Museo del Barrio
ft. Karla Lara

"Karla Lara, one of the most famous Honduran activists and musicians, combines a majestic voice with a leadership role in the fight for human rights, justice, and democracy in her homeland. This past April, she performed her songs, ranging from social messages to reflections on life and love, at the first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival in Washington, DC."

Thursday, July 1, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
El Teatro
Admission: Free
RSVP required. A printed RSVP confirmation is required to check-in

Info: El Museo del Barrio

Wednesday, June 30 and Sun July 4: Eldridge Cleaver Film and Q + A @ BAM

"Eldridge Cleaver"
Part of the BAMcinématek series Contraband Cinema


Wed, Jun 30 at 4:30pm
There will be an encore screening of Eldridge Cleaver on July 4 at 7:15pm featuring a Q&A with Kathleen Cleaver.

Directed by William Klein
(1969) 75min

"Under pressure from FBI's counterintelligence program, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen left the United States for Algeria. There, he set up the International Section of the Black Panther Party which quickly became the hangout of revolutionaries from the Vietnamese and African liberation movements. Klein's moving interview follows up with Cleaver during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, where he expounds upon the Vietnam War and Black Power during a time when 'revolution was the main theme of the day.'"

BAM Rose Cinemas
General Admission: $12
BAM Cinema Club members: $8"

Info: BAM

Monday, June 21: Love, Race and Liberation @ Bluestockings

Monday, June 21st @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Presentation: Calderon & Hall “Love, Race, and Liberation”

"Join Jlove Calderon and Marcella Runell Hall for a presentation of the multimedia project “‘Til the White Day is Done” and of “Love, Race, and Liberation,” a curriculum guide on white privilege in America. Join them in a nuanced discussion about whiteness, privilege, and working toward social and racial justice now."

Info: Bluestockings

Sat, June 19: Juneteenth Celebration at 227 Abolitionist Place

"The Abolitionist Museum hosts an annual Juneteenth Celebration, recognizing the June 19th Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which gave African-American slaves their freedom. The evening of celebration at this historic site, where abolitionists once lived and hid African-Americans, features Shawné Lee’s spiritual healing performance; Indoda Entsha, West African drumming group directed by E. Preston Riddick; and Michael Hooper of Roots Revisited. Great food, too!"

$10 (includes food). Purchase tickets at door.

Presented by Friends of 227 Abolitionist Place with support from BAC.

Contact: 227abolitionistplace.org

WHEN: Saturday, June 19, 8 pm–midnight (Rain date: June 20)
WHERE: 227 Duffield St. (Downtown Brooklyn)

Info: Brooklyn Arts Council

Monday June 14: 1st Annual NYC Revolutionary Latino Film Festival @ MAYSLES INSTITUTE

Opening Night: '1st Annual NYC Revolutionary Latino Film Festival'
In Celebration Of The 82nd Birthday Of Dr. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

"Featuring The Internationally Award Winning Film Written & Directed By Vagabond, El Machetero.

6:00:PM El Che
Dir. Aníbal Di Salvo & Maurice Dugowson, 1997, 83 min.
Documentary that retraces Guevara's life and political career, beginning with his youth in 1950's Argentina, when he set out on the road, writing travel diaries, poetry, and stories. His wanderings through the Andes, Patagonia, Peru, and the Chilean desert informed his identity not as a citizen of one nation but as a Latin American. Following his medical studies, he left Argentina forever, dedicating his life to fighting imperialism, poverty, and social injustice throughout the continent

7:30PM El Machetero
Dir. Vagabond, 2010
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this controversial film. French journalist Jean Dumont (Isaach de Bankolé) interviews Pedro Taino (Not4Prophet) a “Puerto Rican Terrorist" in prison. Pedro is a self-described Machetero fighting to free a colonized Puerto Rico from the United States. Jean questions Pedro about his decision to use violence to achieve that freedom. As they speak, a ghetto youth (Kelvin Fernandez) trapped in a cycle of violence, is encouraged by Pedro and a mentor (Dylcia Pagan) from his childhood in Puerto Rico to become the next generation of Machetero. The film is structured around songs from the album, “Liberation Day” by RICANSTRUCTION and interwoven into the film as a narrative voice. RICANSTRUCTION also provides an original improvised score."

Info: MAYSLES INSTITUTE

Now through August: Rafael Ferrer exhibit at El Museo del Barrio

Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer

"Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio. In the late 1960s, Puerto Rican-born Rafael Ferrer became internationally renowned for his guerilla art actions in New York and Philadelphia. In the 1970s, he was known for assemblage sculptures, kayaks, and tents. Since the 1980s Ferrer’s intensely colored paintings, prints, drawings and public sculptures have reflected his intelligence, sense of humor, and Caribbean perspective. The exhibition is part of El Museo’s FOCOS series, highlighting the achievements of mature, under recognized artists."

Tuesday, June 8th Through Sunday, August 22nd
Las Galerias de El Museo del Barrio -
1230 Fifth Avenue / 104th Street (Free)
Admission: Fees Vary

Saturday, June 12: We Will Not Be Shushed 24 Hour Read In @ Brooklyn Public Library

"Come out and support libraries during the 24 hour We Will Not Be Shushed Read-In. This is going to be a unified libraries effort with readers and library workers from all three tri-li systems. We already have the full endorsement of Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library administration. This is going to be a huge event in support of libraries.

We need your help! We need readers and we need supporters to come out and help out at the event. We will have a voice reading in front of the library for the full 24 hours. For that to happen it will take many voices to fill the time.

Together we can save our libraries and keep our library staff behind the desk where they belong.

We have been amazed by the amount of interest in the Read-In. Currently, all of our time slots have been filled. To sign up for the reading waitlist, or to volunteer to help with the event itself, please email savenyclibraries@gmail.com"

Time:	Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 5:00pm
Location:	Steps of BPL Central Library
Street:	10 Grand Army Plaza

Info: Facebook

June 10-28: Human Rights Film Festival at Lincoln Center

"Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. Through our Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people. Each year, the festival's programming committee screens more than 500 films and videos to create a program that represents a range of countries and issues."

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to New York and The Film Society of Lincoln Center for its 21st edition with 30 Films from 25 Countries—including 28 New York Premieres.

Info: Human Rights Watch

Saturday, June 5: Chen Lo & The Liberation Family @ Lincoln Center

The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad Presents:
Chen Lo & The Liberation Family

presented by Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Sat, Jun 5
Free Admission
Seating is first come, first served. No tickets required.
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Info: Lincoln Center