▌SCREENINGS ▌Welcome May in the #DMV: Sonje NOLA, Hip Hop & Juvenile Justice--OH MY!

ITVS and Community Cinema are like that.

*drops the mic and walks away*

I really could leave it there and end this post, but you MUST know what Community Cinema and your friendly neighborhood activisticinephiles are up to. (Def made that word up.) And when you go, tell 'em bytwenty8 told you!

May 4-6, 2010

Community Cinema & 2010 Big Read DC

Second Chances

AED Global Theater
1927 Florida Ave., NW
7:00P FREE 
RSVP here or call 2/387-8391


The Humanities Council of Washington, DC in partnership with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Justice for DC Youth and the Provisions Library present "Second Chances," the backdrop against which the District reads Ernest J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying. [The little teacher in me is geeked.] The screenings are as follows:

May 4

7:00P

Sentenced Home 

a film by Nicole Newnham and David Grabias 

Raised as Americans in inner-city projects near Seattle, three young Cambodian refugees each made a rash decision as a teenager that irrevocably shaped their destiny. Now facing deportation back to Cambodia years later, they find themselves caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future by a system that doesn't offer any second chances. Sentenced Home was featured on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Independent Lens in April 2007. 

May 5

7:00P

Crips & Bloods: Made in America

a film by Stacy Peralta

In the southern portion of Los Angeles, a civil war has been raging for more than 40 years. Crips and Bloods: Made in America searches for answers by providing a historical and sociological context for the rise of the devastating gang violence. Narrated by Forest Whitaker. Crips and Bloods: Made in America was featured on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Independent Lens in May 2009. Q&A with Tendani Mpulubusi, Arts Commissioner for Ward 8 and Director of Programs, Helping Inner City Kids Succeed (HICKS); and Ashley Howard former gang member, youth member of HICKS. 

May 6

7:00P

Panel Discussion

At the age of sixteen, Reginald Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower-middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. He served his nine-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. He's documented his coming-of-age in prison in his memoir A Question of Freedom. Betts, David Muhammad, Chief of Committed Services for the DC Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, and Shani Jamila O'Neal, Director of Justice for DC Youth give an overview of juveniles in the criminal justice system and the possibilities for second chances in a system that is long overdue for reform.

Monday, May 10, 2010

IPS' Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) presents

Hip Hop As Mass Media 

1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, WDC, 20036
6:45P - 8:45P 
FREE

This workshop explores the function of hip-hop as part of a larger mass media structure. The presentation involves an investigation of hip-hop history, inner-workings of the music industry, hip-hop as media and cultural expression, the historical legacy of Black image and the hip-hop underground. Much of this is done via the particular history and contemporary use of the mixtape as this original mass medium has gone from an underground phenomenon to a popular corporate conduit, as well as, becoming a potential source of emancipatory journalism and free space for ingenuity. Led by Jared Ball, professor of African American and Media Studies at Morgan State University. Jared is also managing editor of the first hip-hop academic journal from Words, Beats and Life and hosts the Monday afternoon show, Jazz & Justice on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC, 1-3pm. Dr. Ball is also the founder and creator of FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show, a rap music mixtape committed to the practice of underground emancipatory journalism. He and his work can be found online at VOXUNION.COM. Please pre-register here.

Sunday, May 23, 2010 (@ Busboys)
Sunday, May 30, 2010 (@ DC Jewish Comm. Ctr)

ITVS and National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA)

A Village Called Versailles, by S. Leo Chiang

Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St., NW at V St. @ 5:00P
Washington, DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St., NW at Q St. @ 3:00P
RSVP village@communitycinema-dc.org or call 2/939-0794
FREE

Welcome to Versailles, New Orleans--home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. For over 30 years, its residents lived a quiet existence on the edge of New Orleans. But then came Hurricane Katrina, the immense garbage piles and the shocking discovery of a toxic landfill planned in their neighborhood. Watch as they fight back, turning a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance to build a better future.