Tribeca's 2010 Lineup Announced

The Tribeca Film Festival is apparently treated like a tester for Cannes, which comes after and across the water. The Fest is in its ninth year, having been founded in 2001 by Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in an effort to revitalize lower Manhattan post-9/11.

The fest opens with the 3D world premiere of 'Shrek Forever After.' (Yes. A fourth one. And in 3D--but, I ain't gon' lie, I like this franchise.) 

I'm moved by the following, so far--no surprises--they're mostly docs with lots of getWOKE! specials in betwixt and between:

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More Ways to Get Involved

SEARCH EFFORTS, DONATE

http://www.google.com/relief/chileearthquake/

Google provides immediate portals for donation through UNICEF and the Red Cross via the link above. This site is also for people in search of family members and loved ones, or for folks who may have information about missing individuals. Share and search, fam. The world really isn't that big at times like these.

SEARCH, STAY UPDATED

Follow @WHAAsstSecty, @DipNote, and @TravelGov on Twitter to stay updated about what the U.S. is doing in response to these disasters. @WHAAsstSecty tweets: Looking for a loved one in #Chile? Use this person finder: http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/
http://bit.ly/awYlXb

NPR: 1000x More Power than Haiti Quakes [breathtaking]

As Hawaii and the West coast brace for the tsunami side effects of this morning's quakes in Chile (8.8 magnitude, CBS oh, and 6.3 magnitude, Argentina), here's how we can jump to action:

Crisis Camp @ the World Bank (look. i know...)

http://bit.ly/9Jpvd4

http://www.crisiscommons.org/

9:00A - 5:00P

1850 I St., NWDC 20006 (Farragut West)

If you're in DC and have tech skills OR DON'T Participants will need to use the side entrance (19th & I) on Saturday, and should bring a picture ID and a laptop. The World Bank will provide coffee and donuts in the morning and pizza/water/sodas at lunch. CrisisCamp has brought together technology volunteers in six countries across numerous cities to provide local opportunities for citizens to assist in activities such as crisis mapping, data and RSS feed aggregation. In addition, people with specialized skills such as translation, computer programing and literacy advocates are encouraged to participate. This event is free and open to the public. You don't have to be technical to volunteer time. We request that you bring a laptop, your creativity and a power strip with you (to share with others).

Twitter

Stay updated, and follow @terremotochile

TTs to follow (trending topics): #terremotochile #tsunami #Chilean #earthquake

Department of State
blogs.state.gov
Locating U.S. citizens in Chile
888/407-4747
2/501-4444

Embassy of Chile
chile-usa.org
1732 Massachusetts Ave., NWDC
2/785-1746
2/872-1334
2/997-5475

usgs.gov >> Thanks, Political Jones

In Case You Missed It: We Are The World 25 For Haiti

Premiered at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, February 12th.

TUNE IN NOW: SOS Help Haiti, BET live stream #SonjeAyiti #Haiti

BET's SOS Help For Haiti Telethon is streaming live right now. Catch up and call in: http://www.bet.com/specials/helphaiti/telethon/sos_livestream

Fashion Forward, Ayiti Styled

By now, you (had BETTER) know what rocked Haiti to its core in the most literal sense on January 12, 2010.

Polo Makes Haiti Relief Shirt - Essence.com

For the bourgi-licious bred'ren...Essence has got you covered in Ayiti--from iPhone cases to scarves, upscale papier to perfume. If you've got the dime, get 'er in.

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"In some cases, the best you can hope for is fashionable co-optation."

DMV Love Continues: 'Sonje Ayiti' #Haiti #Haiti #Haiti

Even the biggest socialites'n'sich are turning up their shine as the DMV keeps pressing with Haiti.

That being said, here's some of what's going down just within the next 48 hours around the way:

Saturday, January 30th

Hip Hop 4 Haiti W/ Hip Hop Caucus

Layla Lounge

501 Morse St, NE

hiphop4haiti.ning.com

4P - 9P

Folks across the country are declaring 1/30 an official day of service to Haiti. Clothing, supplies, toiletries and non-perishable food items are welcome at this event. See the full list of goods to bring when you run through Layla tomorrow evening here. Local artists in attendance include DeAngelo Redman, Kyonte, Dy Rec, Mugsy Malone, Bear Witnez, Laelo Hood, Rated R, DJ DEE Cash on the 1s and 2s, & all female cipha! You can learn more about Hip Hop 4 Haiti's going-ons via www.HipHopHelpHaiti.org (New York Ave Metro Sta, Red Line)

Saturday, January 30th

DC Loves Haiti

The Park @ 14th

920 14th St, NW

Donations: $10-$25+

DRESS CODE: (DON'T play yourself) no sneakers allowed

$5 coat check

6P - 9P

The Park is also welcoming volunteers for this event. If you are interested, more information is available here. Performances include activist, poet, educator and Emcee Omekongo Dibinga. 100% of funds donated will go to Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, World Vision, and/or (if you as a donor choose), the Clinton/Bush Haiti Fund. Checks can be made to one or all of these organizations. Learn more via DC Loves Haiti. www.theparkatfourteenth.com (McPherson Square Metro Sta, Blue Line)

Reel Round the DMV | Week of January 24th

We're still doing it up real big with Haiti around and about the area (the 'for' was irking me too). While you're out, you may see some politicos looking down and out (THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! i am a little fluttered by that loss...) but even so, let the people STAY WOKE and more importantly mobile >>

Today, January 24th @ 6:00p

Sankofa Cafe on Georgia Ave. screens 'Jazz', episode 8 of Ken Burns' doc series of the same name. This volume centers around the years 1945-1955. (OOOOooooohhhh!) No doubt, a fresh release. Mosey on over if you can. www.sankofa.com | 2714 Georgia Ave., NW

And if you're still feeling in the spirit when you leave, check out Oye' Palaver Hut via WashingtonDCJazzNetwork.ning.com, and do what you can to support their ongoing Storytelling/Music Project. The program is in need of gently used and new instruments for juvenile and adult inmates participating, growing and teaching through the music right here in the DC area. Get at 'em. www.oyepalaverhut.org | 202.773.5446

Today, January 24th @ 8:00p

Busboys and Poets in Shirlington screens 'The Cats of Mirikitani' for the last time. Elva Anderson, art therapist and licensed professional counselor hosts Q&A following the film that follows 80 year old Jimmy Mirikitani--who has survived U.S. terrorism via internment camps, Hiroshima and homelessness--only to be directly threatened by the aftereffects of 9/11. A local filmmaker and fan of Mr. Mirikitani's art become the catalyst for his journey back through the mire to the present.www.busboysandpoets.com | 4251 South Campbell Ave., Arlington, VA

Today, January 24th @ 8:00p

BloomBars, my Columbia Heights homestead, kicks off the work week (and adds a nice footnote to the weekend) with Seed the Sound Sundays. Ahhhhhhhhhh...exhalation feels lovely. Stop in and experience what I'm at a loss to paint in words for you. HHP, visiting artist in resident from South Africa is still holding it down something lovely, too. Find yourself there. Please. There's nothing like this anywhere else in the city. Guaranteed. www.bloombars.com | 3222 11th St., NW

Thru January 28th

@Landmark E St. Cinema WFI is getting it in Goethe-Institut style. John Hanshaw recommends 'Tandoori Love,' 'Kill Daddy Goodnight,' and 'Pope Joan' showing Monday, January 25th, Tuesday January 26th, and Wednesday the 27th, respectively at 6:45p about a block away from Metro Center (red line). Know: these films are NOT free. Check out the full playlist over at Washington Film Institute's site.

FEBRUARY 12th, WFI presents a second Hatitian Film Night & Fundraiser at--guess where?--the Goethe-Institut (7th & I, NW). The reception runs from 6-8:00p with 'Aristide and the Endless Revolution' screening at 8:00p. 'Aristide' nabbed Pan African Film Festival best doc in 2006. The doc recounts what really happened BUT i wouldn't be keeping it bytwenty8 if I told you to watch without doing your homework, too. No screening should be ingested without personal research. GO. WATCH. y READ! www.dcfilminstitute.org | E St. Cinemas, 555 11th St., NW (Metro Center)

WATCH NOW: Hope For Haiti Now via YouTube streaming

Wyclef has made me tear up on sound. The stories will deaden you.

Children, people who've already been trapped are traumatized are endless, but don't just let your heart bleed: GIVE!

Tune in via YouTube. WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/YOUTUBE

877-99-HAITI (42484)

HopeforHaitinow.org

iTunes.com/Haiti

DMV: Haiti'd Down to the Socks, MLK and Service todo el fin del semana

Happy birthday to Dr. King. While we commemorate the day of service every third Monday in January, the civil rights leader we all too often oversimplify was born today, January 15th, 81 years ago. What better way to commemorate his legacy and the legacy of his contemporaries this weekend than to turn every dry and drying eye to the center of our pride and pain--Haiti.

BENEFIT: $10 ladies, $20 gents
WHO: Shadow Room
WHEN: TONIGHT, January 15th @9:00p
WHERE: Shadow Room, 2131 K St., N.W.
WHAT: Party scene

Shadow Room and Metromix were determined not to co-opt some folks' Friday night revelry. That being said, Belevedere is playing host as this goes down this evening (for those who shall or may). http://www.shadowroom.com/

BENEFIT: Donations accepted at the door
WHO: Busboys & Poets ft. Demont Peekaso
WHEN: Sunday, January 17th @ 6:00p
WHERE: 2120 14TH St., N.W.
WHAT: Haiti Open Mic Night Fundraiser

Times like these indeed bring your pen bursting forth with emotion unspeakable until the final word is writ. Busboys and Poets plans to provide the venue for healing while artist Demont Peekaso paints live for auction. All proceeds from the art auction and from donations at the door will be donated to Partners in Health and Yele Haiti. http://www.busboysandpoets.com/

BENEFIT: $20 general admission, $100 VIP
WHO: DMV Helps Haiti, Wale and more of D.C.'s finest
WHEN: Monday, January 18th @6:00p
WHERE: 9:30 Club, 815 V St., N.W.
WHAT: concert

The concert, organized by DMV Helps Haiti, will donate ALL ticket sales to the Partners in Health Organization and Yele Haiti (helmed by Wyclef Jean). Metromix notes that the artists have DONATED THEIR PERFORMANCES, the 9:30 Club has DONATED THE VENUE and all club employees are DONATING THEIR WAGES. The advance ticket sales service charge will also be donated. How the heck do ya like that?? Salute. www.930.com/concerts

BENEFIT: $10
WHO: Washington Film Institute
WHEN: Monday, January 18th @5:00p
WHERE: The Passenger & Warehouse Theater, 1021 7th St, NW
WHAT: Documentary screening of "The Agronomist" (2003), scored by Wyclef Jean, dir. by Jonathan Demme

This part doesn't matter as much, BUT the film itself is about Haitian radio personality Jean Dominique, who "spent his life as an outspoken leader campaigning for reform and justice for Haiti." It begins around the 1991 overthrow of fmr. Presisdent Jean Bertrand Aristide. Beverages begin at 5:00pm, but the screening begins at 7:00p. Washington Film Institute will donate 25% of happy hour sales and 100% of gratuity from bartenders and wait staff from The Passenger going to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Suggested donation for the film screening is $10 or more. Proceeds from the film will also go to the Red Cross. http://www.dcfilminstitute.org/

BENEFIT: Donations open, but looking to top $5,000 en total!!
WHO: BloomBars, all the artists-in-residence and visiting AiR (and INT'L big deal) Jabba (HHP)
WHEN: Thursday, January 21st @ 8:00p
WHERE: 3222 11th St., NW
WHAT: music and nourishment :-)

BloomBars has done it once and they'll do it again and again and again>>in the name of social justice and all that is righteous indeed, the master artists-in-residence will put on for Haiti. The last benefit held for Haiti, BloomBars raised $5,000. Proceeds will go directly to Yele Haiti. Not anything you should miss, especially while Jabba--Hip Hop Pantsula, Jay-Z-KRS One compound, and internationally known superstar--is visiting from South Africa. This is a Pan-African moment you shouldn't try to resist. http://www.bloombars.com/

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The Haitian Embassy will be open Sunday until 4:00pm accepting food, water and other donations if you cannot contribute monetarily. The Embassy is located at 2311 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

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I love the way my city jumps to action!

Particularly Haiti

Here's a great beginning resource for those who are feeling really how-do-i? helpless (como yo).

Chris Sacca suggests 6 ways to help the 3+ million affected by this earthquake right this second. His commenters suggest a few more, and yours truly is still searching the D.C. area for local ways to get involved.

Here are a few sites that may also benefit anyone who may happen to stumble upon:

• The U.S. Department of State's official blog, DipNote, has identified the number to call for folks who are trying to locate family members: 1-888-407-4747.
• The Haitian Embassy, 2311 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.: Haiti.org >> 202-332-4090.
• The Lambi Fund of Haiti: 202-833-3713.
• Action for Haiti - DC has only been developed within the last 24 hours. But the Facebook fan group is snowballing with information about how to help around the DMV.
• Haiti Democracy Project may be able to keep you up to date on U.S. policy and red tape regarding Haiti. One to be aware of. They also provide a number of links to other resources.

That's the DMV round-up so far. But I'll probably be back. Deuces for now.