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Women, War & Peace kick’s off the 2011 – 2012 Season

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Community Cinema kicks off the new season with Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker’s Women, War & Peace, a bold new five-part PBS mini-series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. A co-production of THIRTEEN and Fork Films, Women, War & Peace places women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security and reframes our understanding of modern warfare. Featuring narrators Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, Geena Davis, and Alfre Woodard, the series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Simultaneously, they are emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict.

The screening will feature a one of five episodes from Women, War & Peace, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, the astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.

Special thanks to our Community Cinema series partners and our local community partners for the ITVS Women & Girls Lead initiative (Girls Scouts Council of the Nation’s Capital, Institute for Policy Studies, OneBlue.org, PeacexPeace). “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” is one of several Community Cinema WGL events for 2011-2012. See our special page for the DC fall schedule of WGL films.

COMMUNITY CINEMA [DC] EVENT INFORMATION
WHAT: FREE screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell, part of the Women, War & Peace mini-series coming to PBS beginning October 11, 2011. Film and Q&A engage public about the political situation in Liberia and the upcoming elections later this year (speakers TBA).
WHO: Presenters: ITVS Community Cinema [DC], WHUT, Busboys and Poets, Washington DCJCC, Center for Social Media at American University, Girl Scouts Council of the Nation’s Capital, Institute for Policy Studies, OneBlue.org, PeacexPeace

WHEN: Sun., September 18 at 3 PM – Washington DCJCC (1529 16th Street, NW at Q) – Reserve
Sun., September 25 at 5 PM – Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW) – Reserve

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WATCH Abigal Disney on Women, War & Peace and the value of public media to tell these stories.

Speakers for June 5 screening of “Two Spirits” (updated)

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Audio (MP3) of Two Spirits Q&A (June 5 2011) recorded at the Washington DCJCC June 5, 2011. Click on link or the Streampad banner below.
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The first Community Cinema [DC] screening of TWO SPIRITS is Sunday, June 5 at 3 PM at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center (1529 16th Street, NW). We’re happy to host two guest speakers to be part of the Q&A:

JAMIE CURTIS, Senior Field and Policy Coordinator, PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Jamie Curtis is responsible for working with chapters in the eastern part of the United States. She also works on PFLAG’s outreach to communities of faith. Prior to serving as a Field and Policy Coordinator, Jamie was the Field and Policy Associate helping to manage chapter services. Before coming to PFLAG, Jamie gained experience by working with underprivileged youth in Washington, D.C. Jamie graduated from American University with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. Jamie hails from Auburn, New York.

MARLON FIXICO, Organizing Member of the Two-Spirit Society of Washington, DC
Marlon Fixico is an organizing member of the Two-Spirit Society of Washington, DC. He is an enrolled member of the Southern Cheyenne Nation of Oklahoma and direct descendant of peace chief Blackkettle. He also descendant of Seminole spiritual leaders from his father’s side. He is a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University. He has served on the organizing committee for the annual Tulsa Two-Spirit Gatherings and is a public speaker, a massage therapist, life coach, and spiritual mentor to many men and women in recovery from various addictions. A long time resident of Washington , DC , he is originally from Oklahoma and worked with and served on the boards of several native organizations both local and national.

Special thanks to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian and the Two-Spirit Society of Washington, DC.

Community partner for TWO SPIRITS:

Our Guest Speakers for “Pushing the Elephant”

Community Cinema [DC] is pleased to welcome the following speakers to our Q&A for the March screenings of “Pushing the Elephant”:

Maurice Carney
Friends of the Congo

(Sunday, March 27, 2011; Busboys and Poets)
Maurice Carney is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the Congo. He is an independent entrepreneur and human rights activist who has fought with Congolese for fifteen years in their struggle for human dignity and control of their country. He has worked as a research analyst at the nation’s leading Black think tank the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. While at the Joint Center, Mr. Carney worked with civic associations in West Africa providing training on research methodology and survey. He served as the interim Africa working group coordinator for Reverend Jesse Jackson while he was Special Envoy to Africa. Mr. Carney also worked as a research consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation addressing issues such as the socio-politcal condition of African American communities.

JaBen Early

cast member, “Ruined”
(Sunday, March 27, 2011; Busboys and Poets)
JaBen Early is an actor and filmmaker. He will be performing in the Arena Stage Mead Center for American Theater production of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Award-winning play, “Ruined” on stage April 22nd – June 5th. “Ruined” was selected for a community read as part of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC‘s “Live to Read” initiative.

Nita Evele

Congo Global Action
(Sunday, March 13; Washington DCJCC)
Nita Evele is an activist from the DR Congo. She was born in Kinshasa, the capital and moved to the US in 1996, right before the rebellion started in the former Zaire, now DR Congo. In 1998, she found her calling and become an activist, which allowed her to connect directly with the struggle of individuals instead of passively watching events unfold. In the US, she has been relentlessly working to bring the voices of the Congolese to the American people, policy makers, especially women and children, to try to end the suffering and the war that still devastating DRC.

Caroline Slobodzian

US National Committe for UN Women, National Capital Chapter

(Sunday, March 27; Busboys and Poets)
Caroline Slobodzian is the President of the US National Committe for UN Women, National Capital Chapter. The National Capital Chapter is one of ten chapters in the United States working to support the US National Committee’s mission of “working toward a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality”.

Emira Woods

Institute for Policy Studies
(Sunday, March 27; Busboys and Poets)
Emira Woods is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and an expert on U.S. foreign policy with a special emphasis on Africa and the developing world. She has written on a range of issues from debt, trade and development to U.S. military policy. Emira serves on the Board of Directors of Africa Action, Just Associates, Global Justice and the Financial Policy Forum. She is also on the Network Council of Jubilee USA. Emira completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University and her graduate studies at Harvard. Prior to joining IPS, she was program manager for the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, serving as a principal staff contact for advocacy at the UN, the international financial institutions, USAID and Treasury. Previous to that, she served as a program officer of Oxfam America’s Africa program. Ms. Woods is a regular commentator on CNN’s Your World Today, BBC’s The World Today (Weekend), and appears regularly on Al Jazeera and Voice of America. She has hosted a WashingtonPost.com online chat and has published pieces in BBC’s Focus on Africa magazine, NAACP’s Crisis magazine as well as the Miami Herald, the Christian Science Monitor, New York Newsday, the Nation, the Baltimore Sun, and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, among many others. Ms. Woods is chair of the Board of Africa Action and serves on the advisory committee of the Zimbabwe Alliance as well as the Humanity United/Trustafrica Liberia program. She is also on the Board of Directors of Global Justice and is a member of the Network Council of Jubilee USA.

“Deep Down” – Community Cinema (November)

results of mountain top removal

Washington, DC is only a stone’s throw from Appalachia and the communities that produce the nation’s coal. As much as a miner may be attached to the $70+/hour job that coal mining creates, there’s another attachment to the great landscape and natural resources that sustain life outside the mine shaft, yet is harvested to feed the countries insatiable appetite for energy.

During the month of November, Community Cinema will present Deep Down, a film by Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen. This story takes place in Kentucky, but it just as well may be West Virginia. Deep Down puts a human face on the debate around mountain top removal and its impact. Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff, now in their fifties, find themselves in the midst of a community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. Their struggle is part of a larger debate about who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources?

Dates for the screenings are:
Sunday, November 7 at 3 PM, Washington DC Jewish Community Center (1529 16th Street, NW)
Sunday, November 14 at 5 PM, Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW)
The events are FREE and open to the general public. The film will be followed by a Q&A with representatives from our community partners.

To make a reservation, click on this link, or call 202-939-0794.

Community partners for the Washington, DC Deep Down events:

Speakers for June 5 screening of “Two Spirits” (updated)

Our Guest Speakers for “Pushing the Elephant”

“Deep Down” – Community Cinema (November)

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