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Black Rock: The Metamorphosis of Home from Isolation to Connection Task Force Multimedia Exhibition (Black Rock)

January 27 - February 24, 2007

Gallery: Gallery Aferro
Event Producer: Noelle Lorraine Williams (REBORN)
Guest Curators: Noelle Lorraine Williams (REBORN) and Kevin Darmanie

Address:
73 Market Street
Downtown Newark, NJ

Event Schedule:
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE - Donations Welcomed
Gallery and Gift Shop open at 1:00

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l UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Gallery and Gift Shop open at 1:00

EVENT Title: Desert Blooms
Black women’s stories of resistance, healing and growth within community.
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

3:00 pm - Film Screenings
NO! A Rape Documentary by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
NO! is a feature length documentary about rape and healing in African-American communities.” If the Black community in the Americas and in the world would save itself, it must complete the work this film begins."
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, The Color Purple

Whole-A Trinity of Being Directed by Shelley BarryUSA/2004/16min
This trilogy takes the form of experimental documentary recounting the story of
a survivor of one of the lesser- known wars in South Africa, namely the "taxi
wars" where there is a battle for ownership of transport routes. Nine years
later, Shelley tells the story through her own visual poetry.

PIN PRICKS revisits the moments when the fabric of a woman's life is torn and
revelations that take her beyond loss.

VOICE/OVER explores silence/spoken word/speech/the ability to speak and the
importance of speaking out about violence, trauma, love and survival.

ENTRY explores the re-insertion of images into a media that does not reflect
people with disabilities as passionate and sexual beings.

Shelly Barry, is the former Parliamentary Policy Co-ordinator for Disabled
People South Africa's Parliamentary office, during the presidency of Nelson
Mandela. She was also appointed as media officer for disability issues in the
Office of the President, Thabo Mbeki. Ms. Barry is currently an MFA candidate
in film at Temple University. Whole is the winner of Grand Prize: Corporation Independent Spirit Award: Brooklyn International Film Festival on Disability;
Best Narrative Short: Philadelphia Festival of Independents, Jury Citation
Award: Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey.

There are a couple of stills from the film on this website, for publicity
materials:

http://www.picturethisfestival.org/CatalogueEntries2007/812WholeAtrinityofbeing.html

Goodnight Liberation Directed by Oriana Bolden
USA/2004/8min

Sick and tired of being sick and tired, twenty-three-year-old Oriana Bolden
grabbed a video camera to document her life at the intersection of poverty and
health, or lack-there-of. In this, her first experimental narrative
documentary, she speaks of the ills of society that allow people to continue to
be ill, precludes them access to life-saving medications and forces us all into
submission in a system that works for only the elite and able-bodied.

Sunshine Boutique
Directed by Kagendo Murungi
USA-Kenya/2006/30min

In Sunshine Boutique, African women artists of various sexualities reflect on
their legacies of creative resistance against gender, racial and sexual
violence. We join them on their journeys through different geographies as they
untangle what it means to survive as Black women, how to heal and nourish their
spirits, and where to keep growing in community.

Filmed in New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam and Cape Town, Sunshine Boutique
features the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Abena Busia, and C. Sala Hewitt as well
as original music by Faith Sangoma, Mama Kumba, and the “Killa B” Tuffnstuff
a.k.a Kali Boyce. Sunshine Boutique is a celebration of collective
consciousness and an internal marketplace where the sustenance of ideas,
memories, dreams, visions and agency is shared.

5:00 pm - Panel and Discussion

6:00 pm - Healing Circle

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Saturday, February 24, 2004
Gallery and Gift Shop open at 1:00

EVENT Title: Relentless Love: Defending the Beloved Community - Panel

4:00 – Film Mr. Devious – My Life by John Fredericks

Mario ”Mr. Devious” van Rooy, an enigmatic hip-hop mc, is stabbed to death in his
Neighborhood of Beacon Valley, Mitchell’s Plain, leaving a deafening silence.
Filmmaker, John Fredericks struggles to make sense of his close friend’s untimely
passing. Honoring a pledge, John comforts Devious’ wife, Natalie, who is left to
fend for her three kids. As Devious in his own words, takes us into his life, Natalie and John discover the legacy of a fiery street poet. Natalie takes charge of her life as she boldly picks up the mic & music of her late husband.

5:30 – Community Panel and Discussion

6:30 – Closing Reception and Music

Artists:
Jamyla & Pete Bennu, Maurice Chesnut, Lowell Craig, Rob Cruz, Easton Davy, Asha, Ganpat, John Fredericks, Jerry Gant, Darrell Goza, Tamara Harris, Nadine LaFond, Kagendo Murungi, Ibou Ndoye, Wura Ogunji, William Oliwa, Veruska Bellistri, Dread Scott, Shaka Zulu Overdrive, Ade Tugbiyele Sedita, Aqueelah Shaheed, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Nyugen E. Smith, Faith Songoma, SDNicholas, Joya Angola Thompson, Mary A. Valverde, Bisa Washington, Jesse Wright

Countries, Territories and Commonwealths Represented in the Show:
Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, Nigeria, Haiti, Rome, Senegal, Puerto
for Disability Television’s Superfest Film and Video Festival in 2005, the
Rico, Ecuador, Kenya, United States

Past Events
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Gallery and Gift Shop Open at 1:00 pm

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm; Performances @ 8:30 pm
EVENT Title: Musical Riot! A Call and Response
Hosted by Jerry Gant, Performances by Maurice Chesnut, Dancer, Shaka Zulu Overdrive,
Nadine LaFond of Swampedelica

Saturday, February 3, 2007
3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EVENT Title: Black Renegade Remix: Spirits and Rebels

3:00 pm Film Screening
Quilombo Country: Afro-Brazilian Villages in the Twenty-First Century with Chuck D by Leonard Abrams (73 mins)

No other film currently in release addresses these communities and illustrates all of these important Afro Brazilian contributions to Brazilian and world culture. Narrated by Chuck D, the legendary poet, scholar, media commentator and front man of the iconic hip hop band Public Enemy. http://www.quilombofilm.com/

4:30 pm Conversation, Slide and Artist Talk
Black Renegade Remix: Spirits, Rebels and Sex Artists explore what it means to engage “outsider” people, ideas, traditions, forms and identities in their art practice and community work. These artists radically (re) define Home in the way they reveal these cultures that are traditionally kept secret or hidden to heal themselves, community and innovate art practice. Participants: Wura Ogunji and sdnICHOLAS.

5:30 Break

6:30 Afro Punk by James Spooner
66-minute documentary that explores race identity within the punk scene.

7:45 Reception and Sound Design by Lowell Craig spinning African Diaspora beats, forms and sounds.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Gallery and Gift Shop open at 1:00

Black Comic Book Reception and Talk
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm - Live Drawing!
All artists and fans are welcome!   Bring your pencils and meet other comic book artists in your area. Featuring the work of Kevin Darmanie and Animation by Shakeila Williams.

4:00 pm – Panel – Black Power! Black Comic Book Reception
Conversation with Rich Watson, Kevin Darmanie and Shakeila Williams
New York, New York, US

Rich Watson - Biography
Comics columnist for Comic World News & Pop Culture Shock; Founder of the Glyph Awards, Honoring the best in black comics; Occasional comics creator; Former comics retailer; Short story writer; Voracious reader; Classic film geek; Dabbler in music and acting

Comic book artists will discuss the historical and contemporary ways that the Black comic books characters that they create address our greatest visions and deepest fears of community and art.

Gallery and Gift Shop open at 1:00

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l UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, February 17, 2007

`Whole-A Trinity of Being Directed by Shelley BarryUSA/2004/16min`

`Goodnight Liberation Directed by Oriana Bolden`

`Sunshine Boutique`

Saturday, January 27, 2007

3:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Black Comic Book Reception and Talk