Street Movies! @ Marian Anderson Recreation Center

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Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive
August 3, 2011 - August 27, 2011

Join Scribe , Marian Anderson Recreation Center, the Engine 11 Precious Places Group and the 711 Precious Places Group for Street Movies! featuring short films about the YWCA founded by African- American women and an once all-black fire station.

Friday, August 5 - 7:45PM
Marian Anderson Recreation Center - 744 S. 17th Street
FREE & Open to the public

Friday, August 5, 2011
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
Hosts: Engine 11 Precious Places Group, 711 Precious Places Group and Marian Anderson Recreation Center
Location: Marian Anderson Recreation Center
744 S. 17th Street
Opening performance group MOM (Music over Matter)

The Power and The Glory in “WE”
by the Southwest Belmont Community Association and Scribe Video Center
A YWCA founded by black church women in 1920 struggles inside a gentrifying South Philadelphia neighborhood. (2010, 11 min)

Engine 11: A Journey of Segregation & Discovery
by Engine 11 Precious Places Group and Scribe Video Center
A once all-black fire station’s surviving firemen describe a history of segregation. (2010, 10 min)

711
by the 711 Precious Places Group and Scribe Video Center
Sydney King trained world-recognized dancers, shaping the direction of American performance at her studio on South Broad. (2010, 10 min)

The Dance Lesson
by Chinonye Chukwu
The story of a young, black girl struggling to be a ballerina and a part of a gentrified community, which she feels is so different from her own. But as both worlds collide, it is only time before she is confronted with the beauty that can exist in her own reality. (2010, 15 min)

Nutrition: A Community's Challenge
by Brandywine Workshop Youth Video Project and Shannon Newby
Nutritional foods and fresh fruits and vegetables are critical to our well-being. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to healthy food. This documentary, created by students from West Philadelphia High School in collaboration with filmmaker Shannon Newby, explores the various roles that youth, parents, educators, community leaders, elected officials and others must play in ensuring that proper nutrition, healthy foods and exercise are being promoted as a life-long commitment. "Nutrition: A Community's Challenge" was sponsored by the Brandywine Workshop, an EcoExpress Community Partner. (16:06 minutes)

She Rhymes Like A Girl
by JT Takagi
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male dominated world of hip hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary hopes to promote a movement of female MCs. Part of the Call for Change Series. (US, 2006, 2006)