Street Movies! @ Nile Swim Club

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

Street Movies! @ Nile Swim Club
ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 8/19 BUT RESCHEDULED FOR WED 8/24 due to expected storms**Sonia Sanchez will still perform on 8/24!**
Bring your lawnchairs, blankets and swimwear if you would like to swim while watching movies.

Join Scribe, the Nile Swim Club, and Friends of Historic Eden Cemetery for Street Movies! featuring several great short movies including films about Eden Cemetery, Nile Swim Club

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 7:45PM
YEADON, PA,
Hosts: The Nile Swim Club and Friends of Historic Eden Cemetery
Location: The Nile Swim Club
513 S. Union Avenue
Opening performance by internationally acclaimed poet and author Sonia Sanchez
Free and open to the public

Bury Me in a Free Land: The Story of Eden Cemetery
by Friends of Historic Eden Cemetery and Scribe Video Center
This sacred burial space has been used by African American families from across Philadelphia for over a century. Since the graveyard’s first internment in 1902, when mourners gathered after dark to avoid white residents who had blocked the burial service the day before, Eden’s shifting relationship with its neighborhood has been as multilayered as its continued cultural and personal importance to African Americans in the region. (2011, 12 min)

Nile Swim Club
by Nile Swim Club and Scribe Video Center
When they were turned away from a local swim club because of their skin color, two African American families in Yeadon founded the Nile Swim Club as a neighborhood center that would be open to everyone. Its doors opened in the summer of 1959 and the club flourished. In recent years, in the wake of declining membership and expensive renovations, the Nile is looking to its legacy to determine how to remain a social fixture for its neighbors. (2011, 11 min)

Making a Homeplace: The Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore
by the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore Precious Places Team and Scribe Video Center
During the Great Migration in the early 20th Century, a community of black residents grew along a four-street enclave in the middle of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The migrating families brought with them traditions and heirlooms they had known in their native Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, cultural facets that came to shape the fabric of their new neighborhood. Decades later, fourth- and fifth-generation residents embrace what has become their family Homeplace along Bowdoin Avenue. (US, 2011, 10:45 min)

Walking Home
By Nuala Cabral
Walking Home is an experimental piece about women ritually facing street harassment as they walk home. Shot in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, it mixes 16mm film, video, poetry and music in an effort to honor and reclaim our voice, name and humanity in the public sphere. This is for the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.
(US, 2011, 4:00 min)

Pigment
by Alexis McCrimmon
Pigment is a 12-minute experimental documentary film that explores, through the use of digital collage animation, video performance and first-person narrative, the medical and mythological origins behind the disease known as Vitiligo. (US, 2011, 12 min)

I Am Sean Bell
by Stacey Muhammad
Young boys reflect on the Sean Bell tragedy, speaking out about their fears and hopes as they approach manhood in a city where the lives of young black men are often cut short. (US, 2010, 10:36 minutes) A Media That Matters Film

The Contender
by Sulaiman Tahir
The story of Fast Eddie Chambers and how he overcame childhood poverty to become Philly’s number one IBF heavyweight contender and how he mentors students to be their best.
(US, 2011, 3 min)

Thumb Sucking Weedie
by MC Breeze
Weedie loves to suck her thumb. But what will she do when she is admonished by neighbors and friends alike that she is just to old for such a childish habit. (US, 2011, 3:26 min)

Child & Firefly
by Glenn Gear
This short animation is based on the Urdu poem “Jugnu” for children written by Indian author Ismail Meeruti and first published in the 19th century. It illustrates an encounter between a curious boy and a firefly. The boy catches the firefly in his hat and keeps it prisoner until convinced by her that he must set her free. This message serves to remind us to be more considerate and not destructive of other species, each other and nature. (Canada, 2009, 2:30 min)

The Legend of Ngong Hills
by Kwame Nyong’o
Based on a Maasai folktale, this animated short is the creation myth of the majestic Ngong Hills that backdrops present day Nairobi. The humungous and frightful Ogre of the forest, with a habit of attacking the Maasai village, falls in love with the beautiful young maiden Sanayian in this story of greed, betrayal and courage. Winner of the East African Talent Award at the 2011 Zanzibar International Film Festival. (Kenya, 2011, 10 min)

Boys to Men
by Ali El Mekki
Young boys are taught the skills and discipline they need to fulfill their adult responsibilities in this short documentary.
(US, 2011, 3 min)