Street Movies!

Location(s)

Sunday, June 30, 7:00PM
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
Free & Open to the Public

Opening performance by Ursula Rucker and Time Motzer

Join Scribe and Decarcerate PA as we present a program of films on issues related to incarceration including Charisse Shumate: Fighting for our Lives about a prisoner fighting California Department of Corrections for proper medical care.

Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive

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Location(s)

Wednesday, July 10, 4:00PM
Attic Youth Center
255 S 16th St
Free & Open to the Public

Opening performance by Messapotamia Lefae!

Join us for films about trans rights and queer identity, including short videos and animations produced by youth at the Attic.

Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive

Location(s)

Sunday, February 24, 4:30PM
The Paul Robeson House
4949/4951 Walnut Street
Free & Open to the Public

Dyana Williams, co-host of WRNB's Soulful Sunday will emcee the event

The line-up of filmns include:

Renaissance on Sacred Ground
by Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, Village of Arts and Humanities and Scribe Video Center
Renaissance on Sacred Ground is a documentary about the healing power of African cultural art forms, including music and dance, to transform the lives of everyday people. It tells the story of Ile Ife, the House of Love, an African cultural center located on Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia and created by famed dancer choreographer, Arthur Hall. The young people who entered the doors of Ile Ife in the 1960s, drawn in by the sound of the African drum, over time became the members of the internationally known Arthur Hall Afro American Dance Ensemble. Produced collaboratively by the alumni of Ile Ife/the Arthur Hall Afro American Dance Ensemble and young people from the Village of Arts and Humanities, which now occupies the same site, Renaissance on Sacred Ground looks at how a four decade tradition of cultural expression – rooted in African music and dance, has helped nurture and sustain a community. This documentary combines contemporary interviews, video journaling and extraordinary archival footage of performances from the Arthur Hall Collection and Ile Ife films. (USA, 2009, 22 mins)

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
a film by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday
In the days before and after Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, an 85-year-old civil rights activist and “foot soldier” looks back on the early days of the movement in this Academy Award© nominated documentary short. World War II veteran James Armstrong was the proud proprietor of Armstrong’s Barbershop, a cultural and political hub in Birmingham, Alabama, for more than 50 years. Armstrong, who carried the American flag across the Selma bridge during the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights in 1965, links the struggles of activists of the past with a previously unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. (USA, 2011, 26 mins)

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The primary mission of The Paul Robeson House is to heighten awareness of the life, legacy and philosophy of Paul Robeson and his historical significance to the Philadelphia region, the state of Pennsylvania, the nation, and the world.

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Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive

Location(s)

Friday, April 5, 7:00PM
University of the Sciences
Griffith Auditorium
600 S. 43rd Street

Opening Performance by The Freedom Fighters

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Scribe partners with the Jubilee School to present a program of films about the historical and continuing struggle for social justice. The line-up features the following short films:

The Jubilee School Project: Balance and Sustainability
by John and Yoke DiGiorgio
In 2012, Jubilee engaged in an all-school study of the concept of balance from different angles. 5th and 6th grade students – Amea, Desean, Sheyenne, Bethany, Dominique, Karl, Jardai, Milan, and Morris –focused on balance and sustainability in the use of resources and energy and created a strategic plan for conserving energy at Jubilee. This short documentary presents their reflections on the relationship between the allocation of resources and social and economic justice. (USA, 2012, 6:11 mins)

Las Parcelas
by Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Scribe Video Center
Once a vacant lot, Las Parcelas is now a lush urban garden and community center in Norris Square. Founded in 1990 in this largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in North Philadelphia, the garden is a place where the dedicated women of Grupo Motivos tend a small piece of the island for their community. (USA, 2005, 10:30 mins)

We are the Zaballeen
by Mai Iskander
The Zaballeen are entrepreneurial garbage collectors who collect and recycle one-third of Cairo’s waste – over 3,000 tons a day. But the Zaballeen find themselves at a crossroads when the city they keep clean hire foreign multinational disposal companies to collect Cairo’s garbage. (Egypt, 2006, 8:05 mins) a Media That Matters film

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
a film by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday
In the days before and after Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, an 85-year-old civil rights activist and “foot soldier” looks back on the early days of the movement in this Academy Award© nominated documentary short. World War II veteran James Armstrong was the proud proprietor of Armstrong’s Barbershop, a cultural and political hub in Birmingham, Alabama, for more than 50 years. Armstrong, who carried the American flag across the Selma bridge during the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights in 1965, links the struggles of activists of the past with a previously unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. (USA, 2011, 26 mins)

Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive