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Bioneers summer films
Mon, July 16, 3–4
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25
50 pesos
On Monday, July 16 one of the most important environmental issues of today is addressed. Two well-known Canadian activists, Maude Barlow and Clayton Thomas-Muller, offer some answers, experiences and solutions to the questions of who really owns the land, the air, and so forth. Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice. Thomas-Muller started his work in his teens and some 10 years later has won recognition as one of the most influential leaders under 30 years old. Thomas-Muller was one of the many architects of the Native Energy Program of IEN, an indigenous coalition that spreads across the US and Canada. IEN was formed to help indigenous communities defend their sacred homelands against transnational energy coalitions.
In his talk to Bioneers, Thomas-Muller of both successes and challenges that IEN has had in resisting the onslaught of energy extraction. He is particularly focused on Canada’s huge oil deposits which lie under forests, and which are targeted by huge energy corporations.
In the second film, the well-known and much honored Maude Barlow speaks of some of her experiences in the struggle for “Water as a Human Right”. Barlow is the chairperson of the Council of Canadians; she is also on the board of the International Forum on Globalization. Barlow doesn’t just watch, she also is an activist. She has co-authored, along with Tony Clarke, the international bestseller, Blue Gold. For her work, she has received six honorary doctorates and many awards. In 2005 she received the Alternative Nobel Prize from the Swedish Parliament.
In this film Barlow delivers one of the most emotionally evocative talks on activism. Don’t miss this one! The rest of the film series returns to Tuesdays after this week.
Center for Global Justice film
The Agronomist
Tues, July 17, 3pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25
50 pesos
The Agronomist, this week’s entry in the Center for Global Justice Film Series, tells the story of Haitian journalist and radio personality Jean Dominique, who never hesitated to speak up for Haiti and her people. As a result, he was forced into exile more than once, threatened and eventually assassinated in 2000.
Directed by the Oscar-winning Hollywood director Jonathan Demme, the documentary draws its title from Dominique’s original profession as an expert in the economics of soils and crops. Though born to the island’s mulatto elite, his profession put him in daily contact with the poverty-stricken peasants. His successful efforts to teach rural farmers to better manage their land and stay out of debt to the wealthy landowners drew the landowners’ ire and led to his imprisonment. Eventually he bought a radio station and began speaking to the peasantry in their native Creole instead of French, the language of the elitists. Interviews conducted by Demme in the ’90s when Dominique was in exile show him to be an engaging and charismatic man with a fierce passion for justice.
The film has a running time of 90 minutes.
Teatro Santa Ana and Sala Quetzal at the Biblioteca Pública
Friday, July 16 to 22
Don’t miss the “Expresion en Corto” ,
Short film festival at, Teatro Santa Ana
Check the Schedule, limited seating
Friday, July 13
2pm: Movie: The White Diamond
5pm: Live Flamenco Show: Junta Flamenca
7pm: Voice and guitar recital “Two Centuries of the Mexican Song”
Saturday, July 14
Noon: Kids Movie Series: Cartoons
3pm: Pre-Hispanic Music Concert: Collar del Viento
Monday, July 16
1pm: Theater Workshop
3pm: Movie/Conversation Cafe: Bioneers
4pm: Music Lecture: Adventures in Music (Sala Quetzal)
5pm: Movie: Max Ernst
7pm: Gypsy Guitar Concert: Javivi Hernan
Tuesday, July 17
3pm: Global Justice Feature Movie
3:30pm: Discussion: Spiritual Wisdom (Sala Quetzal)
5pm: Martes Literarios (Sala Quetzal)
5:30pm: Lecture: Archeoastronomy “Cañada de la Virgen”
Wednesday, July 18
3pm: Lecture: Ancient Cultures Part II
5:30pm: Movie: Memories do not Burn
7:30pm: Art Movie Special: Max Ernst
Thursday, July 19
1pm: Theater Workshop
3pm: Meeting: Mac users (Sala Quetzal)
Expresión en Corto, Short Film Festival (Set Up)
Friday, July 20
2pm: Expresión en Corto, Short Film Festival (Limited Seating)
5pm: Talk on Permaculture (Sala Quetzal)
Saturday, July 21
Noon: Kids Movie Series: Cartoons
2pm: Expresión en Corto, Short Film Festival (Limited Seating)
Sunday, July 22
2pm: Expresión en Corto, Short Film Festival (Limited Seating)
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