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Film: Copyright Criminals: How do law and art sound together?

Event info: Friday 23 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, [...]

Tagged as: art, copyright, Hip Hop, law, sampling

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“Dismantling Monoculture” with the Beehive Collective

Event info: Friday 26 June 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The Beehive Collective come to Jamaica Plain with their giant, portable murals that are used as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing!  The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts” of personal stories, historical and policy narrative, and bottom-up resistance.
In anticipation of the much-awaited “Globalization in the Western [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, art, colonialism, environment, social movements

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Readings and Reflections from Accomplished Local Authors

Event info: Friday 5 December 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Did you know that Jamaica Plain is home to many of Boston’s distinguished and celebrated authors? For our first bi-anual “Local Authors” night, Brendan Halpin, Catherine Sasanov and Ron Maclean will join us for an evening of reading, discussion and celebration of our local literati, storytellers, and writers.

Brendan Halpin is the author of two memoirs [...]

Tagged as: art, community, local

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All I Want for Christmas: Unplugging Consumption During the Holidays

Event info: Friday 14 November 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

As the holiday shopping season looms ahead, is the “Shop-ocalypse” inevitable?  Join us for an inspiring film and discussion about deescalating the consumption frenzy. We will show the hilarious film, “What Would Jesus Buy?” featuring performance-artist, the Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping Choir.  Through retail interventions, corporate exorcisms, and some good [...]

Tagged as: art, community, consumption, economics, recession, Singing

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“Pete Seeger and The Power of Song” Film and Singing

Event info: Sunday 19 October 2008 – 5:00pm to 7:30pm

Communities are created and strengthened through singing together: no one knew this better than one of America’s most beloved folk singers, Pete Seeger. Come watch parts of the inspirational film, “The Power of Song” and observe Seeger’s ability to bring great social issues into popular discussion through song. and sing a few tunes about [...]

Tagged as: art, community, elderly, kids, Singing, social movements

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“There Are No Illegal People” with photojournalist David Bacon

Event info: Tuesday 9 September 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, with David Bacon
“David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism; an extraordinary social documentarist in the rugged humanist tradition of Dorothea Lange, Carey McWilliams, and Ernesto Galarza.”
—Mike Davis, author of No One Is Illegal

Jamaica Plain has a rich history as a “landing pad” for [...]

Tagged as: art, capitalism, community, economics, immigration, politics, race in America, social movements

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Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)

Event info: Friday 2 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

“This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
Please join us for an intimate reading with Hillary Jordan, 2006 recipient [...]

Tagged as: art, author's reading, history, race in America

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“Miss Navajo” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 26 October 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall
How many beauty contestants can say “I competed in a pageant where I butchered a sheep?” Crystal Frazier can. Follow this introverted, self-proclaimed tomboy as she makes bread, weaves a rug, sweats her way through a language quiz—and that’s just the first day—on her quest to be [...]

Tagged as: art, community, gender, history, native americans

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