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THE HERETICS is a feature-length experimental documentary film about the Women’s Art Movement of the 1970s, specifically the Heresies Collective.  Director Joan Braderman, a founding member of Heresies, has reunited Collective members to share their story through radical collage.

Published between 1977-1992, HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics documents the Collective’s pioneering thought, including original material from Lucy Lippard, Su Friedrich, and many more.  A PDF archive of the Collective’s writings can be found on the film’s website.

Thanks, Joan!

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Tomorrow, December 9, Tufts University will screen a student documentary, HONK!: No Noise Is Illegal, at 7:00PM.  The film explores the 2008 HONK! festival through the perspectives of both performers and participants. Discussion will follow, and I will be speaking on the panel.  Please get in touch for further details.

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Featuring first-person accounts and footage from more than forty cameras on the streets, Terrorizing Dissent focuses on the story of dissent suppressed. People charged with “conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism” speak out against the government’s campaign to manipulate media coverage and label civil disobedience and community organizing as terrorism. More background is available here, and here.

There will be a screening of Terrorizing Dissent at the Lucy Parsons Center on December 3rd at 7 PM, followed by a discussion with a Boston member of the RNC Welcoming Committee. The LPC is located at 549 Columbus Ave. Boston, MA.

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The Canary Project produces visual media, events, and artwork that builds public understanding of human-induced climate change and energize commitment to solutions.  Their strategy includes a mix of education and action, as they work to:

• Visualize global warming in compelling ways that leverage data and communicate a sense of urgency.
• Integrate the tools of art with those of science, education, mass communication and other disciplines that enhance our ability to engage diverse audiences.
• Investigate questions lying at the root of our current ecological crisis and provoke reflection on those questions.
• Cultivate media attention to further inform a broad public and to create excitement around the issue.
• Distribute information on concrete actions people can take to cut carbon emissions and lead people to take more action.

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The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era. Each event takes place at the site of the original speech, and is delivered by an actor or performance artist to an audience of invited guests and passers-by. Videos of these performances are screened on campuses, exhibited in art spaces, and distributed online as open-source media.

Performance artist and project organizer Mark Tribe has captured the attention of media giants like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine.  The project initiated in 2006 and continues presently - the most recent speech was delivered earlier this month in New York City.

Also see our earlier post about the Think Tank that has Yet to be Named’s Radical Orations on Art, Activism & Education

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