Author: Fara

As part of HERstory, celebration of Women’s History Month, honoring the contributions of women and the unique experience of being female today, ATA has teamed up with SFPL to present the following films (16mm):

The Willmar Eight (1981)

The documentary The Willmar 8 (1981, 16 mm) screens as part of the Library’s HERStory programming in March. When eight bank employees picketed their employer in small town Minnesota, an important chapter for women’s rights began. Oscar-winning actress, director, and one-time blacklistee Lee Grant tells the remarkable story of a band of women who embarked on the longest bank strike in American history in protest of gender discrimination.

Janie’s Janie (B/W, 1971, 28 min.)
Documentary following one woman’s journey to self-determination. Janie is a White working-class welfare mother who divorces her jealous husband and becomes active in politics.

Noe Valley Library,
451 Jersey Street, San Francisco

$7-10 SLIDING SCALE

Come over for our monthly live music ritual with our returning champs LOFI LEGS (SF) and new friends  BASEBALL GREG (Stockton/Italy) and SNOW CAT LIMOUSINE 

As always killer video installations, and all friends, friends of friends, and soon to be friends are invited.

See you there

https://baseballgregg.bandcamp.com/

https://lofilegs.bandcamp.com/

$7

UNICORN RIOT’s BLACK SNAKE KILLAZ
The first of three programs in our Tribes Indigenous series (tonight’s introduced by local hero Ivy McClelland, who made the trek to Standing Rock), here’s the NorCal debut of a feature doc about resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. From a young, brave collective of engaged electronic journalists, this exhaustive account explores initiatives taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline, and highlights actions taken by law enforcement, military, and corporate mercenaries to quell the months-long protest. BSK timelines the events that unfolded in Standing Rock throughout 2016, delivering the raw experiences from many frontline encounters. Although theDAPL is completed, the impact of the movement will be long-lasting. As fossil-fuel extraction projects continue to impact some of the most water protectors story grows.