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  • An evening of Films and discussion on Education in India

    Kunjot_jpg_610x343_crop_upscale_q85AIF (American India Foundation) in collaboration with 3rd i Films present two short films followed by discussion:

    Films: ‘‘Lucky’‘directed by Avie Luthra and,  ‘‘Kujo’’, directed by  Terrie Samundra , (more info bellow).

    Lucky, directed by Avie Luthra, 20min ( UK/South Africa )

    Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village in South Africa for the bright lights of Durban and also to get an education there. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a prejudiced Indian elderly women.

    *Lucky has won 43 international film festival awards and was shortlisted for an Oscar.

    Kunjo, directed by Terrie Samundra, 25min (US/India)
    Forced to work to support her family, Kunjo, a 12 year old refugee, spends her days begging on the streets. When an unlikely friendship blossoms with Preeta, an educated school girl from a higher caste, Kunjo reveals her secret passion for storytelling. Faced with betrayal and the complexity of an unconventional friendship, will Kunjo stand up for herself or submit to her place in society?
    *Winner Best Narrative Short, Athens International Film Festival.

     

    For more information on the program and for tickets, please visit: http://www.thirdi.org

  • Half the Sky

    Half the sky C copy.inddWe’re all for Women’s History Month, but female oppression is far from a flicker on society’s rear view mirror. Join San Francisco Bay Guardian culture editor Caitlin Donohue for a discussion about San Francisco’s role in the global women’s movement, following an abridged screening of this documentary, sponsored by Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, the Guardian, and ATA. The film is based on a book with the same name by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and roams across 10 countries, employing Hollywood actresses Gabrielle Union, Eva Mendes, and more to bring attention to atrocity. Don’t worry, there will be a positive takeaway. (Trigger warning for physical and sexual violence)

    From Irshad Manji’s New York Times review of Half the Sky <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Manji-t.html?_r=0>:
    “An ancient Chinese proverb goes that women hold up half the sky. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn want that to be appreciated — on the ground. In the opening pages of this gripping call to conscience, the husband-and-wife team come out swinging: “Gendercide,” the daily slaughter of girls in the developing world, steals more lives in any given decade “than all the genocides of the 20th century.” No wonder Kristof and WuDunn, whose coverage of China for The New York Times won them a Pulitzer Prize, declare the global struggle for women’s equality “the paramount moral challenge” of our era.
    Their stories in “Half the Sky” bear witness to that bold claim. Kristof and WuDunn describe Dalit women, Indian untouchables, who swarmed, stabbed and emasculated a serial torturer and murderer — in a courtroom. Further north, Mukhtar Mai, the victim of a Pakistani gang-rape, did the unthinkable for a Muslim village woman. Not only did she expose her assailants, but she incurred the wrath of her country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, endured abduction by his henchmen, started a school and even made an ally of her resentful older brother.
    “Half the Sky” tackles atrocities and indignities from sex trafficking to maternal mortality, from obstetric fistulas to acid attacks, and absorbing the fusillade of horrors can feel like an assault of its own. But the poignant portraits of survivors humanize the issues, divulging facts that moral outrage might otherwise eclipse.”
    Door at 6:30

  • Small Press Traffic: WHITE & WARREN

    SIMONE WHITE

    Simone White’s new chapbook is Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, Dossier Series). She is also author of House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010) and the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas), and her work has appeared in The Claudius App, Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Tuesday; An Art Project, the exhibition catalog for the Studio Museum of Harlem’s Flow, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. She lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

    (photo credit: pat cassidy mollach)

    ALLI WARREN

    Alli Warren was born where the Santa Ana winds blow, and has lived in the Bay Area since 2005, or 2001 if Santa Cruz counts. Recent work can be read in a chapbook called GRINDIN (Lew Gallery), and heard via KQED (http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writersblock/episode.jsp?essid=107775). In the fall of 2013, City Lights will publish her first book, Here Come the Warm Jets. Alli co-edits the Poetic Labor Project (http://labday2010.blogspot.com/) and continues to contribute tidbits to that out of fashion form known as the weblog. (http://theingredient.blogspot.com/).

    guest curated by Sara Wintz