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Dare Not Walk Alone was conceived in 2003 by artist Jeremy Dean while he was living in “America’s oldest [European-settled] city,” Saint Augustine, Florida. When Dean volunteered to restore the stained glass windows in an historically Black church he learned of the events of 1964—protests, beatings, and a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience that led to the passage of the first Civil Rights Act.

This film is an emotional march from past to present combining rarely seen news footage from 1964 with present-day testimony to tell the true story of troubled times in St. Augustine. See African-Americans and their allies put their lives on the line to force the U.S. President to sign the first Civil Rights Act. The film goes on to address the inequalities and oppression that are the daily reality for the Black community and the need for continued struggle. 83min., 2008.

Please join us for an opening reception of
Stephanie Mansolf’s installation
“Dear Catastrophe”
and reading of members of Dodie Bellamy’s prose workshop

Sunday, November 8, 2009, 2-6pm
at 4:00 p.m. readings by:

Lindsey Boldt
Mari Collings
Drew Cushing
Apsara DiQuinzio
Maizie Gilbert
Kevin Killian
Sara Larsen
Minnette Lehmann
Anne McGuire
Ron Palmer

Stephanie Mansolf’s “Dear Catastrophe” will run from November 8-29, 2009.

Organized by Dodie Bellamy, “Dear Catastrophe” presents a series of Victorian styled treehouse dioramas – an imaginary cityscape – inhabited by humans, gremlins, and warrior cupids. Spike pits are layered in front of the treehouses, mountains behind the treehouses, clouds with battling cupids above the treehouses. In this layered landscape Mansolf explores how a space created for safety can quickly and easily become a threat. The treehouse city is inherently precarious, and its denizens are quickly falling into a chaos of disarray, danger, destruction, and death. Mansolf’s startling dystopia draws on influences as disparate as the video game Mortal Kombat, the 1960’s Disney film Swiss Family Robinson, and San Francisco’s “painted ladies,” the Victorian homes that adorn our streets.

Stephanie Mansolf received her BFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2006. During the end of her undergraduate studies Mansolf was commissioned in conjunction with artist Kat Trajano to transform Santa Barbara’s chic Presidio Motel into an avant garde and eclectic art motel; a project from which the duo has received wide acclaim. Since then Mansolf has shown in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Arcata California. Mansolf’s practice delves into dark angles between reality and fantasy, investigating matters of human nature, disease, and hybridity through a manifestation of fanciful imagery. Employing gothic and surreal aesthetics, Mansolf creates a carnivalesque landscape where melodrama thrives, and taboo topics can be explored. She currently lives and works in San Francisco California.

Join us for a selection of new Wholphin films, including a sneak peek at the upcoming Wholphin No 10. The line up will include Spencer Susser’s young-love story in post-apocalyptic zombie times, “I Love Sarah Jane,” Spike Jonze and Catherine Keener acting out a Maurice Sendak childhood memory in “Maurice at the World’s Fair,” a young Todd Haynes starring in “He Was Once,” Mary Hestand’s homage to the 1960s children’s Christian TV series, “Davey and Goliath,” plus Justin Nowell’s “Acting for the Camera,” Eric Flanagan’s “Teleglobal Dreamin’” and Malcolm Sutherland’s “The Astronomer’s Dream.”