World AIDS Day Screening and Spoken Word Celebration
Keeping Our Promise
A World AIDS Day Event sponsored by Urban Word NYC, International Center for Tolerance Education, Governess Films and Radioaktive Films
What is the current status of AIDS in Africa ? What are Africans themselves doing to beat their AIDS crisis? How is the U.S. living up to its economic and political promises to help Africa curb the epidemic? What can you do to help?
Please join us for a film screening and spoken word performance in celebration of World AIDS Day 2005.
WHEN: Thursday, December 1 from 7:30-9:30pm
WHERE: International Center for Tolerance Education, 25 Washington Street , 4th floor, Brooklyn, New York
WHAT: Film screening of "We Will Not Die Like Dogs" with spoken word performances by the youth of Urban Word NYC. Q&A with global AIDS experts, filmmakers and poets to follow.
COST: $10.00 (Visit www.governessfilms.com/aids for RSVP and directions.)
WHY: Because AIDS is destroying Africa , enough said.
"We Will Not Die Like Dogs" is a film conceived by Drs. Kebba Jobarteh and Nduka Amankulor and directed by independent filmmaker and global health specialist, Lisa Russell. Slated for PBS broadcast in 2006, "We Will Not Die Like Dogs" is a feature length documentary film that profiles four African AIDS activist and their fight to curb Africa's deadly epidemic– a well-known musician from Zambia who integrates AIDS prevention messages in his music, an HIV-positive teen peer educator from Nigeria, a Ugandan doctor who treats children with AIDS in the rural communities with minimal resources and an HIV-positive mother who fights against stigma and discrimination in Burkina Faso. A Radioaktive Film Production with funding by the National Black Programmers' Consortium, Rockefeller Foundation, Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and the Philadelphia Foundation, "We Will Not Die Like Dogs" provides a refreshing look at the AIDS epidemic in Africa as seen by the people who fight on the front lines with it every day.
About Urban Word NYC: UW is the leading spoken word poetry organization serving young people, ages 13-19, with free and ongoing after-school workshops, citywide performance opportunities and an environment that nurtures leadership and community. www.urbanworldnyc.org
About ICTE: International Center for Tolerance Education involves an incubator program for small, starting out projects or new initiatives of larger institutions where space or other considerations are a restriction. The pivotal focus is on children and teenagers and work which builds tolerance, respect, non-violence, both in attitude and action. ( seedsoftolerance.org
About Governess Films: Governess Films is a NYC-based network of international female filmmakers who produce their own original works.
About Radioaktive Films: Radioaktive Films is a NYC and Ukraine-based production company specializing in producing documentary/narrative films and commercials. radioaktivefilm.com
| Starts | 12/01/2005 |
|---|---|
| Ends | 12/01/2005 |
| Issues | Health/Health Advocacy, International, AIDS, Africa, U.S./Foreign Relations |
| Homepage | www.governessfilms.com |
| Contact | lisa@governessfilms.com |
Posted on November 9, 2005 in Event / Call to action by lisagoverness
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