SNEAK PREVIEW | HERE I AM
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian, Auditorium

Director Beck Cole returns to NMAI after a hit 2009 program featuring a selection of her award-winning short fictions and documentaries, including A Fair Go for a Dark Race from the groundbreaking the television series First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia. Join us for a preview of Here I Am, Cole’s acclaimed first feature. Along with the creative team behind Samson & Delilah (including producer Kath Shelper and cinematographer Warwick Thornton), Cole has marked out a place as one of the most important filmmakers in Australian Cinema.

Here I Am 2011, 87 min. Australia. Director, writer: Beck Cole (Lurita/Warrumunga).Producer: Kath Shelper. Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton (Kaytetye).

Fresh out of prison, a young indigenous Australian woman begins the difficult journey to remake her life. Finding initially no one to call for help, Karen (Shai Pittman) finds haven in a shelter for Aboriginal women like herself, and then begins the painful process of reconnecting with her tough mother (Marcia Langton), who is raising her young daughter, and with her own life. The film, shot in and around Port Adelaide, is a moving story about the strength and resilience of women.

Introduced by Faye Ginsburg, Director of NYU’s Center for Media, Culture and History.

Discussion follows with the director, producer and cinematographer, moderated by Sonia Smallacombe (Maramanindji), Social Affairs Officer with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations.

Admission is free. Reservations are recommended: FVC@si.edu or (212)514-3737. 4/5 to Bowling Green, R to Whitehall, 1 to South Ferry. Bus stops nearby.

This program is presented by the NMAI Film and Video Center in partnership with New York University’s Center for Media, Culture and History and Center for Religion and Media and with MoCADA/Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art. Its current exhibition, curated by Bindi Cole (Wathaurung), Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art, is on view through November 6. For more information visit mocada.org.

We are grateful for the support of the Office of the Australian Consul General in New York and NYU’s Department of Anthropology and Native Studies Forum.

MAYAN EYE

Saturday, October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 2 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green, New York, NY
Auditorium, Free Admission

This program is presented in cooperation with Cinema Tropical and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Daniel López (Tzotzil) follows the stories of young adults who leave their villages to seek artistic and intellectual life in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in La Pequeña Semilla en el Asfalto/The Little Seed in the Asphalt. Lopez’ short films document traditions and music in his own community of Zinacantán. Programs are in Tzotzil and Spanish with English subtitles. Discussion with the director and with producer Dolores Santiz Gómez (Tzotzil) follows the screenings.

Saturday, October 29, 2 pm

K’in Santo ta Sotz’leb/Day of the Dead in the Land of the Bats 2004, 31 min. Mexico. K’evujel ta Jteklum/Song of Our Land 2005, 36 min. Mexico. Batik Xa ta Sna’K'ak’al/Let’s Go to the House of Father Sun 2007, 3 min. Mexico. Ilan Vingurt with Pedro Daniel López. All produced by Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur. Nuestro Barro/Our Clay 2011, 30 min. Mexico. Produced by Mundos Inéditos.

Sunday, October 30, 2 pm

La Pequeña Semilla en el Asfalto/The Little Seed in the Asphalt 2009, 77 min. Mexico. Produced by Dolores Santiz Gómez and the director.

Two Spirit Then and Now: Reclaiming Our Place of Honor Training based on the publication: Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals. 

October 4 & 5, 2011 in Rapid City, South Dakota at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center from 8:30-5:00pm

This training provides both practitioners and administrators familiarity and knowledge about the interaction between LGBT issues and substance use  disorders with a focus on two-spirit people and issues.

The curriculum enhances the knowledge of participants and builds skills so that sensitive, affirmative, culturally relevant, and effective treatment is offered to LGBT/two-spirit individuals in substance use disorders treatment.

For more info and to register, click on the below link.

lgbtevents2011-rapid-city.pdf

The 2011 International Iroquois Beadwork Conference is a month away. Reservations are coming in and we hope that you are interested in joining us at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York for a weekend of fun and sharing our interests in Iroquois beadwork. The $25 registration fee is due by September 1.

Visit The Conference Homepage for registration form, vendor form, and paper proposal form. Accommodation information is also included.

For any questions, contact Dolores Elliott at 607-729-0016.

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On Wednesday, June 15, over 400 of Stonewall Community Foundation’s supporters came to South Street Sea-Port’s Bridgewaters for the annual Stonewall Vision Dinner.

As a Racial Equity Initiative Grantee, the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society was given an informational table at this event to highlight NE2SS and our work to Stonewall’s supporters.

Othell Begay and Harlan Pruden served as NE2SS’ representatives.

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The documentary film “Two-Spirit” is playing on Independent Lens (PBS) AND you can actually stream it online in its entirety: http://video.pbs.org/video/1989512827

Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. This documentary film explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender.

Duration: (52:50)
Premiere Date: 06/14/2011
Episode Expires: Tue 21 Jun 2011
TV Rating: TV-14
Closed Caption