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HAITI DREAMS OF DEMOCRACY Rare Screening
Date:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Time:
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Latecomers Welcome
Street:
354 West 45th Street
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Event Details:
Demme's HAITI & Schulenburg's RUE
Take Two this Tuesday, February 9th
Enough with the cold already - this Tuesday, island hop with us from icy Manhattan to Haiti to the magical island Ru!
We're thrilled to present an amazing evening of theater & film AND offer a little something to families in Fontamara, one of the areas most devastated by the recent earthquake. (Part of proceeds will be donated to help Fontamara families). Come partake of island love - meet new friends & be inspired!
6:00 HAPPY HOUR SOCIAL
Theater artists, filmmakers & social activists unite!
6:30 HAITI DREAMS OF DEMOCRACY Jonathan Demme, 1987
This rare screening of Jonathan Demme's documentary, filmed during the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of corrupt dictator Baby Doc Duvalier, explores the tentative hopes of the island at a turning point in its history, through music, magic & evolving folklore.
7:45 RUE by August Schulenburg
directed by Michael Rogers
A frothy fantasia ala Shakespeare set on a divided magical island where two warring couples tangle with a despotic dictator, a horny animal, a wrongly administered love potion & an exploding volcano, in an invented patois just shy of iambic pentameter.
Featuring John Campion, Geneva Carr, Nigel Gore, Terry Lee King, Walter Krochmal, Victoria Linchong, Brian Linden, Brian Nishii, Avery Pearson, Eileen Rivera, Debargo Sanyal &
Ching Valdes Aran.
Haitian naive art from the collection of:
Constant & Lionel Bernard
on sale to benefit Fontamara, Haiti.
THE TANK
354 West 45th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenue
$8 - cash at the door
For more information, please visit: http://www.directarts.org
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Take Two / March 9th
ANOTHER CLAPPING - Chi Jang Yin, 2000
THE FEMALE TERRORIST PROJECT by Ken Urban, directed by Kel Haney
*DirectArts is an intercultural theater and film company based in downtown NY dedicated to:
1. Producing plays and films that explore the intersection of different cultures.
2. Developing alternate means of theater and film production that will level the playing field for low-income minority artists.
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