Community Screening and Fundraiser: Third World Majority Celebrates Women, Trans, and Genderqueers of Color and Media Justice Efforts!

On Friday, October 20, 2006, at 7pm, Third World Majority will proudly present Sistas Tellin’ It Like It Is, a community screening and fundraiser celebrating women, trans, and genderqueers of color resisting violence in their communities through digital storytelling. The event will be held in the Ehmann Theater at the YWCA, 1515 Webster St, Oakland, CA (corner of 15th and Webster St). Admission will be $5-10, sliding scale.

On July 2006, over a dozen women, trans, and genderqueers of color from local non-profit organizations, including Youth Media Council, SFWAR, KPFA Radio, Justice Now, GABRIELA Network, and others gathered at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco for a community digital storytelling camp provided by Third World Majority. Over the course of three days, participants were given the opportunity to create three to five minute digital videos based on the found materials in their lives (including photographs, personal drawings, newspaper clippings, etc.) through a unique training approach integrating aspects of popular education, creative writing, oral history, facilitative filmmaking, and

On October 20, 2006, Third World Majority will host a screening of these new filmmakers’ digital videos as well as present performances by artists including poet, Roopa Singh, spoken word artist Katie Joaquin, and vocalist, Thenmozhi Soundararajan. The evening will also involve a raffle and light refreshments. Organizations and community members are invited to join Third World Majority in celebrating the work of these women as well as the long-term media capacity of organizers whose work often depends on, but is often kept from access to mainstream media outlets. “Through Media Justice and advocacy, we are helping to build community and awareness of women’s contribution to society,” says training participant, Idris Hassan, of KPFA Radio.

This workshop is a pilot of our new national Media Justice Arts Training Initiative which will replicate this workshop nationally for various sectors of the Social Justice field, such as prison justice, immigrant rights, environmental justice, indigenous rights, educational justice, reproductive rights, queer and trans justice, as well as in various regions such as the Southwest, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Northwest. If you are not a Bay Area based organizer but want to get trained and be part of this movement please contact the TWM office at: 510.465.6941 or e-mail: dianne@cultureisaweapon.org.

For more information on organization tabling, volunteering, donations and other inquiries, please contact Dianne Que, Operations Director at info@cultureisaweapon.org or call 510.465.6941