INC NEWS - Tonight & later events

[Laura Drey]

Events in chronological order

Thursday, January 25

Community Dialogue with Sekou Sundiata
Education and the ŒAmerican Dream¹: Realities, Myths, & Possibilities

Sekou Sundiata is a Harlem born poet, who writes for print, performance,
music and theater. He was featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS series on poetry,
The Language of Life, and as part of Russell Simmons¹ Def Poetry Jam on HBO.
Sundiata is currently a professor at Eugene Lang College in New York City.

FREE EVENT - A civic, poetic, word exchange, rap, song, dialogue

By, for, and with those engaged in alternative education in Durham.

Lakewood Baptist Church
2100 Chapel Hill Rd.  (entrance from side door off of Bivins St.)
6:00pm ­ 8:00 pm

Sponsored by Durham Literacy Council  489-1456
1410 West Chapel Hill Street
The mission of the Durham Literacy Center is to empower Durham County
residents who want to enrich their lives by improving their literacy skills.
www.durhamliteracy.org/home/

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Thursday, 1/25 at 7pm
 
Screening of The Abortion Diaries (2005, 30 min) with Producer/Directer
Penny Lane present & speaking

Durham Food Co-op 
1101 W. Chapel Hill St, Durham ABCD list serve
Free! (Donations appreciated)

For more information, visit http://www.durhamfoodcoop.org/diaries and 
http://theabortiondiaries.com. Please distribute widely!

The Abortion Diaries is a documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly
about their experiences with abortion. The women are doctors, subway
workers, artists, activists, military personnel, teachers and students; they
are Black, Latina, Jewish and White; they are mothers or child-free; they
range in age from 19 to 54. Their stories weave together with the
filmmaker¹s diary entries to present a compelling, moving and at times
surprisingly funny ³dinner party² where the audience is invited to hear what
women say behind closed doors about motherhood, medical technology, sex,
spirituality, love, work and their own bodies.

Audience Award, New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
Choice USA ³Spirit of Communication² Award
Best Documentary (Student), Carolina Film/Video Festival

The Abortion Diaries clocks in at only 30 minutes, leaving ample time for
the lively discussion that follows each screening. Since the film¹s release
in October 2005, over 120 college groups, health providers, feminist
centers, community media centers, churches and just plain people have taken
the opportunity to use The Abortion Diaries as a way to promote a healthy
dialoge about abortion in their communities. Screenings have consistently
drawn large and passionate crowds of people from all walks of life and all
generations who engage in eye-opening, inspired discussion about what
reproductive freedom means to all of us.
 
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CDS NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (Off Swift Ave., across
from Duke University¹s East Campus. at Main St. Broad becomes Swift. Hwy 147
take Swift Rd. exit)  Durham

Thursday, January 25, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Exhibition Reception
Our Half Acre: Large Format Photography
Center for Documentary Studies, Porch Gallery
An exhibition of large format photographs made by undergraduate students in
a Fall 2006 class at the Center for Documentary Studies, taught by Lisa
Satterwhite

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Thursday, January 25, 7 p.m.
Passionate Citizens: A Youth Noise Network Documentary Project

The Herald-Sun Civic Room, 2828 Pickett Road, Durham
A special presentation to the Durham People's Alliance

The Passionate Citizens project is a documentary audio and photography
exploration of civic engagement in Durham, North Carolina. Members of Youth
Noise Network, a Center for Documentary Studies audio program for middle-
and high-school students, profiled members of the Durham community who are
actively involved in government, politics, and/or community issues. The
Passionate Citizens audio documentaries will be distributed on CD-ROMs for
use in the civics curriculum in Durham high schools.

For more information about the January 25 event, contact the Durham People's
Alliance at 919-682-7777 or durhampa at mindspring.com. For more information
about the Passionate Citizens project or Youth Noise Network, contact
Tennessee Watson at 919-660-3696.

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January 31 - February 4
2007 Documentary Happening Institute

Registration Now Open
Learn from top-notch documentary artists, receive feedback on your
documentary projects, attend screenings and workshops.  Three tracks
available: audio, video, photography.

For Full Schedule, Session Descriptions, and Bios:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/happinstitute.html
 <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/happinstitute.html> REGISTRATION INFO

Happening Institute begins Wednesday, January 31, 5:30 p.m. and ends Sunday,
February 4, 4 p.m. (includes Wednesday night reception and lunch Thursday
and Friday)
Course Fee: $325

Course IDs:
Audio: 10861
Photo: 10850
Video: 10860

To register on-line: www.learnmore.duke.edu/register
<http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/register>
To register by phone:  684-6259

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DURHAM COUNTY MAIN LIBRARY HOSTS CHILDREN¹S BOOK ILLUSTRATOR AND AUTHOR
Program:                     Meet the Author Series
Location:                    Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St., downtown
Durham 
Cost:                           Free and open to the public
 
Illustrator:                  Lisa Doyle:  ³The Mystery of Blackbeard¹s
Treasure²          
Date/Time:                 Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 
Author:                       Jody Cassell:  ³Where¹s Leon?²
Date/Time:                 Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Through April 2, 2007

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Photographs by Robert Galbraith, Film by George C. Stoney

A traveling exhibition curated by Linda Janet Holmes, Reclaiming Midwives
features photographs by Robert Galbraith that explore the lives and
experiences of black midwives in Georgia in the early 1950s.  ³Galbraith¹s
photographs tell a collective story about the multifaceted experience of
midwifery as an intimate and embracing experience for women of varying ages.
Š To me, the subtext of these photographs is more than the fact that family
life is central to the stories of midwives.  Deborah Willis, University
Professor of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University

February 4,  2 ­ 4 p.m.
Screening of All My Babies, with Director George Stoney and Judith Helfand,
of Working Films | In conjunction with the Documentary Happening

March 8, 7 p.m.
Screening of All My Babies

In addition to recording many of the key scenes that made up the film,
Galbraith emphasizes the communal bonds formed between traditional midwives,
often called Œgranny midwives,¹ and their clients. The sense of kinship
within a segregated society is visible in these photographs, while the
regulation and certification of midwife training (which was the primary
purpose of the film) becomes less prominent.  Lisa Henry, curator and writer

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Feb 11th 

Valentine's benefit for Independent Animal Rescue

This is going to be a great event and everyone is welcome to buy tickets and
attend! There will be fine wine tastings, great food from some of the best
restaurants in the area, live music, and auction items to bid on - all just
in time for Valentine's Day! So bring your sweetheart or a friend and come
join us to raise money for a wonderful charity!

Please click on the below link to view the promotional poster that has all
the details.
http://stopstudios.com/hah/poster_vert3.pdf

Permission to cross-post (the more the merrier!).

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The Scrap Exchange
548 Foster Street, Durham, NC 27701
phone 919-688-6960 fax 919-688-2792
www.scrapexchange.org
Store Hours:  MTWF 11-5, Thu. 11-6, Sat. 10-5, Sun. 12-5

to February 12
Joe Sams: You Can Do It. Joe Sams is a Durham based mixed media folk artist
and author who creates art with found items.

Next Month
Kelly Serwich and Galen Williams will curate a show of local artist.
Artist's reception Friday, February 16.
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On view through February 18

Nasher Museum of Art   684-5135
2001 Campus Drive, Durham (on Duke University¹s Central Campus, at the
intersection of Duke University Road and Anderson Street, adjacent to the
Sarah P. Duke Gardens.) Free for Durham residents with identification.
www.nasher.duke.edu/ <http://www.nasher.duke.edu/>

BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE:  NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA

 This  exhibition offers the first comprehensive look at innovative photo
and video  art produced in China since the mid-1990s. The show features more
than 100  works by 60 Chinese artists, many of whom are exhibiting in this
country for  the first time. The exhibition  concludes an  international
tour here at the Nasher Museum after showings in New York, Chicago,
Seattle, London, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Berlin.  There are also are
lectures connected with exhibit.

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February 17

The 15th annual Triangle Water for Life event will be held at 6:30 PM on
February 17, 2007 at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham. Capitol Parking
Valet Service available.The theme this year is "From North Carolina to the
World."

There will be heavy hors d'oeuvres, complimentary beverages, live and silent
auctions. The Master of Ceremonies is Tina Cash. Dick Gordon, host of "The
Story" on NPR, will give the WaterPartners presentation. Gary White,
WaterPartners' Founder and Executive Director, will give the WaterPartners
Update.
Water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. Be a
part of a solution. Join us February 17th. Minimum donation is $100 per
person.
For more information please email us at nc at water.org or call us at
(919)848-1040.  water.org/about/

WaterPartners International is challenging the traditional approach to
assisting people in developing countries. Our goals are to draw attention to
the world's number one health problem, unsafe and inadequate water supplies,
and to raise funds to help fight this immense problem--one community at a
time.

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Many of the above events came from ABCD list serve.  The list serve covers
many issues beyond cultural events.

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Laura



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