Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: amnesty international, cal tech, fair trade, fair trade pasadena, free screening, Pasadena, the response, victims of torture
Free Screening of “The Response”
Amnesty International Group 22′s monthly meeting June 24, 2010, 7:30 PM will be held in the lounge of the Cal Tech Y, at 1350 San Pasqual, between Hill and Holliston, south side. (Just behind the two curving walls forming a gate to a path. Signs will be posted. Also see the map.
Filed under: Local Entertainment, Uncategorized | Tags: fair trade cooperative, holy family, mennonite church, nicaragua, nueva vida, ten thousand villages
Join us along with Fair Trade Pasadena and Fair Trade South Pas throughout the weekend as we introduce Nueva Vida, a Nicaraguan Fair Trade Sewing Co-op (all free)!
Art by Dewey Tafoya (get your T Shirt Sat & Sunday night!)
Ten Thousand Villages on Saturday the 22nd from 1 – 4 pm at 567 S. Lake Ave.
Enjoy fair trade treats, hear the women share their story, mingle with others, surrounded by beautiful, fairly traded handicrafts, body-care, edibles and a whole lot more.
Mennonite Church Sunday (23rd) morning at 11 am at 1041 N. Altadena Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107
Nueva Vida will have an opportunity to share their story at the 11 o’clock service. Come get inspired and hear howa fair trade cooperative sustained these women.
Holy Family Catholic Church, South Pasadena for the Fair Trade South Pasadena Kick-off Sunday the 23rd at 6:30 – 8pm. 1524 Fremont Ave in South Pasadena
TASTE free Fair Trade wine, coffee, and chocolate! MEET Nueva Vida, a Nicaraguan Fair Trade Sewing Co-op, and other Fair Traders in our community. ENJOY music, live tee-shirt silk-screening with artist Dewey Tafoya (available for purchase), free Ben & Jerry’s Fair Trade Ice Cream and more. LEARN all about Fair Trade and the Fair Trade Towns movement in a relaxed friendly atmosphere! FIND out what Fair Trade is all about and which South Pasadena businesses feature Fair Trade products in their stores
Filed under: Local Entertainment, Uncategorized | Tags: a powerful noise, armory center for the arts, conscientious projector, documentary, fair trade pasadena, free screening, world fair trade day
Celebrate World Fair Trade Day in Pasadena by attending a free screening at The Armory Center for the Arts with Conscientious Projector!
Voices for Women’s Rights Sounding A Powerful Noise
The burgeoning international women’s empowerment movement is personified in the stories of three extraordinary women from different parts of the world in A Powerful Noise, this month’s Conscientious Projector selection, screening on Thursday, May 13, 7 p.m. at The Armory Center for the Arts. From executive producer Sheila C. Johnson, Black Entertainment Television co-founder and Global Ambassador for the humanitarian organization CARE, this beautifully-made, moving film shows how these inspiring women–a young HIV-positive widow from Vietnam, a former refugee and survivor of the war in Bosnia, and an advocate for girls’ education in Mali–rise above their own desperate circumstances to become leaders in the fight against poverty and discrimination in their communities and advance the causes of justice and opportunity for women and girls.
A community discussion with Fair Trade Pasadena follows the film. The Armory is located at 145 N. Raymond in Old Pasadena. Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. For more information, contact Marty Coleman at 626.792.4941 or visit and watch a trailer at www.apowerfulnoise.org.
Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: armory center for the arts, conscientious projector, dive the film, jeremy seifert
Come to the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena this Thursday, March 11th at 7 pm to watch a Conscientious Projector screening of Jeremy Seifert’s documentary, “Dive!“
Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food.
Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to simply throw away excess food rather than do something helpful with it? Whatever the answer, the contradiction is profound: good, edible food is being thrown away in the very same communities where people are going hungry.
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
In the meantime, Seifert and friends no longer spend money on groceries. With nothing more than a big appetite and a strong stomach, they “dive” for Pacific Salmon, American Ground Beef, New Zealand Lamb Chops, Free-Range Whole Chickens, Pork Loins, and loads of fresh fruit, vegetables, and bread. Totally edible, totally free, and totally illegal.
Why aren’t grocery stores giving the food to people who need it? Seifert takes this question to corporate front offices in an attempt to find out. The result is equal parts entertainment, guerrilla journalism, and call to action.
The power of the film lies in its ability to motivate: it will move you to question the manager at your supermarket; it will move you to learn about food waste and the role it plays in your community. In the end, you might even find yourself in a dumpster.
Watch the trailer and join us Thursday for Dive! in its entirety for free!
The Armory is located in Old Pasadena at
145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California 91103
Filed under: Local Entertainment, Shop Owner's Corner | Tags: at the end of slavery, Pasadena, ten thousand villages, women's day
Find out more about “At the End of Slavery” or watch the trailer below.
Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: a sea change, conscientious projector, documentary, free, Pasadena
CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECTOR THIS THURSDAY JANUARY 14 7 p.m
A SEA CHANGE
THE ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 145 NORTH RAYMOND OLD PASADENA
Imagine a world without fish. Ocean acidification has been called the “evil twin” of climate crisis. Excess carbon dioxide in Earth’s oceans is changing sea water chemistry and could, if unchecked, result in dead oceans, the extinction of sea life and the eradication of the primary protein source of one billion of the world’s people. Barbara Ettinger’s elegiac, beautifully-made, award-winning documentary A Sea Change tells the story of Sven Huseby, a retired history teacher whose love of and concern for oceans, ocean life and his grandson Elias’ future takes him on explorations to Alaska, Washington state, California and Norway in a fact-finding investigation that brings the looming global tragedy to light.
A community discussion will follow the film. Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. Conscientious Projector is sponsored by Sustainable World, a Peace & Justice Ministry of All Saints Church, in association with The Armory Center for the Arts. For more information, contact Marty Coleman at 626.792.4941 or visit www.aseachange.net.
Filed under: Living Local, Local Entertainment | Tags: altadena, ca, erin mcmahon, Free events, gallery at the end of the world, leigh adams, local artists
Come support local artists at McGinty’s Gallery at the End of the World, December 3-6th, 2009!
6-9 p.m. Dec. 3 artist reception, free.
7 p.m.-1 a.m. Dec. 4, First Friday Art Club, $5, includes entertainment and refreshments.
Saturday potluck barbecue, please bring a dish to share.
Sunday brunch, dish to share is welcome.
View artwork by Leigh Adams and more than 25 other artists
Noon-6 p.m. Dec. 3-6
Gallery at the End of the World
2475 N. Lake Ave.
Altadena
Free
The Underground Arts Society opened its doors 6 yrears ago in hopes of bringing a venue that promotes novice and seasoned artists to the community. We are a non-profit organization for the artists and by the artists. The Gallery at the End of the World realizes the difficulties artists today face in trying to secure a gallery exhibit. We open our doors to a plethora of talent and created a melting pot for all those who have the desire to further their en devours in the arts. We don’t curate shows, and feel that this allows our exhibits to flow from a more natural base, the artists themselves. The gallery itself is an evolving installation conforming to meet our needs for showing art.
(626) 794-8779
Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: armory center for the arts, brave new foundation, conscientious projector, rethink afghanistan, robert greenwald
The War in Afghanistan: A Brave New Analysis
Rethink Afghanistan, Thursday, November 12, 7 p.m. at The Armory Center for the Arts
As Obama administration deliberations over the future of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan near their conclusion, All Saints Church and Conscientious Projector are seeking out the always illuminating perspective of activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald. His latest Brave New Foundation release, Rethink Afghanistan, will show on Thursday, November 12, 7 p.m. at The Armory Center for the Arts. The CP screening is being held in preparation for a special appearance by Robert Greenwald in the Rector’s Forum on Sunday, November 22, 10:15 a.m. at All Saints Church in Pasadena, where the topic will be the war in Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, Greenwald and his production crew took their cameras to several war-torn parts of the besieged country, from its cities to its remote areas. Gail Sheehy describes the resulting documentary as “a clarion call for peace,” a firsthand view of the devastation the eight-year conflict has wrought, from heartrending civilian casualties on a massive scale, to widespread destruction of housing and infrastructure, to ever-increasing danger to our U.S. troops. Interviews with journalists, historians, military and CIA officials and a wide array of Afghan witnesses provide a deft, comprehensive, facts-on-the-ground analysis that ultimately questions the strategic effectiveness of fighting terrorism in a nation that, despite its oppressiveness and corruption, holds no terrorist intentions or alignment with Al Qaeda. Their testimony makes a persuasive case that military escalation will only swell the ranks of the insurgency, and that the path to stability in Afghanistan lies in economic, social and political solutions.
Representatives from Brave New Foundation will join us for our community discussion following the film, which is being presented with the assistance of the Brave New Theaters program.
The Armory is located at 145 N. Raymond in Old Pasadena. Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. For more information, contact Marty Coleman at 626.792.4941. To learn more and take action, visit www.rethinkafghanistan.com.
Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: armory center for the arts pasadena, conscientious projector, health care, michael moore, sicko
CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECTOR THIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 7 p.m.
“SICKO“
THE ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
145 NORTH RAYMOND OLD PASADENA
Michael Moore’s bold, compassionate 2007 examination of the plight of Americans betrayed by the for-profit health insurance industry remains as relevant and true today as ever. Recently, on Bill Moyers Journal, former Cigna spokesperson Wendell Potter acknowledged that Moore “hit the nail on the head” with his controversial exposé. The film illuminates the current U.S. debate over “government-run health care” and the “public option” through moving personal stories and taking the viewer to Canada, Great Britain, France and Cuba where doctors and patients, liberal and conservative alike, extol the virtues and benefits of universal coverage. If you’ve seen it before, it’s worth seeing again in the context of today’s unfolding events.
Pasadena physician and health reform advocate Dr. J. Donald Thomas will introduce the film and lead our community discussion.
Conscientious Projector is sponsored by Sustainable World, a Peace & Justice ministry of All Saints Church in association with Theatre of the Oppressed and The Armory Center for the Arts.
Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. For more information, contact Bob Brummel at 626.794.2587 or visit www.michaelmoore.com/sicko.
Filed under: Local Entertainment | Tags: conscientious projector, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, documentary, free, Pasadena
THIS THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 10
7 p.m.
THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD
145 NORTH RAYMOND
OLD PASADENA
“Cradle to grave.” According to Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, that is the kind of brand loyalty corporate marketers seek to implant in children virtually from birth. Filmmakers Adriana Barbaro and Jeremy Earp call on notable child advocates, mental health specialists and industry professionals to pull back the curtain on the exhaustive research and sophisticated techniques advertising industry behavioral experts use to manipulate children and mold them as dedicated, habitual consumers, while ignoring adverse effects on their young audience’s social, emotional and intellectual development.
The Media Education Foundation production traces how epochal Reagan era deregulation of children’s advertising led to the no-holds-barred proliferation of commercials and product identification aimed at kids, which now permeates nearly all areas of American life, far beyond TV and magazine ads. The result has been enormous boosts in profits. Statistics show that U.S. children directly spend more than 40 billion dollars per year themselves, but their influence on their parents’ spending decisions is far greater, now amounting to a staggering 700 billion per year.
Tony Santolini, Project Coordinator for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, will faciliate our community discussion following the film. Conscientious Projector is sponsored by Sustainable World, a Peace & Justice ministry of All Saints Church, and Center for the Theatre of the Oppressed, in association with The Armory Center for the Arts. This month’s event is being presented with the cooperation of Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Theaters group.
Watch the trailer:
Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. For more information, contact Marty Coleman at 626.792.4941 or visit the Media Education Foundation website at www.mediaed.org
