FridayFLICS@ ArtRage!
All films begin at 8pm. $5 suggested donation.

FridayFLICS @ ArtRage celebrates Women’s History Month

“Antonia’s Line” (1996)

Directed by Marleen Gorris

A Dutch matron founds and, for several generations, watches over a suppportive, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism flourish.

Oscar: Best Foregin language Film
Toronto Film Festival: Most Popular Film
Nederlands Film Festival Golden Calf Award

“Harsh and gentle, sensual and intellectual, wise-ass and heartfelt — it’s a full package” -filmcritic.com

“Here is female empowerment as you’ve never seen it on screen before, with the narrative daring to make no compromises at all.” -Sacramento Bee

“A wonderfully eccentric film about the high value of feminine friendship, independence, intuition, and solidarity” – Spirituality and Practice

“Thematically rich…challenges different philosophies about death…And it gently advances the director’s feminist agenda, illustrating that women can thrive (not just survive) without men” – reelreviews.com

Eye-opening Inspirational Film Everyone Should See!

Do you want to know who has caused our current economic crisis?  Would you like to know the real story behind all the wars and terrorism?  Would you like to hear about some amazing solutions to the ills of today’s society?  Do you want to learn what you can do TODAY to effect REAL change in America and around the World for all of humanity?  Come watch this amazing film with us!  You’ll be glad you did and it’s totally free!

A short discussion period will be held afterwards. Information about local resources for the various solution suggestions made at the end of the film will be provided. For more information, contact Jenny Skates at 751-5510.

Film run time: 2 hours and 3 minutes

Deadline: March 15, 2009
Because community is so central to an Arts Covenant, the Arts Covenant working group invites everyone’s involvement. To begin with, we’re asking you or your students to help design an Arts Covenant logo and tag line. Besides a design task, this is a chance to discover what covenant, community, culture and the arts mean.

Logo designs can be submitted in two categories: 18-and-under &
Adult. All Central New Yorkers are eligible. We’ll have prizes for the winner in each category:
! 18-and-under – $100 iPod card
! Adult category – two tickets to Syracuse Stage and two tickets to Syracuse Opera and two tickets to Syracuse Symphony
! Top three entries in each category will be posted on syracuse.com/ CNYSpeaks and www.artscovenant.com.
! The public will select the best in each category.
! One of the two winners will be chosen as the official Arts Covenant Logo.

The CNY Arts Covenant invites EVERYONE in our region to support the arts and culture of our community by making and keeping four simple art-based agreements a year.

Within the broad categories of the Arts Covenant, each person can choose to participate in his or her own way. Since the NYSCA Cultural Blueprints conference last fall, a working group of artists and arts allies, with the assistance of the Post-Standard’s Civic Engagement Editor, have been working to create this ARTS COVENANT in Central
New York.

An Arts Covenant acknowledges that arts and culture is essential to quality of life and a lively, creative community – in good times and bad. In its deepest sense a covenant is what creates community.

For more on the Arts Covenant check out our website, www.artscovenant.com

Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women
edited by Carolyn Brigit Flynn, foreword by Deena Metzger, Wild Girl Publishing, Santa Cruz, 2009.

The book will be the focal point of an evening celebration of the voices of contemporary women to be held on the Third Thursday in March at ArtRage.  We plan to combine live music with readings and chanting, this last led by local artist Marie Summerwood, whose original chants are included in the book.  We hope you will join us, and read a selection of your choosing from the book!

Sisters Singing is an inspiring, vibrant, and intimate exploration of contemporary women’s spiritual lives. It contains poetry, prayers and stories from more than 100 writers, along with black-and-white artwork and original music notated for voice and instruments.

These luminous works unveil spirituality as it is lived and experienced by women today, in daily life, human relationships, mothering, meditation and prayer, as well as connections with the earth and the ancestors, culminating with prayers for peace and for the world.  More information at http://www.sisterssinging.com/index.html

FREE to the public

FridayFLICS@ ArtRage!
All films begin at 8pm. $5 suggested donation.

FridayFLICS @ ArtRage Celebrates Women’s History Month!

Life and times of Rosie the Riveter” (1980) Directed by Connie Field

A compelling yet engaging documentary based on interviews with six women who worked on assembly lines during WWII in jobs usually reserved for men. An insightful look at the spark that ignited the women’s liberation movement nearly three decades before its official ‘birth.

“Classic…an essential film in the annals of feminist history” -KarenCooper, Film Forum
“The best film on working women I have seen” -Molly Haskell, Ms Magazine
“Superb-a remarkable display of the manipulative power of propoganda” -Boston Sunday Globe
Selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1996