SPECIAL WEEK LONG EVENT:

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 4, 5, EXHIBIT VIEWING - 2-7pm

SATURDAY, June 6 - SILENT AUCTION – 2- 4pm

The Beyond Boundaries Silent Art Auction

This is the 16th Annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for 3 communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org. Contact person: Mardea Warner, Co-coordinator Beyond Boundaries, 479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com

ArtRage will show six films in June celebrating Gay Pride. Three of them will be on a Tuesday night so check our schedule and plan on attending the last month of FridayFLICS until Fall!

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (1984)

Directed by Rob Epstein

Remarkable documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco’s first elected gay councilor. Best documentary: Oscar, Boston Society of Film Critics, NY Film Critics Circle Awards,

International Documentary Association, Special Jury Prize, Sundance; Emmy and Peabody Awards

“One of the very best… funny and exciting, tragic yet hopeful…one of those tiny handful of movies that’s undoubtedly changed many lives.” -DVD Talk.com

“One of the finest documentaries I’ve ever seen”‘ -qwipster.net

$5 suggested donation.

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue, 315-218-5711. ArtRage is Handicapped accessible. Off-street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street. 

ArtRage will show six films in June celebrating Gay Pride. Three of them will be on a Tuesday night so check our schedule and plan on attending the last month of FridayFLICS until Fall!

Aimee and Jaguar (1999) Directed by Max Faberbock

Berlin, 1943-44: Taboo-smashing wartime love between a covert Jewish woman in the underground and the love-starved wife of a Nazi officer; a gripping true story. GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding Film; Best Actress (two wins), Berlin Film Festival.

“Great drama…terrific visual style, resonance”-Seattle Post-intelligencer

“More than same-sex success, a most affecting, sensual on-screen love affair”-Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times

“Lustrously shot, well-acted and immensely moving romantic drama”-San Francisco Chronicle

“Immensely affecting-Austin Chronicle

$5 suggested donation.

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue, 315-218-5711. ArtRage is Handicapped accessible. Off-street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street.

Please note* – ArtRage will be closed for regular hours from July 19 thru August 4, 2009. We will re-open for films, events and exhibition on Wednesday, August 5 at our regular times of 2-7pm.

We end our season in June with a powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers’ strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

All this despite the fierce repression that the movement faced – with hundreds arbitrarily detained, tortured, forced into hiding, or murdered by government forces and paramilitary death squads. And the Oaxacan people are still determined to make their voices heard. This exhibit is our attempt at ArtRage to help make those voices heard through the photographs and art of those who were there and to learn from them.

Films and presentations on this struggle will accompany the exhibit along with the sale of a must read book, “Teaching Rebellion; Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca”.

In conjunction with our current exhibit — THE POWER OF REVOLT, Grassroots Rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico — ArtRage presents an evening with Barucha Calamity Peller who is flying in from San Francisco to join us in a photo screening and discussion titled Feminism and Women’s Participation in The Oaxaca Uprising.

In 2006, a widely defended popular uprising swept the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, one of the poorest regions in the country. Often compared in scale and importance to the historic Paris Commune, the Oaxaca uprising lasted for nearly 6 months in which thousands of barricades were constructed in the capital, dozens of media outlets were occupied, and the people of Oaxaca replaced the local government with the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). Brutal repression of the uprising resulted in dozens of deaths, disappearances, and rapes by the hands of paramilitary and federal police.

One of the most striking elements of the uprising was the participation of women, many of whom identify themselves as “housewives,” whose relentless direct action defined and maintained the uprising. Women constructed and maintained most of the barricades, and led large scale lasting occupations of television and radio stations. Their historic actions were not only the backbone of the uprising, but their voices and participation challenged hierarchy from the state to the household, deeply shaking the foundations of tradition gender oppression.

Peller’s presentation will discuss in detail women’s role in the uprising, as well as an analysis of the problems women faced in terms of gender based repression from the state to the movement itself. She will discuss how women in the Oaxaca uprising articulated a need for a new kind of approach to feminism and gender as necessary for the survival of any future resistance movements. The presentation will include a short video and a slideshow from the uprising.

Barucha Calamity Peller is a writer and photographer based in San Francisco. For years she has worked within and reported on Mexican social movements. Her photographs and analysis have been widely distributed through alternative media outlets such as CounterPunch and the Independent Media Center. Peller reported from Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon war just before entering Oaxaca. She is known for getting herself into very dangerous situations and then escaping with photographs that depict both old women and young anarcho-punks fighting for peace and justice in the streets. Peller asserts that 2006 uprising in Oaxaca could not have been reported from the safety of a hotel room, but only from the barricades themselves.

[Read her articles on elenemigocomun.net]

This event is free but please, donate what you can.