This is the last week to see the work of

BEEHIVE COLLECTIVE!

exhibit runs thru October 24, 2009

HOURS: W, Th, F 2-7pm & Sat. 12-4 pm

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to “‘Cross-pollinate the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology. 

The Bees will give a presentation prior to the opening reception on September 17th as a part of Syracuse’s Third Thursday events. They will also give workshops for high school and college students at Cazenovia College during their stay. Storytelling is a major facet of the Collective’s educational work. Members of the group undertake international lecture circuits with giant fabric reproductions of their posters as storytelling aids.

“Picture lectures” frequently feature a Plan Colombia graphic thirty feet in height and a six foot tall fabric flipbook/storybook used as a sequential visual tool.

Keep visiting our website for updates on the films and presentations accompanying the exhibit. ArtRage is handicapped accessible. Off-street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

Directed by Tim Robbins

Art is never dangerous — unless it tells the truth

Even as labor strikes erupt across  Depression-era-era America, New York City launches its own cultural revolution. Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, John Houseman, and other young artists tackle government attempts to squelch a “radical’ musical drama. This film captures the often-volatile dynamic between art and politics in 1930s America — and the gulf between privilege and poverty.

Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John  Turturo, Emily Watson, Cherry Jones, Hank Azaria.

“Terrific…emotionally stirring story…topnotch cast”-All Movie Guide

Best Supporting Actress (Watson): London Critics Award, Special Achievement in Filmmaking: National Board of Review, Online Film Critics Society Awards: Best Ensemble Cast.

$5 suggested donation

ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

“people dissect and debate what is arguably the most loaded word in our history”

Thea St.Omer will host a screening of her documentary film, Nigger at ArtRage. Compiled from over a hundred interviews Nigger screened as a work-in-progress at New York University and at Syracuse University last spring.  This premiere screening of the final release print (59 minutes) is Free and Open to the Public.  Off-street parking available at 408 and 414 Lodi Street.

To read a review of this film by Nancy Keefe Rhodes published in the City Eagle; use the link below:

http://www.cnylink.com/cnyarts/view_news.php?news_id=1254167385

Other Reviews:

“I thought [Nigger] was challenging and well-handled and especially in today’s sociopolitical comment, a film worth viewing.  I think it will make audiences uncomfortable and I think it should, because it goes to a place, in a very even-handed way, to somewhere polite society avoids.” – anonymous, cleveland international film festival.

“What’s in a word?  Everything.  Lest anyone think race need not be discussed and unpacked, see St.Omer’s documentary, Nigger.  St.Omer’s artistry shines light on every corner of a forbidden word.  This film won’t let you stop talking about it. It entertains and provokes thoughtfulness.  It casts a lens of remarkable people on art, history, culture and popular culture, politics, identity, ontology, and life.  Nigger is beautiful.” – douglas biklen, dean of the school of education, syracuse university.

“… a kind of naked, raw human expression.” – halcyon sealey-westmass

“Ultra organic!  The epitome of what postmodernity is all about.” – herbert ruffin

co-producers stephenson laurent and ann-marie st.claire; post coordinator jason kohlbrenner, sound editor douglas quin, colorist gavin whalen

Directed by Judy Irving

This poignant documentary Celebrates urban wildness — human and avian — and the wondrous connection between parrot antics and our behavior. A homeless musician reinvents himself through friendship with a flock of wild green and red parrots in San Francisco.

“Amusing, touching and satisfying,”-Urban Cinefile

Beautifully shot…but the film’s greatest achievement is its humanity -Miami Herald

Certificate of Merit: San Francisco International Film Festival

$5 suggested donation

ArtRage is handicapped accessible. Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street.

A film by Robert Greenwald

Rethink Afghanistan, Brave New Films’ ground-breaking new documentary, features interviews with experts ranging from former CIA officers, NGO officials, Afghan MPs to Afghan women’s rights activists. The film has been released in parts online.  See it on the “big” screen as we mark the start of the ninth year of the US occupation of Afghanistan.

Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council, as one of our free monthly educational programs. Handicapped accessible.