Split Estate, directed by Debra Anderson, narrated by Ali MacGraw
With discussion, Q&A afterwards with local activists

Join us to see this film! Learn even more about this danger to our water and health and prepare for a legislative push at the end of January!

“Split Estate is an eye-opening examination of the consequences and
conflicts that can arise between surface land owners in the western
United States and those who own and extract the energy and mineral
rights below. This film is of value to anyone wrestling with rational,
sustainable energy policy while preserving the priceless elements of
cultural heritage, private enterprise above-ground, and the precious
health not only of people but the land itself.” (Gov. Bill Richardson,
New Mexico) (film time 1hour 16 minutes)

This film fortells the future of CNY if the method of gas drilling known
as “Hydrofracking” is allowed in New York State.  This is a must-see for
anyone who cares about the area in which we live, and the threats to our
area’s excellent drinking water.

“Hydrofracking poses the biggest threat to our local environment that I’ve ever seen.” (Joe Heath, Esq., General Counsel for the Onondaga
Nation).

Free to the Public. ArtRage is handicapped accessible.

Off street parking at 408&414 Lodi Street, across from the gallery at Patrick’s Dry Cleaners and gallery lot.

Eric Etheridge’s Photographs of the Freedom Riders

Opening Reception – Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7pm

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans-blacks and whites, men and women-converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge “breach of the peace.”

Artist and author Eric Etheridge’s exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

When the Jackson jails quickly filled to capacity, Freedom Riders were sent to the maximum-security state penitentiary, where those who refused bail could languish for weeks and months. Many, looking back, speak of the brutal conditions at the prison, but quite a few now view their incarceration as a formative period of growth and learning, with Communists and pastors debating political strategy and with black and white activists, in segregated cells, communicating (and infuriating the guards) by singing freedom songs to each other across the divide.

This exhibit serves as a testament and a moving archive of a chapter in U.S. history that hasn’t yet closed.

1961 Mugshot of then 19 year old LeRoy Wright

MAKING HISTORY:

Join us to meet artist & author Eric Etheridge and Syracuse resident and Freedom Rider, Rev. LeRoy Wright as they make history come alive at this very special event at ArtRage.

Narrated by Julian Bond.

TUESDAY: January 12th, 7pm

Awakenings (1954-1956): Covers two events that helped to focus the nation’s attention on the rights of black Americans: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power.

Fighting back (1957-1962): Covers stories detailing the confrontation between state and federal governments over enforcement of the law of equality, which marked an escalation in the struggle for civil rights from which there was no turning back.

WEDNESDAY: January 13th, 7pm

Ain’t scared of your jails (1960-1961): Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961.

No easy walk (1961-1963): Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure. Also covers the high point of those emotional times, the 1963 March on Washington, and the violence that followed.

THURSDAY: January 14th, 7pm

Mississippi : is this America? (1962-1964): Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention.

Bridge to freedom (1965): When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

FRIDAY: January 15th, 7pm

The time has come (1964-1966): Malcolm X…Stokely Carmichael…”Black Power”. After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power.

Two societies (1965-1968): Chicago…Detroit…the Kerner Commission. Examine the color lines outside of the south with rarely seen, personal testimony by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and others who survived the times.

Directed by Orlando Bagwell, Noland Walker

Acclaimed documentary features interviews with people that reveals the controversial last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life,  then an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, and an advocate for America’s have-nots, regardless of race.  First aired on PBS’ The American Experience. Human rights Award: Locarno Festival.

$5 Suggested Donation. ArtRage is handicapped accessible.

Directed by Dustin M. Cazrny

After you visit galleries for Th3, come support ArtRage and laugh away the winter blues during this staged reading performance by Not Another Theater Company…a special fundraiser for ArtRage! In the grand tradition of Faulty Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.

John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver.  He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life…with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara.  One night John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However, that morning, he’s supposed to be with at his home with Barbara.  After realizing his predicament, John tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues, Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John’s suspicious wives from running into each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together.

Buy tickets with your credit card online at www.notanothertheatercompany.com or visit the ArtRage Gallery to purchase tickets with cash or check. All Seats $10 suggested donation.