Enter the topic of Fair Trade through a screening of Weaving a Brighter Future: What Fair Trade Means to Mayan Women in which several Maya weavers from the highlands of Guatemala talk about their lives, their work as weavers, their hopes and dreams, and the…
ArtRage Events
Category: ArtRage Events
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Staged Reading: ARE YOU MR. FRIEDMAN? Directed by Milton Loayza This play exposes what happens when a small group of major bankers, lobbyists, and the New York Federal Reserve go to Queens to consult the spirit of Nobel winner economist Milton Friedman. Professor Friedman does…
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Maya women winding bobbins for floor loom weavers. In this globalized world, what is the place of weaving and other traditional arts in the lives of Maya peoples and other Guatemalans? How does globalization affect craft production? How does the political / economical situation affect craft…
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Immigration: Behind the Political Rhetoric Join two outspoken activists for a film showing and presentation on immigration, it’s history and effect on our country. A discussion will follow.
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A billboard in Cuba which reads, “What barbarians. They have liberated a terrorist”. Documentarian Saul Landau (Fidel, Brazil: A Report on Torture, The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas) takes an in-depth look at Miami-Havana politics. The film dissects this still-contentious relationship by examining the…