Maysles Cinema Weekend

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Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave
New York, New York 10027
cinema@mayslesinstitute.org

Friday, October 18th- Sunday, October 27th

Congo In Harlem

(October 18th - 27th Maysles Cinema hosts the 5th Annual Congo in Harlem film and event series.)

Congo in Harlem is a weeklong program of films and special events focused on the history, politics, and culture of the Democratic Republic Congo. The goal of the series is to deepen the global community's understanding of DR Congo through art and dialogue. Each year, we strive to present a diverse program that encourages audiences to think critically and challenge their own assumptions about Africa. But we also want people to have an enjoyable experience! Congo in Harlem is more than just movies and discussions -- it's an opportunity to discover Congolese food, live music, and artwork, learn about Congo's challenges, and get involved in efforts for change in the Congo.

This year's program turns the spotlight on pioneering Congolese filmmaker Mweze Ngangura, who will be in attendance, as well as a range of films from Congolese and international directors. Don't miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in culturally-rich programming that succeeds in being both poignant and thought-provoking.

Congo in Harlem is a volunteer-run, non-profit series produced by Maysles Cinema, True-Walker Productions, and Friends of the Congo. It is made possible by the generous support of Cultures of Resistance Network, United Methodist Women (UMW) and V-DAY.

Series Partners and Friends include: California Newsreel, Elokomakasi Productions, Mutaani FM,The New York African Film Festival, MFA Social Documentary Film program - School of Visual Arts, V-DAY - Harlem, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - NY Metro Branch, and Yole! Africa. Media partners include: Applause Africa, Face2Face Africa, OkayAfrica, Black Star News and WBAI.

Screenings are open to the public at a suggested donation of $10. Box office opens 1 hour prior to show time and advance tickets are available through Brown Paper tickets. A special group discount is available for the purchase of 5 or more tickets to any one screening. Series passes for access to all events throughout the week are $50.

Seating is limited and available on a first come first served basis. We recommend arriving 30 minutes before event's start time to secure a seat in the main screening room. Overflow seating with simulcast projection will be available for latecomers.

Friday, October 18th, 7:00pm

SocDoc at the School of Visual Art

136 West 21st Street

(Special off-site event)

100% Free

Off-site Panel: Art and Media in Congo

Six internationally acclaimed artists with recent or in-progress works in Congo come together to discuss their processes, perspectives and interests in Congo as a site of art production.

Followed by reception

Moderator:

Neelika Jayawardane, Professor, SUNY Oswego and contributor, Africa is a Country

Panelists:

Petna Ndaliko Katondolo & Cherie Rivers Ndaliko, Filmmakers & Founders, Yole!Africa Cultural Center

Richard Mosse, Photographer, Infra

Renzo Martens, Filmmaker & Founder, Institute for Human Activities

Dan McCabe, Photographer & Filmmaker, This is Congo

Shana Mongwana, Filmmaker/Actress & Founder, Africa Lives!

Moderator:

Neelika Jayawardane, Professor, SUNY Oswego and contributor, Africa is a Country

This is a free event, but seating is extremely limited. Reservations through Brown Paper Tickets are highly encouraged. Limit 2 tickets per reservation order. Reserved places must be claimed at least 15 minutes prior to the event as stand-by list will be opened at this time.

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Sunday, October 20th, 12:00pm

Film Voyagers Children's Program:

Bobo & Kipi

4 episodes, 50 min. total

Join Bobo the bonobo, Kipi the okapi, and their many friends in their magical village in Congo and discover an extraordinary world where every adventure offers a unique opportunity to learn. Bobo & Kipi is a fun-filled, action-packed, music-laden children's TV show incorporating puppets, animation and live-action.

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6pm

***Opening Night Celebration*** Co-Presented by Yole!Africa

Mabele Na Biso(Our Land)

Petna Katondolo, 2013, 33 min.

French, Topoke and Lingala w/ English subtitles
'Aid' and 'Independence' are terms that riddle the rhetoric of Western engagement with and imagination of Africa. But what is independence in our increasingly globalized world? Mabele Na Biso ("Our Land") takes us on a journey through time and space to explore one region's commitment to autonomy and self-determination. Through the unlikely story of a radio station that has been modified to run on a generator fueled by locally produced palm oil, we see a different story of African independence - one rooted in a history of defiance that has become a model of community engagement.

Preceded by Sarah

TD Jack Muhindo, 2013, 10 min.

French and Lingala w/ English subtitles

Sarah is a documentary film about a young woman of 26 years. She lives in a poor neighborhood in Kinshasa with her family and aspires to become a great businesswoman. To get there, she works simultaneously running a street restaurant, hair salon and tailor shop. Every day she is a restaurateur, hairdresser and seamstress.

Followed by post-screening discussion with filmmakers Petna Ndaliko Katondolo & Cherie Rivers Ndaliko, film subject Samual Yagase, and special guests.

+ Reception with Congolese food and live musical performance by Isaac Katalay.

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Pelham Bay Park - Walks & "Works"

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Pelham Bay Park is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park, making it the NYC's largest park property.

Visitors to the park enjoy miles of bridle paths and hiking trails, Orchard Beach, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, two golf courses, and a breathtaking 13-mile saltwater shoreline that hugs Long Island Sound. Athletes frequent its numerous fields and courts while children frolic in its playgrounds. Pelham Bay Park also has a wide and diverse range of plant and animal life and features prime locations to view one of nature's most skillful hunters, the osprey.

US A DEEP DIVIDE

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It is crystal clear the US President lacks the support of Congress. Now Congress has gone home and it is the responsibility of constituents to give their representatives a to do list, since they will not do anything without that clear mandate.

There continues a growing divide between US and many countries, including Brazil, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt...etc.

The people of The United States of America should consider whether the United Nations is still relevant to our future foreign policy.

CITY ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Robert Cox will in a slide presentation show " fifty views of the sun rising over Hart Island Island".
In the last hundred years New York City has buried more than a million poor people there , on Hart Island.
These beautiful pictures will be a"Halloweeen " or "All Souls Day" commemoration to those who are buried there.
Robert Cox, Photographer, Artist and Teacher will also include Artwork and Photography of his own personal choice which is Strange Weird and Abstract (but nothing Goulish!) as part of this Halloween Celebration.

ST PAUL'S CHURCH NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

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Revolutionary War Encampment at National Historic Site in Westchester County,
Friday night Oct. 18 & Saturday, Oct. 19

US GOVERNMENT OPENS TEMPORARILY

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US Senate and House so called leaders pass a bill to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling, but only for a few months.

On the 16th day of the US government shutdown, politicians in the Senate and House have finally passed a bill that would reopen the government and avert a potentially cataclysmic default on U.S. debt payments by raising the federal government's debt limit.

City Island Halloween Celebration

Last night I could not sleep. So I was very busy taking about twenty pictures to be used in a photo collage called Autumn Fruit. They look a little like the Italian Renaissance artist Arciibaldi who made mask like surreal pictures of people`s faces out of out of Autumn fruit.

I take many pictures of the sun rising over Hart Island which is across the water from my beach house on City Island next to the Long Island Sound.

A million or more people have been buried on Hart Island by the city over the last 100 years, just over the water. These individuals could not afford a burial elsewhere. However, their records are carefully kept by the city on a computer data base. They will be remembered almost forever.

According to Christian belief, all the dead souls rise up on "All Saints Day Evening," "Holy Evening " or "Halloween". One tradition is that they are actually enjoying themselves back in the world having a party just for the day, starting in the evening for twenty four hours.

In the case of City Island and Hart Island this creates a special consideration.Where are the the million plus dead souls of Hart Island going to go? They cannot all be on Hart Island since is a very small island. There is not even enough standing room only! That can only mean one thing, many of the souls of the dead will be coming to our Halloween Parade on City Island!

On Thursday October 31 Halloween Day I will be giving a talk at the City Island Library "Halloween Sunrise Over Hart Island 2013" It will be a slide show on a large high definition Blue Ray TV set. I will show 500 pictures at 3 second intervals. The show will last about half an hour. There will be hundreds of pictures of dramatic sunrises. I will also show pictures which have a surreal and mysterious theme. These include pictures of some of my own collages "The London Bombing 2006" "Two Bathers", and photos of pictures by Robert Rauchenbergs" " Canyon"and "Bed" Also pictures by the Italian Renaissance Artist Arcibaldi "Winter" "Summer" and "Autumn". Also plenty of photos of desirable Autumn fruit!

Barbara Dolensick, head of the City Island Historical society will also give a talk on the History and significance of Hart Island.

The talk will take place just before the City Island Halloween Parade. The time of the event will be posted by the City Island Library.

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POG IS GOP BACKWARDS

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It was once known as the Grand Old Party, but backwards it has a brand new meaning.

POG: Play Online Games POG: Polyphonic Octave Generator POG: Pediatric Oncology Group: POG: Price of Gold. POG: People Other than Grunts. POG: Permanently On the Ground.... A POG sits clueless while operators execute their mission.

GOP leader and US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has to admit that his divided Republican party had it all backwards and could not win their current budget battle.

Saying he would “absolutely” allow a vote on the US Senate plan even if a majority of his House Republicans do not support the bill. There’s no reason for members to vote no. Boehner expects the vote to happen on Thursday.

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

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Edward Ball, Yale professor and author of The Inventor and The Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, takes us back 130 years to the intriguing story of Eadweard Muybridge who invented stop-motion photography, making motion pictures possible. But he was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial was a media sensation.

Edward Ball's patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford. Between them, the murderer and the mogul launched the age of visual media.

Book signing and reception after the presentation

DEFAULT TONIGHT

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Once the clock strikes midnight, there is a bad possibility that US may meet with economic chaos and cause a global disaster.

Thursday morning at 12:01a US will be left standing at the precipice because US House of Representatives has abandoned a vote that would have avoided default.

After midnight, there will be no more borrowed cash left to pay the nation’s bills.

The US Treasury warns that failure to raise the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt limit threatens a US credit default that may trigger a global economic crisis.

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