City Repair invites you and your community to propose a project for the 2006 Village Building Convergence. Projects can be place-oriented, ecological, artistic, structural, social, even alive! The main goal is to promote cooperative, community-based efforts to reconnect with each other and enhance the places we live. Details on previous projects, the proposal process, and requests for proposals on line vbc.cityrepair.org or at City Repair Headquarters, 2122 SE Division, (503)235-8946.
SOLV’s Team Up for Watershed Health has a program that provides an opportunity for volunteers to become more involved in watershed restoration at the leadership level.
Gloves and tools provided. Wear boots, dress for the weather and plan on getting muddy.
Ryan Durocher
(360) 619-1108
ryan.durocher@ci.vancouver.wa.us
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Plant native trees to enhance city natural area park. Pre-registration requested; please call or email for details and directions. Gloves and tools provided. Wear boots or sturdy shoes, dress for the weather and plan on getting muddy. Volunteers must be physically capable of traversing uneven terrain in all weather conditions. Planting requires lifting, digging and kneeling. No experience necessary. Training provided on-site. Great for groups.
Heavy Metal Neil Diamond & Jean-Pierre Maher, Canada, documentary, 48 min., 2004 (English with French subtitles)
In Northern Quebec, a major mining disaster has been secretly devastating the people and the environment for over forty years. Seeking community redress, Cree environmentalist Joseph Blacksmith and American geologist Chris Covel compile an environmental report, and attempt to put a stop to the lethal heavy metal pollution. Samples are collected from the areas in which the mines are operating as well as from people’s hair – extremely toxic levels of arsenic, cyanide and mercury are found. Blacksmith and Covel overcome hurdle after hurdle, to complete their report—we are there when the report is delivered to the Quebec National Assembly. And then, a terrible tragedy occurs – and a controversial deal is made. Vital, gritty and hard-hitting. Awards: Both directors recently received the 2005 Rigoberta Menchu Prize for Heavy Metal.
All Film Pass: $75; All Festival Pass: $125; This Film Only: $5
tickets only available for purchase at the door
a friend
Jill Dreier
(503) 248-0104
inbox@livableplace.org
No
What is in your food?
If we are what we eat you may want to consider your diet. Garcia (wife of the late Grateful Dead member Jerry Garcia) provides an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade. There is a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America, one that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. Monsanto, world’s leading producer of GM crops, comes in for particularly close scrutiny as a leader in this brave new world of biotech business — a place where issues of agricultural production, cutting-edge science, profits, conservation, public health and civil liberties all collide
Nome Road North, Chickens in the City, Uso Justo are the three movies of this Film Short Fest of PINE Film Festival. http://www.livableplace.org/images2006/ChickenintheCity-crop.jpg Chickens in the City: What if all the zoos opened their gates and we had elephants chilling in swimming pool condos? Jumanji fantasies aside, this quirky little doc takes a look at people who live in the big city and raise chickens. These dusty, clucky farm animals can turn your city into a global village. 7 minutes of film by Christie Herring. http://www.livableplace.org/images2006/Nome%20Road%20System-crop.jpg Nome Road System: Take a strange journey along the Nome Road System in Alaska. Powerfully evocative imagery. Stark ambient sounds. A strange, dreamlike world. With assured direction the filmmaker creates a hypnotic rhythm, constructs a poetic logic to the story, and submerses us in an experimental doc that is both accessible and fascinating. The camera witnesses normal, prosaic activities: a man has a medical check-up; people go on a picnic; dogs are fed; fish are skinned; a fun bathtub parade moves down main street - and throughout: the recurring, ever-present Nome Road System. As an analysis of human activity within a landscape, the film brilliantly achieves a mute intensity. A small masterpiece. 26 minutes of film by Rainer Komers of Germany. Uso Justo: Take a strange journey along the Nome Road System in Alaska. Powerfully evocative imagery. Stark ambient sounds. A strange, dreamlike world. With assured direction the filmmaker creates a hypnotic rhythm, constructs a poetic logic to the story, and submerses us in an experimental doc that is both accessible and fascinating. The camera witnesses normal, prosaic activities: a man has a medical check-up; people go on a picnic; dogs are fed; fish are skinned; a fun bathtub parade moves down main street - and throughout: the recurring, ever-present Nome Road System. As an analysis of human activity within a landscape, the film brilliantly achieves a mute intensity. A small masterpiece lasting 22 minutes by Scott Coleman Miller.
All Film Pass: $75; All Festival Pass: $125; This Film Only: $5
a friend
Jill Dreier
(503) 248-0104
inbox@livableplace.org
No
Lynx
The falling lakes of Plitvice, Croatia, comprise 16 crystal-clear lakes arranged in spectacular terraces and connected by countless waterfalls and rapids. The old forests of this, Europe’s oldest national park, are teeming with wolves, bears and lynx. This film, conceived by Michael Shlaumberger of Austria lasts 53 minutes long. In its original language it is titled "Plitvice - Im Land der Fallenden Seen.
All Film Pass: $75; All Festival Pass: $125; This Film Only: $5
tickets only available for purchase at the door
Jill Dreier
(503) 248-0104
inbox@livableplace.org
No
A highly personal and irreverent look, both poignant and comic, at one woman's fight against breast cancer. The film follows 33-year-old Janice Fine through her diagnosis, treatment, recovery and search for answers, while dealing with memories of her mother's death from cancer 17 years earlier. This film by Cynthia McKeown, lasts 57 minutes.
The Real Dirt on Farmer John Taggart Siegel, USA, documentary, 83 min., 2005
** FREE Screening! Come meet Farmer John **
A roller-coaster ride through the life of maverick farmer, John Peterson who presided over the near death of his family farm. Tracking the life of Farmer John interspersed with home movies of his childhood, Taggart Siegel takes us through the demise and transformation of a traditional American, Midwestern family farm through the eyes and words of playwright and farmer John Peterson. In a moment of crisis, John copes with depression, travels to Mexico and gets creative producing the play Ember Days on the contemporary farmers’ plight and yet he resurrects himself as an organic farmer. Throughout, he contends with slander, arson, a Sheriff’s investigation and allegations of murder and devil worship. You’re never sure what’s around the corner in this must see award winning doc!
Wieden and Kennedy, 224 NW 13th, Portland OR 97209
$15 advance registration, $20 at the door
pre-registration highly recommended by January 27
friends and family
John Waller
(503) 970-9357
jq_waller@mac.com
No
Photo of the Year is an amateur photography contest benefiting the MESD Outdoor School Program, which has been offering natural science education in our local schools for the past 40 years. The contest culminates with an awards party on January 28, 2006 at the Wieden and Kennedy Building.
For a $15 entry fee you get an evening at Wieden and Kennedy, two live bands (Tilly Jam from Hood River and Tony Smiley from Portland), catering compliments of the Western Culinary Institute, complimentary beer and wine (donations are encouraged), view and vote for the finalist photographs, sponsors with stuff, an exciting new video release by Uncage the Soul Productions and On Foot Films, and discover which photograph becomes Photo of the Year 2005! And all proceeds go to the Outdoor School Program! Register now at http://www.photooftheyear.net. We have a non-negotiable 400 person attendance limit so don't be left out.
Hope to see you on January 28 at 7:00 PM
John
John Waller
Uncage the Soul Productions
503-970-9357
New photographs, new videos, new info on the Cascade Trifecta...
Note that ticket holders must be at the theater 10 minutes before the show to be guaranteed a seat.
inbox@livableplace.org
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CSA: The Confederate States of America Kevin Willmott (Spike Lee, Ex. Director), USA, mock-documentary, 90 min., 2005
** OPENING WEEKEND FEATURE FILM **
Through the altering lens of a faux TV documentary we see our America turned upside-down after a confederate victory in the Civil War. Using a mixture of real and fabricated historical documentation this deadpan satire cuts close to the bone through its provocative and humorous look at a country that runs frighteningly dangerous parallels to our own.
