June 2019
Women Make Movies Series: Inside the Chinese Closet
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION SYNOPSIS The complexities of gay life in modern China collide at the event where Andy and Cherry first meet—a “fake marriage fair” in Shanghai, where a new, cosmopolitan generation of gay men and lesbian women seek to make a deal with a spouse of the opposite sex. Homosexuality has only recently become legal in China, but morally and practically, life is still difficult. People in Andy and Cherry’s generation, the result of the “one child” policy, are…
Find out more »Women Make Movies Series: Pink Saris
$5 SUGGESTED DONATIONSYNOPSIS“A girl’s life is cruel…A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, ROUGH AUNTIES). Sampat should know – like many others she was married as a young girl into a family which made her work hard and beat her often. But unusually, she fought back, leaving her in-laws and…
Find out more »July 2019
Agave is Life
Free Community presentation Borderlands Restoration Network is pleased to sponsor this free showing of Agave Is Life. Agave Is Life unveils the 10,000 year-old story of mankind's symbiotic relationship with the agave plant. Once a critical resource for survival among hunter and gatherers living in the arid regions of the American Southwest and Mexico, we learn how agave later became embedded in myth, religion, art, and culture. For these indigenous peoples, it was truly a gift from the gods. While…
Find out more »Humanitarian Aid in the Borderlands
Community Presentation with Reverend Dr. John Fife Borderlands Restoration Network invites you to an evening at the Tin Shed Theater with Reverend Dr. John Fife, founder of the Sanctuary Movement and co-founder of No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. During this FREE presentation on humanitarian aid in the borderlands, we'll take a look at the history of border issues from colonization, to NAFTA, to what's happening on the border today.
Find out more »August 2019
Women Make Movies Series: On Beauty
$5 SUGGESTED DONATION*** PROCEEDS FROM THE WOMEN MAKE MOVIES SERIES GOES DIRECTLY TO FUND THE TIN SHED AND THE LENDING SHED OF PATAGONIA ***SYNOPSISFrom Emmy®-nominated IN THE FAMILY filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films comes a story about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a…
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