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4th Annual
IMAGENATION @ LINCOLN CENTER
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Join us for our fourth annual collaboration between ImageNation and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA). This evening will celebrate ImageNation’s 10th anniversary with Micheaux Remixed, a multimedia re-contextualization of Oscar Micheaux’s silent film “Within Our Gates”, featuring a live score by Greg Tate’s band, Burnt Sugar: the Arkestra Chamber. This program will be followed by the panel BLACK CINEMA: Past, Present & Future.
Doors: 6:00PM / Event: 7:00PM
Admission: RSVP Required
WITHIN OUR GATES
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
WITHIN OUR GATES (1920), was a rebuttal to D.W. Griffith’s Ku Klux Klan propaganda film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). Micheaux’s multiple subplots revolve around the travails of heroine Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) and her attempt to raise money from a wealthy Boston patroness to save a Southern black school.
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BURNT SUGAR:
THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER
Previously featured at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, BURNT SUGAR, THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER is the creation of writer/guitarist/
producer Greg Tate. Formed in 1999, Burnt Sugar was conceived as a contemporary version of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew band, exploring the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, twentieth century composition, and African music in a lyrical, seductive, exploratory, improvisational manner.
Band members include: Greg Tate (composer), Marque (drums and electronics), Latasha Diggs (voice and electronics), Abby Dobson (voice), Imani Uzuri (voice), Justice Dilla (voice and electronics), Jimmly Lee Lapsteel (guitar), Flip Barnes (trumpet) and Paula Anderson Bari (saxophone).
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BLACK CINEMA
PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Moderated by ImageNation founder Moikgantsi Kgama, this concise and informative panel will provide insights about the history of Black cinema; the current state of affairs; future opportunities; and the complexities of funding, producing and distributing progressive Black media.
Panelists include: Robyn Greene-Arrington (TV One), Pearl Bowser (film historian), Jeff Friday (The Film Life), Jacquie Jones (NBPC), and Greg Tate (composer/cultural critic).
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What: Imagenation Revolution Awards
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Where: Lincoln Center
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Last year's Revolution Awards was hosted by fashionista Michaela angela Davis and M1, the benefit concert and awards ceremony featured performances by dead prez, Martin Luther, Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber, Imani Uzuri and Kameko featuring Narock (a new artist from Erykah Badu's Control Freak Records).
The Revolution Awards are presented to artists and industry leaders of color who use their works to inspire social change, help foster solidarity throughout the African Diaspora, blaze new trails or exemplify a dedication to independent cinema. This year's recipients include Warrington Hudlin, Lee Daniels, dead prez, Keith Beauchamp and Thomas Allen Harris. Previous recipients include Chuck D, Stanley Nelson, Erykah Badu, Roger Guenveur Smith, Talib Kweli, Sherry Simpson Dean and Joe Brewster.
Proceeds will benefit the opening of the ImageNation Cinema Foundation.
Established in 2003, this international, Harlem-based festival combines the best in independent cinema from the African Diaspora, with performances by the world’s hottest progressive musical acts. Join us each summer and enjoy open-air screenings, lively panel discussions and more! Each year filmmakers and youth from around the world will be invited to attend this festive Harlem event.
What: From Harlem to Hillbrow
When: TBA
Where: South Africa (various locations)
Tickets: TBA
From Harlem to Hillbrow is a film festival and tour of communities in the Gauteng Province and Capetown, South Africa. This festival and tour will feature free open-air screenings, panel discussions and after parties. Harlem to Hillbrow will bring African–Americans to South Africa to engage in dialogue, cultural exchange and to enjoy fellowship, and coalition-build.
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