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SUMMARY:ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Schon Duncan and Michael McDermit\nRUN TIME: 1 hour 35 min\nPRE-SHOW: Seed Warriors short film by Rebekka Schlicting (11min)\nPOST-SHOW: Filmmaker Q&A\, Refreshments by Jason The Native Chef and music by Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey\n \nThe Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2019. While there are 430\,000 Cherokee citizens in the three federally recognized tribes\, fewer than an estimated 2\,000 fluent speakers remain—the majority of whom are elderly. The COVID pandemic has unfortunately hastened the course. Language activists\, artists\, and the youth must now lead the charge of urgent radical revitalization efforts to help save the language from the brink of extinction. \nABOUT THE SHORT:\nSeed Warriors\nA group of seed keepers work to regain food sovereignty in their ancestral homelands of Nebraska. By reclaiming their sacred corn seeds\, they seek to return to the healthy\, traditional lifeways of the Pawnee people. \nABOUT THE MUSIC:\nAgalisiga “Chuj” Mackey is a Cherokee guitarist/musician and singer/songwriter from the Cherokee Nation in Northeast Oklahoma. Chuj spent the early years of his life growing up on a creek bank in the small traditional Cherokee community of Kenwood\, where his mother’s family settled after the forced removal of Cherokees from what is now North Carolina. Chuj then moved to Tahelquah\, the Cherokee Nation capital\, to become a language learner at the Cherokee Immersion Charter School. Chuj grew up participating in traditional ceremonies\, ceremonial songs being the foundation of his voice which he carries with him as he creates more modern music. Chuj writes and sings original country-folk music in the Cherokee language and performs old country classics. He aims to inspire other Indigenous peoples to make art in their languages so he eventually won’t have to. \n\nAgalisiga “Chuj” Mackey
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/we-will-speak/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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SUMMARY:No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kevin Willmott\nRUN TIME: 1 hour\nPOST SHOW: Filmmaker Q&A\nPRE-SHOW: Parker short film by Sharon Liese (13min)\nThis event is presented in partnership with KU Film and Media Studies and Lawrence PRIDE\n \nThis event is SOLD OUT! \nABOUT THE FILM:\nDirected by Oscar winner Kevin Willmott\, this feature length documentary takes audiences on a tour of a deep red state\, to meet people who have found themselves in a battle for LGBTQ rights in the most unlikely places. In places like rural Trego County\, Salina and Topeka\, you’ll meet some of the people C.J. Janovy profiles in her book No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism in LGBT Kansas (University Press of Kansas\, January 2018). You’ll also meet emerging activists – ordinary people doing extraordinary things\, all because they’re committed to securing justice for everyone in their home state. \n\nABOUT THE SHORT:\nParker\nThree generations of a Kansas City family are finally unified when they do something that countless other Black Americans could not — choose their own last name.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/no-place-like-home/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Film Flights: Short Film and Beer Pairings
DESCRIPTION:This event has sold out!  \nThe screen rolls down\, the tap pours and the projector bulb shines over small servings of cinema thoughtfully paired with samples of craft beer by Free State Brewing Company.  \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art. \nABOUT THE FILMS: \n\nSpotlight by L. Ash (4 min)\nThe music video for Barnaby Bright’s 2021 single exploring fame and celebrity in the volatile age of social media. This animation is made up of 6\,800 hand drawn frames.\n\n\nBaseball with Dad by Cody McHan (14 min)\nA misguided father forces his unwilling son to spend a day with him learning to play the family pastime of baseball- a tradition that goes back further than he could ever imagine.\n\n\nVegan Apocalypse by Patrick Poe and Lolo Loren (5 min)\nThe apocalypse has finally come – and it’s made getting a good meal really\, really hard.\n\n\nBest Friends on a Summer Hike by Mario A. F. Furloni (9 min)\nA cautionary tale. Two men take an uneasy hike on a Northern California coastal trail.\n\n\nHolding Hands with the Moon by Sarah Blake (5 min)\nSometimes when you talk to the moon\, the moon talks back.\n\n\nDead Bird Hearts by Thomas Ryan RedCorn (20 min)\nA love story between an incompetent Indigenous man and his dog after being made homeless after a break up.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/film-flights/
LOCATION:10th & Mass Studios\, 1000 Massachusetts St.\, Lawrence\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Body and Soul with live score by DJ Spooky + Audio Description
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Oscar Micheaux\nRUN TIME: 1 hour 33 min\nPRE-SHOW: Robert & Billie short film by Robert Brogden\nMID-SHOW: Short Film Q&A and DJ Spooky Introduction \nDJ Spooky performs an original live score created for this masterpiece of the silent screen era\, written\, directed\, and produced by prolific director Oscar Micheaux! \nThis event will feature live audio description by Audio-Reader Network.\nPresented in partnership with KJHK. \nABOUT THE FILM:\nIn this good versus bad twin melodrama\, Robeson plays both an escaped convict posing as a minister\, and the convict’s honest\, yet penniless brother. A true pioneer\, Micheaux and his films answered the challenges of racial segregation and provided black moviegoers with an alternative to the mainstream films being produced by a segregated Hollywood. It is estimated that Micheaux\, who was the first African American to produce a feature length film\, wrote\, produced\, and directed more than 40 films from 1919 to 1948. His movies\, known as “race” films\, were made by Black filmmakers\, featured an all-Black cast\, and were intended for Black audiences. Regarded as a rare work in African American cinematic history\, Body and Soul boasts biting social commentary on issues of race and gender that went unaddressed by Hollywood for decades\, and that still resonate today.  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nPaul D. Miller\, aka DJ Spooky\, is a composer\, multimedia artist\, and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres\, global culture\, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists\, including Metallica\, Chuck D\, Steve Reich\, and Yoko Ono. His 2018 album\, DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall\, debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae. His large-scale\, multimedia performance pieces include “Rebirth of a Nation\,” Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica\, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and Seoul Counterpoint\, written during his 2014 residency at Seoul Institute of the Arts. His multimedia project Sonic Web premiered at San Francisco’s Internet Archive in 2019. He was the inaugural artist-in-residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Met Reframed\, 2012-2013. \nABOUT THE SHORT:\nRobert and Billie\nA generational love story set in the historic town of Nicodemus\, Kansas\, the only remaining western settlement founded by formerly enslaved Black Americans following the Civil War.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/body-and-soul/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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