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ANNOUNCING TWO SPECIAL EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 2002!

Wednesday November 27 @ 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
OISE/UT, room 12-199
(Dean's Conference Room, top floor)
252 Bloor Street West
(St. George Subway)

YOUTH ONLINE:
VIDEO, INTERNET AND MICRO-RADIO PROJECTS IN THE U.S.

Workshop for pre-service faculty and students with academy nominated media activist and Visiting Artist-Scholar DeeDee Halleck

Examples of youth work on public access television will be screened.
In 'Fenced Out,' gay, lesbian and transgender youth protest the closing down of a public space on NY piers. Also screened will be 'Homecoming Queens,' a video made by the young filmmakers of Green Chimneys, a shelter for homeless youth. Paper Tiger Television has been a pioneer in the use of community media with young people, presenting the work every week on local cable access.

DeeDee Halleck has been at the forefront of the movement for the democratic use of communication technology and the establishment of community-based media for over 40 years. She is a prize-winning filmmaker whose short documentary, Mural on Our Street was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965, a co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the author of Hand Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media (2001, Fordham), and Professor Emerita of Communication at UC-San Diego. DeeDee Halleck is CMCE Visiting Artist-Scholar, through the Ethnocultural Initiatives program at the University of Toronto.

Wednesday November 27 @ 7:30 pm
OISE/UT, room 12-199
(Dean's Conference Room, top floor)
252 Bloor Street West
(St. George Subway)

The Centre for Media and Culture in Education (OISE/UT) and the Catalyst Centre are pleased to present a screening of the new experimental documentary...

Ah! The Hopeful Pageantry of Bread and Puppet by Dee Dee Halleck and Tamar Schumann

The screening will be followed by a discussion/Q & A with Dee Dee Halleck, who is Visiting Artist-Scholar in the Centre for Media and Culture in Education during November 2002

The Bread and Puppet Theater has been a source of hope and vision for people all over the world. Their performances have been in theaters, on college campuses, in churches and parks, and above all in the streets. Bread and Puppet has taught generations of activists to construct large puppets, to paint iconographic banners and to print mobilizing posters. Drawn from over two hundred hours of video material, the film is an expression of the progressive vision that Bread and Puppet represents. The film includes scenes from performances, B& P graphics, puppeteers working and building puppets and props, weeding the garden, peeling the garlic and kneading the bread, strung together with the unique B & P musical combination of marching band, rumba and sacred harp singing. Neither a straight documentary nor an "educational" rendition of theater history, AH! is more like a Bread and Puppet movie than a film ABOUT Bread and Puppet. Bread and Puppet has shown that we can create new worlds, starting with very humble and accessible tools such as cardboard and cloth. Their collective spirit and the magnitude of their vision makes their work an important model for the future. That spirit is the subject of this film.

Friday November 29 @ 1:30 - 3:30 pm
OISE/UT, room 11-164
252 Bloor Street West
(St. George Subway)

The Audio-Visual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony

Roger I. Simon, Professor,
Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, OISE/UT

I begin with the question of the substance of the "audiovisual supplement" in regards to testamentary record of the Holocaust. This is something that needs to be understood to assess the full measure of the potential value of an archive of video testimony.

Following Derrida, we might conceive of such a supplement as pointing to something lacking and that which adds something new that carries an implicit sense of correction. On such terms, audiovisual testimony of people subjected to Nazi genocide of European Jewry is often welcomed as a corrective to a "lack" of a humanized picture of history perceived as missing from textual accounts. Viewed on such terms, video testimonies are perceived as filling a void and making for a more complete historical record.

Yet, this "human dimension" is amply present in the multitude of diaries, memoirs, and novels that may be read both for the historical information they provide, and for the vivid and indelible mise on scene of experience they render through descriptive detail, compelling narration, and the traumatic resonances which inform such practices of inscription. So what is it then that video testimony provides that written texts do not? This session will address this question.

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