Monthly Archives: November 2009

SAN JUAN HILL FUND RAISER @ LA PREGUNTA

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Where: Harlem, USA
Place: LA PREGUNTA (www.lapregunta.net)
Add: 1528 Amsterdam Ave. (btw: 135th. & 136th. Street)
Date: Saturday, July 25th.
Time: 9pm
Damage: FREE/ GRATIS – We will be taking Donations.
Selling – San Juan Hill “AFRO LATIN 500yrs.” T-shirt Line
And San Juan Hill CD’s.
Take: (1) train to 135th. Street.

Looking for your Support – San Juan Hill will be heading up to Montreal, Canada
On Sept. 4th. 2009 to kick off the FIRST official showcase of the
AFRO LATIN SOUL EVENT with Montreal own – Nomadic Massive – What is this event about???
The event showcases Up and Coming Live Musica, Dance, Poetry, and D.J. music from the Diaspora, and will be done so by various artists,
for example; Nomadic Massive, San Juan Hill, Kalmunity, Pimps of Joy Time, VOX, DASO, KARMA, Edwin Vazquez and many more, based here in NYC and Montreal.

In one night of the event you WILL experience – 2 Live Bands like a Samba band and a Funk Band – Bomba or Tap Dancers, or Spoken word artists, and to seal the night, DJ Music spinning grooves that represent the night’s theme!!!!
It will take place in venues such as; Nuyorican Poets Café, Fonda Boricua in NY and in Montreal at places like, Club Lumbi, Café Campus, etc.. – every other month in NY, alternating with Montreal.

Seeking to bring audiences an event that Celebrates and Demonstrates, and Documents the connection between ALL African derived Music and Art form.

Whether your from Saint Luis or Panama City, or whether you speak Spanish, French or English, whether you listen to Soul Music or PALO music– We are slowly adding our 2 cents to the MIX that destroys the Myth and Division that states that WE are NOT ONE!
This is something FOR ALL PEOPLES TO PARTICIPATE and EXPERIENCE
Our story, is the Worlds Story!!!
So do come through and Help us to raise FUNDS in getting this event/trip closer to its Goals – with your help it would certainly make this possible!

If you would like to learn MORE, HELP Participate, or are interested in Sponsoring the AFRO LATIN SOUL EVENT –
Please feel free to hit me up @ (sanjuanhill.nyc@gmail.com)!!!
All, and Any Help is Welcomed!!!
Frank Diggz

PRDREAM’s SUMMER FILM FEST presents “Taking Root” – Free Screening at 103rd St. Garden

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PRDREAM’S SUMMER FILMS SCHEDULE IN THE 103rd STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN (103rd Street and Park Avenue)

Thursday, August 20, at Sunset (approximately 8:30PM)
Taking Root: Documentary. 2008. English, no subtitles.

IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT…

In keeping with our practice of presenting films dealing with the environment and ecology, the summer film series presents three remarkable documentaries.

Taking Root: The story of the Kenyan Green Movement spurred by Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. In seeking to stave off the starvation of her community, this woman challenges modern Kenyan life, teaching her people once again how to plant and grow their own. In the process, she uncovers the legacy of colonialism, the forgotten history, the lost culture and tradition of a ravaged land.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Judith Escalona
212.828.0401
judith.escalonaATgmail.com


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CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN! Nogales: Aqui Es… – Free Screening at the 103rd St. Community Garden

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PRDREAM’S SUMMER FILMS SCHEDULE IN THE 103rd STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN (103rd Street and Park Avenue)

Thursday, August 13, at Sunset (approximately 8:30PM)
Nogales: Aqui Es… : Documentary. 2009. Mexico. Spanish, English subtitles.
Filmmaker Elisa Perea will be available for questions

BORDER ART: AN INTRODUCTION

Nogales

Elisa Perea’s Nogales, Aqui Es gives an extensive overview of the current art scene in Nogales that sits Janus-face between Mexico and the U.S. Actually, there are two towns named Nogales, the one South of the border is highlighted here as home to a fine pool of artists whose work clearly reflects the transnational nature of life on the border. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Nogales

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Judith Escalona
212.828.0401
judith.escalonaATgmail.com


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La Palomilla – Free Screening at the 103rd St. Community Garden

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PRDREAM’S SUMMER FILMS SCHEDULE IN THE 103rd STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN (103rd Street and Park Avenue)

Wednesday, August 12, at Sunset (approximately 8:30PM)
La Palomilla: Feature Crime Story, 1970. Puerto Rico. Spanish, no subtitles. Some graphic scenes.
Actors Jaime Sanchez (La Palomilla) and Ritchie Velez (cellmate) will be available for questions

THE PUERTO RICAN CRIME FILM AS PROTEST

La Palomilla

La Palomilla

La Palomilla

This year PRDREAM’s Summer Film Fest presents two Puerto Rican crime films La Venganza de Correa Cotto, directed by Jeronimo Mitchel; and La Palomilla, directed Efrain Lopez Neris, as an exploration of crime as a form of protest. Classics in their own right, they were produced in Puerto Rico in the seventies and reflected an earlier period of transformation and transvaluation of island society brought on by U.S. investment policies known as Operation Bootstrap.

These films portray the law as an external imposition, foreign to the values of the common folk, and the outlaw as the unconscious expression of revolt. Both Correa Cotto and Jose Anibal Gerena Lafontaine (La Palomilla) were simple men, thrust by circumstances into extraordinary acts of transgression that challenged the colonial status quo. Both Cotto and Gerena were men of their times, embodying the passions of a people experiencing the trauma of rapid urbanization and displacement. Anthony Felton who also produced Correa Cotto: Asi Me Llaman will be present for a Q&A after the film. Jaime Sanchez. A leading actor in both Puerto Rican and American cinema, who stars in La Palomilla will be present after that screening. Ritchie Velez, an actor who appears as a cell mate in La Palomila will also be present. Some graphic scenes.

La Palomilla

La Palomilla

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Judith Escalona
212.828.0401
judith.escalonaATgmail.com


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CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN! — PRDREAM’s SUMMER FILM FEST presents “Swim the River” – Free Screening at the 103rd St. Garden

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PRDREAM’S SUMMER FILMS SCHEDULE IN THE 103rd STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN (103rd Street and Park Avenue)

Friday, August 28, at Sunset (approximately 8:30PM)
Swim the River: Documentary. 2006. English, no subtitles.

IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT…

In keeping with our practice of presenting films dealing with the environment and ecology, the summer film series presents three remarkable documentaries.

Swim the River: Looks at one man’s ambition to swim the entire length of the Hudson River in order to draw attention to its contamination and destruction. Chris Swain swims from the Adirondack Mountains to New York City, braving whitewater, sewage snapping turtles, hydroelectric dams, homeland security patrols, factory outfalls, and PCB exposure.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Judith Escalona
212.828.0401
judith.escalonaATgmail.com


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PRDREAM’s SUMMER FILM FEST presents “Addicted to Plastic” – Free Screening at the 103rd St. Community Garden

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PRDREAM’S SUMMER FILMS SCHEDULE IN THE 103rd STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN (103rd Street and Park Avenue)

Thursday, August 27, at Sunset (approximately 8:30PM)
Addicted to Plastic: Documentary. 2009. English, no subtitles.

IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT…

In keeping with our practice of presenting films dealing with the environment and ecology, the summer film series presents three remarkable documentaries.

Addicted to Plastic: A revealing documentary about our use and abuse of plastics. So dependent have we become on things made of plastic, and so accustomed to their quick disposal, that we are choking our planet, fish and birds. There is an area in the world’s ocean that has been likened to a cesspool floating with every type of plastic imaginable, old and new.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Judith Escalona
212.828.0401
judith.escalonaATgmail.com


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