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May Screenings


Gay Cuba and Cuba Va!

May 3rd and 4th 7 and 9 pm - $6/$4 911 members

Gay Cuba takes a candid look at one of Cuba's most controversial human rights issues: the treatment of Gay and Lesbian people in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Cuba Va! vividly captures frank and impassioned discussions amongst Cuban youth, giving voice to their opinions of the country's current situation and prospects for moving forward. Please join us for a discussion following the screening with special guest Marisela Fleites-Lear, featured in Cuba Va!

Tales From Arab Detroit
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Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone

May 8th and 9th, 8pm - $6/$4 911 members

Tales from Arab Detroit welcomes you to the largest Arab American community in the U.S. Here we will hang out with the Warren Street Boys an bust rhymes with an Arab American rapper. Tales from Arab Detroit blends voices, poetry, song and dance into everyday stories of cultural conflict and resiliance. Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone was produced by the Palestinian Housing Rights Movement in 1995 to highlight the deteriorating housing situation for Palestinians in Jerusalem.

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The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film

Tuesday, May 14th, 8pm - $6/$4 911 members

Allusions of homosexuality in 1930s Yiddish cinema? Filmmaker / historian, Eve Sicular, addresses the possibility of this subject emerging as a subtext in the heyday of Yiddish film. We'll take a look at gems of the Yiddish screen, period home movies and features such as Radio Days, Yentl, Colonel Redl, Crossfire, and GentlemanŐs Agreement. Screening to be accompanied by commentary and discussion.

Dee Dee from Deep Dish and Paper Tiger TV

Friday, May 17th 8pm - $6/$4 911 members

Paper Tiger is a national collective of videomakers dedicated to smashing the myths of the information industry by creating and distributing alternative television and video; Deep Dish is the first national satellite network linking community-based producers, programmers, activists, and people who support the movement for a progressive television network; assembles material from around the country and the world and transmits it to community television stations and home dish owners nationwide. Dee Dee Halleck is the meta-coordinator who organized it all!

Jennifer Reeves

Friday, May 31st, 8pm - $6/$4 911 members

911 welcomes the experimental and exotic films of New York filmmaker Jennifer Reeves. "Pulsating black and white film frames of a barren forest dissolve through naked trees and broken stone, while twisted branches spread across a smoky, stained sky." - Visions Magazine


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