Mark Braverman at Trinity Cathedral

Cleveland Food Not Bombs celebration of International Woman's Day
March 7th 11-6pm at the food coop (the day before actual IWD Monday March 8th)

* 2pm to 4 pm we'll have a visiting artist to lead a workshop in Gypsy Dance
and Flamenco Dance. Sevi Bayraktar from Istanbul Turkey. She is in Cleveland
preparing a performance with the Sarah Morrison Dance Company.
* 12-5 pm. We'll be assisting Willow in collecting donation items for the
Domestic Violence Center (see details below)
* 11am to 6pm we'll be showing an array of films and documentaries on a video
monitor. Herdswoman and The Films of Helen Hill, Suzan Pitt - Three Films and
Louise (see film descriptions below)
* Starting at about 2pm or actually as soon as there is soup, we'll be
offering up a communal bowl of soup and other food we've been cooking within the
coop's kitchen.
* We are also looking forward to meeting people and showing them around the
coop. Clefnb will be cooking in the kitchen as usual from 1 until 5pm.

Willow's call for donations:
From: rebekka willow <janedoe963@gmail.com> <mailto:janedoe963@gmail.com>
Date: February 19, 2010 10:26:59 AM EST
Subject: International Women's Day donation drive, Sunday, March 7th

Please consider donating from the following list to benefit the Domestic
Violence Center for International Women's Day, (which falls the next day,
Monday, March 8.)

Drop off day: Sunday, March 7, 2010
From: 12-4 PM
At: Cleveland Food Co-op, 11702 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, in University Circle

Personal Items
deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothpaste, toothbrushes, mouth
wash, combs, brushes, pads, tampons, panty liners, wash cloth/bath towels, soap,
razor (non-electrical), body lotion, toothbrush holder

Special Request Items
coffee, women's socks, women's underwear

Household Items
dish detergent, cleaning supplies, kitchen sponges, dryer sheets, toilet paper,
paper towels, napkins, tissue boxes,
drawstring trash bags

Baby Items
wipes, bottles, shampoo, crib bedding, diapers (sizes 4,5 and 6)

Gift Cards
Target, Kmart, Sears and other department stores, gas cards, BJ's, Sam's Club,
Costco and other grocery stores

Miscellaneous Items
batteries, cell phones, light bulbs, journals, first aid kits, kleenex packets,
appointment calendars

THE DVC DOES NOT ACCEPT:
USED CLOTHING OR TOYS, NOR DO THEY ACCEPT FOOD ITEMS

please feel free to forward this list widely

Film Descriptions:
Herdswoman
We encounter three Sami women and their lives with the reindeer herds.
Aina, Elisabeth and Lisa belong to different generations. Their stories reflect
life in Sápmi (Lapland) and the transition from nomadic existence to modern
society. The film relates their pleasure in working with the reindeer. They live
with and for their herds. When a court case questions their ancient rights to
the reindeers' pasture their life as reindeer keepers is at risk.

the House of Sweet Magic: Films by Helen Hill (1992 - 2004)
The film illustrates man's inner driving force and the struggle for existence.
It shows the vulnerability of indigenous peoples in modern society and the
colonization process, which has led to the present conflict about the right to
land and water.

Helen Hill (1970-2007) was a filmmaker and activist raised in Columbia, South
Carolina and settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied Experimental
Animation at Harvard and California Institute of the Arts. She taught film
workshops wherever she went, and compiled "Recipes For Disaster: A Film
Cookbooklet." Helen Championed low-budget and do-it-yourself approaches to
filmmaking, including super 8, hand-processing, and drawing on film, and
insisted that "you don't need to keep up with the latest technology to make a
good film, you just need a good idea."

Helen's murder in January 2007 in New Orleans cut short the life of an
incredibly talented and original artist. Here are ten of Helen's films. They
include cel animation, cut-out and 3-D puppet animation, hand-processing, and
live action filmmaking. Be prepared to enjoy tea parties, a cotton candyland,
romance activism, a potbelly pig family tree, chicken angels, and much more.

Louise Bourgeois, A film by Camille Guichard

A sculptor who consistently refused to be pigeonholed in her career, Louise
Bourgeois flittered freely between en vogue artistic movements - so freely that
she could have very easily been associated with any one movement at any one
time, and virtually defined contemporary trends in visual art. Over the decades,
she held court in such diverse areas of expression as painting, sculpture and
performance art; her central themes seldom changed, however, and she sustained a
preoccupation with social isolation, death and sexuality from endeavor to
endeavor. The documentary Louise Bourgeois sketches a biographical portrait of
its central subject, placing equal emphasis on Bourgeois's unusual artistic
creations and the unapologetically vociferous, opinionated woman behind them. ~
Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Suzan Pitt - Three Films

"EL DOCTOR, JOY STREET, AND ASPARAGUS: The Wonderfully Strange & Surreal
Animation of Suzan Pitt.

This new anthology includes three of Pitt's masterful short works:
Asparagus (1979, 20 min.)
Joy Street (1995, 24 min.)
El Doctor (2006, 23 min.)