Monday, March. 8, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
"Herb & Dorothy"
Guest Speaker:
Megumi Sasaki, Director
Theatre Three, 412 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY
Tickets: $5
In a modest one bedroom apartment in New York City lives an incredibly modest couple, he a postal worker and she a librarian. Herein lies the extraordinary story of the Vogel’s who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Living off Dorothy’s salary and using Herb’s salary to collect art, they had but two requirements when purchasing art: the piece had to be affordable and it had to be able to fit in their apartment.
Monday, March 15, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
"Mugabe and the White African"
Guest Speaker:
Douglas Rogers, Zimbabwean Journalist and Author of “The Last Resort” about his family’s farm in Zimbabwe.
IN COLLABORATION WITH FILMS OF FAITH
Theatre Three, 412 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY
Tickets: $5
Mugabe and the White African is the only documentary feature film to have come out of Zimbabwe in recent years, where a total press ban still exists. It is the story of Michael Campbell, one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Much of the footage was shot covertly. To have been caught filming would have led to imprisonment. The film gives the outside world its only real glimpse of what it is like to live inside Mugabe's Zimbabwe, while providing an intimate account of one family’s astonishing bravery and faith in the face of implacable brutality.
Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
"Run for Your Life: The Fred Lebow Story"
Guest Speakers:
Judd Ehrlich, Director/Producer;
Nina Kuscsik, two-time winner of the New York City's womans marathon in 1972 and 1973
Theatre Three, 412 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY
Tickets: $5
From Emmy nominated filmmaker Judd Erlich comes the story of a Jewish immigrant who fled Romania for the United States and created the New York City Marathon in 1970. Beginning as a little-attended race in Central Park and expanding to today’s five-borough event, Fred Lebow’s dream turned into reality. It took determination, showmanship and unending cheerleading. He pioneered the concepts of corporate sponsorship and the media blitz. New York City’s history is the backdrop. During the 1976 financial crisis, the city was able to concentrate on its first 26-mile all-borough marathon and Fred Lebow became a hero.
Local running and sporting good stores are supporting this film with over $70.00 in discount coupons to be given out to film-goers.
Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
"Burma VJ"
Guest Speaker:
The Venerable U Gawsita, one of the leading monks of the Saffron Revolution and Zaw Zaw, an interpreter and Burmese scholar
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
Tickets: $5 – Students free
Armed with pocket-sized video camera, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, after decades of self-imposed silence, Burma became headline news across the globe when peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the internet was shut down, and Burma was closed to the outside world. So how did we witness these events? Enter the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) aka the Burma VJs.
Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
"Voices from El Sayed"
Guest Speaker:
Dr. David Schessel, MD, Director of ENT at Stony Brook University
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
Tickets: $5 – Students free
In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lays the Bedouin village of El-Sayed. It has the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. Still, no hearing aids can be seen because in El-Sayed deafness is not a handicap. Through the generations, a unique sign language has evolved making it the most popular language in this rare society that accepts deafness as natural as life itself. The village`s tranquility is interrupted by Salim`s decision to change his deaf son’s fate and make him a hearing person using the Cochlear Implant Operation.
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