Come down to the Qu Junktions tent while the music’s not on to find out more
about our work in Haiti. We will be screening some of the films that were
popular with the kids out there, as well as running animation workshops for
the children here.
We will also be showing some of the ‘digital postcards’ that Haitian kids
filmed themselves out in Haiti and children at the festival can record their
own messages which we will take out to Haiti to show to kids there on our
next trip.
FRIDAY 4pm-5.45pm
SAT & SUN 11am-1.45pm
Affordable and very collectable art pieces jumbled together to raise funds for Haiti Kids Kino Project (HKKP).Bristol is full of international artists whom take influence from the very local to the overwhelming international. Profits from this sale of art pieces (in all shapes and forms), in jumble style, allows these fine artists to help send the next group of intrepid explorers to Haiti to set up a mobile cinema project for children.
This curated set of art works, pictures, photos and thrift should be in your range. Some highly desirables will be hung and priced accordingly (the £1000 mark range) others will be snapped up for a couple of pounds. Peruse the prized works of Andrew Mania and Ben Newman, Sony award winning photographer Tamany Baker and Adam Faraday, Jerwood collected Aaron Sewards, the infamous MOTORBOY, musicians such as Beardyman, Francois and Rozi and core cube artists such as Lady Lucy, Kayle Brandon and Mr Hopkinson. Aardman’s creator, Pete Lord, is making a special, hand made Morph for the HKKP sale, while Annabel Other offers up a selection from The Bristol Art Library gift shop and you can snap up prints from Spike Print Studio, some QuJunktion limited edition posters and Barn Nova artists postcards (by Kath Bloom, Dudley Sutton, and others).
And there’s so much more still to be announced. Cakes, raffles, live music and children’s art activities all day.
Come rummage. Fill you boots for an excellent cause.
There’s a long article with lots of great pictures on the Haiti Kid’s Kino project in the July/August issue of The Big Picture Magazine . Big Picture is a free magazine you can find at independent cinemas, or you can download the article in the online issue here. .
Many thanks to editor Gabriel Solomons
HKKP at Womad festival
Many thanks to Sally Daniels and Marcus Toop of sustainable architecture group Tangentfield who hosted us at last weekend’s Womad festival. Tangentfield were running a workshop where four teams built four stages – one from bamboo, one from wood managed from the estate where the festival was taking place, and two from recycled materials.
This week it’s six months since the earthquake of 12th January 2010, when 300,000 people died and one and a half million people were made homeless.
Here’s one radio and one video piece recommended by readers of this blog, Ali and Aaron, that ask relevant questions like…
- Why with thousands of foreign NGOs in the country was Haiti a continuously failing state even before the earthquake?
- Six months after the earthquake, why has only 10% of the money promised by international donor governments reached Haiti?
Democracy Now! video piece http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/12/democracy_now_in_port_au_prince
This American Life, radio article http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/408/island-time
Interviews with audience members at HKKP film night at Tapis Vert camp in Cite Soleil, Port au Prince. April 2010.
On 4 July, at Arnolfini Bristol, there is a day of film screenings for children and a Zoetrope Workshop. Zoetrope is a magical animation workshop for children to make their very own cartoon to watch on the big screen. Plus there will be screenings of the beautiful Hedgehog in the Fog, Kirikou and the Sorceress & The Red Balloon; all favorites in Haiti with the mobile cinema. All profits will be donated to HKKP. Extra special HKKP T-shirts will be on sale on the day, designed by Lady Lucy.
The children’s film screenings and Zoetrope Workshop will take place on the closing weekend of the Say Parsley exhibition, a sparse sound and language installation by writer and artist Caroline Bergvall and composer Ciarán Maher. The background to ‘Say Parsley’ is the biblical ‘shibboleth’, a violent event where language itself is gatekeeper, and a pretext to massacre. The pronunciation of a given word exposes the identity of the speaker. To speak becomes a give-away. Are you one of us, not one of us? How you speak will be used against you. The massacre of tens of thousands of Creole Haitians on the border of the Dominican Republic (1937) for failing to pronounce “perejil” correctly is the most recent example of a large scale shibboleth.
Nanoplex and HKKP presents: all ages gig with the Dagger Brothers and Vanilla Muffins
2 days of screenings, workshops and raffles, cakes and balloons!!!
