La Resurrecion United Methodist Church
790 between Elton Avenue
(Third Avenue on 158 Street), Bronx, New York

A bilingual memorial mass to honor, remember and celebrate the life of our sister and mother of the movement for our people’s liberation.

“QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!”
“BEFORE GOD AND THE WORLD, MY BLOOD CLAIMS THE INDEPENDENCE OF PUERTO RICO.”
“MY LIFE I GIVE TO MY COUNTRY”

The mass will be followed by a dialogue and reflection of fellowship.

ARTISTS WORLDWIDE RESPOND TO THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE
GULF COAST OF MEXICO

TRANSNATIONAL TEMPS
SPILL>>FORWARD
July 30 – September 21, 2010
EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 19
Artists Talk: Wednesday, August 11, 6:30pm-8pm

At MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, entrance on 102nd Street
Gallery Hours: Thursday and Friday, 2pm – 6pm

As media attention wanes, the impact of British Petroleum’s Deep Horizon, off-shore drilling disaster continues to unfold. Artists worldwide respond to this new ecological catastrophe in a group show organized by Transnational Temps, an arts collective exploring the interstices of art, ecology and technology. http://transnationaltemps.net/ . For Andy Deck, one of the founding members of Transnational Temps and the curator of the show, “After a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this exhibition of Earth Art for the 21st Century.“

Now hidden from view by BP’s media campaigns and other de facto censoring actions, the images of oil-covered birds struggling to breathe and fly, oil and dispersant-coated fish, dolphins and whales washing up dead while most sink to the ocean floor, have all but vanished. Partially filling the void are the artists showing here who are recreating topographies; mapping the course of a deadly shadow over our shores and waters; and reinterpreting the sea, its rising levels and largesse, before the vicissitudes of man and nature.

ABOUT TRANSNATIONAL TEMPS
Transnational Temps is an international arts collective concerned with ecology, sustainability, and media. Since its formation in 2001 it has produced a series of critically acclaimed works and exhibitions under the banner Earth Art for the 21st Century. Working primarily from Europe and the United States, works to date have emphasized participation, tactical media, and spanning the sometimes awkward divide between activist advocacy and aesthetics. http://TransnationalTemps.net

ABOUT MEDIANOCHE
MediaNoche is the place where art, technology and community converge. We offer artists working in new media exhibition space and residencies in order to provoke a dialogue that blurs all lines of marginality and alterity. Unique among art and technology groups, MediaNoche is directly linked to the oldest Latino community of New York City, Spanish Harlem, and has showcased a roster of local and international new media artists. http://medianoche.us

EXHIBITION ARTISTS
• Fred Adam
• Jesus Andres
• Matusa Barros
• Chris Basmajian
• Eric Benson
• Sarah Boothroyd
• Collette Broeders
• Sabina Antón Cardenal
• Guillermo Hermosilla Cruzat
• Christopher Dascher
• Sereal Designers
• Maria-Gracia Donoso
• Jessica Eik
• Terri Garland
• Alex George
• Tim Geers
• Virginia González
• Gene Gort
• Gratuitous Art Films
• Henry Gwiazda
• Andrew E. Johnson
• Adrienne Klein
• Geoffrey Michael Krawczyk
• Irad Lee
• Adrián Madrid
• Patrick Mathieu
• Cristina Osuna Migueles
• Luke Munn
• Veronica Perales
• Ume Remembers
• Russell Ritell
• Alyce Santoro
• Skwarek and Hocking
• Susanne Slavick
• UBERMORGEN.COM and P. W. Teister

This program is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, and individual donors. Special thanks: Hugh Mandeville, Todd Escalona, Eric Wold, Ann Rosetti, Tanya Torres, Juan Nunez, Taina Caragol, Joe Falcon, Yolanda Sanchez, José Valera and other superlative individuals.

EARTH 101: What You Don’t Know Can Kill You!
–This year’s curatorial theme–

OPENING THURSDAY, JULY 22, 8:00PM
AT THE 103RD STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN
Music by Grupo Coco Rico

This summer the PRdream Summer Film Fest presents “Earth 101”, a primer on global warming, fossil fuels, industrial farming, genetically modified food, and water. According to Judith Escalona, Director of PRdream.com: “We’ve always had an environment and health component to the screenings, but this year we decided to devote the entire festival to it—given the Gulf Coast Disaster.”

Increasingly unsustainable, the American way of life of fast foods and gas guzzling cars is harmful not only to one’s health but to the planet. The current crisis in the Gulf Coast, where British Petroleum (BP), a major oil supplier to the U.S., has irreparably destroyed our wild life and contaminated part of our coastline with toxic crude oil and chemical dispersants should sound the alarm. The wife of a Louisiana fisherman astutely commented on the situation: “Don’t sh*t where you eat. It will kill you. Even shrimp know that!”

Earth 101 is a departure from PRdream’s usual summer film program of Puerto Rican/Latino films and other international independent cinemas. These films are scheduled for late Fall.

The documentary screenings are free and take place every Thursday night at sunset, approximately 8:30pm, at the 103rd Street Community Garden, between Park and Lexington Avenues.

This year’s exclusive focus on environmental documentaries coincides with a new exhibition at MediaNoche, PRdream’s digital art gallery. MediaNoche is located on the corner of 102nd Street and Park Avenue, just one block south of the community garden where the films will screen. The exhibition “SPILL>>Forward” is scheduled to open July 29 at 6pm. As the title suggests, the works displayed are a response to the Gulf Coast oil disaster. SPILL>>Forward is a collaboration between MediaNoche and Transnational Temps, an international new media arts collective devoted to increasing awareness about the environment.

Opening the PRdream Summer Film Fest is Grupo Coco Rico, featuring Joe Falcon on bass, Luis Rodriguez on guitar, and sonero mayor Ismael Rosado. The trio will play traditional Puerto Rican music and Latin Jazz before the first film screens on Thursday, July 22. Not to be missed! Music begins at 8:00PM. The schedule and description of the films follow:

ALL FILMS SCREEN AT SUNSET (Approximately 8:30PM)
IN THE 103rd Street Community Garden
(East 103rd Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue)

Thursday, July 22 An Inconvenient Truth – Redux
Thursday, July 29 A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Thursday, August 5 Crude
Thursday, August 12 Food Inc.
Thursday, August 19 The World According to Monsanto
Thursday, August 26 Flow

An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim
Redux. PRdream brings back the sobering classic on climate change. Former Vice-President Al Gore explains the present and future effects of global warming. “Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive.”

Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack
What happens when the earth runs out of oil? This is your wake up call. At a time of unprecedented and ever-growing demand, the available oil worldwide is fast approaching peaked oil depletion.

Crude, directed by Joe Berlinger
It’s déjà vu all over again! Instead of British Petroleum, its Chevron; and instead of our Gulf Coast, it’s the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador, South America. The film follows the crusade of an Ecuadorian lawsuit against Chevron for 2 of its 14 years! We see the tragic pollution of a once pristine rainforest and the devastation of the people who inhabit it.

Food Inc., directed by Robert Kenner
And you thought Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were still running the farm! Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers, and our own environment. The highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer is exposed.

The World According to Monsanto, directed by Marie-Monique Robin
From Iowa to Paraguay, from England to India, Monsanto is uprooting our food supply and replacing it with their patented genetically engineered seeds. Along the way, farmers, communities, and nature become collateral damage.

Flow, directed by Irena Salina
The most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century — the World Water Crisis. Here is the case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water. Politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering international water cartel that wants to control our water supply–and our future as a species.

Webcasting at http://www.prdream.com/webcast.html

Music provided by Grupo Coco Rico: Ismael Rosado, Sonero; Luis Rodriguez, guitarist; and Joe Falcon, bassist.
INTRODUCTION: Judith Escalona, Director of PRdream/MediaNoche

PROGRAM

Readers and Stories

Dylcia Pagan – The Land of Brave Men
Frank Algarin – Guaní
Maria Boncher – The Legend of the Ceiba de Ponce
Inaru – Iviahoca
Evelyn Collazo – The Miracle of Hormigueros
Joe Falcon – The Legend of the Royal Palm
Charlotte Gruen – Amapola and the Butterfly
Anna Morales – The Legend of the Hummingbird
Maireni Gomez – Yuisa and Pedro Mexias
Ralph Pachoda – The Rogativa
Fred Calero – The Chapel on Cristo Street
Elizabeth Figueroa – The Little Blue Light
Ana Juarbe – Perez y Martina
Carmen Vega – The Earrings
Eliud Martinez – Juan Bobo
Cathleen Kiebert-Gruen – The Stone Dog
Angel Roman РThe Story of Ferdinand, the Bull. Translated by Belpr̩

INTERMISSION (10 minutes)

“Effective Reading and Writing”
A presentation by BLADE READER Learning Services:
Colette Hughes, Founder and Director

http://www.prdream.com/webcast.html