[van-announce] woodwards and the media screening and discussion

[Programming & Communications]

Radical Rhizome 3
The Woodwards Squat and the Media
Video screening and discussion

8 pm   Thursday Nov. 21, 2002

Video In 1965 Main St.
Vancouver
www.videoin.ca
604.872.8337
sliding scale 0-5$

This Rhizome will bring together squat residents and independent 
media producers to examine mainstream and independent media 
representation of the Woodwards Squat community and the issue of 
social housing. Join representatives from the Friends of the 
Woodwards Squat, Downtown East Side  Media Collective, Indy Media , 
and independent artists for this important discussion of what stories 
still need to be told, to who, and how.


Radical Rhizome looks at the potential for experimental independent media,
and video in particular, to function towards activist ends. The series will
focus on a variety of issues of social justice with constant attention to
the manner in which information is being presented. This will be considered
at various levels: the content, the delivery, the style, the mode of
distribution etc. In essence, Radical Rhizome will discuss how we want to
communicate with one another through alternative media.

What needs to be refined in this age of massive information overload?
Perhaps it is not only what is being said, but also the manner in which it
is being said. How can we develop a media ecology that reflects the
complexity of the issues in our lives? How can we structure media that
challenges the individual to formulate their own opinion? As alternative
media producers are we inadvertently reproducing the modes presented to us
by mainstream media or are we consciously looking for creative means that
reflect the complexity and richness of human experience.

info: Jen Weih
event at videoinstudios.com
604.872.8337

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Jen Weih
Exhibitions and Programming Coordinator
Video In
1965 Main St.
Vancouver BC V5T 3C1
exhibit at telus.net
t. 604.872 8337
f. 604 876 1185
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