Please join us for the Second Annual NEW ORLEANS LOVING FESTIVAL – JUNE 7th to 12th, 2012.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration and Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Festival programs are FREE and open to the public.  For more information contact info@press-street.com or mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.

Please follow the New Orleans Loving Festival on Facebook!

Festival Schedule:

THURSDAY, JUNE 7th – RECEPTION, FILM & DISCUSSION

6:00 pm – Opening Reception
6:30 pm – Screening of “MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY” by Brian Chimera

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

Guest Speakers:  Filmmaker BRIAN CHIMERA and TED QUANT, Executive Director, Twomey Center for Peace through Justice.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8th – FILM, MUSIC & COMEDY

6:30 pm – Screening of “CROSSING THE LINE” by Teja Arboleda & Darby Li Po Price
7:30 pm – Music Performance by DJ YAMIN
8:00 pm – Comedy Performance by ALEX BARNETT
10:00 pm – Music Performance by ArtHouse Jazz Ensemble

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

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SATURDAY, JUNE 9th – GALLERY OPENING & RECEPTION

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm – “MIXED MESSAGES.2 – Multiracial Identity Past & Present”

New Orleans Healing Center
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – Second Floor Gallery

Featured Artists: To be announced.  On view, June 9th through June 30th, 2012.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 10th – FILMS & DISCUSSION

1:30 pm – Screening of “HOW THE WORLD GOT MIXED UP” by David Okuefuna
4:00 pm – Screening of “YELLING TO THE SKY” by Victoria Mahoney

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

Guest Speakers: New Orleans Writer & Historian KEITH WELDON MEDLEY, and Filmmaker VICTORIA HAHONEY.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 12Th – LOVING DAY FILM & DISCUSSION

6:30 pm – Reception
7:00 pm – Screening of “THE LOVING STORY“ by Nancy Buirsky & Home Box Office

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

Guest Panel: To be announced.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20th – BONUS FILM EVENT!

7:00 pm – Screening of “WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE” by Catherine Gund & Tanya Selvaratnam

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

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New Orleans Loving Festival Partners:  LovingDay.Org, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Café Istanbul, Charitable Film Network, Cupcake Fairies, Home Box Office, the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans Food Co-op, New Orleans Healing Center, NOLA MIX, New Orleans Video Voices, PATOIS: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, Press Street, and the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice.

Please join the NEW ORLEANS LOVING FESTIVAL for an Opening Reception & Film Screening.

MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY
by Brian Chinhema (2010)

Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet there is no official political recognition for mixed-race people. Multiracial Identity explores the social, political, and religious impact of the multiracial movement. (82 minutes)  FREE Admission

There will be a short discussion immediately following the screening with filmmaker BRIAN CHINHEMA, and TED QUANT – Director of the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice.

The reception starts at 6:00pm. The film screening starts at 6:30pm.

Co-presented with the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice, New Orleans Video Voices, and PATOIS: New Orleans International Film Festival.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or visit multiracialidentity.com.  Please follow Multiracial Identity – The Movie on Facebook.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street.  Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

Please join us for the Second Annual NEW ORLEANS LOVING FESTIVAL – JUNE 7th to 12th, 2012.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration and Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Festival programs are FREE and open to the public.  For more information contact info@press-street.com or mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.

Please follow the New Orleans Loving Festival on Facebook!

Festival Schedule:

THURSDAY, JUNE 7th – RECEPTION, FILM & DISCUSSION

6:00 pm – Opening Reception
6:30 pm – Screening of “MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY” by Brian Chimera

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

Guest Speakers:  Filmmaker BRIAN CHIMERA and TED QUANT, Executive Director, Twomey Center for Peace through Justice.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8th – FILM, MUSIC & COMEDY

6:30 pm – Screening of “CROSSING THE LINE” by Teja Arboleda & Darby Li Po Price
7:30 pm – Music Performance by DJ YAMIN
8:00 pm – Comedy Performance by ALEX BARNETT
10:00 pm – Music Performance by ArtHouse Jazz Ensemble

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

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SATURDAY, JUNE 9th – GALLERY OPENING & RECEPTION

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm – “MIXED MESSAGES.2 – Multiracial Identity Past & Present”

New Orleans Healing Center
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – Second Floor Gallery

Featured Artists: To be announced.  On view, June 9th through June 30th, 2012.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 10th – FILMS & DISCUSSION

1:30 pm – Screening of “HOW THE WORLD GOT MIXED UP” by David Okuefuna
4:00 pm – Screening of “YELLING TO THE SKY” by Victoria Mahoney

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

Guest Speakers: New Orleans Writer & Historian KEITH WELDON MEDLEY, and Filmmaker VICTORIA HAHONEY.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 12Th – LOVING DAY FILM & DISCUSSION

6:30 pm – Reception
7:00 pm – Screening of “THE LOVING STORY“ by Nancy Buirsky & Home Box Office

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

Guest Panel: To be announced.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20th – BONUS FILM EVENT!

7:00 pm – Screening of “WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE” by Catherine Gund & Tanya Selvaratnam

Café Istanbul
2172 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117 – In the New Orleans Healing Center

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New Orleans Loving Festival Partners:  LovingDay.Org, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Café Istanbul, Charitable Film Network, Cupcake Fairies, Home Box Office, the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans Food Co-op, New Orleans Healing Center, NOLA MIX, New Orleans Video Voices, PATOIS: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, Press Street, and the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice.

For “Notes On The Application of Magick To Visual Art,” ELIJAH BURGHER will discuss the history of magick as its related to the arts citing examples such as Brion Gysin and William Burroughs’ use of cut-ups to discover occult meaning. FREE Admission.

This lecture is hosted by the Contemporary Arts Center in conjunction with Press Street’s Antenna Gallery as part of the show “SPACES: Antenna, The Front, Good Children Gallery.” For more information visit cacno.org.

Please join the NEW ORLEANS LOVING FESTIVAL for a film screening.

CROSSING THE LINE: Multiracial Comedians
by Teja Arboleda & Darby Li Po Price (2008)

This award winning documentary analyzes how mixed race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability by their very existence, multiracial comedians reveal that meanings of race vary across ethnic combination, gender, place, and time. The film features the experiences, perspectives, and performances of 14 American comedians of more than one racial ancestry. (56 minutes)  FREE Admission.

Doors open at 6:00pm – Film screening starts at 6:30pm.

Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and Café Istanbul.  Stay after the screening for a 7:30pm Music Performance by DJ YAMIN, and a 8:00pm Live Comedy Performance by ALEX BARNETT.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org, and please visit entertainingdiversity.com.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a LIVE Comedy Performance featuring New York based comedian, writer, lawyer, husband, and new dad – ALEX BARNETT

Alex Barnett has performed at clubs, colleges and venues throughout the country including: Bananas Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, The Brokerage Comedy Club, Catch A Rising Star, DC Improv, Gotham Comedy Club, Governor’s Comedy Club, Helium Comedy Club (Philadelphia), Hollywood Improv, Joker’s Wild, McGuire’s Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Seattle’s Comedy Underground, Stand Up New York Comedy Club, Harvard University (Sanders Theatre), Penn State University (Harrisburg Campus), Hofstra University, and Mt. St. Mary’s College.  Barnett has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, in CNN.com and on NYC-TV. He is the winner of the 12th Annual Gilda’s Club (Northern NJ) Laugh-Off, and placed 2nd in Philadelphia’s Emerging Comics Contest held at Philadelphia’s Laff House in 2010.  Admission FREE.  Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street and Café Istanbul.

Arrive early for drink specials, and enjoy a special music performance by DJ Yamin at 7:30pm.  After the comedy show, please stay and enjoy live music by NOLA Art House Music at 10:00pm.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org, alexbarnettcomic.com, and please follow Alex Barnett on Facebook.com.

Ben Epstein – a.k.a. DJ YAMIN, is a New Orleans Based professional DJ & Music Producer know for his wide-ranging musical styles including: Hip-Hop, Funk, Raggae, Afro-Beat, Latin and more. He is the co-founder of NOLA MIX, and the founder of BEATS NOT BOMBS – a grassroots organization of musicians, artists and activists that advocate for all humanity, and the earth we live on. For more information contact djyamin@hotmail.com.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a Film Screening & Discussion!

HOW THE WORLD GOT MIXED UP
by David Okuefuna (2011)

This film will re-access the meaning of the great historic force that first brought the races together – imperialism.  The film examines the complex history of interracial relationships and chronicles the shifts in attitudes that for centuries have created controversy and anxiety all around the world.  (90 minutes)  New Orleans Writer & Historian KEITH WELDON MEDLEY will facilitate a short discussion following the screening.  FREE Admission

Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and Cafe Istanbul.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a Film Screening & Discussion.

YELLING TO THE SKY
by Victoria Mahoney (2011)

17-year-old Sweetness O’Hara (Zoe Kravitz)  has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road. Being the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community, she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness, the exact nature of which Sweetness is unsure. Her protective older sister, Ola, is pregnant, with no support from the child’s father. Yet, with all this chaos enveloping her, Sweetness takes her life into her own hands in a neighborhood where to become an adult, you first must survive as a teenager.  (95 minutes)  FREE Admission

There will be a short Q & A following the screening with Filmmaker VICTORIA MAHONEY.   Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and Café Istanbul.  For more information contact mail@charitablefimnetwork.org.  View film trailer here.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

We’re celebrate LOVING DAY with a special film screening!

THE LOVING STORY
by Nancy Buirsky & Home Box Office

A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era. Long Way Home: The Loving Story is a story of love and the struggle for dignity set against a backdrop of historic anti-miscegenation sentiments in the U.S. The Lovings, an interracial couple, fell in love and married at a critical time in American history, and, because of a confluence of social and political turmoil our reluctant heroes bring about change where previously no one else could. They are paired with two young and ambitious lawyers who are driven to pave the way for Civil Rights and social justice through an historic Supreme Court ruling, changing the country’s story forever. (77 minutes) Admission FREE.

There will be a short discussion following the screening with a panel of speakers to be announced.  Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street, New Orleans Film Society, and Home Box Office.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org, and please visit The Loving Story.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration & Film Festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of the Charitable Film Network and Press Street. Please follow NOLF on Facebook.

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a special film screening:

WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?
by Catherine Gund & Tanya Selvaratnam

What’s On Your Plate? is a witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics.  The film follows two eleven-year old multiracial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah talk to food activists, farmers and store keepers as they address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it’s cultivated, and how many miles it travels from farm to fork.

The girls visit supermarkets, fast food chains, and school lunchrooms. They also check out innovative sustainable food system practices by going to farms, green markets, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs. They discover that these are good for the environment, help struggling farmers survive, and provided affordable, healthy, delicious, locally-grown food to communities, especially lower-income urban families. (76 minutes)  Admission FREE! 

For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org, and please visit www.nolafood.coop and www.whatsonyourplateproject.org.

Please join us for a free screening of FOOD INC., by Robert Kinner (2009)

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how 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. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation. (91 minutes) Doors open at 6:30pm – Screening starts at 7:00pm.

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

Seating is limited. For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

Please join us for a free screening of IF A TREE FALLS, by Marshall Curry (2011)

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front looks behind-the-curtain at the ELF and explores two pressing issues in America today — environmentalism and terrorism. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel McGowan on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism. (85 minutes)  Doors open at 6:30pm – Screening starts at 7:00pm.

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

Seating is limited.   For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

Please join us for a free screening of GASLAND, by Josh Fox (2010)

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his home in the Delaware River Basin was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation containing natural gas that stretches across New York, Pennsylvania and huge stretches of the Northeast. He was offered $100,000 to lease his land for a new method of drilling developed by Halliburton and soon discovered this was only a part of a 34-state drilling campaign, the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history. Part mystery, part travelogue, and part banjo showdown, Gasland documents Josh’s cross-country odyssey to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is actually safe. As he interviews people who live on or around current fracking sites, Josh learns of things gone horribly wrong, from illness to hair loss to flammable water, and his inquiries lead him ever deeper into a web of secrets, lies, conspiracy, and contamination – a web that potentially stretches to threaten the New York Watershed. Unearthing a shocking story about a practice that is understudied and inadequately regulated, Gasland races to find answer about fracking before it’s far too late. (107 minutes)

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

For more information contact info@press-street.com.