tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29918179228363094522024-03-05T11:07:35.234+00:00Bristol Latin America ForumBLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-67768612976490570422010-05-12T16:41:00.004+01:002010-05-12T16:45:48.376+01:00Cinema Klandestino present a night of Bolivian film and info Sun 16th May at the Cube<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Child Miners (2008) </span></b></span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Presidente Evo (2009)</span></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >This Sunday the 16<sup>th</sup> of may, cinema klandestino will be screening films from Bolivia at the Cube Cinema. We’ll be screening two documentary films by director Rodrigo Vazquez and he’ll be discussing them with everyone afterwards, either in person or by video link up.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">doors open: 7pm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">films start: 8pm</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">door charge: £2/1</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><b>Plus</b>, we will be joined by two folk who have just returned from working with social movements out in Bolivia. They will be with us to share information, feedback on what they found out, give reports from on the ground, at meetings and marches with the social movements.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Before and after we will be playing audio of the Mayday 2010 scheenanigans in Bolivia, as well as interviews, music, short films and slideshows of images from their trip. They’ll be there two during the discussion to give updates on the situation in Bolivia and reflections on Rodrigo’s films, so hopefully everyone can stick about after the films!</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Check out this blog before hand, it details much of their experiences out there:</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://ayya2cochabamba.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ayya2cochabamba.<wbr>wordpress.com</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlILSltuoeiBDSBYZG30VbQak1eRAueLGX9AvS8wHqhmbWAjK3KvEj3ndiGO_q6gvSrI3Bh7odGlF2kqPrXXtqkCnXTSJCqVWCzt4t1oe_kgwt1_AZvVMP0Z4-23Brtx8Qf6rwPqSEJia/s1600/rodrigo+bolivia+night+web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlILSltuoeiBDSBYZG30VbQak1eRAueLGX9AvS8wHqhmbWAjK3KvEj3ndiGO_q6gvSrI3Bh7odGlF2kqPrXXtqkCnXTSJCqVWCzt4t1oe_kgwt1_AZvVMP0Z4-23Brtx8Qf6rwPqSEJia/s400/rodrigo+bolivia+night+web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470409916051923874" border="0" /></a></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><b>The films: </b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Winner of the </span><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Grand Prize at the 2009 Montreal Human Rights Film Festival</span><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > <b><i>Child Miners </i></b>(2008) is a documentary about the daily troubles of two child miners, Jorge and Alex, who make one dollar a day working in the crumbling Bolivian mine of Lllallagua.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.idfa.nl/en/info/film.aspx?id=1adf11c3-10b7-4eff-9be9-f6671521595c" target="_blank">http://www.idfa.nl/en/info/<wbr>film.aspx?id=1adf11c3-10b7-<wbr>4eff-9be9-f6671521595c</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Presidente Evo</span></i></b></span><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > (2009) is </span><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >co-narrated by the filmmaker and Evo Morales. It tells the story of how Bolivia’s first indigenous President managed to re-write the Constitution, re-distribute the land among poor peasants and nationalise the gas industry, as these events were actually unfolding. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.idfa.nl/industry/info/film.aspx?id=e7e87dd2-80b1-487f-8237-1a3522965c9f" target="_blank">http://www.idfa.nl/industry/<wbr>info/film.aspx?id=e7e87dd2-<wbr>80b1-487f-8237-1a3522965c9f</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">directions to the cube: <a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" target="_blank">http://microplex.cubecinema.<wbr>com/cubewebsite/directions.<wbr>html</a><br /></span></b></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" lang="EN-US" > </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Synopses</span></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></i></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Child Miners</span></i></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Garamond;" >For 100 years, the Llallagua mine has been used to extract tin. I filmed child miners Alex Choque and Jorge Mollinedo in December 2005, when Bolivia’s first indigenous President Evo Morales won the elections with the promise of transforming poor people’s lives. Evo promised to give miners a better life by re-nationalizing the industry. Jorge’s father has contracted silicosis, the “miners’ disease” and now is out of work, so Jorge had to increase his work load to keep bringing food to the house, thus increasing the chances of becoming ill like his father. Newly-arrived Cuban doctors sent by Evo’s government establish that Jorge has begun developing the “miner’s disease” and advised him to stop working immediately. But now more than ever, Jorge needs to keep working. </span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Evo Presidente</span></i></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >There are some rare moments in documentary filmmaking when we are privileged enough to be part of a historical moment.<span> </span>When a landslide election win gave coca-farmer Evo Morales the Presidency of Bolivia, I felt I was caught in one of those moments. This </span><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >is a documentary that follows the first three years of government of indigenous Bolivian President Evo Morales in his bid to re-write his country’s Constitution to empower the poor.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Rodrigo Vazquez</span></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 16.7pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" lang="EN-US" >In 2005 Rodrigo founded Bethnal Films in order to produce independent feature films and documentaries. He subsequently produced “La Apertura”, a short film that won the Audience Award in the Bilbao Film festival 2006 and was bought by Channel 4 UK, “Looking for the Revolution”, an observational feature-documentary about the on-going indigenous revolution in Bolivia, four series for “Witness-Al Jazeera” and “Al Jazeera People & Power”, “Inside Hamas”, nominated for the 2008 Rory Peck Award, “Child Miners”, winner of the Grand Prize at the 2009 Montreal Human Rights Film Festival, which was nominated for dozens of other awards, and set up internationa co-productions to make films such as “Angels of Rio” and “President Evo”. Rodrigo has just released two films: a short entitled “Interrogating a Torturer” and “This Land is Our Land” about the landless peasants’ movement in Paraguay. He is currently editing his first feature-length fiction film, “Lenin in Maracaibo”, where he blends documentary and fiction to tell the story of a young indigenous teacher living in a slum, and is working on his next feature-length documentary project, provisionally entitled “Borders”, to mark the 200th anniversary of Latin America’s independence.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > </span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <div style="text-align: center;">--<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemaklandestino.<wbr>org</a><br />(+44) (0)7747 833376</div></span>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-35742083705149974122010-04-26T14:17:00.003+01:002010-04-26T14:42:16.782+01:00Cubo Latin Film Festival! This weekend!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHEz52ALrm9ms3U0V3udAiyFHbkex9TKgymvuB934A18TzKh0YLwIKCfcbwGKVWG9DtK9iaTA1anDU5PmrhTid0EB0xTAIECN0sRpCKAYwhes4acxFWCv_gFefoVnXboN-IfWfYLBcfy16/s1600/Cubo+Programme+BACK+lowres.jpg"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjeom8gaee8GCFtAtYIl-37xsICqfDBc_dgeUsXXUzRy-u7kxKdc0-mF2hUBxHn0p7t2I61zbnCA3XHIrRipwriQHWAsgXiCpwmSuYmrQxVvTNgJCVV0ggrNQ7V3HKMjGjREdChR4lsDR/s1600/Cubo+Programme+FRONT+lowres.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjeom8gaee8GCFtAtYIl-37xsICqfDBc_dgeUsXXUzRy-u7kxKdc0-mF2hUBxHn0p7t2I61zbnCA3XHIrRipwriQHWAsgXiCpwmSuYmrQxVvTNgJCVV0ggrNQ7V3HKMjGjREdChR4lsDR/s400/Cubo+Programme+FRONT+lowres.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464440525779009794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHEz52ALrm9ms3U0V3udAiyFHbkex9TKgymvuB934A18TzKh0YLwIKCfcbwGKVWG9DtK9iaTA1anDU5PmrhTid0EB0xTAIECN0sRpCKAYwhes4acxFWCv_gFefoVnXboN-IfWfYLBcfy16/s1600/Cubo+Programme+BACK+lowres.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHEz52ALrm9ms3U0V3udAiyFHbkex9TKgymvuB934A18TzKh0YLwIKCfcbwGKVWG9DtK9iaTA1anDU5PmrhTid0EB0xTAIECN0sRpCKAYwhes4acxFWCv_gFefoVnXboN-IfWfYLBcfy16/s400/Cubo+Programme+BACK+lowres.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464440527865121410" border="0" /></a><br />Cubo Latin Film Festival<br />Thursday 28th April - Sunday 2nd May<br /><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Welcome to the Cubo Film Festival - a mash up of cult and contemporary Latin American film. Throughout the bank holiday weekend we will be celebrating the richness and diversity of the Latin American culture through specially selected screenings features and shorts programs.</span></span><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Thursday 29th</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Opening Night 6-7pm - Drinks Reception</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">7pm - Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">9.15pm – </span></span><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Madeinusa</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Bitstream Charter';"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Friday 30th</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mexican Retro Extravaganza 7pm - Late</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">7.30pm - Santo vs the She-Wolves</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">9.30pm - Santo in the Wax Musuem</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">11.30 - Midnight Movie: Alurcada</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Saturday 1st</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">3pm - Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">5pm - Encounters LatinAmerican Short Film Selection</span></span><br /><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;">7pm - Cinema Klandestino Night</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">8pm - Coca Cola Case</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sunday 2nd</span></span><br /><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;">5pm - </span></span><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">ERW DINMAEL</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">6pm - </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';" ><span style="font-size:100%;">16 Memorias</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">7pm - Closing Event</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">8pm - </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The Wandering Shadows</span></span><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><b><span style="font-size:100%;"> (</span></b></span><span style="font-family:'Courier 10 Pitch';"><span style="font-size:100%;">La Sombra del Caminante)</span></span></p><br />see http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#5161 for full descriptionsBLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-49107844835191829392010-02-25T13:35:00.001+00:002010-02-25T13:38:06.689+00:00Cinema Klandestino presents WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR at the CUBE Sun 7th MarchOn Sunday the 7th of March Cinema Klandestino returns to the Cube Cinema to present:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> When Clouds Clear (Después de la Neblina)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">(2008) 77mins</span><br /><br />Spanish with English Subtitles<br />Directed and Produced by Anne Slick and Danielle Bernstein (Clear Films)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doors: 7pm</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Film Starts: 8pm</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Tax: £3/2<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_kBZHQOkDlASuYELGoG1yqRSIj-qwwd_bK0fYmyCvlmUa_oL_QHO8VnbAQmPbd6tXab_ucKfMAv3-VzZj15wkzwUwmnL8Vdppnxmudw9FiQ1aBlpazYfEcWb03Ec-EDOCfdFDArM7Vny/s1600-h/When-Clouds-Clear+Net+Copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_kBZHQOkDlASuYELGoG1yqRSIj-qwwd_bK0fYmyCvlmUa_oL_QHO8VnbAQmPbd6tXab_ucKfMAv3-VzZj15wkzwUwmnL8Vdppnxmudw9FiQ1aBlpazYfEcWb03Ec-EDOCfdFDArM7Vny/s400/When-Clouds-Clear+Net+Copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442174737598663458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p class="article">WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR is an award winning feature-length documentary that delves into one remote community’s radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever.<br /><br />Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Ecuadorian Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village’s daily life has been affected by copper that was discovered beneath their land. As two invading mining companies become increasingly brazen in their attempts to infiltrate and control the area, the community forms a united resistance in order to survive.<br /><br />Some side with the wealth that the companies promise, causing irreparable divisions. They find themselves thrust into the dangerous battle against multinational invasion which brings corruption, splintered households, murder and arson as they fight tenaciously to protect their land and families.<br /><br />The film will lead into a discussion about the consequences of state and multinational mining operations in Latin America.<br /><br />trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tu1zfnxHyg" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tu1zfnxHyg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tu1zfnxHyg</a><br /><br />directions to the cube: <a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" title="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html">http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html</a> </p> <div class="article-related-link-relatedlink">Related Link: <a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" title="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org">http://www.cinemaklandestino.org</a></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-17497584113811862142009-11-05T16:16:00.006+00:002009-11-05T16:22:55.498+00:00Environmental Justice week 10-11 November 2009see also <a href="http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/article/691346">http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/article/691346</a><br /><br />Tuesday 10th November - 8pm<br /><b>Cinema Klandestino</b> present <i>Our Oil and Other Tales</i><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: right;"> <b>Launch of Cine Rebelde mini-season<br />First night of Environmental Justice week</b><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />With introduction and discussion afterwards led by Mark Ellingsen (Bristol Solidarity with Venezuela) and Thomas Muhr (University of Bristol)<br /><p><b>A two-month journey across Venezuela, from Lake Maracaibo to the Orinoco Delta. The people of the oil fields and the mining centres talk of their close encounter with these exploitations. For the first time, in the revolutionary Venezuela, a documentary delves deep in the problematic of oil and coal, from the angle of the life experience of communities, oil workers, indigenous people.</b></p> <p>The film takes a look at world politics on oil and other extractive activities, jointly with the themes of sovereignty and self-determination of a people engaged in a real process of change.<br /><br />Directed by: Elisabetta Andreoli, Gabriele Muzio, Sara Muzio y Max Pugh<br />Produced by: <u><a href="mailto:gattacicova@aol.com" target="_blank">Gattacicova</a></u> (Italy) and Yeast Films (UK)<br />From the film makers of “another way is possible in Venezuela”<br /><br />83 minutes, Spanish with subtitles in English</p> <a href="http://www.cinerebelde.org/our-oil-and-other-tales-p-66.html" target="_blank">For trailer click here</a><br /><br /><b>As usual, call the Klandestino hotline NOW on 07747 833376 and listen to the brief message for venue and directions.</b><br /><br /></div>Wednesday 11th November - 1.30-4.30pm<br /><i>Environmental Justice</i> seminar<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Environmental Justice week Event 2</b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><br />Exploring the concept of environmental justice as the human right to a healthy and safe environment, a fair share of natural resources and access to environmental information and participation in environmental decision-making. To reserve a place, email <a href="mailto:karen.bell@bristol.ac.uk" target="_blank">karen.bell@bristol.ac.uk</a><br /><br />University of Bristol, LT1, <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3-5+woodland+road+bristol&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.813998,28.125&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=3-5+Woodland+Rd,+Bristol,+Avon+BS8+1TB,+United+Kingdom&z=16" target="_blank">3-5 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB (click for map)</a>.<br /><br /><b>Cristian Domínguez (National Secretary of Environment and Resources, CSUTCB (United Confederation of Bolivian Campesino Workers))</b> has been at the forefront of environmental justice campaigns in Bolivia, opposing water privatisation and working for the nationalisation of natural resources. The organisation he represents, the CSUTCB, is one of the main social movement organisations which brought president Evo Morales to power.<br /><br /><b> Professor Malcolm Eames (Low Carbon Research Institute, Cardiff University)</b> has participated in and led research and consultancy projects for a wide range of agencies including: DTI, DETR, UK Cabinet Office, Environment Agency, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the European Commission. In 2004 he produced a report on environmental inequalities in the UK which has underpinned the current UK Framework and Strategy for Sustainable Development.<br /><br /><b>Judy Ling Wong, CBE (Director, Black Environment Network, UK)</b> has an international reputation as a pioneer in the field of black and minority ethnic participation in the built and natural environment. She works on urban design, identity, health, employment, and access to the countryside and urban green spaces. The groundbreaking methodology developed by BEN to engage urban-based ethnic minorities has been very influential in many areas of mainstream policy.<br /><br /></div>Wednesday 11th November - 6.30-9pm<br /><i>What Does Climate Justice Look Like?<br />Copenhagen and The Energy Crisis: The Case Of BP In Colombia</i><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Environmental Justice week Event 3</b><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGHZpGGwYt2NceUevjn9KO5fnrWKlC9ZSGbys8KVd_djZg83pauoa2HoAiRvQ6t0Zwhk5tjbTZ6hbt9QDMJY38F1oDkdGgnkBAjp42RHxVipI2CRRv3RL5KPOG1MpXr_FN3SpO8oUtdKv/s1600-h/climate+justice+final+no+platform+flat+email.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 430px; height: 625px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGHZpGGwYt2NceUevjn9KO5fnrWKlC9ZSGbys8KVd_djZg83pauoa2HoAiRvQ6t0Zwhk5tjbTZ6hbt9QDMJY38F1oDkdGgnkBAjp42RHxVipI2CRRv3RL5KPOG1MpXr_FN3SpO8oUtdKv/s400/climate+justice+final+no+platform+flat+email.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400654776847741426" border="0" /></a>Guest speaker <b>Isaac Marín from COSPACC, Colombia</b> introduces and explores the situation on the ground in Casanare. The leader of this grass-roots organisation looks at the social and enviromental effects of BP in the region. <b>Yasmine Brien (Rising Tide) </b>re-contextualises climate change and global energy politics in terms of climate justice, including a look at so called “green” solutions such as biofuels.<br /><br />Organised by <a href="http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/" target="_blank">Colombia Solidarity Campaign</a>, <a href="http://risingtide.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bristol Rising Tide</a> and <a href="http://www.espacio.org.uk/" target="_blank">Espacio Bristol-Colombia</a>. Chaired by Alice Cutler from popular education collective <a href="http://trapese.clearerchannel.org/" target="_blank">Trapese</a>.<br /><br />At the Old Council Chamber, Department of Law, University of Bristol, in<br /><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=wills+memorial+building&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.813998,28.125&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wills+Memorial+Bldg&z=14" target="_blank">Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ (click for map)</a>.<br /><br />As world leaders and world activists prepare to descend on Copenhagen to take action on climate change, have we fully understood its structural causes? Colombian NGOs argue that the developed countries need to control their patterns of consumption, luxury and waste. Who is responsible for the global North's ecological debt to the global South?<br /><br />Colombian social movements argue that multinational oil and mining corporations, especially BP and other British based companies, have destroyed their environment, their human rights and social fabric. This raises vital questions linking environmental justice with international solidarity. As Colombian communities struggle to defend their territories against multinational plunder, what can be done to build links with those affected by the seemingly unquenchable thirst for profit? How can corporations like BP be made accountable<br /><br /><b>Isaac Marín</b> is a campesino leader from Eastern Colombia. His first organisational and political space was with the National Association of Peasant Farmers (ANUC), holding several positions at the regional level for a period of 12 years. He is a founder member of the group Corporación COSPACC, a civil organisation with national reach since its inception into social and political life 7 years ago. From this space, they contribute to the construction of different political and organizational processes with rural communities, neighbourhoods, student groups, womens associations, environmentalists, trade unions and organizations defending human rights.<br />Alongside these movements COS-PACC work to defend their territory and the enforcability of political, social, cultural and environmental rights of the communities and the Colombian people.<br /><br /><b>Yasmine Brien</b> is actively involved in environmental and social justice campaigns with groups such as Bristol Rising Tide and Espacio Bristol-Colombia. She has recently returned from Colombia where she was accompanying social organisations and communities, and took part in a Friends of the Earth international delegation to verify the impacts of biofuel production.<br /><br />While climate change has become a widely discussed issue, particularly in the lead up to December's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, climate justice is rarely at the centre of these discussions. As a result, countries such as Colombia remain on the frontline of the worlds energy crisis bearing the brunt of the worlds fossil fuel dependency and search for so called "green" solutions in the form of biofuels and reforestation programmes.<br /><br /><b>Alice Cutler</b> is a member of Trapese, a Popular Education Collective which offers workshops and training aimed at inspiring and promoting action for changing our world. Trapese are involved in organising a programme of film and events, <i>*START PRODUCING THE FUTURE- Experiments against Enclosure - Tools to reclaim the Commons</i>, to accompany <b>C-Words</b>:<br /><br />C Words is part of Arnolfini's 100 Days season, marking the countdown to the 15th UN Conference on Climate Change, Copenhagen, December 2009. For more information on all events in the C Words season, please visit the 100 days website, <a href="http://www.platformlondon.org/" target="_blank">www.platformlondon.org</a> and <a href="http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.arnolfini.org.uk</a>.<br /><br />For info on this event contact: <a href="mailto:o.edwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">o.edwards@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:suspiciousasians@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">suspiciousasians@yahoo.co.uk</a><br />07838 504840BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-36865618456199884992009-10-05T13:55:00.002+01:002009-10-05T13:59:08.955+01:00Cinema Klandestino presents "Bloody Bananas" at the Cube this Sunday 11th Oct<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cinema Klandestino</span> brings you an eye-opening evening all about Britain's favourite fruit.<br />With two films (<span style="font-style: italic;">Bonita: Ugly Bananas</span> & <span style="font-style: italic;">Pura Vida</span>) and discussions with the director!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun 11th Oct at 7.30pm</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">£4/3</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cube Cinema</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglP0dFwkWKWJW0wQW_tq7T1YVWkwP4LCES-O6YAu9v0MkykJhA9GOefNyXsc4eQiw84z4ZDbe8wjQooYDMU3wTK4wSHVm_tBLGrY4CCRKuV45TluLKtX2Y4bMjcJcYlzo8vMmto8tbP2rH/s1600-h/bloody+bananas+poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglP0dFwkWKWJW0wQW_tq7T1YVWkwP4LCES-O6YAu9v0MkykJhA9GOefNyXsc4eQiw84z4ZDbe8wjQooYDMU3wTK4wSHVm_tBLGrY4CCRKuV45TluLKtX2Y4bMjcJcYlzo8vMmto8tbP2rH/s400/bloody+bananas+poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389099210526764850" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The banana is Britain’s favourite fruit and millions of us will eat one today.<br /><br />But its production is often steeped in brutality. The Latin American plantations where the fruit is grown are harsh environments, where workers’ well-being is sacrificed in favour of cheap farming methods.<br /><br />The carcinogenic pesticides used on the fruit are sprayed indiscriminately on the workers themselves, causing a horrendous catalogue of sickness and disease and wreaking untold harm on the environment. Should the workers unionise to press for better pay and conditions, their demands are frequently met with violence rather than negotiation.<br /><br />Since 2000, Scottish artist & film-maker Jan Nimmo has been involved in documenting the lives of banana workers in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador and has produced two harrowing documentaries, Bonita: Ugly Bananas & Pura Vida.<br /><br />She will be present tonight to introduce her films and for a Q&A session afterwards.<br /><br />Plus....banana bingo, banana beer, pedal-powered banana smoothies & homemade banana cake!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doors: 7.30pm</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">£4/3 Bring da badge</span><br /><br />http://www.bananalink.org.uk/<br />http://www.jannimmo.com/<br />http://www.cinemaklandestino.org<br /><br />http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/<br />4 Princess Row<br />Bristol, BS2 8NQ<br />0117 907 4190<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Directions to the Cube:</span> http://tinyurl.com/ycnrrg6<br /></div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-72888402691702317572009-06-20T15:28:00.001+01:002009-06-20T15:40:51.584+01:00Puerto Morazán short filmHere is a short film in two parts, about Bristol's twin town in Nicaragua. Check it <a href="http://trozminster.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/puerto-morazan-nicaragua-twinned-with-bristol/">HERE</a> on the maker's site for an introduction.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8u5lPEu_i-c&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8u5lPEu_i-c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6ljGe7aJ6Yo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6ljGe7aJ6Yo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-75968523486188555322009-06-06T00:06:00.001+01:002009-06-06T00:07:57.747+01:0019th June - Cuba and Young People - La Ruca<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span></span>'Aspire' Cuba Project and Bristol Cuba Solidarity present a fundraising evening on Friday 19th June at La Ruca, 89 Gloucester Rd, Bristol BS7 8AS. A meal will be served at 7pm (cost £8), followed by an open debate at 8.30 on 'Cuba and Young People', with guest speaker Lenia Lopez from the Cuban International Friendship Institute, Havana. There will also be a rolling slideshow of a recent solidarity brigade. Aspire is a Bristol based youth project aiming to take a small group of young people from Easton/St Pauls for a life changing visit to Cuba - see </span><a href="http://www.aspire-bristol.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;">www.aspire-bristol.org.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Please reserve your place by emailing Yvonne at </span><a href="mailto:ywilkin@btinternet.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;">ywilkin@btinternet.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;"> or calling Cecile on 07858284069.</span></span>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-73651432325228791982009-04-25T12:40:00.002+01:002009-04-25T12:42:42.648+01:00LIVE VIDEO FEED FROM LAF 2009!<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="320" id="utv65758"><param name="flashvars" value="autoplay=false&brand=embed"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/121648"><embed flashvars="autoplay=false&brand=embed" width="400" height="320" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv65758" name="utv_n_117309" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/121648" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channels" style="padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Free TV : Ustream</a>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-48934406737514886422009-03-17T19:34:00.002+00:002009-03-17T19:35:42.602+00:004th Bristol Latin America Forum: 25th April 2009<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuYOtipIIZg4ma3oPoOLS-M6cemdZFGLqaw-mu0W0fp2yGq6a5_Js9FbHBeaTyzkm4wLFS2te8dzM2EzjRbBxNXYazuUPzbljsjFwNp6XEqVYbj1RDdllY_BUBfZLVPB8mMLnzzB4Ivm1/s1600-h/poster09.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314242619280941986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 283px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuYOtipIIZg4ma3oPoOLS-M6cemdZFGLqaw-mu0W0fp2yGq6a5_Js9FbHBeaTyzkm4wLFS2te8dzM2EzjRbBxNXYazuUPzbljsjFwNp6XEqVYbj1RDdllY_BUBfZLVPB8mMLnzzB4Ivm1/s400/poster09.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Following the unquestioned success of the Bristol Latin American Forum in previous years we are pleased to announce that the 4th Bristol Latin American Forum 2009 will take place on Saturday 25th April, 10am – 5pm at the University of Bristol Faculty of Arts, 3-5 Woodland Road.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>With keynote speakers, talks, workshops, and discussions on issues across Latin America, this event will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Further details to follow in due course.</div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-49230545880801137402009-03-17T19:33:00.000+00:002009-04-13T22:44:26.673+01:00The Legendary Afterparty!For this year's afterparty and fundraiser we are teaming up with London based collective <a href="http://www.movimientos.org.uk/sitio/" target="_blank">Movimientos</a> and featuring bands and djs from far and wide to to finish off the day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfqXMYK_d0KYCCZeOJvIdGctZexoKwXsNEipEAYJK06ONfBMdTRt4gE2Vhv0EVlSr-KFjW4VyKAYt3WoD7RGiLU1uGcoeKex2u-S7Pj1r7-KHCmOPKcgV87d_SlAE8IuNJO4ZVicqVajN/s1600-h/LAF09Colour.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfqXMYK_d0KYCCZeOJvIdGctZexoKwXsNEipEAYJK06ONfBMdTRt4gE2Vhv0EVlSr-KFjW4VyKAYt3WoD7RGiLU1uGcoeKex2u-S7Pj1r7-KHCmOPKcgV87d_SlAE8IuNJO4ZVicqVajN/s400/LAF09Colour.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324293464411063938" border="0" /></a><br /><br />WHEN? - Saturday 25th April, 2009, 9pm - 2am<br /><br />WHERE? - Easton Community Centre, Kilburn Street, Easton, Bristol, BS5 6AW<br /><br />COST: Advance purchase tickets will be available at the Latin America Forum for £5. Otherwise it will be £7 on the door.<br /><br /><br />THE LINE-UP:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.myspace.com/sondiocallejero" target="_blank">SONIDO CALLEJERO </a>- “THE UK’S FINEST URBAN LATIN CREW”</li></ul><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mcmagico" target="_blank">MC Magico </a>(Colombia), MC Floiran (Cuba) and DJ Snatch (Argentina) fuse live percussion with concious latin hip-hop drawing inspiration from old-skool salsa to Latin Jazz, Salsa, Bachata, Reggaeton, Bashment to create a new Latin sound that will smash up the dancefloor.<br /><br /><ul><li>KOGUIWA - “CUMBIA SHAKE, AFRO-COLOMBIAN GROOVE”</li></ul>Cumbia rhythms, soaring Afro-Colombian melodies, drums and dances. Koguiwa is a group of inspiring young musicians who bring a fresh twist to the rhythms, dances and melodies from the Caribbean coast of Colombia. With the sounds of Tambores, voices, flutes and guitars that have been passed down through the generations, in keeping with the roots of the music, a mixture of African, Indigenous Indian and European influences. Their vibrant on stage performance includes a special dances is guaranteed to get people dancing and singing along.<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.compadreslatinos.com/" target="_blank">COMPADRES -</a> "EXPLOSION OF BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS SALSA, HIP-HOP AND FUNK"</li></ul>Compadres are a Bristol based 7 piece Latin-Funk band that bring together an eclectic mix of rhythms and styles through salsa, rumba, Brazilian beats, reggae, funk, jazz, flamenco and hip hop to created an explosive live experience. The artists come from Bristol, London, Spain, Uruguay, Colombia and have atravelled widely and played in diverse bands in of their own inimitable style.<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.movimientos.org.uk/sitio/" target="_blank">MOVIMIENTOS</a> DJS</li></ul>Movimientos have revitalised the UK Latin scene, they host regular jam-packed nights at London’s Notting Hill Arts Club & The Salmon and Compass in London, have made their mark at several UK festivals and recently hosted a Manu Chao & Radio Bemba show for a secret benefit gig in Brixton that turned into one of the most talked about underground shows of 2008.<br /><br />Movimientos DJs Cal Jader & Clem George represent with the sounds of the global Latin alternative. From folkloric to electronic they mix up Revolutionary Salsa, Clandestine Cumbia, Cuban Hip Hop, Dub-Reggae, Reggaeton & Merengue with Samba, Funk Carioca, Latin House, Spanish Mestizo flavours & Tropical Rave. This is Música Latina Clandestina!!!BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-40322674232145776522009-03-17T13:50:00.001+00:002009-03-17T13:56:07.428+00:00Cinema Klandestino bring Movimiento Cinemachete to the Cube. Thursday 19th March. 7pm.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Cinema Klandestino and Cinemachete @ the Cube</b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Thursday March 19th. 7pm</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Cinema Klandestino presents a night of screenings and performance in collaboration with Movimiento Cinemachete.<br /></div><br />Cinemachete is a radical, international filmmaking movement, born in 2007 in the underground cafes, bars and art cinemas of Bogota, Colombia. Influenced by the revolutionary 'Third Cinema' movement that exploded all over Latin America in the 1960s, they are working to revive and reinvent political filmmaking for the 21st century.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iwXwReEsr698fzvM5Eo-dFvU0LNTYdUamaIFIeiUg8Qt-uHSTOUYUwme0WKf4iAUK4kyovqCuQeICzidXlH17vxZrn1BH5XvfOOW4TVuu5K1x0MmWpF91xhyphenhyphenj68yJDBCtt4keNjsoZAX/s1600-h/CineKandCineM@theCUBE_Flyer+Small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iwXwReEsr698fzvM5Eo-dFvU0LNTYdUamaIFIeiUg8Qt-uHSTOUYUwme0WKf4iAUK4kyovqCuQeICzidXlH17vxZrn1BH5XvfOOW4TVuu5K1x0MmWpF91xhyphenhyphenj68yJDBCtt4keNjsoZAX/s400/CineKandCineM@theCUBE_Flyer+Small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314154298471577394" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Order of Events:<br /><br />1. Cinemachete. Presentation of movement and the night's events. (5mins)<br /><br />2. Trailer: <u>Bathed by the Tiger </u>(Banados por el Tigre) (10mins)<br /><br />A chance to see a preview of this film that follows the lives of a family in Colombia who were displaced by paramilitaries 10 years ago. It shows the incredible strength, dignity and intelligence of one illiterate peasant and his family as they fight escape the city slums and build a new community in a land still haunted by violence.<br /><br />3. <u>Oury Jalloh</u> (20mins)<br /><br />Winner of the UNESCO/Amnesty International "German Human Rights Film Prize" this film is a powerful reflection on the life of an immigrant from Sierra Leone who was burnt alive in a German police cell in 2003. The film was written and acted by his friends.<br /><br />4.<u> Enoch's Voyage</u> (15mins)<br /><br />A performance in displacement (Dance, Sound and Visuals)<br /><br />5. <u>Cuatro Movimientos Por el Cuerpo Humano</u> (Four Movements for the Human Body) (50mins)<br /><br />Banned in Colombia, this fast paced film fuses documentary with music video aesthetics as it tells the experiences of four dancers from the world renowned 'Colegio del Cuerpo' dance company who use the art of movement to escape the violence of everyday life.<br /><br />6. Retreat to Bar!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Performance and Films starts at 8pm, doors at 7pm.<br />Followed by music and discussion.<br /><br /><b>Door</b>: 6/5 (bring da badge)<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Directions to the Cube:</b></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> <a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" target="_blank">http://microplex.cubecinema.<wbr>com/cubewebsite/directions.<wbr>html</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemaklandestino.<wbr>org</a><br /> <a href="http://www.cinemachete.net/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemachete.net/</a><br /><a href="http://bristollaf.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://bristollaf.blogspot.<wbr>com/</a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFUv4BQF8RI2gdtIfzc4xYRxgPURfGUmiGTOorxSkVGTi-8FTd5lm_q8e_GwkpForEEEJDMKAaOU1qUteIf9wICdit3cd0ENvnwpkRiVZRFIwBCawc1bTB1t6SQAI7pcUNWFouavFTm2b/s1600-h/CineKandCineM@theCUBE_Poster+Small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFUv4BQF8RI2gdtIfzc4xYRxgPURfGUmiGTOorxSkVGTi-8FTd5lm_q8e_GwkpForEEEJDMKAaOU1qUteIf9wICdit3cd0ENvnwpkRiVZRFIwBCawc1bTB1t6SQAI7pcUNWFouavFTm2b/s400/CineKandCineM@theCUBE_Poster+Small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314154302940924946" border="0" /></a>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-53787469107195817582009-03-04T16:17:00.003+00:002009-03-04T16:23:16.559+00:00International Women's DayBristol Link with Nicaragua and Bristol Action for Southern Africa present a celebration of<br /><br />International Women´s Day '09<br />Sunday 8th March<br /><br />Colston Hall Bar, Colston Hall, Colston St., Bristol BS1<br /><br />12pm - 1pm lunch - Hot food served and included in ticket price<br />12.45pm - 4pm - speakers direct from Zimbabwe and Nicaragua plus films and live music<br /><br />Advance tickets 6 pounds (5 concessions and BLINC and BACTSA members)<br />Women and men welcomeBLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-61093139240623733672009-02-27T12:53:00.001+00:002009-02-27T13:02:08.817+00:00Los compañeros by Marco Antonio Flores<div style="text-align: center;">Aflame Books and the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol<br /><br />Cordially invite you to celebrate the launch of Comrades a masterful translation by Leona Nickless of the classic Guatemalan novel Los compañeros by Marco Antonio Flores on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday 18 March at 5.30pm</span> Room <span style="font-weight: bold;">G79</span>, School of Modern Languages, <span style="font-weight: bold;">17 Woodland Road</span>, Bristol BS8 1TE<br /><br />Refreshments will be served. Comrades will be available at a discounted price.<br /><br />Gavin O'Toole<br /><a href="http://www.aflamebooks.com/" target="_blank">www.aflamebooks.com</a></div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-64376972386271578192009-02-18T12:04:00.001+00:002009-02-18T12:07:00.986+00:00From Bristol to Bogota<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Knowlson Trust Award Travel Report- August 2008</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ben Pearson</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">From Bristol to Bogota</span><br /></div><br />Thanks to a £200 grant from the Knowlson Trust I was able to make up the money to buy a ticket to Colombia this August. Further donations from Colombia Solidarity Campaign enabled me to stay for a month, and carry out voluntary work all across the country. This was grass roots, solidarity work – the kind I see as the most effective way for people from West/North/Developed World to invest their money and time into helping those affected by our nations’ imperialism and exploitation of other peoples’ land.<br /><br />The route of NGOs, governmental aid organisations and the like, appears to me to be hindered by bureaucracy and political manoeuvring. These restrictions ultimately serve to limit a person’s ability to collaborate, participate and help; it also could potentially harm the situation of communities and individuals through this external/foreign influence.<br /><br />In this sense the work I carried out was unimpeded by these potential pitfalls. Grass roots solidarity work in the context of the situation in Colombia means working with communities (afro-Colombian, indigenous, campesino, workers, students etc.) in a horizontally organised, participatory capacity. This means that you do not arrive as a Westerner imbued with superior knowledge ‘coming to save the day’, but rather as an equal. You are a participant in social struggle, whose voice is heard, yet is there primarily to listen, learn and assist using any skills s/he might have that will be useful to the community.<br /><br />In this way my abilities as a documentary filmmaker and photographer, my fluency in both Spanish and French, and my experience of operating within horizontally organised structures where utilised by various communities and organisations to witness, document and communicate internationally their situations and ideas.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Human Rights Abuse and State Repression in Colombia</span><br /><br />The president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, has been in power since 2001. With him has come the reinforcement and enhancement of EU and US backed neo-liberal reforms to the country’s social and economic structure. As seen across many Latin American countries since the 1970s, the imperialist influence of Northern nations on their social and economic policies – ensuring deregulation and privatisation of public land, resources, utilities and companies – has brought with it military repression, the exploitation of both humans and nature, and massive human rights abuses.<br /><br />Colombia is probably the best example of this situation in the present-day. The use of paramilitary and military forces to repress and control populations and communities, linked with the criminalisation of dissent or opposition, has ensured that Colombians now live under a quasi-dictatorship, or democradura (democratic dictatorship). These tactics lay the country open to the entrance of multinational companies that – with law reforms, deregulation, and corruption – have an easy time exploiting cheap labour, extracting rich natural resources, and securitising territory for profit.<br /><br />It is with this in mind that I travelled around the country living with and attempting to understand communities affected by the presence of EU and US multinational companies. These ranged from British Petroleum that, at the moment, are dynamiting indigenous territory in Casanare in order to explore for more oil; SABMiller a beer conglomerate who, at present, are attempting to secure and privatise water resources; Anglo-American and BHPbillinton who own the largest open face coal mine in South America: El Cerrejon – a mine that has displaced both indigenous and afro-Colombian communities, while other indigenous communities remain subsisting on the bare minimum, surrounded by privatised land that once were their hunting and fishing grounds.<br /><br />The links between multinational activity and paramilitary and military abuses is very high, and is basically formulaic: A multinational arrives, with the aid of economic and legal reforms from the Colombian state; any resistance to their burgeoning influence in the area is met with death threats, co-option and pay offs; all this leads to assassination, displacement, the destruction of communities, and exploitation of workforces.<br /><br />Something has to be done and the resistance has been working hard for many years. That is why, as part of a European network, I worked for a month taking testimonies, translating into and out of Spanish and English, and communicating my findings with the international community. I continue here in Bristol doing the same. A pertinent example of this fight would be of a product that is synonymous with aggressive global capitalism and whose label can probably be seen at this moment by anyone reading this text. Coca Cola.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Coca Cola’s Crimes in Colombia</span><br /><br />The Coca Cola Company’s products include: all manner of Coca Cola drinks, Fanta, Schweppes, Sprite and Oasis among thousands of other beverages. The conditions of Coca Cola workers in Colombia remain extremely precarious. Around 480 Coca Cola workers are unionised, with 300 belonging to SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian food and beverages union. For 5 years the union has been conversing with the Coca Cola Company, about the wealth of disappearances, tortures, threats and assassinations of their members at the hands of paramilitaries. The union will not be silenced nor forget their dead comrades, neither will they allow the misdeeds of the Coca Cola Company to be covered up by bribes.<br /><br />I had the great honour of meeting Javier Correa, a Coca Cola worker at the Bucaramanga bottling plant, and president of SINALTRAINAL. Working with these very brave men and women was a tremendous inspiration as they confirmed the continuation of the boycott of Coca Cola products, a difficult decision to make in the face of death threats and worsening labour conditions implemented by the company. Javier called for greater unity between Colombian social movements against multinational companies, and appealed for continued international solidarity with the resistance. This is where grass roots solidarity workers step in, returning to the UK with first hand experience of the social struggle, armed with information and up-to-date news ready to campaign and create awareness of the nefarious, corrupt actions of Western multinationals.<br /><br />80% of Coca Cola workers are sub-contracted and therefore labour legislation does not apply to them, making it impossible to become part of a trade union and thus fight for their rights. SINALTRAINAL have attempted to organise sub-contracted workers, but this has resulted in the lay off of “conspiring” sub-contracted workers.<br /><br />The Coca Cola Company, as a result of international awareness of the deaths and threats to its trade unionists in Colombia, have spent $4 billion attempting to clean up its international image, contracting PR and CSR gurus such as Ed Potter, Director of Global Labour Relations. This has not helped, for the persecution of trade unionists and their families continues. Living under hazardous conditions, speaking out against the politics of the Colombian government and the multinationals – within the discourse of the ‘war on terror’ to which the regime of Uribe has aligned itself, with its war policy of ‘Democratic Security’ – ensures that trade unionists are branded as terrorists. “The stigmatisation of trade unionists has grown deeper”, explains Javier, “28 have been killed so far in 2008”. <br /><br />SINALTRAINAL want to show that the eyes of the international community, not just human rights organisations, are on the Coca Cola Company. Social movements, international groups, and governments need to pressurise the company to change its practices. “The fight has to be more global than ever before.”<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Resistance Continues</span><br /><br />The resistance goes on, with the continued necessity for international solidarity. Under Uribe’s regime of terror these are vulnerable times for the workers and trade unionists of the Coca Cola Company. Students and workers, social and indigenous movements need to unite to fight against this company and the multitude of multinationals that are displacing and murdering Colombians for the extraction of natural resources, the exploitation of workers and the securitisation of territory. The wall of impunity that surrounds multinational and governmental actions must be broken down and so too the invisibilisation, by national and international mainstream media, of SINALTRAINAL’s work and the plight of Coca Cola workers.<br /><br />My voluntary work here in Bristol has been helped immeasurably by my trip to Colombia. Having seen with my own eyes the effect that Western companies have there, means that I can speak with greater authority whilst relating the situations of the communities with which I have lived and worked. This could not have happened without the generous sponsorship of both the Colombia Solidarity campaign and the Knowlson Trust. Grass roots solidarity work relies on funding such as this to survive, and long may it continue. I hope my efforts will contribute towards social change that encompasses a just and sustainable peace in Colombia.BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-77844714953246126472009-01-23T00:28:00.000+00:002009-01-23T00:29:51.100+00:00Request for Moral and Financial Support in Strike at the Drummond Coal Mine, Colombia<p><strong>Request for Moral and Financial Support in Strike at the Drummond Coal Mine, Colombia</strong></p> <p>Please forward.</p> <p>Operations at the Drummond open cast coal mine have stopped after the catering staff blocked the entrances this morning to the kitchens and laundries where they work. No food is being served or prepared and so the miners have stopped production.</p> <p>The 400 workers are on strike demanding:</p> <ul><li>Dignified working conditions</li><li>An increase in the pittance salary they currently receive to reflect the damage to their bodies from daily contamination</li><li>Direct contracts with Caves who has just renewed the catering contract with Drummond for three years instead of temporary precarious employment. </li></ul> <p>The workers currently have permanent contracts with Servicooptel, a supposed workers’ cooperative, common in Colombia as a tactic used by Companies to avoid meeting the necessary legal requirement for their employees. Caves plans to end the contract with Servicooptel on the 31st January, which would result in unemployment for all and an end to the union branch. This was the catalyst to go on strike but the workers had already had enough after months of being treated as slaves, humilliated and harassed. Catering for the Coal Industry documents their labour conditions.</p> <p>Drummond exported 25 million tonnes of coal in 2007 to the US and Europe with profits of $1.15 billion. Yet, the kitchen staff are paid just £5 a day; half of which pays for accomodation, half on food and transport for their families. There are little personal savings, little money in the union branch (8 months old). Every day of the strike the 400 employees need to eat. Food for their children is also needed as the last paycheck won’t last indefinately. </p><i> <p>"What we will need is economic and moral support during the strike. Economic so we can eat and moral to counter the psychological games that the company will pay"</p></i> <p>Each day the strike lasts £500 is needed for food. The Drummond miners, and the Drummond union Sintraminetica are financially contributing as well as supporting the strike with protests at the entrance to the mine. Sinaltrainal nationally is contributing but more support is needed.</p> <p>Please send letters of support in Spanish or English to <u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a href="mailto:espaciobristol@redcolombia.org" target="_blank">espaciobristol@redcolombia.org</a></span></u></p> <p>Please make financial contributions to:</p><p style="text-align: center;">Espacio Bristol Colombia<br />Sort Code 08-60-01<br />Account Number 20081876<br />Unity Trust Bank Plc, 9 Brindleyplace<br />4 Oozells Square, Birminhgam, B1 2HB,<br />The reference for the transfer is Espacio Bristol Colombia 51797</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br />Please send an email to <a href="mailto:espaciobristol@redcolombia.org" target="_blank">espaciobristol@redcolombia.org</a> so we can pass the money on as quick as possible </p>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-89233386558468063332009-01-19T15:07:00.002+00:002009-01-19T15:16:25.635+00:00CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF CUBAN REVOLUTIONat the Polish Club, 50 St Pauls Road, Clifton BS8<br /><br />Friday 30 January <br />8-midnight<br /><br />live Afro-Cuban music from K'CHEVERE<br /><br />plus cuban sounds and dance lesson with ALAIN<br />HERNANDEZ<br /><br />£7/5.<br /><br />Supported by Bristol Trades Union Council<br />Organised by Bristol Cuba Solidarity Campaign<br />FFI 0117 9614448.<br /><br /><a href="file:///Users/ollie/Desktop/Downloads/Celebrate%2050%20years%20of%20Cuban%20Revolution.pdf"></a>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-20329986544111397742009-01-15T01:34:00.001+00:002009-01-15T01:36:56.777+00:00Public meeting - "Cuba - 50 years of revolution"7.30pm Weds Jan 21<br /><br />Scotchman & His Pack (upstairs), St Michael's Hill<br /><br />A discussion covering the history of Cuba, it's achievements over the last 50 years and what we can learn from their ongoing revolutionary struggle, led by Katherine Cremer (from Bristol solidarity with venezuela) with plenty of opportunity for all to contribute.<br /><br />In 1959 Cuba threw off the shackles of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista backed by US imperialism. Over the subsequent five decades Cuban socialism has continued to advance, providing security and independence for its people. In spite of constant US antagonism, economic blockade and subversive attacks, Cuba provides free healthcare and education to its entire population, has eradicated homelessness and sends troops of trained medical staff to 68<br />countries across the world. This is in comparison to what we, in the western world, are faced with under capitalism. In the current economic climate where houses are being repossessed by their thousands in the US and Britain, where the NHS is being dismantled day<br />by day and education in the imperialist heartlands comes at a price, Cuba stands as a defiant example of the alternative to capitalism.<br /><br />Hasta la victoria siempre!BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-37852424166818141362009-01-14T17:38:00.001+00:002009-01-14T17:42:04.680+00:00Fri 16th Jan: Proceso de cambio en Latino América – Process of change in Latin America<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proceso de cambio en Latino América – Ecuador y Bolivia</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Viernes 16 de Enero 2009</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Paulina Salas hablará en español sobre el proceso político y cambios en Ecuador con<br />alguna actividad que incluye a todos. Después habrá un resumen en ingles y una<br />discusión sobre recientes cambios en Bolivia, sobre todo el referéndum sobre la<br />nueva constitución que se realizará el 25 de Enero 2009.<br /><br />Esperamos iniciar discusión e intercambio de ideas sobre el proceso de cambio en<br />países Latino Americanos y agradeceríamos alguna sugerencia para nuevos habladores<br />en Febrero.<br /></div></div><pre><br /></pre><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Process of change in Latin America – Ecuador and Bolivia</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday 16 January 2009 </span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br />Paulina Salas will talk in Spanish about the political process and changes in<br />Ecuador, with an activity to involve all. This will be followed by a summary in<br />English and discussion of recent changes in Bolivia, above all the referendum on the<br />new constitution due to take place on the 25th January 2009.<br /><br />We hope to spark discussion and exchange of ideas about the process of change in<br />Latin American countries and welcome any suggestions for speakers in February.<br /></div><pre><br /></pre><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Café Kino, Nine Tree Hill, Stokes Croft, Bristol<br />18.30 a 19.10 en Español<br />19.20 to 20.00 in English </span><br /><br />FFI<br />Bristol Bolivia Solidarity Group <br /><a href="https://webmail.bris.ac.uk/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=Bristol.boliviasolidarity%40yahoo.co.uk">Bristol.boliviasolidarity@yahoo.co.uk</a><br /><br />Bolivia Solidarity Campaign<br />www.boliviasc.org.uk </div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-1563739674857630712009-01-14T17:30:00.006+00:002009-01-14T17:43:43.781+00:00Cinema Klandestino presents Comandante. Sunday 18th of Jan. @Cube Cinema. 8pm.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdu3edkt7iZZedNOPrcpEu20J3f1WwiWuwRmr5bmkjexZmfJYt6JIyqaAQ5lK79NZdC4UdV_A93LntFgv8JNTy7m3QXD-djKfOoCdGwNz3tMBNMDACpNZ_3szzO9PL7DK9s-toPW-MpOoH/s1600-h/Comandante_Flyer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdu3edkt7iZZedNOPrcpEu20J3f1WwiWuwRmr5bmkjexZmfJYt6JIyqaAQ5lK79NZdC4UdV_A93LntFgv8JNTy7m3QXD-djKfOoCdGwNz3tMBNMDACpNZ_3szzO9PL7DK9s-toPW-MpOoH/s400/Comandante_Flyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291203729898317970" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="article">On Sunday the 18th of January Cinema Klandestino links up with the 50th of anniversary of the Cuban revolution to return to the Bristol cine-scene and start the year 2009 off with a quality documentary at the Cube.<br /><br />Information as to this extravaganza follows herewith:</p><p class="article"><br />From the director who brought us dramatisations of the lives of JFK, Nixon and Bush comes a more personal investigation of another world figure: Fidel Castro<br /><br />50 years and 17 days after the success of the Cuban revolution, Cinema Klandestino presents Oliver Stone's compelling profile of the world's longest standing head of state and leading figure in the global anti-imperialist movement. Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002, and the film was released in 2003, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. It was censored in the US due to pressure from anti-Castro Cuban Americans.<br /><br />As the revolution has aged, its figurehead has survived countless assassination attempts by the C.I.A. and has been branded both a hero and a dictator depending on political perspective. While the USA's economic blockade of Cuba continues, Oliver Stone gains access to the country's president and splices together their interactions with archival footage of the past 50 years to portray the revolution and its leader.<br /><br />Cine K's 6th outing at the Cube Cinema will be introduced by the ghost of El Ché at this timely anniversary. Whatever you think about Cuba, its human rights record or the achievements of its social policies, come witness this ground breaking portrait of its undisputed leader and controversial figure of world history.<br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">Comandante<br />(2003) Documentary<br />Running Time: 99 minutes<br />Spanish and English with English Subtitles<br /></div><p class="article"><br />Starring:<br /><br />Fidel Castro ... Himself<br />Oliver Stone ... Himself<br />Juanita Vera ... Herself (Castro's Interpreter)<br /><br />Production Credits:<br /><br />Director - Oliver Stone<br />Producer - Fernando Sulichin<br />Producer - Jose Ibanez<br />Executive Producer - Jaume Roures<br />Executive Producer - Alvaro Longoria<br />Supervising Producer - Nancy Abraham<br />Cinematographer - Rodrigo Prieto<br />Cinematographer - Carlos Marcovich<br />Music - Alberto Iglesias<br /><br />Trailer: <a href="http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/9054/3e3358fb4c2824182411093bae8e1dc6/1840_trailer01-de_540.mov" title="http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/9054/3e3358fb4c2824182411093bae8e1dc6/1840_trailer01-de_540.mov">http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/9054/3e3358f...0.mov</a><a href="http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/9054/26d92f66e3bb6dc42f3d971d14713af2/1840_trailer01-de_540.mov" title="http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/9054/26d92f66e3bb6dc42f3d971d14713af2/1840_trailer01-de_540.mov"></a></p><p class="article"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="article"><span style="font-size:130%;">Cinema Klandestino presents Comandante<br />18th January, 2009<br />Cube Cinema<br />Film starts at 8pm<br />£5/£4 (bring da badge!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="article"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="article"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" title="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org">http://www.cinemaklandestino.org</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span></span></span></p><p class="article"><br /></p><p class="article"><br /></p>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-38698622184640949632008-12-01T11:07:00.006+00:002008-12-01T11:23:18.701+00:00Cinema Klandestino @ the Cube Cinema Thurs 4th Dec<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7S0U9RBYMfRZk61ttABpK-S_0bUBj3SRCT10Qx56rBUcLy4m8MqHGJ2sz7cFxQL7mIskiAn9iHfmzw04fb5Fiv7ts9uE4X3Jbq8Ush5_xePFxfHNjS6c5AsahDwDVhqvxHIdNhVwaXty9/s1600-h/En+Agosto(Small).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7S0U9RBYMfRZk61ttABpK-S_0bUBj3SRCT10Qx56rBUcLy4m8MqHGJ2sz7cFxQL7mIskiAn9iHfmzw04fb5Fiv7ts9uE4X3Jbq8Ush5_xePFxfHNjS6c5AsahDwDVhqvxHIdNhVwaXty9/s400/En+Agosto(Small).jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274778965969259538" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzxPOFI2QPx4HzCC4kwFEPsYIeV92zb2WAmq8drWNZszme43stwbHUOEeqWJMoS9E0WHnfUAKisMYnagMbHMv88DiwDE-xAOeu09WW-Ku8MqlmcAvopgK7vzs1eASrXtBbSkqSrT4HsPY/s1600-h/La+Sombra+Del+Caminante+(Small).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzxPOFI2QPx4HzCC4kwFEPsYIeV92zb2WAmq8drWNZszme43stwbHUOEeqWJMoS9E0WHnfUAKisMYnagMbHMv88DiwDE-xAOeu09WW-Ku8MqlmcAvopgK7vzs1eASrXtBbSkqSrT4HsPY/s400/La+Sombra+Del+Caminante+(Small).jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274778962381308098" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:arial;font-size:48px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Cinema Klandestino return for Cube V<br /></span></span></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:arial;font-size:19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-size:13px;"><p class="article-subtitle" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Presenting: the 'Wandering Shadows' and 'En Agosto'</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">This month Cinema Klandestino brings two Colombian films to the Cube Cinema for our 5th event there.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">With a 35mm monochrome and an award winning short animation, this'll be a quality night.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Doors 7pm</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" face="arial, sans-serif" size="110%" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="article-subtitle" style="text-align: center;color: rgb(60, 78, 56); font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:110%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">*STARTS*</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This Thursday 4th December 2008 Cinema Klandestino presents:<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'The Wandering Shadows' </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(La Sombra del Caminante, Colombia 2004, 90mins)<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">plus<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'In August' <br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(En Agosto, Colombia 2008 14 mins)<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">El Kolectivo Klandestino invites you to this 35mm stark monochrome 1st anniversary flick n' party!</span><br /></div><p class="article"><br /></p><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'The Wandering Shadows'</span><br /><br />Colombia's 2004 award-winning and bid for the Foreign Language Oscar 'La Sombra del Caminante' is Ciro Guerra's disquieting parable of a silent, goggle-wearing silletero (someone who carries a chair decorated with flowers) on the streets of Bogota, who scrapes a pittance carrying passenger Mañe, a middle-aged amputee in a roughly hewn seat on his back.<br /><br />"Taking the hitherto tired 'odd couple' concept to alien new heights, the two gradually form a wary friendship. However, in a twist as David Lynchesque as the all-pervading air of dark portent, a shared secret begins to emerge that could sever their fragile bond." (Mark Powell, Metro 2006) <br /><br />Jaw-droppingly quirky and utterly absorbing from start to finish, The Wandering Shadows is Cinema Klandestino's 1st Anniversary celebratory experience.<br /><br />Can't be missed! <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">PLUS the night's prelude will be:</span><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">'In August'</span><br /><br />The Colombian official entry for this year's Bristol Encounters Short Film Festival. A fifteen minute short film in 2D and 3D animation which was two years in the making. The film was written and directed by Andrés Barrientos and Carlos Andrés Reyes.<br /><br />It depicts a city transformed by a diluvian cataclysm in the distant future, a young indigenous shaman woman's vision is strangely related to a similar vision of an old man's deceased wife across a vast span of time. In their visions the world's future shall be revealed. Veronica and Pedro foresee the arrival of the end of the world in August. They each anticipate it at different points in time, one in the present and one in the distant future.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Andres Barrientos will be presenting his film and doing Q&A.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">So really, a night that can't be missed!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thurs 4th December</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7pm doors for pre-film party, 8pm start <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">£5 (bring da badge for £1 discount)<br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">*CineK price for best goggles.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Cube Cinema<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dove Street South,<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bristol<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BS2 8JB </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">Links for further information, trailers and image</span>s<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Directions to the Cube Cinema: <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" title="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html</a><a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" title="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); "><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">La Sombra del Caminante:</div><div style="text-align: center;">A new hope for Colombian Cinema: <a href="http://www.elojoquepiensa.udg.mx/ingles/revis_04/seccio...6.pdf" title="http://www.elojoquepiensa.udg.mx/ingles/revis_04/seccio...6.pdf" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://www.elojoquepiensa.udg.mx/ingles/revis_04/seccio...6.pdf</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/viva2006_laso...a.htm" title="http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/viva2006_laso...a.htm" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/viva2006_laso...a.htm</a><a href="http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/viva2006_laso...a.htm" title="http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/viva2006_laso...a.htm" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); "><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">En Agosto</div><div style="text-align: center;">Official site with trailer:<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dia-fragma.com/enagosto.htm" title="http://www.dia-fragma.com/enagosto.htm" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://www.dia-fragma.com/enagosto.htm</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Interview with Andrés Barrientos<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPPqZCdMwg" title="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPPqZCdMwg" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPPqZCdMwg</a><a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPPqZCdMwg" title="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPPqZCdMwg" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); "><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">contact: cinemaklandestino@riseup.net<br /></div><p></p><div class="article-related-link-relatedlink" style="text-align: center;">Related Link: <a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" title="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" style="color: rgb(73, 89, 76); ">http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/</a></div><div class="article-related-link-relatedlink" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="article-related-link-relatedlink" style="text-align: center;">*ENDS*</div></span></span><p></p></div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-19379564147662531912008-11-06T12:59:00.004+00:002008-11-06T13:03:13.105+00:00Beyond Violence - the struggle against gender and gang violence in Guatemala<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Iduvina Hernandez and Rosemary Burnett will be speaking in the Common Room at the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > School for Policy Studies,<br />University of Bristol, 8 Priory Road , Bristol , BS8 1TZ</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br />on Thursday 13th November at 1.00 - 2.30pm.</span><br /><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Iduvina Hernández is a Guatemalan journalist and human rights defender working to challenge the extraordinary and horrific levels of violence and murder against women and young people in Guatemala. Her work to hold the Guatemalan authorities and security forces to account has at times resulted in her receiving threats and intimidation.<br /><br />Rosemary Burnett, former director of Amnesty International Scotland, will also talk about her experiences working to support and protect human rights defenders in Guatemala. She will explain how you can support human rights work in Guatemala, including information on how to get involved with accompaniment work.<br /><br />TALK IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH AN INTERPRETER - ALL WELCOME<br /></div><pre></pre>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-27444611428319184432008-10-27T20:39:00.003+00:002008-10-27T20:45:00.143+00:00Blog of Espacio Bristol-Colombia solidarity accompanistHello,<br /><br />I am in Colombia working with a Colombian network of social organisation doing solidarity accompaniment.<br /><br />You can read about my experiences and reflections here.<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/gizzacroggy.blogspot.com">http://gizzacroggy.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />If you want to be informed when the blog is updated email me at gizzacroggy at gmail.com<br /><br />ThanksBLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-56194538497172683472008-10-12T16:02:00.002+01:002008-10-20T09:32:11.322+01:00Solidarity Picket with Sacked Amey Workers: Wed 22 Oct<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljdT8T5hzQVdw49UGj0djeJXhA8cUB3Y6H-GiWszT4SBLxGeD8MM5Z6bSqahbs10emiTo9nelPxqqGyolFY1sbwhJKxRo7E6pNVazCF_0JUnGW2C3CnV9AzSdM13NWLCfZU8Mfe9aERiW/s1600-h/AmeyPicket.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljdT8T5hzQVdw49UGj0djeJXhA8cUB3Y6H-GiWszT4SBLxGeD8MM5Z6bSqahbs10emiTo9nelPxqqGyolFY1sbwhJKxRo7E6pNVazCF_0JUnGW2C3CnV9AzSdM13NWLCfZU8Mfe9aERiW/s400/AmeyPicket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259151029280022738" border="0" /></a><br />Bristol No Borders - Picket Call Out<br /><br />Support the Sacked Amey Workers! Equal Rights Without Borders<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assemble (with whistles and banners) October 22nd 11.30am - 1.30pm outside Amey Rail Plc ,Albert House, 111-117, Victoria St, Bristol. BS1 6AX</span><br /><br />Five cleaners employed by Amey (who have the contact for rail maintenance in Bristol) were sacked for "damaging the company image" on the 2nd of October. They are going to appeal.<br /><br /><div>How were they damaging the company image? By belonging to a Trade Union and telling other staff at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London where they work what was happening to them.<br /><br />The text of the offending leaflet:<br /><p style="text-align: center;font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;">TO THE NPL STAFF:</span></span></span></span></p><span style=";font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;">The</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Amey Cleaning Department are looking for your solidarity, because LAURA JORDAN site manager is discriminating and bullying us, also has violated our employment rights, refusing to follow the grievance procedures and taken decision over the employment regulations Act.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:16;"></span></span></span>This is the latest in a series of measures taken against the cleaners since Amey, which is owned by Spanish multinational Ferrovia, took over the cleaning contract in May 2007 and found itself faced with a largely Latin American migrant workforce that had recently unionised and was taking steps to gain recognition. The first came last year, when the company invited workers to a ‘training session’, only to bolt the doors behind them and leave them in the care of the Home Office, which promptly deported three of them, one to Colombia and two to Brazil, for not having official documents.<br /><br />Since then the number of cleaners has been reduced from thirty-six to fifteen as Amey looks to cut costs as much as possible. The current suspensions are a direct result of the remaining workers’ attempts to protest against this trend. Amey, which posted a net annual profit of a £75 million, is well versed in these tactics. It is a majority shareholder in Tubelines, which cleans parts of the Underground. Tube cleaners who went on strike for a living wage this summer were faced with a corporate response consisting of paper checks, immigration raids and deportations to Sierra Leone and the Congo.<br /><br />This is the second day of actions supporting the sacked workers, with another demo happening on 22nd October outside an NPL conference in London.<br /><br />It comes as part of a wider movement, including the Campaign Against Immigration Control and No Borders, demanding that that documents and border controls are dispensed with altogether, or migrant workers be regularised and given the documents they need.<br /></div>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-18917530915450156612008-10-08T11:48:00.003+01:002008-10-08T11:51:42.938+01:00Cinema Klandestino @ the Cube Fri 10th Oct<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrVgdRgl0j8nBei8thvAcdbW_7wM7zjQUEr6GEJ-bTJEBRqBJXUdZ8zNZB546yA-_Iv9xgwo5MNJt3pAL7IIfJhXvE-NgARd-RzANwUWy3bjFLOHlEZtxSaf62409-_jWnhvNpRQeAouT/s1600-h/Cinek@the+Cube_Violeta.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrVgdRgl0j8nBei8thvAcdbW_7wM7zjQUEr6GEJ-bTJEBRqBJXUdZ8zNZB546yA-_Iv9xgwo5MNJt3pAL7IIfJhXvE-NgARd-RzANwUWy3bjFLOHlEZtxSaf62409-_jWnhvNpRQeAouT/s400/Cinek@the+Cube_Violeta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254733596230342066" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;">Shrouded in mystery in the Cube programme:<br /><a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#4045" target="_blank">http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#4045</a></span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />it can now be revealed that:<br />This <b>Friday, the 10th of October</b>, Cinema Klandestino return for our 4th night at the Cube Cinema to present:</span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Violet of a Thousand Colours</b></span><span style="font-size:24;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Dir: Harold Trompetero<br />Colombia, 2005</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">doors @ 8pm<br />£4/3 (Bring yer badge!)</span><br /><br /><br />This film has not been internationally released for the star, Flora Martinez, has prohibited its director, Harold Trompetero from showing it in Colombia or anywhere else. She claims that the movie was made for experimental film purposes and that Trompetero wants to jump on the bandwagon of the commercial success of her next film Rosario Tijeras (2005) </p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center">Despite this, it was shown at the Bogotá Film Festival in October 2005, in the Cartagena Film Festival in March 2006 and in La Palma Island International Film Festival in July 2006, where it won several awards.</p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center">It is now being screened for the first time ever in the UK.</p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Low-budget, raw, and ultimately audacious, <i style="">Violet of a Thousand Colours</i> is set in New York and revolves around a nameless woman. <span style=""> </span>A woman with all the defects and qualities of a human being.<span style=""> </span>A woman who one day takes the decision to exist no more, simply because she is tired of life. </p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">She begins to prepare for her death.<span style=""> </span>Her plan is to cut her veins in the bathtub, surrounded by candles and rose petals scattered on the floor and remember each moment of her life until her body gives out and her brain ceases to irrigate blood.<span style=""> </span>She plans to lose consciousness and then sink into the warm and tranquil water for all eternity or until someone finds her dead.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">For her the important thing is to die, to die remembering, to die dreaming, to die like she always wanted, a perfect painting for the painter, the only photograph that will annihilate the forensics photograph, the perfect scene for a film director.<span style=""> </span>A suicide artistically perfect, committed by a woman like any other.</p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Through the film, Trompetero explores adverse sentiments inherent in femininity and the human condition in general, and this, added to its prohibited nature, should make for another quality night at the Cube.</p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center">New tunes, fresh from Colombia, will be playing at the bar before the film, so get down at 8pm!</p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><br />Directions to the Cube: <a href="http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html" target="_blank">http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" > </span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">Violeta Info</b>:</p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Review in Spanish (there are none in English!): <a href="http://www.cinefagos.net/index.php?Itemid=3&id=328&option=com_content&task=view" target="_blank">http://www.cinefagos.net/index.php?Itemid=3&id=328&option=com_content&task=view</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Youtube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsDbV94UPs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsDbV94UPs</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Wiki: <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta_de_mil_colores" target="_blank">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta_de_mil_colores</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">IMDB: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485164/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485164/</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">IMDB trivia: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485164/trivia" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485164/trivia</a></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemaklandestino.org/</a></p>BLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991817922836309452.post-25236738284787091212008-07-09T13:22:00.003+01:002008-09-23T11:03:18.311+01:00Colombia Accompaniment Training: 15th & 16th NOVEMBER 2008, BRISTOL<blockquote class="article-intro">INTRODUCTORY TRAINING WEEKEND<br />FOR ACCOMPANIMENT AND SOLIDARITY WORK IN COLOMBIA<br />15th & 16th NOVEMBER 2008, BRISTOL<br /><br />Espacio Bristol-Colombia is organising its second two-day introductory training weekend for people interested in travelling to Colombia as a volunteer to help with its solidarity and 'accompaniment' work there.<br /><br />You would be working with Colombian social organisations on various projects, in accordance with your skills and what you feel comfortable with, as well as providing 'accompaniment', which involves providing an international presence to deter the army or paramilitaries from interfering with social activists.<br /><br />This training is essential for anyone who is interested in volunteering in Colombia, although we are keen to emphasise that the focus is on the training being an orientation weekend with absolutely no commitment to travelling to Colombia. It is also a great way of learning about the culture of the country and the current political situation that Colombians are facing.</blockquote> <p class="article">INTRODUCTORY TRAINING WEEKEND<br />FOR ACCOMPANIMENT AND SOLIDARITY WORK IN COLOMBIA<br />15th & 16th NOVEMBER 2008, BRISTOL<br /><br />Espacio Bristol-Colombia is organising its second two-day introductory training weekend for people interested in travelling to Colombia as a volunteer to help with its solidarity and 'accompaniment' work there.<br /><br />You would be working with Colombian social organisations on various projects, in accordance with your skills and what you feel comfortable with, as well as providing 'accompaniment', which involves providing an international presence to deter the army or paramilitaries from interfering with social activists.<br /><br />This training is essential for anyone who is interested in volunteering in Colombia, although we are keen to emphasise that the focus is on the training being an orientation weekend with absolutely no commitment to travelling to Colombia. It is also a great way of learning about the culture of the country and the current political situation that Colombians are facing.<br /><br />ABOUT ESPACIO<br />Espacio Bristol-Colombia is part of the Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad con Colombia (Network of Friendship and Solidarity with Colombia) which is a space for coordination between grassroots organisations in Colombia and between solidarity collectives in other countries in Europe and the Americas.<br />Groups in the Red de Hermandad work together around themes such as:-<br />• the impact of multinational corporations;<br />• human rights violations;<br />• the need for a negotiated solution to the social and armed conflict in the country.<br />• supporting "planes de vida" (life plans), local/regional level collective organisation around social and economic alternatives<br /><br />WHY WE NEED YOU<br />International collectives who are part of the Red de Hermandad not only take action in their own countries in solidarity with groups working on these issues in Colombia, but also provide accompaniment to social organisations in Colombia<br />There are basically three types of solidarity and accompaniment work, depending on your experience. In practice, however, these are flexible and depend very much on what you want to do and feel comfortable with:<br /><br />1. People who are in Colombia for the first time or who have less experience can either<br /><br />(a) do several shorter periods of accompaniment and, in the process, learn about the work of various organisations and the reality in different parts of the country or<br /> (b) work with one organisation but without being given huge amounts of responsibility.<br /><br />2. People with more experience of accompaniment or political work are normally linked to one organisation during their time in Colombia, often (although not always) in rural areas.<br /><br />3. People with specific areas of knowledge might be linked into relevant areas of the Red de Hermandad's activities. For example, a plumber might help displaced communities returning to their land with the installation of water and sanitation and an academic might help with a research project.<br />The training will be run by three people from Espacio who have just spent some time living in Colombia and working with social movements.<br />Content<br />• an introduction to Espacio, the Red de Hermandad and organisations within it<br />• an introduction to Colombia's historical and political context<br />• accompaniment with social organisations in Colombia<br />• cultural awareness<br />• safety and legal issues<br />• emotional issues when working in Colombia<br />• health, hygiene and vaccinations<br />• practical issues, such as how to get a Visa and what to pack<br /><br />During the weekend, you will have plenty of opportunities to hear from people who have already provided accompaniment in Colombia. You will also have the chance to ask questions and chat with them informally.<br /><br />There is absolutely no requirement to commit to going to Colombia just because you come on the training. If you decide not to go ahead with the accompaniment, we will fully respect your decision. If, however, after the training, you decide that you want to do accompaniment, we will arrange an informal interview with you to discuss it and, if we both think that its right for you then we will provide you with all the support we can.<br /><br />NEXT STEPS<br />If you are interested in attending the training, or have any further questions, please email us at espaciobristol@redcolombia.org<br />The training will take place in central Bristol from approximately 11am – 5pm on Saturday and then 10pm – 4pm on Sunday.<br />On Saturday evening we will eat together. Accommodation will be provided, where necessary. Please, note, however, that Espacio is an entirely volunteer-run group with little financial resources, and we are not in a position to subsidise travel costs. This is why we ask for a donation of £20 or more if you can afford it (£15 if you are on low income). The donation will help cover the costs of room hire, photocopying and printing costs for hand-outs and travel for people running the training. Please do get in touch if the value of the donation is preventing you from attending, as we are really interested in sharing Espacio's work with people would not want you to be put off by the cost.<br /><br />So that we know a little about you before the training, please complete the short questionnaire below and send it back to us at espaciobristol@redcolombia.org. Please note that the questionnaire is not an application form. All answers given will be kept in strict confidence and will not be shared with any third parties.<br /><br />Name:<br />Citizenship if other than UK:<br />Date of birth:<br />Permanent address:<br />Dietary or Special Needs:<br />Would you like accommodation (it'll be in the homes of members of Espacio) in Bristol on:<br />* Friday 19th: Y/N<br />* Saturday 20th: Y/N<br /><br />Level of Spanish (ability to communicate without difficulty in Spanish is essential before you travel):<br />Have you been to Colombia before? If so, please provide details.<br />Relevant experience (activist/social movement/campaigning involvement, other experiences of accompaniment etc.):<br />Any useful skills (e.g. photography, carpentry, research, art, counselling):<br />Qualifications and professional background (not essential but may be useful for visa letter):<br />Anything else you want to tell us? </p><br />To cut-and-paste the above into an email, highlight the text with your mouse, press CTRL+T (or APPLE+T on a Mac) to copy, open a new email in your email client and press CTRL+V (or APPLE+V on a Mac) to paste the text into your email and send to us at: espaciobristol[at]redcolombia[dot]orgBLAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07051671838487046566noreply@blogger.com0