A gathering of friends to celebrate “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden”
A project of Termite TV Collective and Norris Square Neighborhood Project in collaboration with Philadelphia Latino Film Festival
Saturday, November 6 from 3 pm-7 pm
Community-created Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality installations,
Screening of the film “Villa Africana Colobó” at 6 pm.
Location: Colobó Garden, 2263 Palethorp Street
“El Bembé is a celebration of a community-based VR/AR project, “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden.” Come and experience AR/VR installations in a community garden celebrating African heritage and the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture. Project leaders Iris Brown of Grupo Motivos/ Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer of Termite TV Collective have been facilitating workshops with long-term residents to share the memories and stories of this Latinx neighborhood in Norris Square.
Community partners Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (PHLAFF), PhillyCAM, and Scribe Video Center. Funded by Independence Public Media Foundation, Leeway Foundation, Doc Society/Good Pitch Philly, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Temple University.
In-person, outdoor celebration. Masks recommended.

Screening at the Buffalo International Film Festival
https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/swimming-in-the-clouds/

Swimming in the Clouds, a collection of videos about Covid dreams from filmmakers across the country, is screening on Saturday night at 10 pm, October 9th, projected against grain elevators, as part of the Buffalo International Film Festival. Show director/coordinator Dorothea Braemer, edited by See Eff Be Jayare aka Conrad, and it features work by filmmakers, including Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer, Michael Mulcahy, Louis Massiah, Roxana Walker-Canton, Kyla Kegler, Alan Powell, Deborah Rudman, Meryl Perlson, Jim Ospenson, and Dorothea Braemer (with camera by Carl Lee)

Tune in to PhillyCAM‘s “LIVE CULTURE program, Friday, September 11 from 7-8 pm! Termite TV will present a live mix of work from our upcoming shows about Dreams and Portals in the time of COVID. Catch the live broadcast on PhillyCAM’s TV Channel Comcast 66/966 /Verizon 29/30) and on the web channel: https://phillycam.org/watch from 7-8 pm.

City Harvest: A Growing Community
by Debbie Rudman
Documentary PREMIERE with filmmaker Q&A

Illustrates the remarkable sustainability and expansion of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest program throughout Philadelphia, growth that is an inspiring testament to the power of city-wide collaborations addressing issues such as food insecurity, environmental damage, re-entry from prison, teen education, jobs training, and belonging, through partnerships with working solutions. (30 min)

ONLINE 
Sunday August 30th at 4:00pm
Hosted by Termite TV Collective
Here is the link to the youtube event:https://youtu.be/v9P2c7bWqr4

IN PERSON
Sunday September 20th at 7:30PM
At The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden, 2241 N Philip St, Philadelphia, PA 19133

Also screening outdoors will be the origin story of the City Harvest program in 2006, documenting the beginning of these partnerships in gardening addressing institutional rehabilitation, community integration and improved nutrition. Through cycles of change and growth, prison inmates taking part in the “roots to re-entry” greenhouse program, network with neighborhood gardens to grow produce to be distributed to local food cupboards across Philadelphia. (39 min)


Both documentaries are an uplifting look at a radical social program changing people’s lives for the better for over a decade (and turned the filmmaker into an urban farmer)

Are you interested in learning how to use your cellphone to creatively capture the present moment? If so, please join us for Document NOW: Creative Ways of Using Your Cellphone — a three-day virtual workshop led by Mike & Anula.

Using “2020 Visions” as a guiding theme, participants will learn, develop and practice creative techniques to document the immediacy of our lived experiences. As our smartphones become vital devices for recording and capturing, how can we use them as tools to build and envision alternative futures. Mike will discuss how to use easily accessible video equipment to document this current moment with hope and promise. The workshop will consist of one day of discussion, one day of editing and authoring, and a private screening of created works on the final day.

Sessions: July 25th, August 1st, and August 8th from 1PM – 3PM via Zoom

Register Here!

A fun and successful planning meeting for the Places of Power VR workshop at the Village of Arts and Humanities. Ms. Nandi and Roosevelt tried out the latest version of the Places of Power VR project. “Hey there’s Fred and lil’ Wayne!” Roosevelt said as he identified the young men in the scene. Ms. Nandi was amazed that she was transported right into her living room. We discussed some inspiring locations and stories to document in the neighborhood.

Imagine a world where AI, VR, MR, AR and 3D technology allow us to construct experiences as a community-driven public access utility. What are the implications or opportunities for our families, our neighborhoods, our schools,when emerging technology is people powered media?

Termite TV partnered with PhillyCAM and other local media organizations for Philly Tech week. The day long installation and workshop event “Democritization of XR: Extending Reality for the public, ” explored community engagement through digital technology. Termite TV producers Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer presented excerpts from the VR project “Places of Power” currently in production.