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As part of Scribe Video Center’s Storyville screening series, video artists from Termite TV Collective will present a retrospective of clips spanning 15 years of experimental and activist media. Bug out to the tunes and projections of the Maple Rabbit band while everyone eats Birthday Cake!

Friday March 16, 2007
7 PM

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA
Admission $5

Termite TV Collective was founded in Philadelphia in 1992. Today the video collective has members and contributing artists in Philly, Buffalo and all over the country. They celebrate their birthday with a screening of clips from the past 6 seasons of innovative shows.

* Join the hive and enjoy a live presentation with past and present Termite TV members, including Michael Kuetemeyer, Karen Lefkovitz, Michael O’Reilly, Meg Knowles, Brian Milbrand, A. Q. Quintero, Iain Conliffe, Deborah Rudman, Anula Shetty, Joanna Raczynska, Jim Ospenson, Meryl Perlson, Carl Lee & Dorothea Braemer

* Walk down memory lane on a timeline from the Termite Tv historical archives

* Hear tales of origin, growth, termites tunneling beyond the Philly mound to Buffalo

* The nationwide Living Documentary Tour

* Politics now. The War/Terror/Democracy Trilogy DVD will be available for the first time ever!

* Off-shoot tentacle projects including a celebration of the 100th Videography program from the Termite infestation at Temple University.

* Termite’s future evolution.

* The Termite TV installation, covering the 15 years of their work will be on view at Scribe Video Center through April 2007

Hope to see you there!

Termite TV Eats The Patterson
Friday February 29th at 8pm.
$8, $6 members.
Termite TV questions assumptions, speaks truth to power, and makes you laugh out loud. Founded in 1992 and based in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Buffalo, the collective’s work has been broadcast nationally and screened at festivals and museums around the world. Tonight, Water explores our political, biological and cultural relationship with this building block of life, while Democracy asks what government by and for the people could and should look like. Also, selections from the Living Documentary Project. Q&A with collective members

The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore MD 21224
410-276-1651
http://www.creativealliance.org/events/eventItem1297.htm

Prison Life Stories– screens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 @ 2:30 pm, FREE

Philadelphia Museum of Art In The Van Pelt Auditorium

with companion films from Scribe Video Center:
Voices from the Inside, Reconstruction & Books Through Bars

Join the filmmakers for a conversation after the screening.
Hosted by Michael McGonigle, CTS, Film Lecturer/Audio Visual Dept
Program is FREE, with ticket after regular Museum Admission (Pay what you will on Sundays) Tickets are available at the Admissions Desk

——– Program——–

– Prison Life Stories
by Michael Kuetemeyer, Deborah Rudman, Anula Shetty, 2008, 30 min

Do you have a family member or friend who has been incarcerated? How is your life affected by it? Termite TV Collective’s latest Life Story Project explores the stories that surround incarceration in Philadelphia. These are the faces that are often invisible and the voices we rarely hear.  Prison Life Stories will challenge perceptions of what kind of people are in prison today and why. By listening to these stories audiences will see how incarceration not only affects those that are directly involved but entire families and communities.

– Voices from Inside by Louis Massiah, 2001, 1 minute
Prison inmates discuss how the news of 9.11 was received “from the inside.

Scribe Video Center Community Visions projects:

– Reconstruction
Facilitators: Aisha Simmons, Nadine Stanley & Nadine Patterson, 1996, 19 minutes
Reconstruction Inc. is a program of rehabilitation for parolees and their  families. Reconstruction helps former inmates to re-establish themselves in the community by overcoming cycles of violent behavior and understanding their own motivations and needs.

– Books Through Bars
Facilitators: Cheryl Hess & Anula Shetty 1997, 15 minutes
New Society Publishers began its free, collectively run, all volunteer group, Books Through Bars program after it began receiving letters from indigent prisoners, and today distributes donated books to individual prisoners, prison libraries, and halfway houses across the U.S. It also sponsors regular public events relating to issues such as human rights, the war on drugs, and prison reform.

Prison Life Stories 3/14/2009 Screening, Robin’s Book Store, Philadelphia

Prison Life Stories  10/3/2009  National Satellite Broadcast, Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado

Prison Life Stories  10/3/2009  National Satellite Broadcast, Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado

Chinatown Walks, Walk Philly 4/4/2009, Exhibit, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia