NY PREMIERE April 2nd :: MEC Film & Culture Series :: 'Poto Mitan' Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
Miles McAfee
FREE
Doors open 6:15 PM
6:30 Performance by Mikerline Afro-Haitian Dance Company
7:30 Film screening of POTO MITAN
8:30 Discussion with filmmakers & presentations by local Haitian-American organizations
9:15 Performance by Mikerline Afro-Haitian Dance Company
For Immediate Release:
In honor of Haiti’s National Women’s Day, Tèt Ansanm Productions, Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series, and the School of Professional and Community Development will present the New York premiere of the documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy in a celebratory evening of film, music, dance and activism on Thursday, April 2, 2009, 6:00-10:00 PM. The film will be screened at Medgar Evers College’s Founders Auditorium at 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. As part of the Medgar Evers’ Film & Culture Series and in alignment with our goal to encourage audience members to get involved, this multi-media event will be FREE and open to the public.
Haiti’s image in mainstream and alternative media is almost entirely negative: an endless stream of dire poverty, protracted violence, and extreme fallout from natural disasters. Poto Mitan provides viewers desperately needed historical context and understanding of people confronting these issues. Told through compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of education, and poor health care. While Poto Mitan offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance demonstrates these are global struggles. Finally, through their collective activism, these women demonstrate that despite monumental obstacles in a poor country like Haiti, collective action makes change possible.
The evening will also feature performances by Mikerline Afro-Haitian Dance Company and presentations by Haitian Women’s Organizations: Dwa Fanm, Fonkoze, Haitian Women For Haitian Refugees, Habetac, Lambi Fund and more.
For more information, contact 718-270-6096 or mi...@mec.cuny.edu.
Miles McAfee
“A NEW DAY”
APRIL 29TH, 2009
1650 Bedford Ave., near Crown St. Brooklyn, New York 11225, 7pm doors open at 6:30pm
Admission free for this debut performance, recommended for young audiences, no infants please.
A NEW DAY, is a hip-hop coming of age stage production where a family of young brothers face the pressure to be men where only the strong survive. They have a common love for hip-hop but can’t even agree there. Lotto has a strong rep, but Chance is mistaken to be a weak, for believing in principles of non-violence. Frisco, the neighborhood “hot head” is always looking for a fight and finds Chance to be an easy target as long as Lotto stays out of it and Conz just makes things worse.
