March 24th, 3:30-5:30pm
Turning a Corner Screening and Discussion
Harold Washington College
30 East Lake Street, Room 102/103Turning A Corner will be screening at the Harold Washington College as part of their Women's History Month activities. Discussion following the screening will be facilitated by Brenda Myers-Powell and Brandy Baldwin of PART (Prostitution Alternatives Round Table), with Joanne Archibald of Beyondmedia Education.
For more information call 773-973-2280.
March 29th, 3pm
Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape screening and discussion led by the Empowered Fe Fes at the FRIDA (Feminist Response In Disability Activism)
Access Living
115 W Chicago AvenueSex and Disability Town Hall Meeting
March 30th, noon-3pm
Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape screening at the Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival
Eastern Illinois University
Coleman Auditorium in Coleman Hall
February 7th-8th; 9pm
Making Your Media Matter Conference
Center for Social Media
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.Salome Chasnoff will be speaking on a panel, Plight Entertainment: Sometimes the most uncomfortable stories are the most important ones to tell.
The conference is a 2-day event with various panels and created for aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communication leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.
* Click here to listen to an audio Podcast of this panel online!
February 13th; 7pm
Turning A Corner Screening and Discussion
New World Resource Center
1300 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, ILTurning A Corner will be screening at the New World Resource Center followed by a facilitated discussion. The discussion will be facilitated by Joanne Archibald of Beyondmedia Education, Helen Smith of PART (Prostitution Alternatives Round Table) and Andrea Hall of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
February 15th; 6-8pm
Gender/Justice/Videotape: An Evening with Beyondmedia Education
University of Chicago
Cobb Theatre, Cinema Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis Ave. Cobb Hall 306
Chicago IL 60637
T. 773.702.8596Students for Human Rights and the Film Studies Center bring you an evening with Beyondmedia Education. The program will include the screening of two films, followed by a discussion with young filmmakers. The discussion will be facilitated by Daphnee Rene of Young Womens Action Team, Taina Rodriguez, formerly of the Empowered Fe Fes, and Beyondmedia director Salomé Chasnoff.
Real Talk: Engaging Young men as Allies to End Violence Against Women shows young women asking "men to reflect on issues of violence, including street harassment, relationship violence, the media and how to build the movement to stop violence against women."
We will follow this with a short film on the Empowered Fe Fes, a radical group of young women with disabilities, who investigate the intersection of sex and disability from every conceivable angle: Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape.
January 17th; 5-7pm
You Are Invited to A Media Justice Strategy Session!
Columbia College
218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor, Room 713Recent events have challenged access to free speech in Chicago. These include WTTW Image Union's censorship of Turning a Corner, Loyola's takeover of WLUW, and the buyout of the Chicago Reader and the firing of key writers. Community and independent media makers are coming together in response. At this facilitated meeting, we will be building a media justice plan of action linking the important issues of censorship, inequality in media access, and increasing corporate control of media in Chicago.
Please RSVP to beyond@beyondmedia.org or 773.973.2280
Snacks will be provided. This event is wheelchair accessible. Other accessibility options may be available upon request.
January 26th; 11am
Brown Eyed Girl Live Performance & Video Presentation
Chicago Austin Library
5615 W. Race Ave., ChicagoBrown Eyed Girl will do a live performance and video presentation of violence prevention related to “Girl on Girl Violence” developed in a Beyondmedia workshop
November 7th; 7:00 pm
Women Behind Bars
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Join In These Times on Wednesday, November 7, for a panel discussion with investigative journalist and In These Times Senior Editor Silja J.A. Talvi, Salome Chasnoff, director of Turning a Corner, and a former prostitute featured in Turning a Corner to discuss how women are cycled through U.S. prison systems and what the average female prison experience is. This free event will include a reading from Women Behind Bars and highlighted scenes from Turning a Corner. Copies of Talvi’s book, Women Behind Bars, will be available for sale and signing after the event.
Here's an article on Alternet from last Thursday with more about the book.
November 15th; 6:00-9:00pm
Turning a Corner
Events Building Theater, 4300 N Narragansett Ave
Winner of the John A. McDermott (short) Documentary Film Festival will screen with other shorts
This is a free event. Light refreshments will be provided.For more information contact Yvonne Nieves at (312) 673-3871 or ynieves@crs-ucc.org
Co-sponsored by the Wilbur Wright College Special Events Committee.
Girl Fest Hawaii
The Honolulu Academy of Arts
Doris Duke Theater
900 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Turning A Corner
November 15th; 7:30 pm
Real Talk: Engaging Young Man as Allies to End Violence Against Women
Sunday, November 18th at 5 pm
For more information please visit www.girlfesthawaii.org
October 29th; 6:30-8:30pm
Beyond Disability: The FeFe's Stories & Doin' It: Sex, Disability & Videotape
The Women's Center - Student Center Room 314
The Empowered FeFes, a group of young women with disabilities, hit the streets of Chicago on a quest to discover the difference between how they see themselves and how others see them. A panel discussion will follow the movie screening.
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL
September 27th; 7:30pm
Turning A Corner
Landmark's E Street Cinema
555 11th Street NW
Washington, DC
Turning A Corner will be screening as part of the Urban Film Series: 2007 Black Docs program. For more information please visit www.urbanfilmseries.com. It will be presented by Illinois Representative, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).
September 28th; 11:00am
Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape
September 29th; 10:30am
Why They Gotta Do Me Like That?: The Empowered Fe Fes Take on Bullying
National Museum of Women in the Artsn's Film & Media Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts' 20th Anniversary celebration.
For more information go to www.nmwa.org/filmfest/
August 15th & 16th; 7:30pm
"HIV: History In Voices"
Youth Theatre and Media Workshop Presentation;
Hoover-Leppen Theatre in Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted, Chicago
Beyondmedia Education invites you and your guests to the preview showcase of HIV: History In Voices. The showcase will include a special sneak peek at the new Beyondmedia-produced, youth-authored sex education video, and a performance by LGBTQ and allied youth of About Face Youth Theatre developed from their experiences growing up in the culture of HIV and AIDS.
Two nights only:
August 15 and 16, 2007 at 7:30 pm
AUGUST 15 IS BEYONDMEDIA NIGHT!
Suggested donation at the door: $20 for adults, youth are free RSVP@aboutfacetheatre.com. For more information contact Beyondmedia at 773-973-2280
Click on the flyer image above to see the full version.
The History In Voices workshop is a collaboration of About Face Youth Theatre, Beyondmedia Education and Broadway Youth Center.
July 9th-July 20th,
History In Voices: A Documentary Theatre Workshop
This summer About Face Youth Theatre, Beyondmedia Education and Broadway Youth Center will be hosting, History In Voices: A Documentary Theatre Workshop from July 9th-July 20th, Monday-Friday from 10am-4pm.
In this workshop, we will be videotaping and staging stories about what it is like to grow up in the era of HIV and AIDS. We will be telling stories about the state of sex education in America, beginning with the Reagan administration and ending with the Bush administration. And as an ensemble, we will be exploring why LGBTQ young people are overburdened with the subject of HIV and AIDS, while they are paradoxically omitted from sex education curriculum in America.
The workshop is open to high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and their straight allies.
About Face Youth Theatre will be joining forces with Beyondmedia Education and the Broadway Youth Center to create a sex ed video, a mainstage play, and a full-length documentary about our process and our subject. All participants who attend this workshop will be:
*Trained on Video Cameras
*Shoot and interview people for our new, hip, and relevant sex ed video
*Trained as qualified peer educators on sexual health
*Trained in performance and script writing
*Contribute as a performer and writer for the live public performance based on the stories and information gathered during the workshop
*And receive a stipend for participatingIn addition, participants will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with journalists, doctors, scholars, directors, actors, comedians and choreographers informed on the subjects of sex education, HIV/ AIDS, the media, theatre and much more all within a local, national and global framework.
Friday, July 14th & July 28th; 8:00pm
"Community, Media and You" on CAN-TV
Dannette Hoarde, manager of the Beyondmedia's Women and Prison Project, and associate director Joanne Archibald are interviewed on “Community, Media and You” Saturdays July 14th and 28th at 8 p.m. on Chicago’s CAN-TV Channel 21. The show is produced by the Community Media Workshop in partnership with CAN-TV.
If you miss it, you can view archives of Community, Media & You at
YouTube and Google Video.
Friday, July 21st; Noon - 2:00pm
"Turning a Corner" Screening at the SF Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest
The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Fest will be screening "Turning a Corner" in their programming this year.
Friday, June 1st; 12:30pm - 5:00pm
SisterSong's "Let's Talk About Sex!" screening
Six Beyondmedia films are featured at SisterSong's "Let's Talk About Sex!" Conference in Chicago, May 31 - June 3, 2007, hosted by African American Women Evolving.
12:30pm - Turning A Corner (60m)
2:45pm - Doin' It: Sex, Disability & Videotape (35m)
3:20pm - Respect Me, Don't Media Me (30m)
3:50pm - A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark (17m)
4:10pm - Can LGBTQ + School = Safe? (28m)
4:40pm - Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies to End Violence Against Women (28m)
5:10 - 6:00pm Discussion with Beyondmedia Filmmakers
Wyndham O'Hare, 6810 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemount, IL 60018
More information at: www.sistersong.net
Thursday, June 7th; 7:00pm
Benefit at T's Bar
Beyondmedia benefit at T's bar, in the hip and vibrant Andersonville Neighborhood at 5025 Clark, on the southeast corner of Clark Street and Winnemac Avenue.
Have some fun and support Beyondmedia too!
Monday, June 11th; 9:00pm
Benefit at Dannys Tavern
Beyondmedia benefit at Dannys Tavern, in the Wicker Park Neighborhood at 1951 W Dickens Ave, near the corner of Dickens and Damen Ave.
Have some (more) fun and support Beyondmedia too!
Wednesday, June 13th, 8:00pm
Storytelling Forum
Beyondmedia will be part of a special forum, free to the public, discussing the importance of storytelling in our everyday lives, how it impacts the arts and why it remains a vital means of expression. This is part of WNEP Theater¹s 8th Annual SKALD - a week-long festival celebrating the art of storytelling.
DCA Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St., Chicago
More information: www.wneptheater.org
Friday, June 15th; 9:00am - 5:00pm
Community Media Summit
Beyondmedia will be part of a panel discussion on Creative Expression & Learning through Community Media, moderated by Tony Streit. Other panelists represent the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Video Machete, and Kenwood Charter School.
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Ave.
For registration and more information: http://www.newstips.org/summit/
June 21st - June 24th
Changing Media Changing Minds: Abolishing the Incarceration-Nation
Beyondmedia workshop (June 23rd 1:45pm - 3:15pm) at at the Free Minds, Free People conference, bringing together teachers, youth, parents, researchers and community-based educators from across the country to build an Education for Liberation movement.
Little Village/Greater Lawndale Social Justice High School,
3120 S. Kostner Ave., Chicago
For more information on a full conference schedule and how to register see: www.edliberation.org/conference
Saturday, June 23, 2:00pm
"Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories" will screen in a workshop at the
Allied Media Conference (June 22-24) in Detroit. The workshop, Inclusive
Media: Supporting A Movement That Transforms Attitudes About Disability And
Challenges Institutions, runs from 2:00 to 3:20 pm.
For more information: www.alliedmediaconference.org
June 27th - July 1st
The US Social Forum: Another World is Possible, Another US is Necessary
An open platform to discuss alternatives to the economic plans created by multi-national corporations and the governments at the World Economic Forum.
Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories will be screened at 2pm on Saturday, June 30 at the Seven Stages Theater.
Atlanta, GA
For more information: http://www.ussf2007.org/en
June 28th - July 1st
National Women's Studies Association Conference
Beyondmedia will be a presence at the National Women¹s Studies Association (NWSA) conference. Stop by our table in the exhibit hall as well as checking out the activities listed below!
Thursday, June 28
Beyondmedia will be part of the pre-conference "Girls' Studies and Activism Professional Development Tour"
Friday, June 29 8:00 a.m.
Screening Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories 26 min.
Friday, June 29 1:30pm - 2:45pm
A panel of educators, youth, and community and media activists will discuss the project and video Can LGBTQ + School = Safe?
Friday, June 29 4:30pm - 5:45pm
Salome Chasnoff will be presenting a workshop, "Doing Media Activism with Girls and Young Women"
Saturday, June 30 7:55 pm
Screening Turning a Corner, 58 min.
Pheasant Run resort in St. Charles, IL
For more information: www.nwsaconference.org
May 10th, 2007
Local Reporting and Human Rights Abuses in Chicago
On Thursday, May 10, at 5:30pm, Salome Chasnoff will participate in a panel event along with three award-winning journalists (Jamie Kalven, Beauty Turner, John Conroy) to be held at the Experimental Station in Woodlawn (6100 Blackstone Ave). The panel will be addressing how the systematic underreporting in the mainstream media of police brutality, gender violence, racial discrimination, the public housing crisis, among other issues, has produced a skewed portrait of the city.
Experimental Station , 6100 Blackstone Ave., Chicago.
For more information log on at http://shr.uchicago.edu
April 3, 2007
Turning a Corner screening & discussion with Brenda Myers-Powell, Dorenda Dixon, and Daria Mueller at Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive.
April 15, 2007
Turning a Corner one of three films screening at the Art for Awareness: Shattering the Silence of Sexual Violence festival. 3-7:30pm
Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago. (773) 293-1447
For more information visit www.CAASE.org.
April 26, 2007
Beyondmedia and The Empowered FeFe's screen our two newest movies: Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape and Why They Gotta Do Me Like That?: The Empowered Fe Fes Take on Bullying
Access Living, 115 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago.
Both films are captioned. The event is wheelchair accessible.
Beyondmedia on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN-TV)
You have several chances to view Beyondmedia work during the month of April. You will enjoy them more each time you watch! Tune in to CAN-TV Channel 21 at any (or all!) of the times below to see some of our great work.
- Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes Take on Bullying
Sunday, April 1 @ 5:45PM, 8:18PM
Friday, April 20 @ 10:45PM
Sunday, April 22 @ 8:15PM
Wednesday, April 25 @ 10:47PM
Thursday, April 26 @ 10:15PM
- Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies To End Violence Against Women
Tuesday, April 10 @ 8:30PM
Wednesday, April 18 @ 10:00PM
- Can LGBTQ + School = Safe?
Sunday, April 15 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, April 28 @ 5:05PM
March 6, 2007
Doin' It: Sex, Disability, and Videotape and Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes Take On Bullying screening & discussion with Fannie Outlaw, Veronica Martinez & Sandra Husic (The Empowered Fe Fes), Susan Nussbaum (Access Living) & Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia) at Northeastern Illinois University,
March 9, 2007
Beyondmedia's documentary Seeding Change, Cultivating Leaders, Growing Movements, commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Crossroads Fund screens for over 500 donors, activists, grantees and friends of Crossroads Fund at their annual gala.,
March 10, 2007
Women of Color Film Festival screened Beyond Disability at the Pacific Film Archive Theater.
More info: http://www.rwiff.com
March 11, 2007
Turning a Corner screens at Reel Women International Film Festival
Laemmle's Music Hall 3, Beverly Hills, CA
More info: http://www.rwiff.com
February 12-16, 2007
Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes' Take on Bullying screens and receives an honorable mention in the sixth annual Picture This... International Disability Film Festival at the Rozsa Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada!
More info: www.picturethisfestival.org
February 13, 2007
DOIN' IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE premieres at Columbia College, in a double feature with Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes' Take on Bullying.
February 3, 2007
Chicago Women's Health Center sponsors a screening of Turning a Corner at Links Hall, with a discussion to follow with Lucretia Clay, an advocate for women in the sex trade and active member of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), and Daria Mueller, a policy specialist and organizer for Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
February 7, 2007
CAN LGBTQ + SCHOOL = SAFE? screens at Perspectives Charter School.
February 1, 2007
Voices In Time and What We Leave Behind: A Visible Voices Video screens at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago.
