This Ain't Your Mother's Theater Company
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About this event
COVID-19 has magnified almost every existing structural inequality in our society. And yet, when it comes to health, people are still speaking about wellness as a question of personal rather than social responsibility. Presented by Dance Mission's COMHAR Festival, this four day film festival examines the intersection of health and socio-economic / racial inequities, and how art plays a critical role in the path towards wellness. Art does more than deliver a message. It is itself medicine.Each day we will host a different free, online screening of a film that dives into these topics of art, healing, and public health. Films will be shown via Zoom and also on Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission’s Facebook page. (Note: Zoom is recommended for best screening experience.)
SCHEDULE
Jan 7 at 7pm PST: Unnatural Causes… Is inequality making us sick? A documentary by California Newsreel.
Jan 8 at 7pm PST: reimagining the city as our own. A film by Skywatchers and Irene Gustafson.
Jan 9 at 7pm PST: This Ain’t Your Mother’s Theater Company! A documentary by Bruce Schmiechen featuring the Medea Project.
Jan 10 at 7pm PST: FREE A documentary on Destiny Arts.
ABOUT This Ain’t Your Mother’s Theater Company!
56 min
Stories of heartbreak and healing from The Medea Project – Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle, an ensemble of women working together across backgrounds, race and ages, finding power in telling their raw truths – to themselves and to the world.
Founded in San Francisco County Jail by Rhodessa Jones, The Medea Project brings a unique voice to theater – women whose stories would never be told without the anchor and support of the group’s powerful creative process. And how finding voice is crucial to health.
This Ain’t Your Mother’s Theater Company! is searing dramatic narrative of the deep connections between women’s health and reproductive rights, and the stark realities of rape, of living with HIV, and of women finding their voices through art in a patriarchal and often brutal world.
Featuring Rhodessa Jones, founder & director of The Medea Project.
Music by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids.
Produced, filmed and edited by Bruce Schmiechen.
Organizer Dance Mission Theater
Organizer of This Ain't Your Mother's Theater Company
Dance Mission connects and empowers diverse Bay Area communities and artists through all aspects of dance and dance theater, including the production of new works, instruction, and performance. We are an artist-driven, feminist organization dedicated to building community, addressing social justice issues, exploring cultural identities, promoting inclusivity, and creating a more peaceful world through collective action. Many female artists, artists of color, and culturally specific ensembles consider Dance Mission to be their artistic home. Master teachers of dance and music have created a thriving inter-generational community celebrating cultural traditions, welcoming students of all backgrounds. Dance Mission is also the home of Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade, San Francisco’s groundbreaking, feminist social-change modern dance company.
