Trip #2: Arresting Power
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Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon
Video screening and conversation about racism, police, white supremacy, resistance, and Portland history. There will be snacks and care. We will appropriate Valentine's day to celebrate LOVE as solidarity, understanding, and respect. Co-directors Jodi Darby, Julie Perini and Erin Yanke will be present. Keith says, “I consider this documentary to be required viewing for Portland artists and activists preparing to confront and/or survive the new era of increasing wealth inequity and government sanctioned racism.”
“Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon documents the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members throughout the past fifty years. The film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements. Utilizing meditative footage taken at sites of police violence, experimental filmmaking techniques, and archival newsreel, Arresting Power creates a space for understanding the impacts of police violence and imagining a world without police.” Further info: http://www.arrestingpower.com/
This event is free, but a $5 donation is suggested
This event is part of 3 Trips: a series of guided experiences with Keith Hennessy (Feb 11-18)
Organizer Circo Zero
Organizer of Trip #2: Arresting Power
Instigated by Keith Hennessy in 2001, Circo Zero makes live performances responding to political crises, while centering queer bodies and ideas. Producing in San Francisco and the broader Bay Area since the mid-1980s, our performances are interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist and decolonial practices. Hennessy is an internationally recognized teacher, performer, and innovator of queer performance.
Deeply rooted in dance, LGBTQ, and activist communities, Circo Zero participates in local and global justice movements, functioning as an artistic laboratory of civic engagement. Instigated by a white queer artist engaged in social justice movements for over 30 years, Circo Zero creates performances that offer a meeting ground for investigations of identity, history, and power.
Circo Zero is one of the more prolific and widely touring of West Coast dance-performance companies. During our 18 year lifespan, we have presented work in more than 70 cities and 23 countries producing more than 15 full-length performances and countless shorter works in spaces ranging from punk anarchist squats to European state theaters to San Francisco beaches. In San Francisco, we have produced performances at YBCA, Dance Mission, CounterPulse, Joe Goode Annex. Circo Zero’s performances have been awarded the Guggenheim, USA Fellowship, Bessie, multiple Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bay Area Goldie, and a San Francisco Award for Performing Arts.
