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Full Speech: Legendary Activist Angela Davis at Women's March on Washington

Kevin Costner gave one of the best performances of the year ..Hidden Figures (2017)

Kevin Costner should have been in the mix for best supporting actor, It is an insightful performance .. Too bad every awards show overlooked him

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WATER RUNS OUT? SUNDANCE Doc AND PBS address the issue

Here at SUNDANCE the question of water and the greed around the privatizing of a natural resource is the subject of POWER AND WATER: The California Heist (http://www.sundance.org/projects/water-power-a--heist). While the very well done and the informative doc is about California. it is a worldwide phenomenon. Enron at its collapse was in a spending campaign to buy up water rights in South America. Now this informative and scary report on water from PBS. It is not just Flint!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/affordable-water-may-soon-dry-especially-live/#.WIoouL1ni60.facebook

John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016)

This is the last know interview that John Berger gave before his death in the alps on January 2, 2017.   His gift to all of us was to open our imaginations and most importantly our eyes

Published on Nov 7, 2016

Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.

Berger lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps, where the nearness to nature, the world of the peasants and his motorcycle, which for him deals so much with presence, inspired his drawing and writing.

The film introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film-director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohr as well as two of his children, film-critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger.

The prelude and starting point is Berger's mind-boggling experience of restored vision following a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of his clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers the irredeemable wonder of seeing.

Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with John Berger leading in his favourite role of the storyteller.

Director: Cherie Dvorák

WHOSE STREETS?

I wish I could have had everyone I have every ran in the streets with trying to make a better world from the days Gay Liberation Front and the Anti-War movement in the 1960s to this year with Gays Against  Guns and Rise and  Resist, sitting with me on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival and the world premiere of WHOSE STREET. An honest look at what actually happened in Ferguson Mo after Michael Brown was murdered by the Ferguson police. How the community that actually lived there.reacted. WHOSE STREET is truth telling from the actual people who participated rather than a 90sec news spot. For me, it was the perfect film to see on the night before DTs inauguration.  We can if we work together still make a better world despite whatever obstacles are put in front of us. History teaches that it is and has been possible.  So to all of you in DC keep each other safe and know I am there in spirit. Here in Park City, UT  home of the Sundance Film Festival, I will be participating in the locally organized WOMEN'S MARCH 

Here you can learn about WHOSE STREET .....

WHOSE STREETS?

John Berger and Susan Sontag / To Tell A Story (1983)

 A little something to get your mind off of the DTs for a few moments and allow yourself to look in and ask in what way can I be creative in resistance and not loose my humanity..... or sense of craft and yes humor. Ah John Berger and my missed friend Susan Sontag

MY DEMON SISTER YES, it is time for artists to step up and speak truth from the heart,, My Demon Sister (featuring Dolly Dolly) - Hooray for Dolly Wood

BE NOT AFRAID to combine beauty and truth,..... we can not let them steal, the landscape of hope ., Thank you, David Yates, Robert Conroy, Cara Maria O'Shea.  MY DEMON SISTER 

"Echo's Answer" - My Demon Sister (the return of Robert Conroy)

WOW,, Robert Conroy has re-invented himself,  The power of that voice is intact ...but oh my ...My Demon Sister ... and the new image .. oh-oh my!

 From the "Echoes Answers" EP by My Demon Sister


From the "Echoes Answers" EP by My Demon Sister

Directed, shot and edited by Cara Maria O'Shea

Starring Robert Conroy, and featuring special guest star, 

Ms. Anna  Copa Cabanna 

My Demon Sister is Robert Conroy, aided and abetted by Anna Copa 

Cabanna on vocals; Alex Gimeno  and  Mike Grimes - electronics and 

samples; Michael Harren - piano; 

Jonny Perl - guitars, keys, electronics & samples, and David 

Yates - vocals



Produced, engineered & mixed by Alex Gimeno


Vocals recorded and engineered by Joe McGinty


Mastered by Nik Kozub


MDS logo design by Aaron Lazar



Music and lyrics by Patricia Ann Keenan (PRS), James Edward Cargill 
(

PRS) and Richard Bancroft Stevens (PRS) Island Music Ltd. / 

Universal / Island Music Ltd.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL JAN 21st 2017 WOMAN"S MARCH in solidarity with the over 300 Women's marches WILL TAKE PLACE IN PARK CITY.CHELSEA HADLER i will join local women,men, kids and festival attendees

SUNDANCE 2017: I will be in Park City Utah attending the Sundance Film Festival while some of you will be in DC on the 20th and 21st participating in the DC actions

against the Trump agenda, Some of you will be in your hometown marching together in your local WOMEN'S MARCH. I will join with local women in Park City who have organized in solidarity with over 300 Marches in the US A WOMEN" S MARCH TO PROTEST THE TRUMP AGENDA, AND IT'S ATTACK ON A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CONTROL HER OWN BODY! AND THE DEFUNDING OF WOMEN"S HEALTH CLINICS.

Chelsea Handler is speaking, and I are surely many other women and men attending SUNDANCE will join in. I know I am.

Handler said, "Sundance has always been a platform for change: not only for filmmakers and filmmaking but also for big ideas for the future. If there's anything I learned in the last year, it's that we need to be louder and stronger than ever about what we believe in, so I joined some incredible women from around the country to bring our voices together in the streets of Park City. The Women's March on Main will be an opportunity for the creative community and those in Utah to stand beside those in D.C."

While this is not sponsored by the non-profit SUNDANCE INSTITUE the producer of the Sundance Film Festival, its founder Robert Redford I am sure will have something to say. The opening press conference will I suspect be the place he will say something  

During the festival, a variety of related events will be taking place. I will be posting other events during Sundance that will be a response to the Trump agenda, And if there is a live stream I will post that info.

Here is the first one I know of and I am excited because Jehane Noujaim who directed THE SQUARE an Academy Award nominated and Sundance premiered documentary as well as CONTROL ROOM an insightful look inside of Al Jazeera

Take 5 is a film series from Sundance Now consisting of 5-minute documentaries exploring a single timely topic. The series offers filmmakers a voice in discussing important issues and is geared to starting the public conversation.

Sundance Now “Take 5: A More Perfect Patriot” Filmmakers, including:

Jordan Ching – Director and co-founder of Northbound Films, creating socially relevant short films.

Jason Cohen – Academy Award®-nominated producer/director for the doc short, Facing Fear; co-producer of HBO's Emmy®-nominated Black Tar Heroin: Dark End of the Street and Emmy®-winning HBO Doc White Light/Black Rain.

Kiran Deol – Actress and director; shortlisted for an Academy Award® and Emmy®-nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft for her documentary short Woman Rebel.

Razan Ghalayini – Field Producer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and documentary filmmaker whose last film, We Are The Giant, premiered at Sundance Film Festival.

Keith Maitland – Shortlisted for an Academy Award® for his documentary Tower.

Jehane Noujaim – Award-winning filmmaker and an Academy Award®-nominated director for The Square, which won numerous awards including a DGA, an International Documentary Award, and the first film to win the Audience Award at both the Sundance and Toronto film festivals.

Friday, January 20th 1:00-2:00 p.m. MT, following the 2017 US Presidential Inauguration

SundanceTV House 268 Main St, Park City, UT 8406

Attendees of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival will get a sneak peek into the next season of Sundance Now’s boundary-pushing short film series Take 5during a thought-provoking panel about the notion of patriotism. The panel will take place following the Presidential Inauguration on January 20th.

OPERA IS THE NEW BLACK Doubt in HD Trailer

The word Opera becomes like the word curator has been kidnapped by jobless Ph.D. candidates and has become devalued by their use of it to cover a mess of work. BUT but it is amazing to actually learn that contemporary musicians are border crossing and seeding and pruning new work that justifies the description OPERA... I think of Roddy Bottum (Imperial Teen, Faith No more ) and the preview of an opera he is working that was done as part of two nights of emerging opera composers at Roulette last year. I think of the young composers like Nick Hallett seeded by Meredith Monk and Philip Glass. I will at length in a separate post discuss contemporary opera in depth, But I wanted you to get a taste of work that you may be familiar with as an award-winning play and film: DOUBT: here is an excerpt: (remember heightened musical spectacle)

Fearless Meryl Streep's powerful speech at the Golden Globes (2017)

Made me proud to be a long-time member of the Actor's Unions (SAG_AFFTRA, AEA) ...For pointing out an actor's tools include empathy and compassion. Her defense of journalists was both appropriate and chilling Thank you, Meryl, for not being afraid.

Rough Trade - What's the Furor About the Führer?

A SONG MORE RELEVANT TODAY THAN WHEN IT WAS FIRST RECORDED   Rough Trade - What's the Furor About the Führer?Thank You, Carole Pope and Kevin Staples  ... Rough Trade still sizzles in my memory as  the opening night headliner at Danceteria 2 on 21st Street .. And yes its true the support band was from Athens Ga named REM and as well as Joanna Wendt the performace artist from LA

ALERT: Best SONGS of the Year playlist: OK listen up: Here is my playlist of the best songs in 2016... it's personal .. it may not be hip but it is songs that I actually play more than once,,, you need to have Spotify to listen. It is free so download and give a listen. Of course, I may have left out the best song of the year... so your feedback is welcome

1:  radiosexbeat best songs of the year : spotify playlist

2: spotify:user:12101583:playlist:04bklQAAM06PVtKnSfS7xh