Encore Screenings Jan 12th at SDH in Nelson: Conceiving Family and Rural Transcapes
After such a great response and turn out at the premieres of both Conceiving Family and Rural Transcapes, Watershed Productions will present a second screening of both films!
Screening Rural Transcapes at 7PM and Conceiving Family 8PM Thursday, January 12th at SelfDesign High, 412 Victoria Street – 2nd Floor of Legion Building, Nelson BC
Tickets are only $10 at the door and there will be a brief Q&A after each screening. You can come to watch one or both films.
Conceiving Family follows (Director/Producer) Amy Bohigian and her partner, Jane Byers, as they adopt biracial 15 month-old twins, Franny and Theo. Their journey to becoming a family, like the other four same-sex couples, is laden with challenges, including confronting the Christian Fundamentalist foster parents who express fear that the children they’ve cared for since birth will now, “grow up to be gay” with parents who are “going to hell for their sins.” Required to live together for two weeks during the kids’ transition they confront their differences in the most surprising ways. Combining personal interviews, intimate footage, and family photos, Conceiving Family tells the collective story of what it takes to become an intentional family.
Rural Transcapes is a topical film that profiles four transgendered individuals who have chosen to live in the rural area of the Kootenays. Christopher Moore is one of the people featured in the film and is the founder of the Trans Connect program, which provides outreach services to transgendered folks around the East and West Kootenays. Amy Bohigian of Watershed Productions was asked by Christopher last year to create an educational tool and the result is this 30 minute film, which delves into the difficult and inspiring stories of courage and authenticity. The film also features Dr. Chris Cochrane and Dr. Esta Porter, two medical professionals based in Nelson who work directly with the transgendered community. At a time when Chaz Bono has made transgendered a household word, let this event create a deeper appreciation of what it truly means for the folks featured in the film.
Visit Watershed Productions website for more info.
Encore screenings of Rural Transcapes & Conceiving Family, Jan 12th
After such a great response and turn out at the premiers of both Conceiving Family and Rural Transcapes, there will be a second screening of both films.
Rural Transcapes at 7PM and Conceiving Family at 8PM on Thursday, January 12th at SelfDesign High, 412 Victoria Street/2nd floor of the Royal Legion. Tickets are only $10 at the door and there will be a brief Q&A after each screening. You can come to watch one or both films…
For more info, visit:
http://watershedproductions.ca/films/
About the Film Maker:
Thurs Dec 8th, Premiere of RURAL TRANSCAPES, a documentary.
Trans Connect Premiere of A Watershed Production, RURAL TRANSCAPES, a documentary.
This topical film profilies four Transgender Folks who have chosen to live in the Kootenays. The movie will be followed by a panel discussion.
The documentary will take you into the lives of a group of transgendered folks who have chosen to live in a rural community as they seek medical support, navigate issues of safety, gain employment, begin a family, and create a place to call home. The film also features Dr. Chris Cochrane and Dr. Esta Porter, two medical professionals based in Nelson who work directly with the transgendered community. Join “Transconnect – The Movie” on facebook to get the updates on this project.
Thursday Dec. 8th, 7pm at SelfDesign High 402 Victoria St, Nelson
http://kootenaytransgender.com
http://watershedproductions.ca/
Extended! 3rd Annual Fair Trade For Peace Holiday Markets: Dec 6th to 8th, 1-4pm!
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Tonight at Back Alley Studio – Dream: An adult play for actors and puppets…
RSVP Here!
Nelson Arts and Heritage Festival
and
Runaway Moon Theatre Company Present:
DREAM
An Adult Play for Actors and Puppets
Based on a Mexican Folk Tale
Created and Performed by
Cathy Stubbington and Zompopo Flores
who presented last years “The World Is Upside Down” at the TNT Playhouse
Tickets: $12 Adults $5 Students – at the door
Back Alley Studio (formerly Livingroom Theatre)
across from Oxygen Art Centre
8 PM, Thursday and Friday, November 10 and 11
Fall Drawing Competition, deadline to enter is Fri Oct 15th!
BC STUDENTS TO BENEFIT IN FALL DRAWING COMPETITION, HOSTED BY VANCOUVER ARTIST DEB CHANEY
VANCOUVER – August 19, 2011 – Local Vancouver Artist, founder of Illuminate The Artist Within™, launches illustration competition for high school art students. Its aim is to increase student awareness of working artists and career opportunities in the arts and to provide an opportunity to have their artwork published. The winners also receive credit at OPUS Art Supplies and attend a 2-day painting workshop valued at $350.
“When I was in high school I LOVED art and had a natural affinity to being creative, however I was not encouraged or supported to pursue an “artsy fartsy” career and did not realize what was possible. It’s my hope that students that are exposed to the contest realize that there are artists out there – like myself – who are making art, being creative, and making a living doing so.”
The Illuminate the Artist Within™ Illustration Competition is open to all high school students across BC.
The winning illustrator receives:
- A $150 gift certificate valid at OPUS Framing and Art Supplies
- A spot on the featured artist page at http://debchaney.blogspot.com
- A 2-day painting workshop valued at $350
- their work will be featured in some Illuminate the Artist Within™ products
Student artists are asked to email their (3) drawings to itawcontest@gmail.com
by Friday October 15th, 2011.
For ideas on what to draw, participants are asked to visit http://debchaney.blogspot.com
The winners will be posted and announced online on Deb’s blog at 7:30 am Tuesday October 25th, 2011.
Illuminate the Artist Within™ is a company whose mission is to playfully and compassionately engage the artist that lives inside each and everyone of us, awakening our creative potential and realizing that our lives are the masterpiece of our own creation.
Chaney is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and has been selling her mixed media abstract paintings internationally for over 10 years. As well as maintaining her own studio practice, she is also a published writer, and workshop facilitator.
Read more about contest: http://debchaney.blogspot.com
For more information, please contact Adrian Sinclair
adrian@transformationprojects.ca | 778.837.8889
