Documentary
Films & Slide Shows
Films by Community Groups
Storytelling & Personal Presentations
Our lease with the cafe stipulates that Wednesday
and Thursday nights the School may use the cafe space beginning at 7 pm.
This is a larger, public space that we have set aside for less formal,
more accessible events.
Documentary Films
We are seeking volunteers to show films one week a month. Choose,
promote, and show the films, and hold the discussion afterwards. We have
a budget of about $50 per film. One night per month -- second Thursday
of the month -- is now filled. See 'events' for details.
Slide shows
Members of the community are invited to discuss their travels, experiences,
and ideas.You may include a variety of media, such as video, slides, and
writing material, to make the presentation more dynamic. We have
set aside one Thursday night per month for this activity.
Wednesday Nights
These evenings are also available at the cafe for community groups. At
the moment Alaskans for Peace & Justice is showing films on the first
and third Wednesdays of each month.
Organizing Wednesday or Thursday Nights
We are looking for a staff person to
coordinate the various activities we are holding and hoping to hold on
Thursday night. This includes: finding, helping, and working with people
and groups who want to take responsibility for specific nights. A
stipend is available for this position: $10 per hour for 5 - 15 hours
per week.
Storytelling
“I was walking one Sunday afternoon several years
ago with an older friend. We went by the ruining log house that had belonged
to his grandparents and great-grandparents. The house stirred my friend’s
memory, and he told how the old-time people used to visit each other in
the evenings, especially in the long evenings of the winter. There used
to be a sort of institution in our part of the country known as ‘sitting
till bedtime.’ After supper, when they weren’t too tired,
neighbors would walk across the fields to visit each other. They popped
corn, my friend said, and ate apples and talked. They told each other
stories. They told each other stories, as I knew myself, that they all
had heard before. Sometimes they told stories about each other, about
themselves, living again in their own memories and thus keeping their
memories alive. Among the hearers of these stories were always the children.
When bedtime came, the visitors lit their lanterns and went home. My friend
talked about this, and thought about it, and then he said, ‘They
had everything but money.’
“They were poor, as country people have often
been, but they had each other, they had each other’s comfort when
they needed it, and they had their stories, their history together in
that place. To have everything but money is to have much. And most people
of the present can only marvel to think of neighbors entertaining themselves
for a whole evening without a single imported pleasure and without listening
to a single minute of sales talk.” What are People For?,
Wendell Berry, pages 158-159
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