My film Finding Common Ground in New Orleans will be screening at this rememberance event for Hurricane Katrina in Portland. Hope yall can make it!


Siren Nation Proudly Presents:

New Orleans Rising
Commemorating Hurricane Katrina & Celebrating New Orleans


Thursday, August 28th
@ The Mission Theater (1624 N.W. Glisan)
Doors at 8:00, Films begin at 8:30.
$10 suggested donation, 21+.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit: Common Grounds Relief & The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. http://www.commongroundrelief.org http://www.nomrf.org

Featuring:

"Finding Common Ground"-- a documentary by PDX filmmaker Walidah Imarisha + several short films on New Orleans.

A panel discussion moderating by S. Renee Mitchell with: Walidah Imarisha, Shane Endicott (ReBuilding Center), Connie Durkee (In Defense of Animals), Nicole Taylor, and Stephanie Shrum.

Panelists will discuss their varied experiences both living and doing relief work in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina.

Live Music by Oz Street Fossils

FINDING COMMON GROUND IN NEW ORLEANS

This 24 minute documentary, shown through activist and poet Walidah Imarisha's lens looks at the effects that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have had on New Orleans and the surrounding area. Through compelling and often heart wrenching interviews with residents, survivors, activists, volunteers and officials, the landscape of a city devastated by a natural disaster but more by criminal negligence, trying to rebuild comes to light. The short documentary is able, through the lens of personal accounts that speak to broader issues and concerns, to capture the pain, the loss and the hope of New Orleans.

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For more information about this event please contact Natalia Kay at info@sirennation.com