We are excited to have our first screening in Durham, NC! The Southern Documentary Fund and the Center for Documentary Studies are pleased to present a free screening of Peace in Our Pockets Friday, Feb. 26th @ 7pm at the Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus, 320 Blackwell St., Durham, NC. …
Patrick shares about his piece, "Wonder" installed at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.
We are excited to announce the broadcast premiere of Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty on public TV in 2016. Thanks to the Southern Documentary Fund, UNC-TV, and SCETV for birthing the REEL SOUTH Series. More about the series. . . REEL SOUTH 2016 The American South – its…
This excerpt from BENDING STICKS will be on view at the Smithsonian's newly renovated Renwick Gallery as part of a new exhibit featuring a Dougherty stick sculpture. Nine major contemporary artists have been invited to install works that respond to the architectural spaces of this historic landmark in Washington, DC.…
Thanks to Kariobangi Mirror and others for hosting the third slum tour screening of Peace in Our Pockets in Mathare #10, Nairobi. Lead organizer of these events, Willis Adika Adeya wrote that this new initiative is awessome as it allows them to reach many people and engage in debate and…
"CBS Sunday Morning" airs a segment on Patrick Dougherty with mention of "Bending Sticks" on Sunday, March 15th. Program info can be found here.
The following article comes via Building Peace, an online magazine from Alliance for Peacebuilding. The film references the tension and violence in this part of Kenya at a time when I was shooting the film. We are looking forward to March screenings organized as part of Una Hakika, a project…
We are excited to share about two screenings this month. Aweil, South Sudan Helena Puig Larrauri and Michaela Ledesma, co-organizers of Build Peace, reached out to us to bring the film to their good work in South Sudan. Helena wrote: The project in Aweil will introduce a group of people to…
Thanks to Professor Tetsushi Ogata at UC-Berkeley for reaching out to us for our first university screening of the rough cut. In October Professor Ogata showed the film in his class, "Conflict Resolution, Social Change and Cultures of Peace" class, an upper division course taught in the Peace and Conflict…
Last week Yusra Salim at UNDP-Sudan reported back on the rough cut screening of PEACE IN OUR POCKETS at their first ever Social Good Summit. I appreciated Yusra and her colleague Margunn for reaching out to me and arranging for a screening during this busy peacebuilding conference. A focus of…