When I'm back in the States and sitting alone in my studio, I find blogging much more challenging than when I'm in Kenya awash in new experiences. My post-production work continues as I organize footage, log and transcribe material, and assemble scenes and sequences. The screen grab below gives a…
Kenny is assembling rough cut of Peace in Our Pockets. He's got 40 minutes cut including a couple of opening sequences and introductions to Mary, George, Musonic and Jackie. Bending Sticks screens in New Zealand this month at the ReelEarth Film Festival. We are waiting to hear back from festivals, …
Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty is an Official Selection at the ReelEarth Environmental Film Festival in Palmerston North, NZ. Screening Sat. June 8th @ 1pm at the Te Manawa Art Gallery.
Bending Sticks will screen at The Athens International Film & Video Festival in Athens, Ohio on Saturday, April 13th @ 5:30pm. The screening is part of a four film program, "An Artist's Imagination". The film screens later in the month at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, CA,…
Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty screens at the 31st International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal on Tuesday, March 19th at the Museé D'Art Contemporain. See this nice mention of the film in "The Art Newspaper".
Join us for a screening of the film at the Asheville Ability Arts Fair! on Friday, March 22nd from 4-8pm. The series of events is on the 3rd floor of the Asheville Visitors Center in Asheville, NC. This gathering will expand the conversation on the arts, disability, and community services…
"The Peace Room" at The Tribe I took this panorama shot with my iPhone inside room 415 at the Tribe Hotel. It was three days after Monday's election. It captures the positions the Sisi Ni Amani office team took through much of this long election week. Each team member juggled…
The Sisi Ni Amani staff spent the entire day answering calls from their partners and watching news of the election. Their contacts in different areas have been calling in with information about incidents and requests for peace messages to be sent out. Reports and rumors of violence needed to be…
I joined the Sisi Ni Amani office staff in the early morning hours as they began their election day work of monitoring and messaging. They've created a communications headquarters at a hotel in Nairobi for safety reasons and to ensure they have access to electricity. News from the field indicates…
It's Sunday, March 3rd, the day before Kenya's historic National elections. In the past few days and weeks CNN, the New York Times, the Financial Times and others have published many misleading, sensationalist and irresponsible articles but I'm seeing a different reality on the ground. I feel little incidents of…