Join us in Solidarity Books on Wed. May 22nd 9pm for a ThreePenny showing of “Network (1976)” Dir: Ingmar Bergman Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Film description follows :
“ A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor’s ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks’ nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.
The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky).
In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has “set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment”.2 In 2006, Chayefsky’s script was voted one of the top-ten screenplays by the Writers Guild of America, East.
In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier.
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All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGgsJ26dao
Related link: http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/threepenny-kino-network-1976
Veg Out Cafe
Delicious Vegan food (..not just for Vegans!), at the Veg Out Cafe every Tuesday from 7pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street (across from Fionn Barra’s)
Suggested donation appreciated: 5 euro – all welcome!
Thanks for all your support and hunger – Solidarity, good food and even better conversation
All the Veg Out team!
Category: cookery
UCC EnviroSoc and Solidarity Books welcome you to the screening of ‘Do the Math’, the new 42-minute documentary by climate leader Bill McKibben about the rising movement in the United States to change the terrifying maths of the climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry.
For global solidarity, screenings of the film are being organised on May 16th all over the world.
Feel free to join us afterwards for a short discussion about the film, the climate crisis and what we can do about it.
The Official Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zfinOCgRQ0
You can join the event here on Facebook and/or via this link: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/5355
Free entry/donations welcome.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
For more infos on upcoming events check out SolidarityBooks.org.
https://www.facebook.com/events/551585748226697/
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/solidaritybooks-ucc-presents-dothemath
*Thursday Toddlers Group in Solidarity Books! *
This Thursday and every Thursday from 10am to 1pm :)
Reply to this mail for more info – Hope to see ye there!
Related link:
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/toddler-group
*The Threepenny Kino: GasLand (2010) 107 mins. Dir. Josh Fox Wed. May 8th 9pm @solidaritybooks *
Join us in Solidarity Books on Wed. May 8th 9pm for a showing of GasLand (2010) 107 mins. Dir. Josh Fox
Film description follows :
“Gasland is a 2010 documentary by filmmaker Josh Fox. When gas companies came knocking on Josh’s door in his home state of Pennsylvania looking to lease his land for shale gas exploitation, Josh decided to investigate further. He traveled across the US, to communities where shale gas drilling, aka fracking, is taking place. The testimonies from people reveal a highly polluting, secretive industry that has devastated people’s drinking water, land, and air, and their health.
In Ireland, two companies are seeking to explore for and extract shale gas, Tamboran Resources in the Northwest, and Enegi Oil in Co. Clare. These areas are currently under options licences, and the two companies have now applied for exploration licences. The government has sought to reassure concerned citizens by stating that no fracking will take place until the Environmental Protection Agency has completed its study, probably not til at least 2014. However, despite many petitions from citizens, the EPA is not including health impacts in its study. If it is found that the host of environmental problems associated with fracking can be ‘regulated’, it could be given the green light.
While the communities currently under licence are relatively isolated, together they form the Shannon River Basin. The Shannon provides drinking water for a wider area and would become contaminated should fracking take place. There are also shale gas deposits in more extended areas of Ireland than are currently under licence, parts of North Cork included. This is a national issue.
In Gasland, communities impacted by fracking send out a clear message: fracking has devastated our health and our communities; don’t allow it to happen to you.
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All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8
Related link: https://www.facebook.com/events/562363347141059/?context=create
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/threepenny-kino-gasland-2010
Workshop: Homemade Sounds: Sound, instrument building and improv – this Saturday in Solidarity Books Cork
This Saturday May 4th at 3pm, Solidarity Books will be proud to host a free workshop for folk of all ages – children, musicians, educators and other humans – on making musical instruments from recycled materials, understanding sound, tools and improvisation practices AND a live performance at 5pm…
Facilitated by Alberto Piccinni –
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Alberto Piccinni aka ibn kalb was born in Capo di Leuca (Italy). Nowadays he works on different cooperation projects acting as educator, musician, sound curator or project manager.“Art, music and social tasks are connected in the same ethical and aesthetical centanty that let him working on different contexts all over the world (France, Portugal, Saharawi Refugee Camps, Argentina, Egypt, Germany, Spain, Ireland as well as Italy). He graduated at Bologna University. Starting as guitarist, he uses many not conventional instruments built by waste materials realizing sounds, performances, workshops, shows interacting also with visual art, theatre, cinema. The research on extemporaneous language, on teaching strategies and on using homemade instruments (often built straight during performance) makes his music changeable and his works unpredictable.
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Costs nothing, entry is free – donations as always are appreciated, with interest…
see you there,
Solidarieta!
Related links:
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/homemade-sounds-instrument-building-and-improv
sites.google.com/site/albertopiccinni
https://www.facebook.com/events/158035494366558/?context=create
*Contact for comments/further information – *
email: solidaritybooks@gmail.com
Note to Editor:- Solidarity Books is organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM). The WSM is an Irish anarchist organisation with branches in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast and members in several other places around the country. For more information about the WSM visit our website http://www.wsm.ie
Mayday cinema with The Threepenny Kino at Solidarity Books…
Wednesday, May 1st – 9pm*
Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher
(1994) 87 mins. Dir. Nick Broomfield
Tracking Down Maggie is a 1994 documentary film by Nick Broomfield about Maggie Thatcher. What begins as a genuine attempt to get an interview with the so-called ‘Iron Lady’ quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in the United States, with the filmmaker snubbed at every turn.
Forget movies like The French Connection, Italian Job and Ronin – Tracking Down Maggie is the greatest movie ‘chase’ of them all!
Basically one and a half hours of the filmmaker being rigorously denied access to his subject, the outcome exposes sides of Thatcher that more hands-on portraits might never approach.
Merely by ramming home the extent to which she is sealed off by her minders, Broomfield evokes the delusions of Imperial pomp and creeping paranoia which envelop her.
Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB8g65BNcpk
related link:
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/three-penny-kino-tracking-down-maggie
*All of our films will be scheduled for 9pm from now on
CELEBRATE MAY DAY!
Today at 7:00pm
Connolly Hall,Siptu in Cork
60 people are going
https://www.facebook.com/events/455144594568330/
A 2013 visit into the Gaza Strip – 3 pm, Saturday 27th April 2013,
Solidarity Bookshop, Douglas Street Cork
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign would like to invite you to a presentation by one of our members who recently visited the Gaza Strip.
Karim met a wide variety of people during his trip and recorded these encounters in photographs that will be shown in Solidarity Bookshop, Douglas Street Cork during the talk.
He will share with us his feelings, observations and stories about the daily life of Gazans: their hopes, difficulties and struggles as a result of the Israeli blockade, five months after the last Israeli military attack in November 2012 on this small strip of land.
Everyone is welcome.
related link:
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/2013-visitintothegazastrip
Join us in Solidarity Books on Wed. April 24th 8pm for a showing of From Nomad to Nobody (2011) 55 mins / Meltdown in Tibet (2009) 39 mins Dir. Michael Buckley
Film description follows :
From Nomad to Nobody (2011) 55 mins / Meltdown in Tibet (2009) 39 mins Dir. Michael Buckley
“In From Nomad to Nobody, the narrator sets off on a personal quest, focusing on the fast-disappearing Tibetan nomad culture. Why are the nomads being forcibly relocated by Chinese officials? Why are they are being shifted off their traditional grazing lands into concrete ghettos?
Using undercover footage and stills, Meltdown in Tibet blows the lid off China’s huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. The mighty rivers sourced in Tibet are lifelines to the people of India and Southeast Asia. These rivers are at great risk from rapidly receding glaciers and from large-scale damming and diversion. To make way for these hydropower projects and for mining ventures, Tibetan nomads are being forced off their traditional grassland habitat—and resettled in bleak villages, where they cannot make a decent living.
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All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnZ_a6g1-AU
Related link: http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/threepenny-kino-from-nomad-to-nobody
