FILM SUGGESTIONS
Excellent Event Ideas FREE or at reasonable cost
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Season for Nonviolence Video Overview
Produced by the Association for Global New Thought
A seven minute video overview of the SNV Campaign since inception. Includes narration and a musical slideshow of photos submitted by SNV task forces all over the world. Good presentation tool to introduce the SNV Campaign to new audiences.
Abraham Path Initiative: Youth Exchange Pilgrimage
Produced by the Abraham Path Initiative (Project on Negotiation at Harvard University)
A short video documenting the first youth journey in spring, 2008, taken along the path. It is a very inspiring glimpse into the thoughts and feelings expressed by international youth as they experience the diversity of the region, and hospitality of their local hosts.
Organize a Compassion Dinner in Your Community
Produced by Rev. Donna Byrns & the Church of Truth
Inspired by the Association for Global New Thought’s Compassion Banquets at the annual Awakened World Conference, Rev. Donna Byrns of Pasadena’s Church of Truth supplies a presentation describing how you can engage your own community in this effective program to relive hunger.
Many Roads
Produced by Rainmaker Digital Media
A powerful one minute promotional video with digitally generated graphic images to create a profound understanding of the Season for Nonviolence concept. Narrated by guest actor, Adam Arkin.
MORE VIDEOS & FILMS
A FORCE MORE POWERFUL
Click here for OVERVIEW and SUMMARY
Website: www.aforcemorepowerful.org
Two possible sources for the film:
1. Bernard Lafayette's assistant at U Rhode Island -- Fiona 401-874-2875
2. Dr. Lawrence Carter's assistant at MLK Chapel at Morehouse -- Muriel 404-215-2608
Also at Morehouse you might try:
Thonnia Lee
Office of Institutional Advancement
Senior Communications Specialist
Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 681-2800, ext. 3300 {VOICE}
(404) 215-2729 {FAX}
tlee@morehouse.edu
IN REMEMBRANCE OF MARTIN
Produced and directed by Kell Kearns
flagpeace@msm.com
928-773-77976
Running time: 57:40
WHISPERS ON THE WIND: a film for Peace
Filmmakers Ann Crawford and Arn Battaglene traveled the world asking 3 questions: What are we doing here? Why is there so much suffering in the world? How can we create world peace? Interviewing people from all walks of life they have created a beautiful inspirational documentary.
www.whispersonthewind.org
IHC/Whispers on the Wind
1007 A street
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-459-3952
Synthesis Dialogues DVD - What would happen if you brought together in one place, thirty of the world’s most experienced, influential, and effective activists who have dedicated their lives for the good of Humanity?
This is exactly what the Synthesis Dialogues III has done, under the loving guidance of HH, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Sponsored by the Association for Global New Thought, the events in this program show how joy, love, and peace live in harmony with sorrow, conflict, and disagreement to reveal a more profound Truth. In this rich field of reconciliation, global peace initiatives like “The Abraham Pilgrimage” emerge.
Built around the awakened music of Rickie Byars Beckwith, Karl Anthony, and others, this DVD is both a powerful teaching tool and an entertaining work of art. It is the kind of event you will want to watch many times, and share with your friends. Plus, the bonus elements feature some of the world’s most profound thinkers on Nonviolence, Religious Pluralism, and Peace Activism.
COST OF DVD - $19.95 You may order directly at www.agnt.org
THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS
INQUIRE STATUS FROM BETTINA GRAY: bbgray@creativefilms.com
Journey Films, an independent film company in Alexandria, VA, is in post-production with a 90- minute documentary film titled THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS that looks at the most difficult of all virtues. Different faith traditions take different approaches to the mandate to forgive transgressions.
Character-driven stories are augmented by conversations with Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Buddhist teacher and author Thich Nhat Hahn, Lecturer and Sufi Muslim Azim Khamisa, Riverside Church Pastor James Forbes and Dead Man Walking author Sr. Helen Prejean.
Prior to its release on public television, Journey Films wants to conduct a series of special screenings of the film at various venues around the country. If you are interested in partnering with other organizations in your neighborhood in what could be a high-profile community event, learn more about this opportunity by clicking on this link to JourneyFilms: THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS
Bettina Gray
NAIN - NORTH AMERICAN INTERFAITH NETWORK
Building Bridges of Inter-religious Understanding, Cooperation and Service.
AUDIO RECORDING OF GANDHI SPEECH
From Kingsley Hall in London, 1931
The speech begins with: "There is an undefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it."
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Speech by M.L. King Jr. at New York City’s Riverside Church in 1967. Inspirational audio-video piece for meetings and program events during Season.
Produced by Stephen Travis Pope
Music by S.T. Pope; Video/art by Lane Clark
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Running time: 11:00
"Leur Songe de la Paix" (Their Dream of Peace) is an 11-minute
video/music work that uses a text by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-68) accompanied by computer music by Stephen Travis Pope and
video images by Lane Clark. The motivation is to provide the simplest
possible setting for several excerpts from Dr. King's famous "A Time to
Break Silence" speech, delivered in New York City exactly one year
before his assassination. The music is an abstract concerto in three
movements for many voices, bells, analog synthesizer, orchestral
samples, and Morse-code program. Lane Clark's mesmerizing video uses a
series of painted slides to accompany the text and music. The video is
intended for projection together with a separate video in which the
text of the speech scrolls by.
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The text (excerpts from Dr. King's "A Time to Break Silence" speech
delivered at the Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967):
(1)
Oh, our government, and the press generally, won't tell us these
things, but God told me to tell you this morning: the truth must be
told. Oh my friends, if there is any one thing that we must see today,
it is that these are revolutionary times. A nation that continues year
after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of
social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
I am convinced, that if we are to get on the right side of the world
revolution, then we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of
values. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the
glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. A
true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness
and justice of many of our past and present policies It will look
across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing
huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the
profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries
and say, "this is not just." A true revolution of values will lay hands
on the world order, and say of war, "this way of settling differences
is not just." Our only hope today lives in our ability to recapture the
revolutionary spirit.
(2)
I have not lost faith; I'm not in despair, because I know that there is
a moral order. And don't let anybody make you think that God chose
America as his divine messianic force to be, a sort of policeman of the
whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with
judgement, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America, "You are
too arrogant; and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and
break the backbone of your power."
No lie can live forever. You shall reap what you sow.
We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a
person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives
and property rights are considered more important than people, the
giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are
incapable of being conquered.
(3)
Let me say finally that I oppose the war because I love America. I
speak out against this war not in anger, but with anxiety and sorrow in
my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved
country stand as the moral example for the world. Men will beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and
nations will not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war
any more, and I don't know about you, but I'm not going to study war
any more.
I call on Washington today; I call on every man and woman of good will
all over America today, I call on the young men of America who must
make a choice today.
Take a stand on this issue; tomorrow may be too late.
The book may close.
Two new 2007 films for Jews, Palestinians, everyone to illustrate what it looks like when diverse people young and old, even “enemies” Connect, Communicate, and Change. The principles are universal, beginning with a new quality of listening in homes, institutions, communities and nations.
Because of the urgency on Earth these DVDs will continue to be gifted to whoever will use them.
DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH
DVD - 43 minutes
A Jewish and a Palestinian exemplar model how to connect with the "other" beginning with personal Story. Tenth grade high school students then engage each other in dyads with a new quality of listening. The diverse youth speak about their new way of communicating.
A 2007 film by the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group San Mateo, California, USA. Request DVD at http://traubman.igc.org/vidschool.htm
PEACEMAKERS:
Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp
DVD - 83 minutes
The partnership of a Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue and 85-year-old camp brings together in the California mountains140 Muslims, Jews and Christians of all ages, including from Israel and Palestine. They discover one another and their ability to communicate and cooperate in new ways. Back down the mountain, they hold a public San Francisco event to
tell the community about their struggles and breakthroughs.
A 2007 film by the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group & Camp Tawonga
California, USA Request DVD at http://traubman.igc.org/vidcamp.htm
To help educators and facilitators, we have also newly created to be downloaded:
STORY AS ENTRY TO RELATIONSHIP: Teachers Guide
http://traubman.igc.org/vidschoolguide.htm
TRAILERS CAN BE VIEWED AT:
DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPEt6ExkEM
PEACEMAKERS: Palestinian & Jews Together at Camp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3tgx_qJi0
GLOBAL ONENESS PROJECT
Series of short films and interviews
Trailer can be downloaded here; full videos are available at: http://www.globaloneness.org
The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
We're traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.
We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Uluru, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:
We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.
We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.
The Global Oneness Project is a special project of Kalliopeia Foundation, a private grant-making foundation in northern California committed to honoring the unity at the heart of life’s rich diversity.
BIG PICTURE SMALL WORLD:
Many short films to view or buy on the website
Website: www.bigpicturesmallworld.com
BigPictureSmallWorld Inc. is dedicated to providing quality educational, training, and consulting programs that inform, inspire and empower. We work with schools, colleges, corporations, and organizations around the world. Our mission is to turn information overload into sensible knowledge that leads to effective action. More specifically, we seek to motivate and excite students, executives, and others about the wonders and challenges of the global predicament and how we can participate in shaping the world to match our values. We use simulations, games, web movies, lectures, assemblies, teacher development, consulting, books, and curriculum materials toward this purpose.