Special Events

Thursday, February 22 from 9-10 a.m. Live interview for the Women’s Film Festival on Valley Free Radio, 103.3 FM. Marilyn Buhlmann and Sandra Brodsky

Friday, March 9 at 8:30 (Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery) Jocelyn Ajami will be present on opening night to introduce her film, Queen of the Gypsies: The Life of Carmen Amaya and will answer questions afterwards.

Saturday, March 10 at 1:00 (Hooker-Dunham) Vermont Women Living with HIV. March 10th is National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day. To commemorate this day, Twin States Network (an organization that provides programs and services to people of all ages who infected with and affected by Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS) and The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont are joining to present a special event as part of the Women's Film Festival. They will show a 45 minute documentary: Postive Profiles in Courage: Vermont Women Living with HIV. Five Vermont women/girls tell their stories of living with HIV/AIDS. Following the film there will be a panel of Vermont women who are living with HIV/AIDS and local HIV/AIDS service providers. There will also be a staged enactment of how an HIV/AIDS test is performed using OraSure. Information on reducing the risk of getting HIV/AIDS and information on where and how to get tested for HIV/AIDS will be available. The event will be ASL-interpreted and is free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

Monday, March 12 at 6:30 (New England Youth Theater) Panel discussion on child labor practices with the activist group CLEA, from BUHS, connected to the film, China Blue, a documentary about adverse labor practices in China.

Thursday, March 15 from 9-10 a.m. Live interview with a film director for the Women’s Film Festival on Valley Free Radio, 103.3 FM.

Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 (News England Youth Theater) Film makers Richard Kane and Melody Lewis-Kane will be here to introduce M.C. Richards: The Fire Within and will answer questions afterwards. Copies of the DVD will be available at the showing.

Friday, March 16 at 8:30 (Hooker-Dunham) Lilly Rivlin will be present to introduce her film, Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Fight For Peace and will answer questions afterwards.

Saturday, March 17 at 4:00 p.m. (Hooker-Dunham) Madeleine May Kunin, former Vermont state legislator, Lieutenant Governor, Governor of Vermont
(first woman governor in the state), and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies at UVM and St Michael’s College, will introduce Daughters of Afghanistan, and stay for a Q & A afterwards.

Sunday, March 18 at 8:30 (Hooker-Dunham) Local and renowned film makers Lisa Merton and Alan Dater will be present to introduce their inspiring and moving film, Roots of Change, at a special preview showing.