THE YES MEN
FREE Film Showing
Tuesday July 14th
Potluck begins 6PM
Film begins 7PM


At the Lucent Phoenix
Located in Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St.
Richmond, VA 23220


The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.

The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO's website. Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives.

Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with.

Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new approach for one final lecture.

The Yes Men is directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith, whose previous credits include the 1999 Sundance Winner “American Movie.” It was released by United Artists.

 

 

 

RVA TV's Last Friday - MayDay Parade from RVA Magazine on Vimeo.

 

 

 

Photo by Jordan Ashe

Lucent Phoenix T-Shirts Now Available for Donation!
Designed and printed by Nolan V. Clarke.

Lucent Phoenix Resource Center t-shirts are now available for $10 and come in several sizes. All proceeds go to benefit the Lucent Phoenix Resource Center located in Gallery5. Your support will help us continue to provide much needed resources to our community and provide for the necessary tools to make the center more accessible and easy to use. Shirts are available at Gallery5 (200 W. Marshall St. Richmond,VA 23220).

Also, a special thank you to Jonathan Rowland whom donated the shirts.

 

 

 

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the bandannas made for Repressed IV: May Day, we have decided to reprint another run of 100. The new bandannas will be hemmed, hand-printed with black ink on red fabric. They will be available at Gallery5 starting this Wednesday, May 27th from 11AM-6:30PM for a suggested donation of $4-10. All proceeds will benefit Gallery5 and There Once Was A Rebellion to continue to hold collaborative exhibitions and extend their mission each year. Your response to these exhibitions, projects and campaigns drive our volunteers to continue their efforts in organizing and executing this form of public art. Please stop by the gallery this Wednesday, Thursday or Friday from 11AM - 6:30PM. For all other hours or questions about reserving a May Day bandana, please email gallery5@gallery5arts.org or call us at 804 644 0005

Thank you for your support.

Gallery5 and T.O.W.A.R

 

 

 

"A Little Trip of a Dream" A film premier presented by the Lucent Phoenix Resource Center


FREE June 9th
Potluck begins at 6pm
Film begins at 7pm

At the Lucent Phoenix
Resource Center
Located in Gallery5
200 W Marshall St
Richmond, VA 23220

A documentary that portrays the experience of a U.S. woman who travels to Mexico and gets to know the village of Ocotitlan, the home of her undocumented co-workers back in Richmond, Va. Through interviews and encounters with community members in Ocotitlan, Jen begins to understand her friends’ migratory motivations.

With much curiosity, Jen goes to the U.S./Mexico border to see the conditions in which undocumented people migrate. After exploring the border and its different manifestations, Jen returns to Richmond to share her experience with her friends, who she sees with new eyes. “The Little Trip of a Dream” is an experience where connections between two worlds become stronger and solidarity tears down walls.

Local media activist, Jen lawhorne, will be available at the premier for questions.

"El Viajecito de un Sueño:
un estreno presentado por la Biblioteca Lucent Phoenix

Gratis 9 de junio
la comida empieza a las 6 p.m.
la presentación a las 7 p.m.

en la Biblioteca Lucent Phoenix
ubicado en
Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St.
Richmond VA 23220

más informes:
www.gallery5arts.org
804 644 0005

Un documental que cuenta la experiencia de una mujer estadounidense que durante un viaje a México, conoce el pueblo de unos amigos indocumentados con quienes trabaja en Richmond, Virginia. En entrevistas con la comunidad, la mujer, Jen, va entendiendo las motivaciones migratorias de sus compañeros. Además, Jen se encuentra con ex-colegas de trabajo y los parientes de sus amigos que se quedaron atrás.

Con mucha curiosidad, Jen se va a la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos para ver las condiciones en que viajaron sus amigos. Jen explora la frontera y sus manifestaciones distintas y cuando regresa a Richmond para compartir su experiencia con sus amigos, ella los ve con ojos nuevos. “El Viajecito de un Sueño” se trata de una experiencia donde las conexiones entre dos mundos se hacen más fuertes y la solidaridad derrumba muros.

La realizadora del documental, Jen Lawhorne, será presente en el estreno para discusión.

 

 

 

To coincide with the MAY DAY exhibition; we assigned kids from the YMCA (3rd to 5th grade) to make watercolor paintings and color pencil drawings of what they wanted to be when they grew up. The children were briefed not to restrict themselves to a known occupation, but to invent an ideal one. Then we gave them a second project.

For the second project, students were to illustrate people they would help - as the invented occupation - on a card. We explained to them that their philanthropy should not be restricted to something within their field. To better illustrate this idea, we gave examples of how some volunteer their services outside of their professional skills. One of the examples we gave was: "In Iran the wrestlers are generally the first to help during natural disasters (ex: earthquakes). They feel compelled to help because of how physically fit they are as well as they are taught to do so." The finished card is then intended to be presented to someone within the field - or closest to it - with the idea that it might inspire them to help others.

The majority of the students chose a teacher as their occupation. The most interesting invented occupation was a pastry chief astronaut.

Scans of their illustrations will be posted soon.

 

 

 

This years Repressed IV was quite a success. Photos below. Photos of us screen printing the poster and uploading of images to the actions section soon . . . really soon.



Some of VCU students' work in the show (more photos from exhibition soon)



Live screen-printing of bandannas



Power To The Poster Exhibit



Photo from the May Day parade courtesy of Hassan Pitts



NOBS Brass band!!!

AND THE PARADE!!! Photos by Hassan Pitts click here.

Photos by Jennida Chase click here.

Photos and blog entry by Wendy Hsu click here.

 

 

 

Potluck begins at 6PM
Film begins at 7PM

At The Lucent Phoenix
Resource Center
Located in Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St.
Richmond, VA 23222
804 644 0005
gallery5@gallery5arts.org

Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.

 

 

 

The Lucent Phoenix will be hosting a follow up discussion (and potluck) on the subject of NAFTA. Please bring your opinions, questions, information and food.

Tuesday, April 21st 6pm
At the Lucent Phoenix Library
Located in Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St.
Richmond, VA 23220

 

 

 

The Lucent Phoenix Presents:
Free Film Showing and Potluck
N.A.F.T.A: Trading Democracy
Tuesday, April 14th
Potluck 6PM
Movie 7PM

At the Lucent Phoenix Resource Center:
Located in Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St.
Richmond, VA 23220
804 644 0005
www.gallery5arts.org

Everyone's heard about NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement — and all the talk about jobs. But almost no one heard about one obscure section of NAFTA — Chapter 11 — except for multinational corporations who are using it to challenge democracy.

Chapter 11 is only one provision in the 555-page North American Free Trade Agreement — negotiated to promote business among the US, Canada and Mexico. It was supposedly written to protect investors if foreign governments tried to seize their property.

But corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to undermine environmental decisions — the decisions of local communities — even the verdict of an American jury. The cases brought so far total almost four billion dollars.