November 19, 2007
Clark plans two films as part of Difficult Dialogues Power Symposium
Worcester, Mass. - Two film screenings (and one "conversation café") are offered as part of the Power Symposium made possible by Clark University's Difficult Dialogues Program:
Documentary and Conversation Café
"Encounter Point"
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St.
7:30 p.m.
What kinds of power enable civilians who have borne the brunt of war to overcome their anger and grief to work for grassroots solutions? This award-winning feature documentary follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict. A conversation about the film follows the screening.
Film screening – Cinema 320
"Into Great Silence"
Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 1 at
7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.
Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320
*Cinema 320 admissions rates apply
The powers of listening, of suspending preconceptions, and of communicating from a state of conscious awareness are at the heart of the practice of dialogue. The radical film "Into Great Silence" takes viewers to a space of intensified listening, with no score, no voiceover and no archival footage— a transformative place of time, space and light.
*NOTE: The Difficult Dialogues screening of this film on Tuesday, December 11, has been canceled. However 'Into Great Silence' is currently being shown at Clark's Cinema320. Please check their Web site for show times: http://www.cinema320.com/
These events are co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE) Department at Clark. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
Clark is one of 27 institutions of higher education selected out of 675 nationwide for a $100,000 Ford Foundation grant to facilitate a two-year program of trainings and events to encourage discourse across differences. This focus on dialogue is aimed at addressing a climate of separation and silence around difference that is too often seen, not only on campuses across the nation but in our society as a whole.
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