Hi Friends,<br>
I'll be conducting one of my periodical bike tours, this one on Labor
History, this Saturday from 12-4 p.m. Meet at CounterPULSE, 1310
Mission at 9th, bring water and snacks, and off we'll go... a sliding
scale $15-50 donation is requested to benefit CounterPULSE and Shaping
San Francisco but you can negotiate that with me if it seems too much...<br>
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ALSO, Don't miss our Bastille Day weekend extravaganza. We are
screening all 6 hours of Peter Watkins' amazing film about the Paris
Commune, "La Commune (Paris, 1871)"... this is a film like none other
you've ever seen and I can't recommend it highly enough. We are showing
it at CounterPULSE on Sat. night July 14 and Sun. night July 15, 3
hours each night, from 8-11 p.m. I'll be making fresh crepes! And if
you bring French champagne we'll have quite the Bastille Day party!
($5-10 sliding scale, but no one turned away)...<br>
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Here's the write-up on La Commune:<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Inside a giant warehouse in a
working-class Parisian suburb, Peter Watkins assembles a cast of over
200 non-professional actors (though their amateur status is
undetectable). Basing their work upon thorough historical research,
they will attempt to re-create the events of March, 1871--the rise and
fall of the Paris Commune.</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">La Commune (Paris, 1871) explores
that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic period when poor and
working-class Parisians rose up against the "bourgeois" French national
government, which fled the capital and re-established itself in
Versailles. As this complex historical drama unfolds, it is also
"covered" by two television news crews--one from "National TV
Versailles," which broadcasts the official version of events, the other
from "Commune TV," giving voice to the rebellious Communards.</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Mixing past and present,
revolutionary in form as well as content, Watkins' audacious
masterpiece forces us to confront notions of a safe or objecive reading
of the past, and also to reflect, inevitably upon the present. No one
who meets the challenge of La Commune (Paris, 1871) will be unchanged
by the experience.</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>All my mail is going through this gmail account now. <br><a href="http://www.chriscarlsson.com">www.chriscarlsson.com</a><br>My blog: <a href="http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson">
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