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"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."
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"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."
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Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One World, One Family™
DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.
Set for a soft launch in mid-May, DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION: ONE WORLD, ONE FAMILY(http://www.vimeo.com/6091788) is looking for new and experienced writers, bloggers and contributors for short posts, 250 – 1000 words, 4-5 times per month (once a week); interested in writing posts that cover African-American Photography, including:
* Transferring images to digital formats and image preservation (35mm slides, Super 8, 16mm, old Polaroids, Kodak Ektachrome; etc); * Family reunion event planning; * Family oral history telling; * Black genealogy and searching for ancestors; * Stories on photo collections, galleries, museums and exhibits featuring African American & African Diasporic photographers; and * Current updates on auctions and markets for Black Ephemera (photographs, videos, images, documents, etc.) * Willing to be part of our “Experts Panel” to answer user questions (regular monthly feature “Ask the Experts”)
This is an outstanding opportunity for writers seeking exposure for their work and a chance to build their portfolio. At this stage, there is no compensation, but as we monetize the site, that is a distinct possibility in the future.
Please send a brief bio/resume highlighting previous writing experience and 3 samples of recent work to: ATTN: PROJECT EDITOR at Don[at]chimpanzeeproductions.com
Over the last few months, we have been building tremendous support for and enthusiasm around our ambitious multimedia community engagement initiative Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One World, One Family (DDFR), where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and NPR’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives and an online Internet Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of who we are. By uncovering the little seen images and seldom heard stories of our Black families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., DDFR and the related film project Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People have received grants from the Ford Foundation, Sundance Documentary Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, NBPC, ITVS, New York State Council for the Arts, The Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Cross Currents Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. DDFR will launch its Beta site in July 2010. Through A Lens Darkly is slated for a public television broadcast in 2011, with funding support from NEA, PBS and CPB, among others.
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I got the following email letter and PDF press kit on Saturday and wanted to share this vitally important project with y'all!This particular project is calling upon the Black same gender loving (homosexual, bisexual, transgendered) family to participant (observe theyellow captions below) . This is an opportunity to render our a lot of our INVISIBILITY useless.
I've been a fan of your Nubian Knights blog for some time and wanted to send this shout out about an upcoming event my partner is doing in Brooklyn. We really want to start activating the family photographic archives of our Black LGBT brothers and sisters in order to use our strength through visibility to turn the dialogue in our communities toward one of greater inclusivity and tolerance since we are family too. Next Sunday, we're bringing the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow to Brooklyn Public Library for a special event as part of Black History Month. See details below. Please let your considerable following know about the event and invite them to participate. The "secret phrase" is "I'M A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY"which will let us know that they got the word through your channels and we can make sure to get their stories and images into the program. For too long, our invisibility has been used to hurt us, what with intolerant hate speech in Black churches and hate crimes directed at LGBT folk in our communities. Now is the time to make it personal, to show our communities that we're family too, and we deserve their love, respect and tolerance. That's part of the reason for Digital Diaspora, to show Black folk as we really are and not what the media and popular culture try to define us as; to show us from the perspective of the photographs that line our hallways, our refrigerator doors, our mantles and tables, for the people we love, we cherish, we remember and we honor.
Keep up the good work,
Regards,
Don Perry, writer/project development Chimpanzee Productions, Inc.
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is a community engagement initiative that maps African Diasporic Photography across time, place, and genre. Using the power of new and emerging interactive platforms, the exciting stories of black photography will be made accessible technologically, geographically, and culturally to current and future generations.
The DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION (DDFR) project. DDFR is a multimediacommunity engagement initiative (see video above) where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow that activates Black family photographic archives and a Web Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of who we are. Many of these family photographs include images of little discussed gay and lesbian ancestors, family members and friends. By uncovering the hidden history of LGBT family and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these hidden, discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated.Combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and NPR’s “StoryCorps,” the goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR will launch its Beta site in April.
Award winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris (Harvard '84) will introduce his new media platform, DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION, which taps into a vast network of Black photographic archives across the nation to bring a fresh look at African-American history and community. New Yorkers are invited to participate in this national initiative that maps Photography from the African Diaspora across time, place, and genre. Join us for this special DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION event at the Brooklyn Public Library central branch at 1:30pm on Sunday, February 28th.
Got Photos? If you would like to have a sampling of your FamilyPhotos scanned and digitized for possible inclusion within the DIGITALDIASPORA FAMILY REUNION Brooklyn ‘road show’, please contact Thomas Allen Harris and his team to make an appointment before WednesdayFebruary 24th, if you would like to be considered for the Sunday afternoon event.
Award winning filmmaker, journalist, and educator, Thomas Allen Harris, is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique media experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. Mr. Harris' films have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto,FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty and Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS, Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. A graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Harris lectures widely on the use of media as a tool for socialchange.
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DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION Multimedia Community Engagement Initiative
(Press Kit)
Uncovering The Hidden Archives Of African Diasporic Photography
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is a community engagement initiative that maps African DiasporicPhotography across time, place, and genre. Using the power of new and emerging interactive platforms,the exciting stories of black photography will be made accessible technologically, geographically, and culturally to current and future generations.
MISSION: Convergence of Black Photography
The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion outreach initiative empowers North American internet andtelevision audiences to share their own photographic archives with their fellow citizens in cyberspace. Individuals, families, and local community groups from across the continent will be invited to become a part of an eclectic gathering or “reunion” of the Black Family Photo Archive.
METHOD: Mapping Black Photography
A dynamic interactive map of North America and the Caribbean will be the portal through which userscan begin their self-guided journeys into the world of black photography. The mission of the DigitalDiaspora Family Reunion is to inspire visual and historical literacy in young people by encouragingthem to creatively explore the ways their personal family archives intersects with the public record.Users of the site will also create photographs of their own communities and thereby construct newphotographic archives of African Diasporic people. Our goal is that once people begin uploading theirown personal archives into the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion – the map interface will become self-sustaining and evergreen with new media shifting and expanding the content with each user experience.
MULTIMEDIA: Digital Storytelling
Users will be encouraged to tell their own stories by uploading their own photos, videos, text, or audioto the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Map Interface. With the specially designed Digital Diaspora“tagging” system, all uploaded media can be easily organized, searched, and aggregated into a safemultimedia environment that features the family photo within the larger sphere of Black Photography.We plan to develop a new model for interactive filmmaking where user-generated content is integratedinto the documentary and all of our multi-platform interactive applications.
MOVEMENT: Making the Invisible Visible
Our goal is to build not just an audience but also a movement – a movement of people who areengaging with others - personally and virtually - to reclaim one of the most potent records of our past – the photograph. With our expanding network of community partners, we will encourage folks toparticipate in photography based virtual and regional activities. Our project will invite audiences to creatively engage in their futures by fearlessly exploring their pasts.
MODEL: Interactive Filmmaking with User Generated Content
Unlike most Public Media, Cable, or Network Television models of producing feature documentaries fornational broadcast and distribution, the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion community outreach initiative will run concurrently with the production of a feature length documentary “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.” During our production process, we hope toexplore the boundaries of “author” and “audience” by cultivating authentic and reciprocal relationships with a variety of community and technology collaborators. We will work with our project partners to interweave community engagement, media literacy, and audience development into our documentary and multimedia production - ultimately crafting a new paradigm for integrating accessible interactive portals, tools for participation, and a transparent production processes that will engage audiences as active partners rather than passive viewers.
One FUN thing I LOVE playing is a game called WARRI . It is the oldest game in the world and originated in AFRICA. It is played many different ways and called numerous names depending upon the region of the world. The play mechanics in terms of thinking is as challenging as chess YET incredibly easy to learn and play like the simplicity of checkers. I have two WARRI game boards (the bigger one shown above). I bought both of them and learned the rules of WARRI from my friend and mentor, Oba. Click the pic to find out more. Really qool!
The Term "Same Gender Loving" (SGL)
"Same-Gender-Loving" or "SGL", its meaning which was coined and derived out of the Black community "...emerged in the early 1990s to offer Black women who love women and Black men who love men (and other people of color) a way of identifying that resonated with the uniqueness of Black life and culture". READ MORE...
Basically, it's a CULTURAL AFFIRMATION SPECIFIC to PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. We speak for ourselves and self-identify for ourselves.
I live its ideology through LOVE and ACCEPTANCE.
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Every moviemaker has dreams of his or her film landing at Sundance or Cannes and instantly acquiring the enduring acclaim that fests of that caché can offer. There ’s nothing wrong with striving for those rarified venues, but moviemakers need not get their celluoid in a bunch if it doesn’t happen, because now more than ever there are excellent alternatives—festivals that go the extra mile to make certain that a moviemaker ’s efforts are well compensated.
Whether the payoff comes in the form of a generous cash prize, the opportunity to hobknob with an industry titan, or just a fattening of one’s press kit and crew Rolodex, the festivals that are worth your fee and your time can make all the difference in your burgeoning career:
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DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.
DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.
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