Fundraising event! ARNOLFINI CHILDREN’S FILM WORKSHOP AND SCREENINGS : HKKP FUNDRAISER : 4th JULY


On 4 July, at Arnolfini Bristol, there is a day of film screenings for children and a Zoetrope Workshop. Zoetrope is a magical animation workshop for children to make their very own cartoon to watch on the big screen. Plus there will be screenings of the beautiful Hedgehog in the Fog, Kirikou and the Sorceress & The Red Balloon; all favorites in Haiti with the mobile cinema. All profits will be donated to HKKP.  Extra special HKKP T-shirts will be on sale on the day, designed by Lady Lucy.

The children’s film screenings and Zoetrope Workshop will take place on the closing weekend of the Say Parsley exhibition, a sparse sound and language installation by writer and artist Caroline Bergvall and composer Ciarán Maher. The background to ‘Say Parsley’ is the biblical ‘shibboleth’, a violent event where language itself is gatekeeper, and a pretext to massacre. The pronunciation of a given word exposes the identity of the speaker. To speak becomes a give-away. Are you one of us, not one of us? How you speak will be used against you. The massacre of tens of thousands of Creole Haitians on the border of the Dominican Republic (1937) for failing to pronounce “perejil” correctly is the most recent example of a large scale shibboleth.

Fundraising in Bristol…Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd May,Spike Island Open Studios, £1 + donations

Nanoplex presents a fundraising event for HKKP – The Children’s Film and Zoetrope Workshop. An afternoon of screenings, workshops and raffles.HKKP (Haiti Kids Kino Project) is a cultural exchange organised by The Cube Cinema’s childrens’ wing, Nanoplex. We are a mobile cinema projecting films to children in Haiti affected by the earthquakes while also providing workshops for Haitian and Bristol children to make their own films, which are swapped.  This is a fundraising event to help keep our extraordinary project alive. Come along and meet the people behind the HKKP, see the Haitian children’s films, and make some fun stuff that will travel all the way to Haiti. A magical Zoetrope workshop for children to make their very own cartoon to watch on the big screen!!
* A chance to make a digital postcard to show children in Haiti. A screening of the beautiful animations Hedgehog in the Fog and Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Sorceress both favorites in Haiti with our mobile cinema

* Raffle
* LadyLucy T Shirts

Haitian children affected by the earthquakes are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety grows through inaction, loneliness and boredom. HKKP contributes to quality of life through creating, sharing, forging friendships, connections and delighting in film. www.cubecinema.com/haiti

cite soleil pictures

Cite Soleil photos…

 

 ...putting up the screen
  
  ... Kino audience dancing to the sound system before the films
  
                                                                                           ...Shaun the sheep comes to Cite Soleil.  
(Our main features for the two nights were Disney's animated Robin Hood (Robin du Bois), and Kirikou et La Sorciere.)

Camp next to cinema Leogane

HKKP was in Leogane from Thurs to Mon doing screenings,  Children’s video workshops and  video post cards. It rained every night we were there.


Adjoining the field where we held the screenings, there was one of a number of camps in the area that were hit by flooding. We walked around the camps daily telling the kids about the cinema.

Haiti update, Hands on base Leogane

We arrived at the Hands On Disaster Relief base in Leogane late on Thursday, bit of a rush to get our tents up, John Adams our interpreter was lucky enough to get a bunk for the night. Then onto three video post cards made by the children in the camp at Delmar 95 (plenty of arrhhh’s from the audience followed by applause’s). ‘Hedgehog in the Fog’ was next and much appreciated. Then it was time for the feature which was chosen by election with ‘Inglorious’ gaining the most votes. But unfortunately the rain came in very heavy and fast ended our screening for the eve. The equipment was saved though as there was plenty of people to help.

Fundraising at the Cube

Like to contribute? come to a fund raising event – next up…
Event 5: The Hurt Locker. Tuesday 13th April 8PM at the Cube, £4.

Haiti Kids Kino Project with The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow/ 2009/ USA/ 131 mins/ cert 15. An evening for grown-ups, The Hurt Locker is a welcome return from acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow (The Weight of Water, Point Break), and is based on a sharp script by Mark Boal, a journalist who was attached to a bomb squad in postwar Iraq. Will James (Jeremy Renner) is a fearless bomb disposal expert whose cavalier style upsets colleagues Sandborne (Anthony Mackie) and Eldritch (Brian Geraghty). All are counting the days of the tour.Initially, James wins over Sandborne and Eldritch through his acts of bravery, but after just two weeks of stress, they are seriously considering accidentally killing him. Will James is a credible flawed hero and he draws us in quickly whilst the reality of the situation is electric in its unpredictability.

All evening: cake stall, all funds to the Haiti Kids Kino Project. Do check out past and future events on: http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/fundraisers.php