November 7th
Kelly High School Teacher Training

Beyondmedia facilitated a workshop for Kelly High School teachers on Teach Beyondmedia during an in-service day supported by GEAR UP, an organization which partners with Chicago Public Schools to prepare students for post-secondary education. The workshop discussed different ways of incorporating media into the high school teachers' current curriculum. The group also brainstormed on potential project ideas for using media in subjects such as science, language, and vocational courses.

November 11th; 3:05pm
"Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories" will screen at the Association of University Centers on Disability 2008 Annual Meeting

Renaissance Washington Hotel, Washington, DC
Meeting Room 2

For more information: www.aucd.org

November 12th; 3:05pm
Teach For America Seminar

National Louis University
Chicago, IL

Beyondmedia is invited as guest speakers to a Teach For America (TFA) seminar at National Louis University on Teach Beyondmedia and how to incorporate media into CPS service learning projects. TFA is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.

November 15th
Viva! Beyondmedia Fundraiser

S.P.A.C.E.
1245 Chicago Ave. Evanston IL

A celebratory cocktail party benefitting Beyondmedia Education with a silent auction, reception, dj & video presentation.

A BIG thank you to everyone who attended and supported us through this event!

November 22nd
Teachers For Social Justice Curriculum Fair

Chicago, IL

Beyondmedia joins Chicago educators at the 8th Teachers For Social Justice (TSJ) Curriculum Fair, where teachers share their social justice curriculums with fellow colleagues. TSJ works towards classrooms and schools that are anti-racist, multicultural/ multilingual, and grounded in the experiences of students.

September 10th
Premiere for Beyondmedia & Broadway Youth Center's "HIV: Hey, It's Viral!" Video

Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted Chicago, IL

HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!

A production of Beyondmedia Education and the Broadway Youth Center of Howard Brown Health Center.

HIV: Hey, It’s Viral! is a 20-minute educational video geared toward informing young audiences about what HIV/AIDS is, examining how HIV is transmitted and prevented, risk reduction, safer sex practices, the importance of testing, and stressing the idea that anyone can get HIV. It’s spun with a quirky fun soundtrack and animation to illustrate the science of HIV/AIDS to young viewers.

"HIV: Hey, It's Viral!" was recently featured on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight. Listen to the segment below!

September 26th - 28th
Visit Beyondmedia's table at Critical Resistance 10 & Broadway Youth Center's "HIV: Hey, It's Viral!" Video

Laney College
900 Fallon St.
(in front of the Adminstration Building)

Salome, Joanne and Dannette are heading off to Oakland this week to represent Beyondmedia at the Critical Resistance conference. If you are in the area, or attending the visit, stop by and say hello!

Beyondmedia will be selling the brand new copies of our Women and Prison Zine, "Writer's Block" along with screenprinted posters at the event. If you are unable to attend, you are now able to purchase a copy through our online catalogue here!

August 14th - 17th
"Turning a Corner" & "Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape" Screening

Rivers Edge International Film Festival
Maiden Alley Cinema
112 Maiden Alley Paducah, KY
270.423.7723

August 15th at the Market House Theater; 2:30pm
August 16th at the Yeiser Art Center; 6:30pm

August 23rd; 2pm
Turning a Corner Screening

Washougal International Film Festival
1700 Main Street
Washougal, WA 98761

August 23rd; 9:30am-7pm
Chain of Change Youth Summit

Access Living
115 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL

The Chain of Change Youth Summit will bring together over 100 Illinois youth to address and strategize against violence towards women and girls. The Summit will include video screenings from collaborating youth groups, anti-oppression and community organizing sessions and video, audio, photo and spoken word workshops. For more information on the Chain of Change project, please visit our website at www.chainofchange.com.

July 11th; 6pm- 11pm
“Hot Hot Heat: Beyondmedia Moves It” Fundraiser

June 10th, 17th and 24th; 8:00pm
Beyondmedia Benefits at Democracy Burlesque - Speaking in Tongues, a Show about Media and Punditocracy

No Exit Café
6970 N Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL
$10 Admission

More fun than a civics class, more laughs than a political attack ad! Beyondmedia Education will benefit from a portion of the proceeds from this show. $10 at the door. Beyondmedia t-shirts, buttons, and our fabulous videotapes will also be available for sale. For more information visit the Democracy Burlesque website: www.democracyburlesque.com

June 12th; 11:00am-noon 
“Making Media Connections” Panel Discussion; Community Media Workshop

1104 S. Wabash - Columbia College Bldg. Room 504
Chicago, IL

 

Salome Chasnoff will be speaking as part of a Youth Media Panel discussion titled "Youth Media's New Storytellers" This panel will discuss the benefits and challenges present through the process of partnering with youth media groups.

June 20th; 2:15pm
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” Screening

National Women's Studies Association 2008 Film/Video Series
Millennium Hotel, Cincinnati (downtown location)

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be be screening as part of the NWSA Video Series. More information about the other films in the program can be found on their website.

June 20th-22nd 
Beyondmedia at the Allied Media Conference

Our Evolution Beyond Survival: Media Strategies for the Next Ten Years
McGregor Conference Center (495 Ferry Mall) and Community Arts Building on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit.

Saturday, June 21st 10:50 am
Film presentation and discussion led by the Fe Fes - "Doin It: Sex Disability and Videotape" & "Why They Gotta Do Me Like That? The Empowered Fe Fes Take On Bullying"

Sunday, June 22nd 10:00 am
Beyondmedia staffer Dannette Hoarde, project manager for Beyondmedia's Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance, will be part of the panel Media Access for Prisoners.

June 22nd
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” Screening

2nd Emotion Pictures International Documentary Festival on Disability
New Benaki Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, 138 Piraeus Street
Athens, Greece

For more information visit the festival website.

June 28th; 8pm 21+ $15
Beyondmedia Benefits at "Almost Paradise: A Very Queer Prom"

The Spot, 4437 N. Broadway in Chicago
21+, $15 admission (Beyondmedia receives $5 from each ticket sold!)

 

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW THE FULL-SIZED FLYER!

 

Featuring burlesque performances by: Deirdre Doll, Dominique Trixx, The Honeybuns, Lola Getz, Jack & Jinx, Lori DeVille, Mae the Bellydancer, Mina Mechante, Natasha Minsk, Red Hot Annie, Von Livid and more foxy ladies than you can imagine!

 

Hosted by Backdoor Aly of Varietease Cabaret with music by Congress of Starlings and Bric-A-Brac.

 

Dress in prom attire and enter the Prom "King" & "Queen" contest! Also featuring dancing, a mailbox game and more prom n' pride activities!

Attend this great event and also support Beyondmedia! $5 from each ticket sale will go towards supporting our organization!

May 10th, 9:00am
Can we even talk about ‘social media’?

Northwestern University
McCormick Tribune Center

Salome Chasnoff from Beyondmedia Education speaks on a panel discussing the different ways politics can be integrated into media and what the purpose, potential and format of “socially conscious filmmaking" can be.

May 17th; 7:30pm 
Turning a Corner and Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape Screening Work: A Showcase and Celebration

Tennessee Women’s Theater Project’s Women’s Work: A Showcase and Celebration
Z. Alexander Looby Theatre
2301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, TN

For more information visit www.twtp.org

May 21st & 30th; 11pm 
“Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” Television Broadcast

CAN-TV (Chicago Access Network Television)
Wednesday, May 21st - 11pm
& Friday, May 30th - 11pm

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be broadcasted on CAN-TV.

May 25th; 2pm 
“Turning a Corner” Screening & Discussion

DePaul University
SAC 254 (Schmitt Academic Center - 2320 N. Kenmore Ave.)

Part of "The Price of Sex" - a Film Festival about the Sex Trade. May 24 & 25. Hosted by the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation & The Women's Center. Admission is $5 for each film, or $10 for an all day pass.
For other films and more information: http://condor.depaul.edu/~wms/news/news.html

April 5th
 “Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening

University of Wisconsin
Women's Studies Consortium Annual Conference
Green Bay, WI

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be screening at the University of Wisconsin as part of the Women's Studies Consortium Conference.
For more information call 608-262-3056.

April 9th, 7:00pm
 “Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening

San Francisco Women's Film Festival
UC Berkeley: Barrows 126, UC Berkeley
(north of Bancroft Way and Bowditch, behind Hearst Gym)

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will be screening at US Berkeley as part of the Women's Film Festival.
For more information call 415-820-1500.

April 11th; 4:30pm – 6pm
 “Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening and panel discussion

University of Illinois at Chicago
Session 3: Panel 3.7: “It’s About Small Things” and “Doin’ It”
Meeting Room G.
Chicago IL

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape will screen with discussion facilitated by Monica Adletha Heffner, Linda Miller, Taina Rodriguez following the screening. This event is a collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living. Torkwase Dyson will screen and facilitate discussion of “It’s About Small Things.”

April 10th - 12th; 3:00pm – 3:45pm
 “Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening

University of Illinois at Chicago
UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape is screening on both days as part of the “Race, Sex, Power: New Movements” program at the Black & Latina/o Sexualities Conference.

Monica Heffener, Linda Miller, and Taina Rodriguez will facilitate a discussion with the audience following the screening. This event is a collaboration with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living.

April 11th; 1-3pm
 “Beyond Disability” screening at the Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival

The Paley Center for Media
25 W 52 Street, New York, NY

This year's festival is a collaboration between youth media makers and educators from Global Action Project, MNN's Youth Channel, DCTV, TRUCE, Educational Video Center, Ghetto Film School, Reel works, Listen UP!, and the Paley Center. The 11th annual Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival is produced and curated by NYC youth media makers and activists.
www.urbanvisionaries.org / call (212) 621-6663 for tickets

April 12th, 11:00am
 “Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape” screening

Oakland Public Library, Rockridge Branch
Oakland, CA

Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape and Beyond Disability will be screening at US Berkeley as part of the Best Seat in the House Festival.
For more information call 800-287-2722.

March 24th, 3:30-5:30pm
Turning a Corner Screening and Discussion

Harold Washington College
30 East Lake Street, Room 102/103

Turning A Corner will be screening at the Harold Washington College as part of their Women's History Month activities. Discussion following the screening will be facilitated by Brenda Myers-Powell and Brandy Baldwin of PART (Prostitution Alternatives Round Table), with Joanne Archibald of Beyondmedia Education.
For more information call 773-973-2280.

March 29th, 3pm
Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape screening and discussion led by the Empowered Fe Fes at the FRIDA (Feminist Response In Disability Activism)

Access Living
115 W Chicago Avenue

Sex and Disability Town Hall Meeting

March 30th, Noon-3pm
"Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape", "Turning A Corner" & "Real Talk" screening at the Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival

Eastern Illinois University
Coleman Auditorium in Coleman Hall

February 7th-8th; 9pm
Making Your Media Matter Conference

Center for Social Media
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Salome Chasnoff will be speaking on a panel, Plight Entertainment: Sometimes the most uncomfortable stories are the most important ones to tell.

The conference is a 2-day event with various panels and created for aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communication leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.

* Click here to listen to an audio Podcast of this panel online!

February 13th; 7pm
Turning A Corner Screening and Discussion

New World Resource Center
1300 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL

Turning A Corner will be screening at the New World Resource Center followed by a facilitated discussion. The discussion will be facilitated by Joanne Archibald of Beyondmedia Education, Helen Smith of PART (Prostitution Alternatives Round Table) and Andrea Hall of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

February 15th; 6-8pm
Gender/Justice/Videotape: An Evening with Beyondmedia Education

University of Chicago
Cobb Theatre, Cinema Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis Ave. Cobb Hall 306
Chicago IL 60637
T. 773.702.8596

Students for Human Rights and the Film Studies Center bring you an evening with Beyondmedia Education. The program will include the screening of two films, followed by a discussion with young filmmakers. The discussion will be facilitated by Daphnee Rene of Young Womens Action Team, Taina Rodriguez, formerly of the Empowered Fe Fes, and Beyondmedia director Salomé Chasnoff.

Real Talk: Engaging Young men as Allies to End Violence Against Women shows young women asking "men to reflect on issues of violence, including street harassment, relationship violence, the media and how to build the movement to stop violence against women."

We will follow this with a short film on the Empowered Fe Fes, a radical group of young women with disabilities, who investigate the intersection of sex and disability from every conceivable angle: Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape.

January 17th; 5-7pm
You Are Invited to A Media Justice Strategy Session!

Columbia College
218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor, Room 713

Recent events have challenged access to free speech in Chicago. These include WTTW Image Union's censorship of Turning a Corner, Loyola's takeover of WLUW, and the buyout of the Chicago Reader and the firing of key writers. Community and independent media makers are coming together in response. At this facilitated meeting, we will be building a media justice plan of action linking the important issues of censorship, inequality in media access, and increasing corporate control of media in Chicago.

Please RSVP to beyond@beyondmedia.org or 773.973.2280
Snacks will be provided. This event is wheelchair accessible. Other accessibility options may be available upon request.

January 26th; 11am
Brown Eyed Girl Live Performance & Video Presentation

Chicago Austin Library
5615 W. Race Ave., Chicago

Brown Eyed Girl will do a live performance and video presentation of violence prevention related to “Girl on Girl Violence” developed in a Beyondmedia workshop