Thursday,
December 13 at 7pm
Scribe
Video Center
Savoring
the Salt – A Celebration of the Film Work of Toni Cade Bambara
 Toni
Cade Bambara, who taught at Scribe from 1986 to 1995, had a
profound effect on a generation of filmmakers, writers and activists.
Already an acclaimed writer, Bambara was a major influence on
the independent film community, nationally and internationally.
She had a particularly strong impact on media makers locally
– particularly women and people of Color. It is fitting that
we begin Scribe’s yearlong 25th anniversary celebration with
a program exploring the film works of Bambara.
The
evening will include a moderated panel with Linda Janet Holmes
and Cheryl
A Wall, editors of the new book Savoring The Salt: The Legacy
of Toni Cade Bambara (Temple University Press), poet Sonia
Sanchez, filmmaker Louis Massiah and other
special guests.
with
The
Bombing of Osage Avenue
dir.
Louis Massiah, USA, 1986, video, 58 mins, b/w and color
On
Mother's Day, 1985, a virtual army of city and state police
converged on a block of row-homes in West Philadelphia. By the
next day, 61 homes were destroyed and 11 people were dead, all
members of the MOVE organization. Cobb's Creek is a springtime
African-American neighborhood of parks and children, aluminum
siding and basketball stars. Toni Cade Bambara's poetic narration
draws us into the drama. In all the television hours devoted
to this infamous event, Massiah's documentary is probably the
first to look at the real human loss, not only in the deaths
that include a number of MOVE children, but the proud community
of families that survived race wars, gang wars and drugs, but
was nearly destroyed by its own city. - Renee Tajima-Pena, The
Global Village, Documentary Festival
and
More
Than Property
USA,
1993, video, 13 mins, color
An
early Scribe Community Visions project made by The United Hands
Community Land Trust with the support of facilitators Toni Cade
Bambara and Chris Emmanouilides. The Trust was a multi-racial
home ownership organization in
the
Kensington committed to ensuring permanent, affordable, quality
housing primarily for low-income people of color.
Copies
of Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara will
be available for purchase courtesy of Temple University Press.
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