[IMC] Nina Paley, creator of animated musical feature Sita Sings the Blues, at Allen Hall 9/16-9/20

Fri Sep 14 18:56:44 UTC 2012

Please distribute to your organization and people who might be interested.

[Description: https://illinois.edu/skinDesigner/css/3863/AllenHall_UnitOne.jpg]

Nina Paley will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 9/16-9/20.
Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 35 international awards. She is Artist-in-Residence for QuestionCopyright.org, which is dedicated to expanding the debate about copyright and helping cultural producers embrace open distribution. Prior to becoming an animator Nina was a syndicated cartoonist. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Nina has a new daily comic strip, Mimi & Eunice.
All events take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.

Sunday, Sept 16
7pm -Art, Animation, and (copyright) Abolition: meet Nina Paley
(in the South Rec Room)

Nina Paley discusses her career as a cartoonist, illustrator, animator, and filmmaker, and how her experience in media led her to fundamentally question Copyright law.

Monday, Sept 17
7pm – Screening of Sita Sings the Blues
(in the Main Lounge)

"I was enchanted. I was swept away. I was smiling from one end of the film to the other. " --Roger Ebert

India's ancient epic Ramayana gets a fresh, funny makeover in this award-winning animated film. With song and humor, director Nina Paley juxtaposes the split between Rama and Sita with her own divorce to tell "the greatest break-up story ever told." Original 1920s recordings of singer Annette Hanshaw give musical voice to Sita, while amusing shadow puppets provide the narration for the colorful story.  --Netflix

9pm – tea time: continue the conversation about Sita Sings the Blues or about anything else
(in the guest apartment)

Tuesday, Sept 18
7pm - Free Culture: the game as she is played
(in the South Rec Room)

In 2008, freeing a commercially viable feature film under a "Share-Alike" license was shocking and controversial. But Nina Paley made more money from the Free Cultural Work "Sita Sings the Blues" than 20 years of previous work that had been locked up with Copyright. Find out why, and how you can Free your own work, in this informative workshop.

9pm – teeth and mush with Nina (tea and hummus)
(in the guest apartment)

Wednesday, Sept 19
7pm - Visual Storytelling Workshop. For anyone - no drawing proficiency required!
(in the South Rec Room)

In this fun collaborative workshop we will tell stories with pictures instead of words. What makes a story? What is a character? What happens between a beginning and an ending?

9pm – tea time: pirating and copyright (in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day)
(in the guest apartment)

Thursday, Sept 20
7pm - Hands-on Animation Workshop. For anyone - no drawing proficiency required!
(in the South Rec Room)

We'll use age-old techniques to create animated cycles. Watch your pictures move in a flip-book or in the ever-fascinating Praxinoscope, an animation toy dating from the Victorian age. Drawings may be scanned and further manipulated digitally, for those interested. But nothing beats the fun and immediacy of making animation on paper, the old-fashioned way.

9pm – cultural mash ups show and tell  - bring your favorite youtube clips to share, or just come and watch
(in the South Rec Room)

ALLEN HALL/UNIT ONE<http://www.housing.illinois.edu/Housing/Current/Living-Learning/Allen.aspx>       UNIVERSITY HOUSING<http://www.housing.illinois.edu>
©2010 University of Illinois Housing

<http://www.housing.illinois.edu/unitone>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/imc/attachments/20120914/c7282d03/attachment.html>