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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nina Paley will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 9/16-9/20.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nina Paley
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">is the creator of the animated musical feature film
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sita Sings the Blues</span></i>, 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,
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mimi & Eunice</span></i>.<br>
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All events take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.</span></i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sunday, Sept 16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7pm -<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Art, Animation, and (copyright) Abolition: meet Nina Paley</span></b><b><br>
</b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the South Rec Room)</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Monday, Sept 17</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7pm – <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Screening of
</span></b><i><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sita Sings the Blues</span></b></i><b><i><br>
</i></b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the Main Lounge)</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"<span style="color:#222222">I was enchanted. I was swept away. I was smiling from one end of the film to the other.</span><span style=""> " --Roger Ebert </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9pm –<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> tea time: continue the conversation about
</span></b><i><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sita Sings the Blues</span></b></i><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> or about anything else</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the guest apartment)</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tuesday, Sept 18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7pm -<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Free Culture: the game as she is played</span></b><b><br>
</b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the South Rec Room)</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9pm – <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">teeth and mush with Nina
</span></b>(tea and hummus)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the guest apartment)</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wednesday, Sept 19</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7pm - <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Visual Storytelling Workshop</span></b>. For anyone - no drawing proficiency required! <br>
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the South Rec Room)</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9pm – <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">tea time: pirating and copyright</span></b> (in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the guest apartment)</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thursday, Sept 20</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7pm - <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hands-on Animation Workshop.</span></b> For anyone - no drawing proficiency required!<br>
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the South Rec Room)</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9pm – <b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cultural mash ups show and tell
</span></b> - bring your favorite youtube clips to share, or just come and watch<br>
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in the South Rec Room)</span></i></span></p>
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