2008年4月9日

电影会

昨天打开电脑时，受到了新朋友寄来的这封电邮。与我们的Open Class电影会形式有一点类似。
我回去，你呢？
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Date: 12 Apr, 2008 (Sat)

Time: 4pm registration and 4:30pm screening of movie

Duration: 2 hours

Title of Movie:
1. The Greening of Cuba (37 min)
2. The Power of Community (52 min)

Venue: Green Connection (healthy vegetarian café) http://www.melleosplace.com/
No 5, Angus Street, Merchant Square (next to Manpower Ministry and opposite Riverside Point)

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay (Exit B), 5 min walk.

Contribution: $7 - a light snack will be served (vegetarian)
(proceed will go to the start up fund of Ground-Up-Initiative Society, a non-profit organisation which aims to carry out humanitarian work with holistic and sustainable approach)

RSVP: Please email your interest by 10 Apr so that we know how many are coming. We only have 30 seats so if you have reserved your seat; we trust that you will show up.

Remarks:
The movie session is an on-going education and awareness programme to reach out and enable people to have a better insight into the world issues such as peak oil crisis, social justice, climatic change, poverty, farmers' woe, health of earth and agriculture workers, etc, etc, while commiting to make the difference.

Please feel free to bring any munchies to enjoy while watching the movie. Better still; share your munchies with the fellow movie goers. We would like to create a warm and sharing community.

There will be a discussion and sharing for about 20min after the movie.

Synopsis of Movies:
When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80 percent of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half its petroleum--the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture. Challenged with growing food for 11 million in the face of the continuing US embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming ever attempted.

The Greening of Cuba (filmed in 1996) profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting edge bio-technology.

The Greening of Cuba reminds us that developed and developing nations alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their people.

The Power of Community (filmed in 2006) tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. It is a follow-up to The Greening of Cuba 10 years later to see how the Cuban transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.

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关于艺树人

艺树人是本地剧场戏剧盒旗下的青年部，由12位充满热忱的年轻人组成的团体。我们希望能通过戏剧对各阶层的民众有更深入的了解和联系。

艺树人的创立是为了提供青年一个多方面训练的平台。通过三年的培训，艺树人希望能培育处一群拥有文化和社会意识的本地戏剧实践者。

我们使用一个名为O-A-O-R （ Orientation – Artistic – Organisation – Regeneration/ 定向 – 艺术性 – 组织 – 再生 ）的模式，让青年们得到的不仅是艺术方面的训练，也学习组织群体和制作管理的技能。除此之外，他们会接触到各种类的戏剧，例如论坛剧场、新闻剧场等等。他们同时还会接受其他艺术形体的培训，如音乐和多媒体。

除了提高社会问题的认识和讨论，艺树人希望能质问及挑战人们的思维，并改变大众对低下层或边缘族群的一些刻板观念，让单方向的独白转化成双方都能参与的对话。

2012 年将会是第一届艺树人青年的最后一年。我们将会在毕业前呈现一部作品，而灵感来至于高行健的《车站》。这作品会是艺树人培训三年来的精髓，也是我们对于原作和现今社会的反思。

About ARTivate

ARTivate - the youth wing of local theatre company Drama Box - is made up of a group of 12 passionate youths who aims to reach out to the community through the arts.

ARTivate was first established with the aim to provide a platform for youths who want to explore and gain all-rounded insight into theatre. Through a three-year program, ARTivate hopes to nurture a group of youths into cultured and socially aware theatre-practitioners in Singapore.

Using an O-A-O-R (Orientation-Artistic-Organization-Regeneration) model, these youths are trained not only artistically but also in organizational skills and production management. They will be exposed to different forms of theatre such as Forum Theatre and Newspaper Theatre. They will also be trained in other art forms such as music and multimedia.

Besides bringing awareness to the themes explored, ARTivators hopes to question, probe or even challenge minds. They want to engage audiences in discussion – to turn monologues into dialogues.

As 2012 will the last year of the pioneer batch of ARTivate youths, they will be putting up a piece of performance, Bus Stop, inspired by “Bus Stop” written by renowned playwright, Gao Xing Jian. This performance will be a collation of the trainings the youths had undergone for the past 3 years, as well as a critical perspective and evaluation of the script, in reference to the current society the youths are in.