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<font size=5 color="#0000FF"><b>Screening of "Secondhand
(Pepe)"<br>
</font>A film by Hanna Rose Shell</b><font size=2><br>
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<b>Friday, April 10<br>
8:00 pm<br>
MIT, Kresge Theater<br><br>
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Screening of "Secondhand (Pepe)", a film on secondhand clothing
and diasporic cultures by Hanna Rose Shell, Assistant Professor in MIT's
Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and the director (with
Vanessa Bertozzi), will be shown on Friday, April 10, at Kresge Theater
as a double feature with a new puppet show about the history of public
health and the AIDS crisis in Haiti. “Secondhand (Pepe)” is a 24-minute
tri-lingual film about the materiality of recycled clothes that flow from
the United States to Haiti
(<a href="http://www.secondhandfilm.com" eudora="autourl">
www.secondhandfilm.com</a>). The film will be shown in its entirety,
after which Professor Shell will lead a question and answer
session. <br><br>
This event is part of "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living
Newspaper on Haiti" which looks at the past, present, and future of
Haiti in terms of the politics of global healthcare, as refracted through
the work of Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization and its fight
against AIDS. An updating of the 1930s activist docudramas called Living
Newspapers, this show combines bunraku-style puppets, shadow theater,
giant puppets, toy theater, video and audio sampling, and live brass
music to consider the compelling global nexus of culture and history that
is Haiti. The production will also feature a series of post-show
discussions about Haiti, healthcare, and the history of American
political theater.<br><br>
Info about the puppet show and screening is here:
<a href="http://dramashop.mit.edu/haiti/post_show.php" eudora="autourl">
http://dramashop.mit.edu/haiti/post_show.php</a><br><br>
Tickets are for sale here:
<a href="http://dramashop.mit.edu/tickets/" eudora="autourl">
http://dramashop.mit.edu/tickets/</a><br><br>
More info about the film is here:
<a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shell/secondhand.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shell/secondhand.html</a></blockquote>
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