 Topic: GLBT2Q Film Festival - Rhino In the Room
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Who’s Talking About the Rhino in the Room?
Rhino
in the Room Film Festival is an international queer film festival being
held in Lethbridge, Alberta. Rhino in the Room is an opportunity for
individuals to express and highlight experiences relating to gay, lesbian,bisexual, trans-identified, two-spirited, and queer people and
issues.
Rhino in the Room showcases the incredible diversity of GLBTTQ
people, their experiences, and issues in Lethbridge, Southern Alberta,
Canada, and internationally.
This type of film festival is a first for Lethbridge. It is an
opportunity as a queer community to share our voices and experiences
with a larger audience.
One of the goals of the Film Festival is to raise awareness, create
understanding, and encourage compassion and support for GLBTTQ people
and related issues. There is still a lot of fear and misunderstanding
about people and our lives in Lethbridge and Southern Alberta. We want
to help create a more welcoming and safe environment for GLBTTQ
individuals in our community.
Rhino in the Room Sept 16 to 18, 2009 September 16 Sheila Mcmanus will discuss queer media in
“Why The Whole Damn World Needs Queer Artists!” The talk will be held
at the University in room PE264 at 7pm and is both completely free and
a great way to start off the film festival experience.
September 17
and 18, Rhino in the Room invites you to the Sterndale Bennett Theater (next to the Yates Memorial Centre 910 - 3 Ave S)
to come celebrate Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Queer films.
Tickets
are now available for $10 each night, or $15 for both nights.
Tickets
may be purchased (cash only) at Blueprint (519 – 4 Ave S), Catwalk (618
3 Avenue South), or at the door.
Each night wil feature different films
submitted from around the world. A winner will be showcased and
presented at the 2009 Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver
Many have asked about the significance behind the name “Rhino in the
Room”:
The purple rhino made its first appearance in December 1974. It
was created by two Boston gay right activists: one source names Bernie
Toal and Tom Morganti, another says it was Bernie Toal and Daniel
Thaxton. The entire campaign was intended to bring gay issues further
into public view. The rhino started being displayed in subways in
Boston, but since the creators didn’t qualify for a public service
advertising rate, the campaign soon became too expensive for the
activists to handle. The ads disappeared, and the rhino never caught on
anywhere else.
As Toal put it, “The rhino is a much maligned and misunderstood animal and, in actuality, a gentle creature.”
But when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously.
At the time,
this seemed a fitting symbol for the gay rights movement. RITR has
breathed new life into the symbol and put it in the limelight. Lets
talk about the rhino in the room!
www.rhinointheroom.tk ~ Rhinointheroom@gmail.com
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"What have you done today to make you feel PROUD?"
(Proud by Heather Small, Queer as Folk Soundtrack)
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FREE film screening of “City of Borders”
July 28, 2010 (Wed) ~ 7 to 10 pm
Room PE250, University of Lethbridge
Presented by Rhino in the Room
City of Borders follows the daily lives of the Israeli bar owner and four Israeli and Palestinian patrons as they navigate the minefield of politics, religion, and discrimination to live and love openly. Set against the construction of the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories and the struggle for a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, the stories reveal the contradictions and complexity of the struggle for acceptance.
CityOfBorders.com
Event Information:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131895880182418&re f=nf
Rhino in the Room Film Festival 2010
SUBMISSION DEADLINE August 2, 2010
rhinofilmfest.wordpress.com
twitter.com/RhinointheRoom
Rhino in the Room
(RITR) Film Festival is a visual space for artists to express and
highlight experiences relating to queer issues.
The Lethbridge based festival
showcases the incredible diversity of queer issues and artists working
in Canada and internationally. We invite you to submit work for
consideration.
• We desire films and videos, about or of interest
to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered, transsexuals and queer
individuals.
• We desire work that challenges stereotypes and
pre-assigned gender identities,
• We desire work that pokes at
and tears away hetero-normal narratives,
• We desire work that
pushes boundaries, provokes thought and arouses the senses,
• We
desire work that discusses gay rights (adoption, marriage, military, and
community) or that chronicles, expresses, relates, and describes human
right violations; serious and heartbreaking issues such as bullying,
discrimination, harassment, and hate crimes,
• We desire work
that expresses and celebrates our lives, loves and desires.
• We
desire work that raises awareness, creates understanding, and encourages
compassion and
support.
Founded in October of 2008 in a
coffee shop in Lethbridge, Rhino in the Room is one of only two annual
queer film festivals in Southern Alberta. With a whole bunch of support
both locally and globally, this festival is steadily growing and shows a
lot of promise for the future
- Mission:
- To
be the rockin-est international queer film festival. Also to provide an
opportunity for everyone -regardless of skill set- to share their
stories and express themselves through film.
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"What have you done today to make you feel PROUD?"
(Proud by Heather Small, Queer as Folk Soundtrack)
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