AfroLez Productions & NO! The Rape Documentary Events Calendar
Welcome to the “NO! The Rape Documentary Events Calendar Page,” which features both a calendar and a listing of 2008 Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops.
Please visit the NO! Archives page to view the listing of Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops from 2001 through 2007.
Click here to read the Events Blog.
If you want to bring Aishah Shahidah Simmons to your event, please go to the Booking Request Page for all inquiries regarding bookings, screenings, workshops, and interviews.
2008 Events
June 6-7, 2008
National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education Presents: “Making Connections IX Conference”
St. Johns College
New York, NY
May 2, 2008
Stand UP! The New Politics of Racial Uplift: A Public Philosophy Symposium
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
April 17, 2008
Screening & Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Ogg Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison
8pm
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April 16, 2008
“For Women of Rage & Reason,” with Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica Dillon
Memorial Union Play Circle — University of Wisconsin, Madison
A screening of two segments from Breaking Silences: A Supplemental Video to NO!, produced and directed by Aishah Shahidah Simmons; and edited and composed by Monica Dillon;
Followed by - a performance of “A State of Rage” by Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica Dillon;
Followed by - a performance by Monica Dillon
7:30 — 9:00pm
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April 13, 2008
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
New Orleans premiere of tiona m.’s ground-breaking, feature length documentary black./womyn.:conversations Followed by dialogue with tiona m., composer Monica Dillon, and filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons, both of who are featured in the documentary.
Zeitgeist, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
New Orleans, LA
4pm
For more information about this screening and discussion, please click here
Our Struggle is Your Struggle: A Panel Discussion on Human Rights in New Orleans and Around the World
Zeitgeist, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, LA
12pm
For more information about this panel, please click here
April 10, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
University of Houston
Cullen Performance Hall (accessible through Entrance #1)
Houston, Texas
7pm
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April 8, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
7:00pm
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April 7, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Quentin Walcott, and Kevin Powell
Sponsored by Kevin Powell, Black and Male in America (BAMIA),
Hot 97.1 Radio, allhiphop.com, April Silver of AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc.,CONNECT, and the Black and Latino Filmmakers Coalition
Brown Memorial Baptist Church
484 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(at the corner of Gates Ave. | Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY)
A or C to Clinton/Washington stop
7pm (Doors Open at 6:30pm)
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April 4, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
7pm
April 3, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Parkland College
4pm
March 31, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Spelman College, Women’s Resource & Research Center
Atlanta, GA
5pm

March 28-29, 2008
8th Annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference
Spelman College, Women’s Resource & Research Center
To read a blog post on this conference, click here

March 27-28, 2008
Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s
“2008 Children and Youth Institute”
Regal Sun Resort, Orlando Florida
To read a blog post about this Institute, please click here.
To view the Institute’s brochure, please download this pdf.

March 14-22, 2008
NO! at 6th Filmmor International Women’s Film Festival
To read a blog post about this festival, click here

March 25, 2008
The Brecht Forum
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
reading and signing with Cheryl A. Wall, Linda Janet Holmes, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Salamishah Tillet, and Very Special Guests
7:30PM
Sliding Scale $6/$10/$15 — No One Turned Away
Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4201
To read a blog post on this event, click here

March 13, 2008
Raday Salon
NO! Screening followed by discussion co-faciliated by Michael Simmons
Budapest, Hungary
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February 26, 2008
University of Pennsylvania Bookstore
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara reading and signing
with Cheryl A. Wall, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Salamishah Tillet
Philadelphia, PA
February 7, 2008
The Brecht Forum
NO! screening, followed by a panel discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Michael Simmons, Ebony Golden, and Ejeris Dixon
New York, NY
To read a post about this event, click here
February 4, 2008
San Diego State University
NO! Screening
San Diego, California
January 16, 2008 - January 17, 2008
The University of Michigan
Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium Events
www.mlksymposium.umich.edu/08events/events_january.php
To read Aishah’s relfections about this event, click here















