AfroLez Productions & NO! The Rape Documentary Events Calendar

 

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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
Please click here to read detailed information about this event.

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

Please click here to read detailed information about this event.

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
For more information, please click here

April 8, 2008
NO! Screening & Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
7:00pm
Please click here to read detailed information about this event.

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)
Please click here to read detailed information about this event.

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

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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

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March 13, 2008
Raday Salon

NO! Screening followed by discussion co-faciliated by Michael Simmons
Budapest, Hungary
For More Information, click here

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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