NO! The Rape Documentary Events Archives

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Welcome to the “NO! Archives” Page, which features a listing of Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops from 2001 through 2011.

Please visit the NO! Calendar page to view the 2011 & 2012 Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops in both calendar and listing format.

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.

2011 Events

November 29, 2011
Guest Lecturer, “Introduction to Christian Ethics” Seminar
Saint Paul School of Theology
Kansas City, MO

November 19, 2011
“NO!” Breaking Silences Around Black Women and Rape: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Moderator:
Rev. Carla Jean-McNeil Jackson, Esq.,  Independent Scholar
Panelists:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez® Productions
Rev. Traci C. West, Ph.D.,  Drew University
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., University of Florida
Rev. Obery M. Hendricks, Ph.D., New York Theological Seminary

Click HERE for more information
San Francisco, CA
8:00pm

October 27, 2011
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Columbia University
As part of Relationship Violence Awareness Month, Byron Hurt, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Ted Bunch, Akiba Solomon, and others will discuss Byron Hurt’s riveting, award-winning film that explores sexism and other pressing issues in hip-hop culture.
Moderator:
Akiba Solomon: http://colorlines.com/archives/author/akiba-solomon/
Confirmed Panelists:
Byron Hurt: http://www.bhurt.com/beyondBeatsAndRhymes.php
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: http://notherapedocumentary.org/
Ted Bunch: http://www.acalltomen.com/page.php?id=47

Click HERE for more information
New York, NY
6:00pm (Film screening), 7:30pm (Panel discussion)

October 17-18, 2011
Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton’s “Sexual Violence in Marginalized Communities” Conference
Keynote Address by Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Click HERE for More Information
Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

October 13, 2011
DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) AND JUSTICE: The Politics of Getting Off in a Rape Culture
An Open Forum hosted by CONNECT~ Safe Families, Peaceful Communities and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and their Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
Confirmed Panelists:
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University
Elizabeth (Beth) Ribet, Research Director at the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy in the School of Law at Columbia University
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Writer/Director, NO! The Rape Documentary
Rev. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School.

Click HERE for more information
Columbia Law School ~Jerome L. Green Hall, Room 105, 435 W. 116th Street
New York, NY
6:30pm

August 6, 2011
SlutWalk Philadelphia Featured Speaker

May 14, 2011
NO! The Rape Documentary & Aishah Shahidah Simmons
DOXA FILM FESTIVAL
DOXA is Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival
NO! A Film of Sexual Politics – and Art by Robin Morgan (Guest Curator)
http://2011.doxafestival.ca/festival/essay_no.html
Vancity Theatre
Vancouver, Canada
4pm

April 25, 2011
Screening & Dinner followed by  Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Princeton University
Presented by: Forbes College/the Center for African American Studies/the Women’s Center/SHARE/the Field Center/the Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center
Forbes College, Small Dining Room
Princeton, NJ
6pm

April 20, 2011
Screening and Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary, with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Ohio University
http://ohiouwomenscenter.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/april-is-sexual-assault-awareness-month/
Athens, Ohio

April 12, 2011
Guest Lecturer, “Race & Media in 20th Century U.S.,” Seminar
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 6, 2011
Reading the Language of Rape Culture
The State of Things on WUNC Public Radio 91.5FM
Host Frank Stasio discusses the language and the law surrounding rape with a panel of guests including documentary filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons; Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African and African-American Studies at Duke University; Melissa Harris-Perry, associate professor of politics and African-American Studies at Princeton University; and Mary R. Block, associate professor of history at Valdosta State University.

Listen HERE

April 2, 2011
Bridging the Gaps: A Focus on Innovations
A Conference Addressing Sexual Violence on College and University Campuses
Keynote Address by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
https://sites.google.com/site/campussexualassault/
Holton Career & Resource Center
Durham, NC

March 29, 2011
NO! The Rape Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Sex Crimes Against Black Girls Exhibit Public Programming
BSRC’s Skylight Gallery
1368 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn, NY
6:30pm

Brief Bios of Panelists:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Writer/Director, NO!

R. L’Heaureaux Lewis, Ph.D., is the program coordinator for the BROTHERS Summer Institute for teenage boys. He has been trained by Men Can Stop Rape and is also an active member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement – a human rights group – where he works with building student activists. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Black Studies, and Public Policy at the City College of New York (CUNY). http://uptownnotes.com

Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D., is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. She is presently an Assistant Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Tillet is also the author of the forthcoming book, “Peculiar Citizenship: Slavery and the Post Civil Rights Imagination,” and a regular contributor to the online magazine, The Root. http://ALongWalkHome.org

March 23, 2011
Screening and Discussion of issues raised in NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Squires Student Center
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
Blacksburg, Virginia
7pm

February 26, 2011
NO! Screening and Workshop with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Women’s & Men’s Groups of the Philadelphia Student Union
Philadelphia, PA

February 24, 2011
NO! Screening and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Reel Women Film Series
Kelley Center Presentation Room
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut
6pm

February 23, 2011
Guest Lecturer, “Introduction to Black Queer Studies: Queer Aesthetics in the Black Diaspora” Seminar
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

February 16, 2011
Guest Lecturer, Ethnographic Film, Graduate Seminar
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

February 8, 2011
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
University of The Arts
CBS Auditorium
Philadelphia, PA
7:30pm

2010 Events

November 30, 2010
Visualizing the Gospel: the revelatory, justice-filled works of resistance artists
Presentation by Erica Kierulf
Response by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Graduate Student Forum, co-sponsored by Union Presbyterian Seminary & The Department of Theology and Ethics
Richmond, VA
4:10pm

Screening of NO! and Discussion, Co-Facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Rev. MarQuita Carmichael Burton
Virginia State University
Petersburg, VA
1:00pm

November 9, 2010
Film Screening of NO! followed by “Rape and Race” Panel Discussion
Washington University

BRIEF Bios of Panelists:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Director, NO!
Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University
Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Ohio State University and Visiting Fellow in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Washington University
Craig Woodsmall, Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Training at the Habif Health and Wellness Center on the campus of Washington University
http://wgss.artsci.wustl.edu/events/2010/11/event-477
St. Louis, MO
7:30pm

November 4, 2010
Screening of NO! and Discussion facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Reed College
Portland, Oregon

July 8, 2010
36th Annual Newark Black Film Festival

http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_pages.aspx?id=240

Encore Screening of NO! The Rape Documentary followed by discussion with Dr. Miriam J. Petty, Scholar/Curator, Activist, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Filmmaker/Cultural Worker

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/06/newark_black_film_festival_pro.html

State Musem of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
FREE SCREENING & DISCUSSION
6pm

July 7, 2010
36th Annual Newark Black Film Festival

http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_pages.aspx?id=240

Screening of NO! The Rape Documentary followed by discussion with Dr. Miriam J. Petty, Scholar/Curator/Activist and Byron Hurt, Filmmaker/Anti-Violence Activist, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Filmmaker/Cultural Worker.

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/06/newark_black_film_festival_pro.html
 FREE SCREENING & DISCUSSION
7pm

April 28, 2010
The Black/African American Cultural Center, Women’s Programs and Studies, The Student Alliance for Gender Education host
Screening of NO! and Discussion facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
6pm

April 26, 2010
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
 The University of Kansas
Kansas Union
http://www2.ku.edu/~ssts_apps/cgi-bin/silcCalendar/index.shtml?m=04&d=27&y=2010&view=day
Lawrence, Kansas
7:00pm

April 22, 2010
Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) and Health Promotions, along with the following Community Partners: YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, Pow-Wow, INC., Pillar of Love Fellowship United Church of Christ and E3 Radio Presents…

Screening and post film discussion with Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons for NO! The Rape Documentary
The University of Chicago
Biological Sciences Learning Center (BSLC)
Room 001 (Lower Level Auditorium)
924 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Dinner Provided
6:30pm

April 14, 2010
Africana Women’s Studies/Womanist Religious Studies host
Screening of NO! and Discussion facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Bennett College for Women
Greensboro, NC
6:00pm

April 12, 2010
Multicultural Affairs and Take Back The Night Committee host
Screening of NO! and Discussion facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Kenyon College
Kenyon, OH
7:00pm

April 9, 2010
The Department of Social Work, the Women’s Issues Group and the Office for Diversity & Multicultural Affairs host
Special Screening of the Award -winning film Precious followed by a panel discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Sarah Hund-Brown, Lydia Cornelius, and Henry Reiff.

BRIEF Panelists Bios:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an award-winning filmmaker and producer of “NO! The Rape Documentary”
Sarah Hund-Brown, Community Educator for Rape Crisis Intervention Services of Carroll County
Lydia Cornelius, Clinical Social Worker at the University of Maryland Institute for Human Virology’s Evelyn Jordan Center
Henry Reiff, Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at McDaniel
McDaniel College
Westminister, MD
7pm

April 7, 2010
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
7pm

April 1, 2010
The Purdue Women’s Studies Program Presents:
A screening of NO! The Rape Documentary with a discussion led by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/womens-studies/documents/newsletter-spring10.pdf
Purdue University
Lawson Hall, Room 1142
West Lafayette, IN
3:00pm – 5:00pm

March 11, 2010
The Department of Performance Studies, The Department of African American Studies,The Gender Studies Program, The Radio-TV-Film Department, S.H.A.P.E. and The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College present:
Screening of NO! and Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
http://communications.northwestern.edu/departments/performancestudies/news/newsletter/Winter_10.pdf
Annie May Swift Auditorium
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
5:30pm

March 1- 2, 2010
Artist-in-Residence, Emporia State University
http://www.emporia.edu/news/archives/2010/february/simmons_film.htm
Emporia, Kansas

2009 Events

November 4, 2009
Women’s & Gender Studies in partnership with African American Diaspora Studies, The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, Office of LGBTQI Life, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center present
Screening of NO! and Discussion facilitated by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Bishop Joseph Johnson Cultural Center Auditorium
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
4:30pm

October 27, 2009
The Women’s Studies Department at University of Connecticut, Stamford will host a talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, which will feature screening extended excerpts of NO!
6pm

October 22, 2009
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York will host a screening and discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
The Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, NYC)
Room C201-202
7pm

October 16 – 18, 2009
Holistic Hurt, Wholistic Healing: The Church’s Call to Silence Sexual Violence, with Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman, and Sister Aishah Shahidah Simmons
THIS CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Richmond, VA
For more information, please click here

October 8, 2009
The Office of Multicultural and Community Life at DePauw University will host a screening and NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons. This event is free and open to the public
Peeler Art Center Auditorium
Greencastle, Indiana (outside of Indianapolis)
7pm

September 26, 2009
Aishah Shahidah Simmons was featured guest on Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys.
For more information, please click here

September 14, 2009
Open Frame Film Festival
New Delhi, India
For more information, please click here

June 4, 2009
POW-WOW Inc. and Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) present: Screening and Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
International House, Coulter Lounge (1414 East 59th Street)
Chicago, IL
7pm

April 28, 2009
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago presents: Screening and Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
International House, Assembly Hall (1414 East 59th Street)
Chicago, IL
7:00pm

April 26, 2009
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement & Women of Color Caucus Present:
NO! The Rape Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Salamishah Tillet, Byron Hurt, and Kenyon Farrow

BRIEF Panelists Bios:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Writer/Director, NO!
Salamishah Tillet, program director of and writer for “A Long Walk Home: A Story Of A Rape Survivor” and assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania
Byron Hurt, award-winning documentary filmmaker (Beyond Beats and Rhymes), published writer, and anti-sexist activist
Kenyon Farrow, National Public Education Director of Queers for Economic Justice

Community Service Society
105 East 22nd @ Park Avenue, Room 4A (6, N, R, W, to 23rd Street)
New York, NY
12:30-4:00pm

April 15, 2009
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Critical Lecture Series
Indiana University
Ballantine Hall, Room 103
Bloomington, IN
5:30pm
For more information, please click here

March 30 – June 15, 2009
Aishah Shahidah Simmons appointed Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Life, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago where she is both teaching a course “Sisters Outsider: Diasporic Women Narrative and Documentary Women Filmmakers,” during their Spring Quarter 2009; and doing research and development on her next feature length documentary.

March 27-28, 2009
REEL Justice: A Film Conference on Police Brutality and Violence Against Women
Presented by Working Films and Fathers Active in Their Hoods
Tougaloo College,
Tougaloo, MS
For more information on this conference, please click here.

March 27, 2009
Human Rights Workshop and Film Screening of NO! with Michael Simmons
Salt House Building
American Corner Budapest
Corvinus University
Budapest, Hungary
3:00 – 7:30PM
For more information, please click here.

March 15, 2009
UK Premiere of NO! The Rape Documentary, introduced by Ayanna Serwaa
BFM and Institute on Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall (Just off of Trafalgar Square)
London, England
4pm

March 11, 2009
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Adanti Student Theatre
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
5:30pm
For more information on this event, please click here

March 5, 2009
Screening and Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Annenberg Forum, Carswell
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
7pm

March 2, 2009 (March 3, 2009-due to snow storm)
Screening & Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
F.W. Olin Science Center, Room 014
Connecticut College
New London, CT
7pm

2008 Events

November 15, 2008
DEFINE THIS: Young Women of Color Creating Change
2nd Annual Women of Color Conference
Co-Sponsored by Feminist Majority Foundation and Bennett College for Women
Violence in Communities of Color & Women of Color Combattng a Heteronormative Society
Click here for more information on this panel

November 2008
9eme edition Mois du film documentaire
Guadeloupean Premiere
Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe

October 15, 2008
The Clarke Forum presents: Screening and Discussion of NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Dickinson College, Great Stern Hall
Carlisle, PA

October 3, 2008
93rd Annual Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Meeting/Conference
NO!: Sexual ASsault in the Black Community (Screening and Panel Discussion)
Chair, Linda M. Perkins, Associate University Professor and Director of Applied Women’s Studies, Claremont Graduate University
Disucssants, Johnetta Richards, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer, Writer, Driector, NO!
Birmingham, Alabama

September 27-28, 2008
Femmes En Resistance Festival (Women in Resistance Documentary Film Festival)
FRENCH PREMIERE of NO!
Arcueil, France

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 documentaryblack./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

2007 Events

October 29, 2007 – November 1, 2007
Rape Awareness Week with Monica Dillon
Earlham College
www.earlham.edu

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Reel Sisters Film Festival: Retro Showcase

http://www.reelsisters.org/retroShowcase.html

September 21-22, 2007
From Campus to Congress: Women of Color Making Change
Hosted by Feminist Majority Foundation, Bennett College for Women, Africana Women’s Studies Department, North Carolina NOW.
This conference is wheel-chair accessible.

http://www.feministcampus.org/leadership/bennett/default.asp

July 2 – July 11, 2007
International Women’s Summit: Women’s Leadership Making A Difference on HIV and AIDS
Nairobi, Kenya

http://www.worldywca.info/index.php/ywca/world_council_07/iws_women_s_summit

June 27 – July 1, 2007
United States Social Forum
Another World Is Possible * Another US Is Necessary
Atlanta, GA
www.ussf2007.org

June 22 – 24, 2007
Allied Media Conference
Breaking Silence, Building Movements
Detroit, MI
www.amc2007.org

June 19, 2007
Screening of NO! and Panel Discussion with Community Leaders
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
1798 Asylum Street
West Hartford, CT
www.connsacs.org

June 15, 2007
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Anthologies Launch & Cultural Work Extravaganza and Celebration
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Ashe Cultural Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA

May 31-June 3, 2007
SisterSong 2nd National Conference & 10th Anniversary Celebration
Chicago, IL
www.sistersong.net

Two Benefit Screenings for San Francisco Women Against Rape

http://www.sfwar.org/node/view/100

May 17, 2007
First Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA
6:00 – 8:00 pm

May 19, 2007
The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room
San Francisco, CA
5:00 – 7:30 pm

May 8, 2007
Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women’s 26th Annual Conference
Gainesville, FL

May 7, 2007
North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault 18th Biennial Conference
Raleigh, NC
www.nccasa.org

May 5, 2007
Black Lily Film Festival
Film Distribution Panel
Philadelphia, PA
www.blacklilyfilm.org

May 4, 2007
Black Lily Film Festival
Filmmaking and Social Change Brownbag Luncheon and Conversation with
Sonali Gulati and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, moderated by Bernadine Mellis
Philadelphia, PA
www.blacklilyfilm.org

April 20-22, 2007
Sixth Annual Womyn of Color Conference

http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/wocc/

April 19, 2007
Evergreen State University
Olympia, Washington
7:00pm
www.evergreen.edu

April 18, 2007
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
www.princeton.edu

April 13, 2007
Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival
Johanson Charles Gallery
Eastern Market District
1345 Division Street
Detroit, Michigan
8:30pm

http://detroitfilmfestival1.com/

April 4, 2007
Black Women’s Filmmaker Symposium on Domestic Violence and Human Rights
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
7:30pm – 8:30pm
www.williams.edu/africana-studies/Spring2007.htm

NO! & Belly of the Basin
Images Cinema
9:00pm – 11:30pm

http://www.williams.edu/africana-studies/BellyoftheBasin.htm

http://www.imagescinema.org/

April 3, 2007
The Washington DC Rape Crisis Center presents: NO! and Lori Robinson
THEARC
7:00pm
1901 Mississippi, SE
Washington DC
www.dcrcc.org

April 1, 2007
Documentary Women Filmmakers WAM (Women, Action, & the Media) Conference
11:00am
www.centerfornewwords.org/wam/

March 23, 2007
Sager Symposium 2007: The Norming and Transforming of Queer Activism
Featuring a screening of NO! and conversation with its Producer/Writer/Director
Lang Performing Arts Center at Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
7:00pm

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/sager/sager2007/schedule.html

March 18-19, 2007
Mobilizing to End Domestic Violence in the African-American Community:
A Contract for Change
Long Beach, CA

http://www.dvinstitute.org/conferences/march2007/no.htm

March 16-30, 2007
Rwanda Film Festival, Women’s Panorama Section
Kigali, Rwanda
www.rwandafilmfestival.org

March 16, 2007
LGBTI Health Summit 2007
Beyond Boundaries: A Blueprint for LGBTI Healthcare Equality
Philadelphia, PA
www.healthsummit2007.org

March 5-6, 2007
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY

http://mrc.binghamton.edu/

February 27-28, 2007
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence, NY

http://www.stlawu.edu/advocates/

February 26, 2007
Promoting Reel African Images (FESPACO Film Festival)
Burkina Faso, West Africa
www.robesonaward.com

February 22, 2007
Living & Loving in Black Seattle
Central Cinema, Seattle, WA

February 23, 2007
Seattle Central Community College, Broadway Performance Hall
Seattle, WA

February 17, 2007
BLACK ROCK: The Metamorphosis of Home from Isolation to Connection
Task Force Exhibition
Desert Blooms: Black Women’s Stories of Resistance, Healing & Growth in Community
Newark, NJ
Click here to dowload a flyer for this event.
www.rebornhome.com

February 8, 2007
Bennett College for Women (with Monica Dillon and Ubuntu)
Greensboro, NC

http://iambecauseweare.wordpress.com/2007/01/13/press-release-no-the-rape-documentary-presented-at-bennett-college-for-women/

February 2-3, 2007
Michigan State University
Lansing, MI

January 31– February 1, 2007
Making Your Documentaries Matter
Center for Social Media, American University
Washington, DC
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/2007_mydm_agenda/

January 11, 2007
International Federation of Black Prides Annual Award Ceremony
Philadelphia, PA
www.ifbprides.org

2006 Film Festival Screenings

Black Man Film Festival
Saturday, November 4, 2006
4:30pm
Atlanta, GA
www.toure-interactive.com/hype/

XXVIII Festival Internazionale di Cinema e Donne
October 17-22, 2006
Florence, Italy
www.laboratorioimmaginedonna.it/

San Diego Women Film Festival
Saturday, October 7, 2006, 9:20pm
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
www.sdwff.org

Regenerations: 13th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
Sunday, August 6, 2:15pm
University of California, Santa Cruz – Porter College

http://www2.ucsc.edu/woc/wocff06/home.html

Roxbury Film Festival
July 28, 2006 at 8:00pm
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Annex Auditorium
(550 Parker Street)
Boston, MA
www.roxburyfilmfestival.org

Her Voice, Her View Film Festival
July 21, 2006 at 6:30pm
Two Boots Pioneer Theatre
(East 3rd Street, between Avenues A and B (closer to A)
New York, NY
800-595-4849
www.twoboots.com/pioneer

ATLANTA PREMIERE
Pan African Film Festival – Atlanta
Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center
National Black Arts Festival
July 17 – 23, 2006
www.nbaf.org

2nd Annual Afro Punk Film Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY
July 2, 2006, 2:00pm

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=84

AFRICAN PREMIERE
27th Durban International Film Festival
Durban, South Africa
June 14-25, 2006
www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/Durban_International_Film_Festival.htm

SPANISH PREMIERE
XIV Barcelona International Women Film Festival
Barcelona, Spain
June 9-18, 2006

http://mostra.dracmagic.com/eng/M01S06A04.html

EUROPEAN PREMIERE
TekFestival
Rome, Italy
May 5-9, 2006
www.tekfestival.it/2006/home_eng.php

ROCKY MOUNTAIN PREMIERE
7th Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
Denver, Colorado
April 24-30, 2006
www.panafricanarts.org/dpaff.htm

GULF COAST PREMIERE
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
New Orleans, LA
April 6-15, 2006
www.nolahumanrights.org

WORLD PREMIERE
Pan African Film & Arts Festival
Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 – 1:05pm
Thursday, February 16, 2006 – 7:30pm
www.paff.org

2006 Events

DC Rape Crisis Center sponsors screening & discussion of rape and African-American experience with Aishah Shahidah Simmons & Lori Robinson at Howard University.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 7:30pm
Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium
2455 6th St. NW.
The event is free and open to the public.
Click here to download the flyer.
Click here to download the press release.
www.dcrcc.org

WASHINGTON, DC PREMIERE
National Museum of Women In The Arts
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 7:00pm
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Presented in partnership with DC INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
Suggested donation: $5 – 10
Click here to download the flyer.
www.nmwa.org

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tuesday, November 7, 6:30pm
Stone Center Auditorium
womenscenter.unc.edu/events/index.html

Spelman College
Monday, November 6, 4:00pm
Cosby Auditorium
This event is presented In collaboration with the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Sisters Chapel, the Division of Student Affairs.
www.spelman.edu/students/sexualassault/nodocumentary.shtml

From Womb to Womanhood Conference
Temple University, Gladfelter Hall
October 28, 2006
www.inthecompanyofpoets.com

Keynote Presentation with Monica Dillon from 9:30 -10:30
“When All That We Have Is A Moment…We Make Do”
Screening of NO! from 11:45 – 1:30)
Black Women’s Filmmaker Panel “Reel Sisters/Real Issues: Sex, Love, Power & Passion”
from 1:45 – 3:00

The Attic Youth Center
Creating Art for Social Change, with Monica Dillon
October 13, 2006, 5:30pm
www.atticyouthcenter.org

PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE
Painted Bride Arts Center
October 12, 2006, 7:00pm
230 Vine Street, Philadelphia
Co-presented by Leeway Foundation and Scribe Video Center in collaboration
with Painted Bride Arts Center.
A reception will follow immediately after the screening.
This screening/event is FREE but reservations are required. Please RSVP to Denise Brown on or before October 9 by emailing her at info@leeway.org or calling 215.545.4078.
www.leeway.org
www.scribe.org
www.paintedbride.org

University of California, San Diego, Cross Cultural Center
October 9, 2006 2:30pm
www.ucsd.edu <http://www.ucsd.edu>

University of Connecticut Institute of African-American Studies
Sexual Violence, Healing and Moving Forward — a talk
October 3, 2006, 4:00pm

DC Rape Crisis Center will present Aishah with a Visionary Award at their “A Taste to Change” event, which will be held at the Women’s National Democratic Club in Washington, DC
September 28, 2006, 6:30pm
www.dcrcc.org

Spelman College Sister’s Chapel Presents “Global Conference – Sisters of African Descent: Connecting Spirituality, Religion and Vocation”
Omni Hotel, CNN Center
Atlanta, GA
September 22, 2006, 3:15pm

http://www.spelman.edu/students/current/ministries/globalconference_schedule.shtml

Barnard College
Barnard Hall, James Room
September 20, 2006, 6:30pm
www.barnard.edu

Raday Salon
June 1, 2006, 6:30pm
Raday Utca 17, Budapest Hungary

http://raday.blogs.com

National Women’s Studies Association
June 15-18, 2006
www.nwsa.org

Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Thursday, June 8, 2006
www.wcasa.org

Solidarity Work: An Organizing Retreat for Internationalist and
Anti-Racist Women’s Human Rights
May 4-7, 2006

http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/solidaritywork/organizing_retreat.html

University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
www.ucr.edu

Claremont Graduate University
Thursday, April 27, 2006
www.claremont.edu

Blackout Arts Collective
April 21, 2006, 7:30pm
520 8th Ave 22nd Floor (between 36th St and 37th St)
New York, NY
Cost:$5
www.blackoutartscollective.com
Please R.S.V.P. to secure your seat by calling 212-594-4482, Ext 17
or via e-mail at blackoutarts@yahoo.com

Drexel University
Thursday, April 20, 2006
www.drexel.edu
Click here to download a flyer for this event.

University of California, Santa Barbara
Monday, April 19, 2006
www.ucsb.edu
Click here to download a flyer for this event.

University of Illinois, Chicago
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
African American Cultural Center at 3:00pm
www.uic.edu
Click here to download a flyer for this event.

AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland
Friday, April 14, 2006
www.aidstaskforce.org

Harvard University
April 10, 2006
Harvard Yard, Emerson 305, 5:30pm
www.harvard.edu

University of Virginia
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Wilson Hall Auditorium, 7:00pm
Click here to download a flyer for this event.

Boston College
Monday, March 27, 2006
Mcguinn 121, 7pm
www.bc.edu

University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Multicultural Center Theater, 4pm
www.ucsb.edu
Click here to download a flyer for this event.

California State University, San Marcos
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Fieldhouse, Grand Salon, 6pm
www.csusm.edu

SNEAK PREVIEW
Quinnipiac University
Saturday, February 4, 2006
www.quinnipiac.edu/x17805.xml
2001 – 2004 EVENTS

Here is a listing of educational screenings of and lectures, workshops and discussions about NO!TM held before January of 2005.

YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Community Center
November 13, 2004
Healing Expressions: Using Art to Change the World
Topic: Confronting Sexual Assault and Abuse
Lexington, Kentucky

Paris, France
October 28-November 4, 2004
Quand lesbiennes se font du cinema, Groupe du 6 Novembre; Ni Putes Ni Soumises.

* WINNER “Special Mention” Documentary Section, Long Form

http://www.cineffable.fr.fm/

http://www.wasadugu.org/groupedu6novembre.htm

http://www.niputesnisoumises.com/

Genova, Italy
October 22
Sponsored by: Associazione Cuturale Artemisia, Associazaione Le Bisce d’aqcua,
Collettive Femministe Libere Tutte

Click here to download a flyer for this event.

Rome, Italy
October 13-17, 2004
Sponsored by: Lune e le altre, Coordinamento Lesbiche Romane, Casa Internazionale delle Donne,
Donne in Genere, Differenza Donna, Queering Sapienza, La Mela di Eva

16 Ottobre – Proieziene del video NO! e dibattito
Luna e le Altre

15 Ottobre – Proieziene del video NO! e dibattito
Casa Internazionale delle Donne

14 Ottobre – Proieziene del video NO! e diabattito
Centro di accoglienza per donne in diffficolta “Maree”

13 Ottobre – Proieziene del video NO! e diabattito
Facolta di Lettere_La Sapienza Universita

Florence, Italy
October 12, 2004
Sponsored by: Azione Gay e Lesbica

Bologna, Italy
October 11, 2004
Sponsored by: La Casa Per Non Subire Violenza; Arcilesbica Bologna; and Fuoricampo

http://www.fuoricampo.net/aishah_simmons.html

Turin, Italy
October 7, 2004
Proiezione del documentario e incontro con l’autrice Aishah Shahidah Simmons.
Sponsored by: City of Turin Municipality

http://www.comune.torino.it/politichedigenere/as/no.htm

http://www.comune.torino.it/politichedigenere/index.htm

Ramapo College of New Jersey
October 4, 2004 @ 6:30 p.m.
For more information, please call (201) 684-7468

Tidewater Community College, Norfolk Campus
September 28, 2004 @ 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Tidewater Community College Women’s Center,
Campus Violence Prevention Project; and Student Activities

D.C. Rape Crisis Center’s Fall Fundraiser
September 23, 2004; 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Westin Embassy Row
2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
For more information, please call (202) 232-0789 ext. 221

Prince George’s Community College
September 21, 2004 @ 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Prince George’s Sheriff’s Department; Prince George’s County Executive’s Office;
Prince George’s County Council; and Prince George’s Community College

Click here to download a flyer for this event.

National Black Arts Festival (July 2004)
Bearing Witness: Women, Culture, and Politics
One-day Symposium

Groupe du 6 Novembre/La Maison Des Femmes, June 2004 (Paris, France)

Regional Conference on Trafficking in Balkans, June 2004 (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
European Quaker International Affairs Program
American Friends Service Committee

University of California, Davis, May 2004

Visions In Feminism/Café Mowonaj, April 2004

Ohio Coalition On Sexual Assault, April 2004

Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, April 2004

North Carolina State University, April 2004

Agape Lesbian Stage, April 2004 (Turin, Italy)

Western Illinois University, April 2004

Refuge House, April 2004

Southern University of New Orleans, March 2004

Central European University, March 2004 (Budapest, Hungary)

Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, March 2004

Hamilton College, February 2004

State University of New York at Oswego, February 2004

Macelester College, February 2004

Bryn Mawr College, February 2004

Federal Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women on Campus
Program Training and Technical Assistance Program, January 2004

Sister Song National Conference, November 2003

Kalamazoo College, November 2003

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2003

Brookdale Auditorium, Hunter College/Benefit Reception for NO!, October 2003

Wesleyan University, October 2003

Wright State University, October 2003

Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s Innaugural Program/
Bennett College for Women, October 2003

Iowa State University, September 2003

PA Coalition Against Rape Mid Atlantic Conference, September 2003

San Francisco Women Against Rape, June 2003

San Francisco Black Film Festival, June 2003

Akwaaba Community Center (Detroit), May 2003

Austin H. MacCormick Island Academy (Rikers Island Correctional Facility), May 2003

Denver Pan African Film Festival, April 2003

Princeton University, April 2003

Boston College, April 2003

Harvard University, April 2003

Rockland County Family Shelter, April 2003

Spelman College, March 2003

Black Men In Support of the Film NO!/HipHop Speaks/
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, March 2003

Tufts University, March 2003

Boston Black Women’s Institute/Simmons College, March 2003

Temple University, November 2002

Oberlin College, November 2002

New Jersey Coalition Against Battered Women, November 2002

Black Man Film Festival, November 2002

Earth Mama Healing Gathering, August 2002

Black men and Domestic Violence: What Do We Know,
Where Do We Go?, (May 2002)

Female “Bodies” of Knowledge Symposium, Temple University, April 2002

Essence of Healing Conference, March 2002 (England)

University of Pennsylvania, March 2002

Columbia University, February 2002

Prism’s “Queer People of Color Organizing Conference,”
Yale University, February 2002

State University of New York at Albany, February 2002

Princeton University, November 2001

Fresh Start Alternative School, October 2001

Gilliam Youth Detention Facility, October 2001

Metropolitan State College of Denver, October 2001

Duke University, September 2001

Groupe du 6 Novembre, August 2001 (Paris, France)

European Roma Rights Center’s Summer School, July 2001 (Budapest, Hungary)

Open Society Institute’s Roma Participation Program, July 2001 (Hungary)

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