Arts and Performance
Urban Video Project Presents: Lynne Sachs
October 10, 2024 at 7:30pm – December 21, 2024 at 10:00pm EDT
Everson Museum Plaza, Salt City Market, Light Work
This Side of Salina
Four Black women from the gritty and tenacious city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all of her life. Two performers flip through classic 1960s titles by Black authors in a bookstore. Others sit in a hat store finding time to pour into each other, as mentors and confidantes. These are businesses that are owned by local Black women, and they know it. In Brady Market, a community grocery, they playfully shop and chat with ease and confidence. They dance to their own rhythms in the outdoor plaza of the Everson Museum of Art. Together they look down at the city from its highest point and ponder how to battle the inequities of the place that they call home.
Commissioned by Light Work as part of the UVP Residential Media Commission program
CREDITS
Featuring: J’Viona Baker, Vernahia Davis, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Angela Stroman
Director: Lynne Sachs
Cinematographers: Anneka Herre, Lynne Sachs, Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Monae Kyhara Sims
Editor: G. Anthony Svatek
Production support: Minnie S. McMillian, Devon Narine Singh, Hilary Warner
Additional recording: Saptarshi Lahiri
Sound Design: Kevin T. Allen
In consultation with Tiffany Lloyd, Director of Women’s Health and Empowerment, Allyn Foundation Campaign Manager, Layla’s Got You
Shot on location in Syracuse, New York at Black Citizens Brigade, Brady Market, The Classic Bop Hat Boutique, Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza, and Upper Onondaga Park
Special Events:
Communities of Care:
Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country
Thursday, October 17 | 5:30pm
Light Work, Watson Theater
316 Waverly Ave.
Join Light Work in Watson Theater (across from our galleries) on Thursday, October 17 for a screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of six feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade to document the impact of the ruling on their own communities. The program includes new work by award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs, who shot footage in Syracuse with local reproductive justice advocates from Layla’s Got You.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Đoan Hoàng, Raymond Rea, and Lynne Sachsas well as reproductive justice advocates J’viona Baker, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis, and Angela Stroman.
Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will also be served.
This event is FREE & OPEN to the public.
Living to Tell:
Using Film as a Tool of Reproductive Justice
Wednesday, October 16 | 5:30 p.m.
Salt City Market | Community Room
484 S. Salina St.
FREE! RSVP required
Join Light Work and Engaged Humanities Network for a filmmaking workshop with award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs and local reproductive justice advocates J’viona Baker, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis, and Angela Stroman from Layla’s Got You.
Participants will explore how sound and image can be used to bear witness poetically and politically. Ages 15 and up. No filmmaking experience required!
This workshop is FREE but requires an RSVP to register.
Please RSVP using the form linked in the button above.
This event was published on September 30, 2024.
Event Details
- Category
- Arts and Performance
- Region
- Greater Syracuse
- Open to
- Public
- Organizer
- Light Work
- Contact
- Cali Banks
cali@lightwork.org
3154439933
- Accessibility
- Contact Cali Banks to request accommodations