Haiti Kids Kino Project

by Emma_Chappel on 04-Feb-10 14:39

The Haiti Kids Kino Project
 
Extending the reach of its film program, the Bristol's Cube Cinema is traveling to Dominican Republic to set up temporary social cinemas for refugee children affected by the Haiti earthquakes.

See below for details of our forthcoming events programme and how to donate.

Organised by the Cube Cinema's children’s wing, Nanoplex, The Haiti Kids Kino Project will screen films for Haitian children, while providing workshops and equipment for them to make their own films. These will be shown to Haitian audiences, and then back here at The Cube.  Similarly, children’s films made through the Cube’s Nanoplex, will go to the Dominican Republic border.
 
Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering temporary childcare facilities, this is a goodwill project to provide a small opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion.
 
Children are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety can grow through inaction, loneliness and boredom. The Haiti Kids Kino Project is working in dialogue with established NGO’S, to contribute to quality of life through creating, sharing, forging friendships and connections.

Two Cube volunteers will be going out at the end of February, and we are raising funds for screens, cameras, films, vaccines, flights, etc.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, DONATE, OFFER HELP and ASSISTANCE.

See below for details of how to donate, or contact us directly at haitikidskino@cubecinema.com

FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Event 1
Nanoplex Presents... Haiti Kids Kino Fundraiser
21 February, Cube Cinema, Bristol
 
2pm – 6pm KIDS KINO CLUB SPECIAL (film + games + fun)
8pm – 11pm KATH BLOOM + SLOW (music)

£8 for joint ticket Kath Bloom and Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
£4 per child and adult for only Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
 
Children's afternoon cinema and workshops, including short and long films, demonstrations on how to project in public spaces and making film postcards for Haitian children, followed by extraordinary evening gig by blues/folk legand Kath Bloom (www.qujunktions.com/asp/main.asp?style=gigs)

The Haiti Kids Kino Club includes - Screening Azur and Asmar- The Princes‘ Quest (2.15PM): : Outdoor projector and children's film workshops : : Enclounters Shorts for Children : : The Red Balloon (5.15pm) : : All day: cake sale, raffle (win an afternoon at the Cube with your favourite film)
We hope to have some special cinema guests at the afternoon event talking about similar programmes and what this project could mean for the children and their families and The Cube itself.

Buy Tickets:
-  BRISTOL TICKET SHOP  www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
-  THE HERE SHOP, Stokes Croft (in person)
 

Event 2
HOW COME... Presents… A Multi Venue Night of Music, Film and Djs
with JOHN PARISH + GET THE BLESSING + THE MOLES + ZUN ZUN EGUI + SHOGUN KUNITOKI + MEN DIAMLER +AYE AYE + SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
+ ¨World Beatz co-hosting the bar with World Beatz DJs + Chew Magna + Young Master + Fat Paul + The Janitor + a secret special guest.
6 March / The Cube (6-1am) & The Croft (8-3am) / £8 adv

NOTE: As this is a multi-venue show, a ticket does not guarantee that you will get into the venue of choice.
 
Buy Tickets:
- BRISTOL TICKET SHOP  www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
- THE HERE SHOP, Stokes Croft (in person)
 
For more info: www.qujuktions.com
 
 
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT

 
COMING SOON…

 -     The Kids Kino Kollection - especially for The Haiti Kids Kino Project, some (in)famous filmmakers, film indy persons (critics, producers, animators, actors including Mark Cousins, Tony Grisoni, Gareth Evans and Alan Bishop) are curating inspiring children’s films for us to take. Check back on  http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php for more information and what will become the best children’s international film collection ever.
 
-       As well as much-needed money, why not send us your old children’s DVDS
for this exchange - please address to The Haiti Kids Kino Project, The Cube, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, BS2 8NQ, United Kingdom
-        LadyLucy T Shirts on sale soon

How to donate

• To donate the old fashioned way, please send cheques made out to ''Cube Cinema Ltd'' ,  The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT c/o The Cube Cinema  4 Princess Row  Bristol  BS2 8NQ
  Or donate this way : The HAITI SCREENINGS http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti

You can buy tickets online, by phone or in person from Bristol Ticket Office for a screening in Haiti or The  Dominican Republic. And, if you can't make it yourself (!), don’t worry because your seat will go to a Young Haitian Person, and the £5 price of a ticket, goes to raising funds for The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT .

BRISTOL TICKET SHOP  0870 4444 400 / 0117 929 9008, 26 Union Street Broadmead, Bristol, BS1 2DP , or go direct to http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti

Please buy as many tickets as you can. Its a great way to donate.

If you want to make a greater donation, please get in touch directly haitikidskino@cubecinema.com

MORE INFO
 
The Haiti Kids Kino Project is organized by The Cube Cinema's Nanoplex.
 
Nanoplex is an offshoot of The Cube that accommodates young minds, encourages active learning and creativity and hosts workshops, cabarets, film screenings and gigs.
 
The Cube is a volunteer-run organisation, based in inner-city Bristol, active in community life, producing and exhibiting art and culture. The Cube was set up to provide people who want to get involved with an outlet, a cultural and social exchange, and with something good to do. Recognised for innovation, open-source administration and resistance to difficult times, the Cube also has experience of setting up cultural exchanges and cinemas in challenging locations (Cornish tin mines, abandoned multi-story car parks, permaculture gardens, festivals over Europe, Nepal and even in Newcastle)
 
Working in dialogue with established NGO's, The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT will initially be based in the Dominican Republic/Haiti Border (where many Haitian refugee children are based) and only intends to move to Haiti if conditions allow.

The Cube Cinema is a non-funded, volunteer-run organisation - and help towards this, however small or large, makes a crucial difference to getting this project under way.

As a provider of grass roots cultural exchange this is the most direct humanitarian response that The Cube can offer

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, AND DO GET IN TOUCH IF YOU CAN HELP

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