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  5/16/17: Special episode of PANORAMA celebrating Studs Terkel at Hideout

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  In honor of what would have been Studs Terkel’s 105th birthday, the monthly variety show Panorama has put together a special evening of music, stories, video, and performance. In addition to hosts Rick Kogan and Michael Miles, the program will feature Lily Emerson as Lily Lowell, Glenda Zahra Baker as Lucy Jefferson, Tony Fitzpatrick as Kid Pharoah and Dennis Hart in Division Street, and Lloyd King as himself in Race. It will also feature video and audio clips of Studs […]

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  4/1/17: Southside Projections Presents: Rats, Roaches, and Resistance: Housing Activism Films with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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  Many human rights organizations contend that housing is a fundamental human right, but a safe and affordable place to live is not a given in our society. Where Can I Live? A Story of Gentrification (Erik Lewis, 1984, 32 min.) documents tactics used by tenants fighting gentrification in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the early 1980s, while also putting on view the abusive practices of investor landlords. Social and Political Housing Scrapbook (10 min., courtesy of Media Burn Independent Video Archive), made in the early […]

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  10/7/16: Tour Media Burn

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  Go behind the scenes at Media Burn on Friday, October 7th as part of Chicago Open Archives Do you enjoy going behind-the-scenes to places the public is not normally allowed? Do you ever wonder what on earth we do all day at Media Burn? Now’s your chance to find out! Over thirty local archives, research centers, and cultural institutions in the Chicago area will offer special events open to members of the public on October 6-8, 2016.This year’s Chicago Open […]

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  3/21/16: Join Scrappers, Truthout.org, and Media Burn at the Music Box for Rights Lab: Can I record the police?

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  Where: Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL When: Monday, March 21, 2016 — 7:00 pm Admission: Free Filming police is legal in all 50 states – but numerous people have been arrested while doing so. The third episode of Rights Lab, a cross-genre web series using cinema verite techniques to explore the most pressing civil liberties questions of our day, explains the discrepancy between the law and what happens on the ground, with the help of performance […]

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  10/9/15: Tour our archive

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  Chicago Open Archives: Come see our archive next Friday, October 9th!   While most of our videos are available for the public to watch on our website at any time, our physical archive is not usually open to the public. However, this special event will give visitors an opportunity to tour our facilities and see a short screening of some highlights from the collection. What: A behind the scenes tour of Media Burn Archive, including a short screening of highlights […]

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  6/22/15: IT’S THE 90’s AGAIN! The most innovative TV of our time, livestreaming 24/7 all week

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  The livestream is happening here: http://www.acretv.org/ Each episode will play 3-4 times on its designated day. Check out the schedule and rundowns for each day below: June 22: Pilot and Episodes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 June 23: Episodes 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 June 24: Episodes 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207 June 25: Episodes 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215 June 26: Episodes 216, 217, 218, 219, 301, 302, 303, 304 June […]

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  5/18/15: Media Burn at Live to Tape Artists Television Festival

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  Live to Tape is a week-long celebration of artist television performances and screenings curated by Jesse Malmed. From May 18th to 24th, the festival will showcase video and performance works by more than sixty artists-spanning four decades-that take television as object, as concept, as antagonist, as material, as form, as inspiration. We’re honored to have been invited to present a video as part of the “Aesthletics” program on Monday May 18. DETAILS: WHAT: LIVE TO TAPE ARTIST TELEVISION FESTIVAL: AESTHLETICS […]

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  4/24/15: Kartemquin Members’ Work for Hire

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  Media Burn is proud to have played a small role in making this screening possible. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see films and videos from the Kartemquin archive that have never screened publicly! Part I of “The Streets and the Classrooms: Educational and Industrial Films in an Era of Massive Social Change,” created by South Side Projections. Presented by Judy Hoffman (University of Chicago, Kartemquin Films member) and Gordon Quinn (Kartemquin Films Co-Founder) Reva and David Logan Center for […]