[CIMC-work] Re: draft press release for upcoming Media festival

[Tracy Kurowski]

Ipropose we change the nameof the festival to 
Counterspin, or something else.  The more I think of "Spin-Free"
theless I likeit.


TracyKurowski at postmark.net

Thomas Yun wrote:

> Hello, all,
> 
> I've attached the draft press release for the upcoming
> media festival in January.  Some details I left out
> because I don't know them, like the name of the Werner
> Herzog movie, for example.
> 
> Please comment and suggest revisions.
> 
> Also, very important, Labor Beat has requested
> permission to have a table at the festival.  I
> personally, being totally biased, think that this
> should be okay as they are a bulwark of independent
> media.
> 
> peace,
> t
> y
> 
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> Re: 	
> 	1. SpinFree: A festival of Autonomous Media
> 	Benefit for Chicago Indymedia and Hasta Cuando
> 	Sponsored by Ritual Multimedia, Chicago Media Action, and Polvo Art.
> 
> 	2. Chicago Indymedia to premiere television show at SpinFree.
> 
> 
> SpinFree, a Festival of Autonomous Media, brings together the Independent
Media Center of Chicago and Hasta Cuando in collaboration to promote
independent, non-corporate, grassroots journalism and arts.  The festival will
feature the premiere of Chicago Independent Television.  Festival sponsors
include Ritual Multimedia, Chicago Media Action, and Polvo Art Studios. 
> 
> Festival dates:
> January 16th and 17th
> 
> Locations:
> Women in the Director's Chair on January 16th, 941 W. Lawrence
> Decima Musa on January 17th, 1901 S. Loomis
> 
> Schedule:
> 
> January 16th 
> video screenings: 	"Independent Media in Time of War"
> 			"Live from Ground Zero" (WTO Cancun)
> 			Chicago Independent Television, Episode 1
> 
> Photoexhibit from the Chicago Indymedia photogroup.
> Report back from FTAA protests, videos and speakers.
> Musical guest TBA.
> 
> January 17th
> video screenings:	"H. Kramer Pollution"
> 			"Pilsen Artist"
> 			Werner Herzog Iraq movie
> 			"Tell Us"
> 		
> Report back from FTAA protests, videos and speakers.
> 
> contact info:
> Chicago Independent Media Center - Thomas Yun, (312) 505-0764,
mayday at riseup.net
> Hasta Cuando - Tracy Kurowski (312) 282-6787, tracykurowski at postmark.net