Dinner and Storytelling with the Beehive & Photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner
Posted December 10, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Beehive Collective Presents...Dinner and Storytelling with the Bees and photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner with special guest, Tanzanian Investigative Journalist, Evans Rubara.
The Beehive will be presenting parts of their new work, about resistance to a mega-development plan in Latin America. Allan and Evans will present "Someone Else's Treasure" and "A Golden Opportunity?" a photo essay and short film about mining in Tanzania. Friday, Dec 12, 7pm Sixth Street Community Center 638 East 6th Street NYC, NY $10-20sliding scale
Dinner will be a four course meal: appetizers, salad, a couple of main courses, and a choice of desserts. Proceeds from the dinner will go directly to people displaced from the Mtakuja village to pave way for AngloGold Ashanti in Mwanza Region in Tanzania.
About the guests:
Evans Rubara: Based in Dar es Salaam, Evans Rubara, has written a number of articles critical of the Tanzanian government and of the gold mines in that country, which represent international corporate capitalism at its worst. The mining companies extract gold by pouring cyanide into the rocks (which is poisoning Lake Victoria); they avoid paying taxes by having a private air strip to shuttle the gold out of the country; and they have been accused by Amnesty International of burying over 50 miners alive in an attempt to "remove" local miners by bulldozing their homes and filling in the "independent" mine shafts. Rubara has eye-witness testimony from survivors of this catastrophe; he is continuing to press for an inquiry into the miners' deaths. For his efforts, he himself has received death threats. Formerly an investigative journalist, Rubara is now the program director for Advocacy and Communications for Norwegian Church Aid in Tanzania, which recently released the a critical report on mining in Tanzania.
The Beehive Collective: The Beehive Collective is an all volunteer non-profit graphics workshop who's mission is to cross pollinate the grassroots by creating iconic imagery that can be used as popular education and organizing tools. They create graphic narrative murals that tell stories of neo-colonisation, corporate globalisation and grassroots resistance using metaphors illustrated in pen and ink.
Allan Cedillo Lissner: Allan is a freelance documentary photographer based in Toronto, Canada. He will be showcasing his most recent work Someone Else's Treasure, an ongoing documentary project shedding light on the experiences of people around the world – including the Philippines, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Chile, and Canada – whose lives have been impacted by the global mining industry.
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