DC Public Library Hosts Digital Diaspora Family Reunion

DC PUBLIC LIBRARY HOSTS DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION TO LAUNCH THEIR MEMORY LAB! Winner of the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary, "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" uses the photos of professional and   amateur Black photographers to show how photography has been used to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the Civil War era. Harris encourages people to rethink the value of their family photos and to use the power of interactive media to share their stories with the next generation. Following a DC Public Library screening of Through A Lens Darkly, Thomas Allen Harris will present Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow and speak about the importance of personal archiving and his involvement in the community engagement project, which collected 18,000 images from personal family archives across the USA.  Harris's lecture helps celebrate the launch of the Memory Lab, a space  designed to help the public digitize and preserve videotapes, photographs   and other family keepsakes. Located in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the Memory Lab features technology like scanners and VCRs along with and step-by-step instructions for saving items in a digital format. Everyone is welcome to bring a photo of your family member to share! The discussion will also be livestreamed here. DC Public Library   Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library  910 G St NW Washington, District of Columbia20001 Saturday, February 20, 2016     Through A Lens Darkly film screening 2pm - 3:30pm Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow   3:30pm - 5pm     More Info UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS  BOOK OF THE FAMILY TREE LECTURE WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS! Thomas Allen Harris will explore identity and representation with a particular focus on how African Americans have used the camera in the fight for civil rights. The talk is both personal as well as historical in scope-covering twenty-five years of film/video/photo work mining family and extended family archives to explore issues around identity, the body, spirituality, and representation. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   Gallery 400 Lecture Room ADH Art and Design Hall 400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607 Thursday, February 25, 2016 Through a Lens Darkly discussion, with film excerpts         12:30pm - 2pm Voices Lecture: Thomas Allen Harris 4:30pm - 6pm    More Info VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS SCREENING WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS! The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a screening of Through a Lens Darkly this Friday! Thomas Allen Harris, Don Perry, and Assistant Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University Photography and Film Department Paul Thulin will be present to introduce the film as well as for a post-film discussion and Q&A. Tickets are $8 for the general public and $5 for VMFA members. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts   Leslie Cheek Theater   200 N. Boulevard Richmond, Virginia USA Friday, February 19, 2016      6:30pm - 9pm  More Info THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS INTERVIEWED BY BILL COLEMAN ON ART FORUM TV NYC! Watch AFTV 66! AFTVNYC Guest Host Bill Coleman interviews filmmaker/artist Thomas Allen Harris about his films and Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. See it on Youtube!   Thursday, February 18, 2016 on Manhattan's Time Warner Cable 67, RCN Cable  85, FIOS 36 7:30pm Not in Manhattan? View worldwide on MNN at showtime More Info BUILDING A 1WORLD1FAMILY ALBUM!  Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Facebook Group   JOIN NOW DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION IN THE CLASSROOM AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY! "Digital Diaspora Family Reunion started off the school year at Temple University! Thomas Allen Harris and Don Perry were invited by the Film Media Arts  department to bring a mini-DDFR workshop for students to engage with narratives within their own family albums as well as to bridge inter-generational and cross-cultural differences. Stories and photographs were shared, taking the classroom on a journey from Peru to North Korea, from the 1940's in Philly to the 1870s in South Carolina, all the way from Japan to Chicago, and from San Diego to China." Visit blog to see more! DIGITAL DIASPORA PARTICIPANT APPEARING AT THE APOLLO THEATER! Albany DDFR participant Carol Daggs is cast to appear at Apollo Theater Amateur Night on March 23! Carol is a music teacher at Squaw Valley Academy and is also part of the musical group Jazzage.  For more information, visit Apollo Theater ticket info Saratoga Springs Diaspora with Carol Daggs JOIN THE DDFR 500 CLUB! Help support the Vision of Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: 1World1Family by using the tax-deductible donation form HERE. Our VISION is to Build Community by illuminating our Shared Values and Experiences as Human Beings and Transform Strangers into Family in order to Create a More Civil and Empathetic Society.   Your support will help DDFR to: Create a MOVEMENT that fosters a heightened since of what unites us Expand VISUAL LITERACY so that we gain a more complete understanding of ourselves as seen through the images that dominate our culture Amplify NARRATIVES that have been hidden, suppressed, undervalued and underappreciated to flesh out the nuances of what we consider "History." Use MEDIA to proactively create a more representative and diverse image of Who We Are. STAY CONNECTED:

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