New FILM for 2017 -- Take a look!

NEWS!! 2017: VOICES FOR FREEDOM GOES TO PBS and SCREENS NATIONALLY

NEWS:

Now on PBS!! VOICES FOR FREEDOM: The Hyers Sisters' Legacy, my 30 min film on the Hyers Sisters is on PBS and screening across the country: They were 19th-century African-American divas who gave voice to the humanity of their people and created the first American musicals!
KVIE (PBS) TV on its Viewfinder 2017 Series - November 15 at 7pm, 17 at 4pm, and 19 at 6:30pm PST.
=Voices is also in the Berkeley Video and Film Festival Nov. 4, 3pm at 1939 Addison in Berkeley.
Ticket info at http://berkeleyvideofilmfest.org.
Voices will be on DVD by Nov 1, 2017. Phone sales are not operative, but www.TheHyersSisters.com will support DVD sales as will Amaon.com
See www.TheHyersSisters.com for our Trailer, details on screenings, and DVD sales

MORE --Stay tuned for full details on these screenings

VOICES FOR FREEDOM: The Hyers Sisters' Legacy will be screened at UC Berkeley's Hearst Anthropology Museum on Nov. 12. Susheel will lead a discussion time TBA
Voices goes to Hawaii January 9-16, 2018: Maui and in Honolulu at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities. Check this site in December for the final schedule: http://hichumanities.org/program/. or Stay tuned here or at www.TheHyersSisters.com for details!
The Voices FB page is: https://www.facebook.com/HyersSisters?fref=ts
Tax-deductible donations to expand the Hyers film to 60 min: http://www.susheelbibbs.com. Mail donations: Checks to LHF, c/o 123 Mint Leaf Way, Sacramento,CA 95838

=MEET MARY PLEASANT RIDES AGAIN!

Bibbs' award-winning feature Meet Mary Pleasant is on PBS again in HD through 2021
MEET MARY PLEASANT-- an acclaimed, award winning 1 hr. film now on PBS and a touring one-woman performance by Susheel Bibbs. See a recent review of the show below.
Booking at mepleasant1@yahoo.com
Details at www.mepleasant.com

Now on DVD and VoD on Amazon.com

=TOURING PROGRAM

=Now touring the Hyers VOICES FOR FREEDOM program with the new Hyers film and discussion

=email bookings: mepleasant1@yahoo.com for bookings.

===============================================================Archive of events and Film-related appearances

Hyers first test screening on AAMLO, June 17, 2017, 3pm at 659 14th St. in Oakland-- not streaming yet, but we're screening!
With Zaccho Dance Theater, San Francisco
Contact: jross11552@gmail.com, jross@zaccho.org, www.zaccho.org
Schedule of Presentations, Free
=September 11, 10:30am, Bayview Opera House, San Francisco
Meet Mary Pleasant mini-Chautauqua for youth. Presented by Zaccho Dance Theater
=September 13, 5pm, FREE
California Historical Society. Post-event panel participant for the Zaccho Dance production of Sailing Away -- an open-space/outdoor dance presentation on Market Street at 2 pm. based on the migrations of early SF civil rights leaders.
At Crocker Museum, Sacramento Bibbs as Singer-Narrator for a gala presentation of an original work, Big Dreams, Small Shoulders, by Deborah Pittman based on the famous Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old who was involved in school desegregation in 1960 -- featuring narration, song, puppetry, and instrumental music. Bibbs sings spirituals and narrates.

At Sonoma County Historical Society Contact: sonomacountyhistory.org March 24, 2013, afternoon time and cost TBA. 45 min. Chautauqua: Meet Mary Pleasant at Flamingo Resort, Sonoma, CAWatch a video of this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDM6JQ8ubPw

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