[BHS etree] PTSA: EmbracingDiversityFilms 5/13

[bhs at idiom.com]

contact: Sally Douglas Arce, sdarce at jps.net, 510-527-1328 or Maxine
Tatmon-Gilkerson, iricbridges at aol.com, 510-243-0797.

EmbracingDiversityFilms and the Albany High School PTA
present "Bums' Paradise" Thursday May 13 at 7 p.m. in
the Albany High School Library, 603 Key Route Blvd.,
Albany. The site is wheelchair accessible.
(Please enter the gymnasium doors on Thousand Oaks
Blvd., turn right, go through another door and walk
straight down hallway to the library.) This evocative
color documentary from 2002 is 53 minutes long and
appropriate for high school and middle school
audiences as well. Following
the film there will be a facilitated discussion
featuring the filmmaker Tomas McCabe and narrator
Robert "Rabbit" Barringer.
Admission is free and donations are welcomed.

"Bums' Paradise" is an award-winning film about the
former Albany Landfill Encampment. After decades of
being a garbage dump, the Albany Landfill closed in
1986. Nature slowly reclaimed the land and various
homeless men and women moved in. They built modest
dwellings, became a community and lived free from the
public scorn and scrutiny that commonly plagues the
homeless in America. It was a magical place where, for
a time, the homeless were at home.

"This landfill stands as a brooding monument to
obsolescence. What could be a more appropriate refuge
for America's unused people? Here, they can be hidden
away from a society which regards them as a nuisance
and an eyesore." -- Robert "Rabbit" Barringer, Albany
Landfill Resident and Gracious Host of "Bums'
Paradise."

The story continues at bumsparadise.com.

For more information about EmbracingDiversityFilms,
please contact Sally Douglas Arce, sdarce at jps.net,
510-527-1328 or Maxine Tatmon-Gilkerson,
iricbridges at aol.com, 510-243-0797.