, professor of marketing in the 91探花, is both producer and co-director, with filmmaker , of “,” a documentary about gentrification over the years in Seattle’s Central District.

The聽 Foster School and will host a red-carpet premiere of “On the Brink” at 4 p.m. June 9, at the historic , 104 17th Ave. S. in Seattle. The film will be followed by a Q and A with members of the cast and crew. Tickets are $20 and doors open at 3:30 p.m.

There will be another screening at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at the , 2300 S. Massachusetts Street in Seattle, also followed by a discussion. Tickets are $10, available .

“Seattle鈥檚 Central District was the largest enclave of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest. The once-thriving community now finds its very existence threatened by change, which is tearing apart the social fabric of their neighborhood,” production notes state. “With few African Americans left in the Central District, can they overcome the course of change before their community and its rich history vanish? ‘On the Brink’ tells a universal story of a struggle to hold on to a sense of community in the face of change, and finding hope in a time of despair.”

In a Seattle Times and the Central District, Shulman told writer Tyrone Beason that he and Fong made the film “to acknowledge the pain of the people who are still there by showing them stories of people who feel the same way.” .

“Lynch: A History” at SIFF

English professor and best-selling author wrote, produced and directed “,” an 84-minutes video collage about iconoclastic NFL star and former Seattle Seahawk and his use of silence as a form of protest by remaining seated during pre-game performances of the Star Spangled Banner.

The film is loosely based on Shields’ book “” and documents and celebrates what Shields calls 鈥淟ynch鈥檚 attempt to be true to himself in a capitalist, racist society that wants to exploit him and that he wants to both exploit and oppose.”

“Lynch: A History,” an official documentary selection of the Seattle International Film Festival will be shown today, June 3, at 7 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m. June 5 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N. in Seattle.

• Update: Another showing has been added for 9 p.m. June 9 at Pacific Place Cinemas in Seattle.

Advance tickets are sold, but tickets may be available at the door. Tickets are $15 for the June 3 showing, $11 for the June 5 showing. .

Filippo Gorini

February 15, 7:30 pm | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

$10 tickets for 91探花students when you show your Husky ID in advance at the or on the night of the show at the Box Office at Meany Hall. |

Whitney Davis: Pictorial Art and Global Psychological Modernity

February 19, 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

Pictorial art has often been seen as one of the hallmarks of anatomically and cognitively modern, or what might be called “psychologically modern,” human beings. The lecture re-evaluates this notion in light of new findings in prehistoric studies and new arguments in the history and theory of art. How did pictorial art emerge and what does it do for the human species?

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley and Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York.

This program is a part of the Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities. The gallery space will have an exhibition of work by undergraduates in Painting + Drawing.

Free |

Fefu and Her Friends

November 28 to December 9 | Meany Studio Theater

Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton directs an all-female cast in Mar铆a Irene Forn茅s鈥� most celebrated, realistic and feminist works, Fefu and Her Friends. Fefu turns the 鈥渓adies who lunch鈥� trope on its head, bringing together an extraordinary鈥攁nd regular鈥攇roup of women who, over the course of a weekend in the country, peel away at each other鈥檚 layers, uncovering both the horrors and felicities of contemporary womanhood. Forn茅s said that Fefu’s realism evolved from the fact that she could feel the characters standing around her, that 鈥渙ne can feel the characters breathe.鈥�

Forn茅s, who passed away October 31st at the age of 88, has been called 鈥渢he most important American playwright you鈥檝e never heard of,鈥� and 鈥渋nfluential beyond measure.鈥� She is considered by many to be the mother of U.S. Latinx Theatre. This year marks a national celebration of her work, Celebrando Forn茅s/Celebrating Forn茅s.

$10 tickets for 91探花students |

Clotilde Jim茅nez: Apple of My Eye

As an artist, Jim茅nez was inspired by Jacob Lawrence鈥檚 use of form and color to tell stories, “Jacob Lawrence was one of the few artists who showed me that it was not only possible to depict my life as a Black person in my own way but that it was also important and needed. Jacob Lawrence鈥檚 forms and color palette gave me the courage to look to my own Black American Puerto Rican roots to channel some of that essence into my work while also candidly telling my own story in the time that I live.”

Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival

November 29 to December 2 | Henry Art Gallery

Gospel Choir

December 3, 7:30 PM | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition. Byrdwell is Director of the 91探花Gospel Choir, Minister of Music at Mount Zion Baptist Church of Seattle, and a music educator for Lakeside School. She was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and serves on the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors.

had not lived in Seattle long before, on a walking tour, she noticed the famously truncated “ramps to nowhere” in the Washington Park Arboretum. A filmmaker and faculty member at 91探花Bothell, she was fascinated 鈥� and inspired.

“I was stunned by these giant freeway stumps covered in ivy along land that didn鈥檛 seem to belong to anyone,” said Martin, who moved to Seattle in 2013. “But it was clearly important to a large variety of folks who spent time here.

“While photographing the stumps, I learned about the history of the freeway revolt that stopped partially and fully funded freeways such as the almost 50 years ago and the 20 freeways that had been drawn on maps, but never completed. The history and the site made me want to make a film.”

From that inspiration comes “Seattle’s Freeway Revolt: A Living Legacy of Civic Activism,” a documentary film and multimedia web archive about the successful late 1960s and early 1970s grassroots movement opposing those freeways in Seattle, which Martin is creating with colleagues Anna Rudd and Priscilla Arsove.

Martin is an associate professor in 91探花Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences who teaches classes titled Gender in Film, World Cinema, the Essay Film, the City as Character and Documentary Production. She also makes . “My work is intended to inspire the viewer to look beyond dominant histories and call for more multivocal approaches to history,” she writes on her web page.

Martin soon met members of Re-Collective, a group that calls itself “architects, designers, thinkers and tinkerers working in the urban landscape of Seattle,” whose members in 2014 turned the truncated ramp into a public art installation called the .

Associations with Re-Collective led her to meet members of the group Activists Remembered, Celebrated and Honored. She also met Arsove, the daughter of 91探花math professor 鈥� an important figure in the freeway revolt and founder of the activist group Citizens Against RH Thompson 鈥� as well as Rudd, his neighbor and a fellow activist.聽 Rudd and Arsove coordinated interviews with activists of the era and became producers of the film and archive project.

The project, Martin said, is a video documentary and multimedia web archive that preserves the history of the movement through short video interviews with former activists, politicians and others involved at the time as well as images, information on the planned freeways and even audio recordings of citizen testimony against the development.

Martin’s “multivocal” approach to history seems to fit the documentary well; the trailer for the documentary has audio clips of activists remembering the movement.

“There was this big map on the wall, and it was the Seattle transportation plan, and I started looking at it and I thought, this has got to be a joke 鈥� it can’t be serious,” one person is heard recalling. “It had this dense network of freeways and bridges. At least 15 freeways within Seattle.”

The project is being supported with funding from the . Martin said the documentary will be complete in January 2017 and the archive website in September.

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For more information, contact Martin at 452-352-3412 or mindam@uw.edu

• Read a recent Crosscut article, “.”
• Watch a trailer of Minda Martin’s documentary:

The movie is the story of how Lipstadt, now with Emory University, successfully faced down Holocaust denier David Irving in a three-month 2000 trial in London’s high court. The film was adapted from Lipstadt’s book, “.”

Lipstadt was the first Jewish Studies faculty member at the UW, back in the 1970s. She remains in touch with and supportive of the in the 91探花Jackson School of International Studies, and visited for the center’s gala in 2012.

In the movie she is portrayed by (“The Constant Gardner”), while Irving is played by (“Mr. Turner”). A in The Hollywood Reporter said Weisz plays Lipstadt with “a single-minded presence and makes her search for the truth and her defeat of lies a noble and urgent purpose” and that Spall “brings a touch of the absurd to the abrasive, distasteful Irving.”

In a recent in the publication The Algemeiner, Lipstadt was quoted as saying, “While the movie can only accomplish so much, it will educate and show the world the absolute ludicrous, delusional and absurd quality of Holocaust denial.

“You can have a lot of opinions, but in the end, you cannot have your own facts,” Lipstadt said.聽“Historians of the Holocaust are especially careful about聽getting their facts right, and no one can say it is all a lie or there is no evidence.鈥�

The film’s will be released in some markets on Sept. 30; in Seattle, it opens on Oct. 14.

• Watch the trailer for the film “Denial.”

As a reminder of that truth, Forefront is participating in Saturday, Sept. 10, by offering suicide prevention workshops in two locations and the premiere of a powerful short documentary film about a Vashon Island teen lost to suicide.

Stuber, Forefront’s co-founder and faculty director, said the film and workshops both underscore a public health warning as simple and lifesaving as “buckle your seat belts” 鈥� that firearms and other potentially dangerous items in the home, such as prescription medications, should be stored safely and away from children.

The 10-minute film, called “Thunderstorm in My Brain,” was produced by Stuber with David Friedle, a film instructor and recent graduate of the 91探花College of Education’s Danforth Program. It tells the story of the life and death of Vashon Islander Palmer Burk, who died at the age of 14 from a self-inflicted gunshot four years ago 鈥� and discusses how to prevent similar tragedies from happening to other families.

The film will premiere in a free screening at 1 p.m. at the , 17723 Vashon Highway SW, in Palmer’s hometown. Space is limited, so is requested.

The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Stuber and Friedle, and will conclude with a suicide prevention training session on how to tell if someone is at risk for suicide and what to say and do if that is the case.

Also, from 10 a.m. to noon the same day in Room 305 of the School of Social Work, , Forefront co-founder and training director, will give a two-hour workshop focusing on five skills that can help prevent suicide, from a Forefront curriculum called . Briefly put, these are how to look for warning signs, empathize and listen, ask directly about suicide, remove possible dangers and know what to do next. Space is limited for this, too, and is requested.

Eastgard said, “It is Forefront’s belief that most suicides are preventable and that anyone can learn to recognize the warning signs for suicide, as well as the resources for helping a person in emotional distress.”

The film is a personal project for Stuber, who lost her husband to firearm suicide in 2011. She said she worked on it during a sabbatical, glad for the opportunity to do something “outside the box.” Friedle was a filmmaking teacher for Seattle Public Schools looking to make a film focusing on social issues who met Stuber and decided to use his filmmaking skills for her suicide prevention efforts.

“As we dug into the issue, it became very clear that in order to help prevent suicide we needed to reframe the gun safety debate as a public health issue,” he said. “The statistics around the use of guns for suicide are staggering.”

Friedle said he and Stuber want to use the film to spark conversations about suicide prevention in the hardest-hit areas of the state, particularly rural communities. They also feel it important that gun owners see the film.

“Thunderstorm in My Brain” has been accepted to the Ellensburg Film Festival and is under consideration by others. Its Vashon showing is co-sponsored by the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse and the Vashon Theatre.

“This is not an easy topic, but there is hope in the progress that we are making,” said Stuber.

“And for me the film hits home 鈥� if you do nothing else the safe storage is so, so critical, particularly if you have children in the house. Also, attending suicide prevention training is another thing you can do to play a role in suicide prevention.”

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For more information, contact Friedle at 206-650-4310 or david.friedle@gmail.com; Stuber at jstuber@uw.edu; or Eastgard at 206-543-1016, eastgard@uw.edu or ffront@uw.edu.

A wild-eyed television preacher, uncensored public access nuttiness, even a young Ellen DeGeneres featured on a 鈥� when had students explore the history of local television for a class, they sure found a lot of good stuff.

The students, about 40 in all, conducted this media scavenger hunt for a spring quarter class called Television History, taught by Groening, an assistant professor in the . Groening will teach the class again in spring of 2017.

And what the students found 鈥� through online searches and explorations of 91探花Libraries extensive Special Collections 鈥� will live beyond the classes in an online archive Groening has created called the .

The archive’s stated mission is to be an open-ended, publicly accessible research project “aimed at recovering, archiving and publicizing the local history of television in Seattle” and to serve as a site for original scholarship on the history of television.

That involves much more than just the old programs themselves. The archive is interested in press coverage of TV, television clubs and viewing parties as well as “the people of television 鈥� on-air talent, camera operators, producers, editors and interns 鈥� (who) all contribute to television culture and history.”

Items the students found are not just on the entertainment side, such as a or an exploration of the work of locals , they dug into serious local history as well.

Other exhibits in the growing archive are about:

• the as seen through Seattle TV
• media of the death of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain
• the experiences of the channel, and
• the broadcasting Seattle over the years

The Seattle Television History Project is supported with funding from the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media and the , enabling the archive to stream the contents of the exhibits and continue to add more exhibits as they come in.

Groening invites contributions to the archive. He also hopes to find funding for a subsequent project about the interconnections between local television and Seattle activism over the decades.

Beyond shows and the people who created or covered them, the archive also seeks to include the viewer experience.

Because we historically have watched TV privately in our homes, “the stories of television viewers have yet to be told,” notes from the site state. “Giving voice to specific viewer experiences is a crucial contribution to the history of media, cultural history and social history.”

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For more information, contact Groening at groening@uw.edu.

91探花historian has teamed with cinematographer and filmmaker to produce a documentary about the life of Methodist minister and civil rights activist .

“” will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE. The screening is free and the public is welcome.

A panel discussion will follow the film with Honey and , 91探花assistant professor of political science, as well as Black Lives Matter activist Michael Moynihan and immigrant rights activist Diana Betancourt.

Honey, a professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at 91探花Tacoma and affiliate of the UW’s , said the film is a product of his long work on the interconnection between labor and civil rights history.

The film premiered in Tacoma in February, and it will be shown again at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at 91探花Tacoma’s Carwein Auditorium.

Lawson, 87, is a lifelong activist in the civil rights and workers movements. He knew and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, studied the nonviolence resistance of Mahatma Gandhi and advised and was allied with — even jailed with — the . From 1974 until his retirement in 1999 Lawson led Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles.

“He just turned 86 when I interviewed (Lawson) for the film,” Honey said. “His life takes us back to his imprisonment as a conscientious objector during the Korean War, as a student of Gandhi in India, as the teacher of nonviolent direct action in the Nashville sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides in 1960, mass movements throughout the South, and then the Memphis sanitation strike. He brought King into that struggle and they ultimately won, despite King’s assassination.”

Honey co-produced the film with Webber, a cinematographer who won an Academy Award for his cinematography on the short 2010 film “.” Honey said Adam Nolan, a graduate in history from 91探花Tacoma, did research for the documentary as well.

Honey said the 38-minute film weaves together three basic “strands”: civil rights, immigrants and labor organizing.

“The film helps us get a grasp on how racism and structures of power are interconnected,” Honey said. “It especially speaks to organizing poor workers in the civil rights movement tradition of direct action to challenge economic and racial inequality and oppression.”

In comments cited on the film’s website, Premilla Nadasen, associate professor of history at Columbia University, called it “a must see for students, teachers and activists to think about the legacy of civil rights activism and to understand the roots of contemporary political organizing.”

Honey said he believes Lawson’s philosophy of love and solidarity “applies to all people organizing for nonviolent social change.”

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For more information, contact Honey at mhoney@uw.edu or 253-692-4454.

Watch a preview of “Love and Solidarity”:

An independent film producer, Stanislaw will present his film “Living on the Edge” at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 9 am in the Harborview Medical Center Research & Training Building, 300 Ninth Avenue. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion of individuals living with epilepsy and 91探花Medicine professionals who treat seizure disorders.

鈥淎fter that seizure at school, I felt closed out of society,鈥� recalled Stanislaw. 鈥淭hen one day my sister heard the chair for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) talking on television about epilepsy research and I knew that there were people out there trying to help.鈥�

In “Living on the Edge,” the filmmaker takes us through the challenge of life with epilepsy. Although it affects three million Americans directly, and millions more through family members, friends, co-workers and caregivers, epilepsy is widely and grossly misunderstood. Through the stories of the director and epilepsy patients and their families this documentary looks unflinchingly at the alienation, depression, and loneliness that epilepsy can bring.

Life with epilepsy can be unpredictable. Medicines that control seizures can have major side effects; seizures can be frightening and dangerous and can have devastating consequences. Deeply personal and honest, On The Edge examines this complex disorder and dispels the myths that surround it, to seek a path to understanding, effective treatment, and a cure.

鈥淟iving on the Edge鈥� has been publicly screened at the Cleveland Clinic and at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of Art Institute of Chicago. For more information on the Nov. 9 event, go to the 91探花Medicine

To learn about the film, visit