photo, taken by Dagmar Schulz, is from here
Audre Lorde died on November 17, 1992 after a long battle with cancer. To honor her life's work the following event has been planned. All that follows in this post is the press release that I found on WindyCityMedia:
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From a news release
2012-09-12
Audre Lorde's Legacy Film & Cultural Festival 2012 marks the 20-year
anniversary of Audre Lorde's passing. She was a highly influential,
award-winning African-American, lesbian, poet, author, mother, teacher
and activist. In honor of her legacy four films will be will be brought
to universities, libraries, and community venues, accompanied by a
reading from the biography of Ika Hugel-Marshall.
Fall 2012 USA tour of the Audre Lorde Legacy Film & Cultural Festival with Ika Hugel-Marshall and Dagmar Schultz
The films:
-A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde by Ada Griffin and Michelle Parkinson
-The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde by Jennifer Abod
-Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story by Maria Binder
-Audre Lorde—The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 by Dagmar Schultz
The reading:
-Ika Hugel-Marshall from Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
University of Illinois at Chicago, Oct. 2
Screening of "Audre Lorde—the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992"
Contact: Prof. Elizabith Loentz (loentz@uic.edu).
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Oct. 3, 4
The films include:
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (2012). Dagmar Schultz, 58 minutes
This film introduces American audiences to a littleknown chapter of
Audre Lorde's prolific life. From 1984 through her death in 1992, she
spent a part of each year in Berlin, Germany, first as a visiting
professor, but more significantly, as the mentor and catalyst who almost
single-handedly ignited the Afro-German movement. With her active
support a whole generation of writers and poets for the first time gave
voice to their unique experience as people of color in Germany. Lorde
had a decisive impact on white women—challenging them to acknowledge the
significance of their white privilege—and to deal with difference in
constructive ways.
The film outlines her contributions to the German discourse on racism,
xenophobia, antisemitism, classism, and homophobia within the Black
movement and the Black and White women's movement, a discourse alive and
growing today. Present-day interviews explore the lasting influence of
Lorde's ideas and the impact of her work and personality.
The film contains never-before seen images and audio recorded during
this period of Lorde's life, showing Lorde on and off stage. Dagmar
Schultz, a personal friend and her German publisher, will be present to
introduce the film and follow up with Q&A. web site: www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com .
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, (1995). Michelle Parkerson and Ada Griffin, 90 minutes
An epic portrait of Audre Lorde, whose writings—spanning five
decades—articulated some of the most important social and political
visions of the century. From Lorde's childhood roots in NYC's Harlem to
her battle with breast cancer, this moving film explores a life and a
body of work that embodied the connections between the Civil Rights
movement, the Women's movement, and the struggle for lesbian and gay
rights. At the heart of this documentary is Lorde's own challenge to
"envision what has not been and work with every fiber of who we are to
make the reality and pursuit of that vision irresistible." web site:
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1126&card=price.
The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde (2002). Jennifer Abod, Ph.D., 59 minutes
This powerful documentary is a moving tribute to Audre Lorde
(1934-1992). One of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave,
Lorde inspired several generations of activists with her riveting
poetry, serving as a catalyst for change and uniting the communities of
which she was a part: black arts and black liberation, women's
liberation and lesbian and gay liberation.
Nowhere was this more apparent than the groundbreaking I AM YOUR SISTER
CONFERENCE which brought together 1,200 activists from 23 countries,
including thrilling footage of the inimitable Lorde herself, and candid
interviews with conference organizers. This film powerfully brings
Lorde's legacy of poetry and politics to life and conveys the spirit,
passion and intensity that remains her trademark.
web site: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c621.shtml.
Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story (1997). Maria Binder, 29 minutes
A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian- German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim.
May Ayim was a personal friend of Audre Lorde. As to Lorde's influence
on her poetic work Ayim said: "One of my models is Audre Lorde, (...)
who does stand very much behind what she is doing and expressing it
openly, for instance, that she is lesbian, mother, Black, poet, cancer
survivor. The way she stood there saying who she was impressed me a lot,
because normally people hide behind their words."
Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her
research on the history of Afro-Germans, but also her political poetry,
made her known in Germany and other countries. Ayim wrote in the
tradition of oral poetry and felt a strong connection to other black
poets of the diaspora.
Poetry gave her an opportunity to confront the white German society with
its own prejudices. Interviews and poems reveal the search for
identity, how and why the term Afro-German was introduced. An insightful
look at how a young black woman experiences the German reunification.
(German with English subtitles).
Dagmar Schultz, co-producer of the film and publisher of May Ayim, will
be present to introduce the film and to follow up with Q&A. web
site:
http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1015&card=price.
In addition to the films, author Ika Hugel-Marshall, M.A., will appear
in person to read from her autobiography, Invisible Woman: Growing Up
Black in Germany (2001). She was the recipient of the Audre Lorde
Literary Award, which enabled her to write this critically acclaimed
work. Hugel-Marshall also appears in the film Audre Lorde - The Berlin
Years, and was a close personal friend of Lorde. web site: www.ika-huegel-marshall.de
Dagmar Schultz, Ph.D., was a co-founder of the Feminist Women's Health
Center in Berlin in 1974, the first of its kind in Germany. In 1974 she
also co-founded Orlanda Women's Press (Orlanda Frauenverlag) and was its
(co-)publisher until 2001. In addition, Schultz was a professor at
Berlin universities. Since 2004, Dagmar Schultz has been involved in
writing and in organizing reading tours in the US for her partner Ika
Hugel-Marshall (author of Invisible Woman. Growing up Black in Germany)
as well as other projects. In 2007 she co-produced the film Hope in My
Heart.
— The May Ayim Story. Recently she was awarded the
Margherita-von-Brentano-Preis 2011, by the Free University of Berlin,
for work and projects which further the development of equal rights and
opportunities for women in academia and the promotion of women's and
gender studies and research. She is the producer of the documentary
Audre Lorde — The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992. web site: www.dagmarschultz.com .
This event could be presented as a full day, or cover two evenings.
Suggested tour dates with Ika Hugel-Marshall and Dagmar Schultz are
February through March (African-American and Women's History Months)
and/or September 2012.
www.northwestern.edu
