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PeaCe eNCaMPMeNT HeRSToRy PRoJeCT
"HeRSToRy HaPPeNiNG," is a weekend-long celebration over Mother's Day including a Videofest and exhibit.
Contact: Hershe Michele, Co-Founder
(617) 492-6454 or peacecampherstoryproject@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE PEACE ENCAMPMENT HERSTORY PROJECT ANNOUNCES
HeRSToRy HaPPeNiNG! to take place in Greater Boston, May 8 - 10, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 13, 2015) - T
“HeRSToRy HaPPeNiNG,” is Mother’s Day weekend-long celebration including a Videofest and exhibit.
Founded in 2005, PeHP is a collection of oral herstories, songs, images, and articles from the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice (1982-2006), an all-women’s community of nonviolent protest established adjacent to the Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, New York.
“The peace encampment touched so many of our lives,” says PeHP Co-Founder Estelle Coleman. “Our stories of peaceful resistance are a lullaby and a rallying cry to our children’s children and their children - we worked toward a world without poverty, without violence, without war.”
The PeHP collection of 112 oral herstories and thousands of documents includes hundreds of photographs and videos from the Women’s Video Collective (WVC), an organization that sprang from the Somerville, MA Producers Group to document the encampment in 1983.
Festivities begin Friday, May 8 with a reception from 3-5:30pm at Schlesinger’s Radcliffe Room, 3 James St., Cambridge.
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“The Schlesinger Library is thrilled to accept the Peace Encampment Herstory Project archives into our collections,” says Joanne Donovan, Archivist for Visual Materials and Recorded Sound Collections at Schlesinger. “The Herstory archives will complement the records of the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice already held at the library by bringing the memories and voices of encampment participants to life for future generations of researchers.”
Saturday, May 9, PeHP’s “Fires of Freedom” aRTiFaCT eXHiBit & MuLTiMeDia GaLLeRy will be on display from 1-5pm at the Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street. The installation features encampment photographs, slides, documents, handcrafted wall hangings & banners. An original peace camp radio play, “Disarming the World…Pulling Its Leg,” by composer Sorrel Hays, will be broadcast in Copley Square at 11am.
Sunday, May 10, PeHP presents “Rebel Wimmin” ViDeoFeST from 1-5pm at The Regent Underground Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington. The line-up includes “Stronger Than Before,” an award-winning documentary produced by the Women’s Video Collective. Oral herstory excerpts, WVC memorabilia, and other artifacts will be on display. Feminist, peace, and social justice groups are welcome to bring materials to share.
All events are free and open to the public.
PeHP will be collecting additional peace encampment oral herstories and artifacts throughout the weekend. People with stories or materials to contribute are encouraged to email peacecampherstoryproject@gmail.com.
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Complete details of the weekend’s events available at peacecampherstory.blogspot.com
Flyers and photographs available upon request.
