Campus Media Project, Charleston
Aug. 15, 2007
For immediate release:
Charleston multimedia event to mark two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: Grassroots artists, journalists, filmmakers, musicians and entrepreneurs join forces for New Orleans residents
Event date: Wednesday, Aug. 29; Location: Tate Center for Entrepreneurship, 5 Liberty St., College of Charleston; Schedule: Art exhibit, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., (free) Tate Center Gallery; Documentary screening and presentation, 7 p.m., ($5 at the door; C of C students free with college ID) Tate Center’s Wachovia Auditorium.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina smashed the Gulf Coast and swamped New Orleans’ levees, the tragedy continues with only sporadic attention from the national media. The Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project, a traveling multimedia event produced by Charleston technology entrepreneur Mitchell Davis and his wife, artist/filmmaker Farrah Hoffmire, provides a multi-disciplinary look at the human stories the headlines missed. Works include:
The Post-Katrina Portrait Project: More than 400 selected portraits of survivors and volunteers drawn by “embedded artist” Francisco Di Santis in the aftermath of the storm. The subjects’ stories, written in the margins of the drawings, provide poignant commentary on their experiences.
Katrina Ballads video: A world-premiere video-art installation that blends news footage with performance video of composer Ted Hearne’s groundbreaking Katrina Ballads, a musical piece that premiered at the 2007 Spoleto Festival USA.
Falling Together in New Orleans: Hoffmire’s documentary film relates the stories of grassroots volunteers and survivors who didn’t wait for official sanction to begin helping, organizing and rebuilding. The showing will be followed by Davis’ presentation on “Media Freedom and the Solo Journalist in the 21st Century.”
The project has been booked for two September performances in New York following its Charleston appearance, with European dates later this fall and tour plans over the next 18 months.
Hoffmire and Davis are the founders of Organic Process Productions (OPP), an independent production company with a unique approach that caught the attention of Professor John Clarkin, director of the College of Charleston’s Tate Center for Entrepreneurship. Clarkin worked with the company to bring the project’s premiere to the College.
CONTACT ORGANIC PROCESS: To schedule an interview with Mitchell Davis or Farrah Hoffmire, or for more information on Organic Process Productions, contact Dan at press@guerrillamuse.com or (843) 469-9938.
ON THE WEB: www.organicprocess.com
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