PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 15 On 17 October, the padkos bioscope will be screening The Economics of Happiness (68 min), a 2011 documentary film directed by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, and John Page, and produced by the International Society for Ecology and Culture. It has won “Best in Show” at the Cinema Verde Film and Arts
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PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 1A Be there by 11:30am when Richard Pithouse will share and discuss his analysis of the state we’re in at this time in South Africa. Richard’s a regular Padkos contributor and one of this country’s leading political thinkers. He currently teaches politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. At 2pm, after a light
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 14 On 3 October, the padkos bioscope will be screening Avi Lewis and Noami Klein’s world-renowned 2004 documentary, The Take (87 min). In the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 13 On 19 September, the padkos bioscope highlights some new political movements in central and southern africa. We’re showing two short films: (1) “Angola: Birth of a movement” & (2) “Kenya Rising”. “Angola: Birth of a movement” (25 min) Angola’s post-war economy is booming and its capital, Luanda, is the most expensive
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 12 On the 29 August, the Padkos Event with Richa Nagar kicks off at 10:00 am – then stick around for a great bioscope bill!: (1) Vio.Me – Self-organisation in Greece, (2) Taksim Commune: Gezi Park And The Uprising In Turkey & (3) Egyptian Winter. A fantastic bioscope line-up highlighting current struggles
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 11 “Pray the devil back to hell” (72 min) is a film documenting a peace movement called Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. It’s the second bioscope feature during August focused on women and gender activism. Ordinary women in Liberia organised to campaign for peace and helped end 14 years of
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 10 “Revolutionary Daughters” (25 min) is the first of two bioscope screenings we’ll run during August focusing on women and gender activism. This Activate (Al Jazeera) documentary focuses on the work of Kranti, an organisation working with the daughters of sex workers in India. But the organisation’s not a welfare & rescue
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 9 The second season of the padkos bioscope for 2013 kicks off with “The Yes Men Fix the World” (90min). The movie’s full of fun as The Yes Men pull off outrageous pranks and hoaxes with the perfectly serious intention to unmask and shame corporate politics and power. Definitely not to be
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 8 Do not miss the final movie in the current bioscope series! On Thursday 20 June we’re screening The House-Warming Party – Dia de festa. Four women leave the Brazilian countryside & head for the big city in search of a better life. After struggling on the streets of São Paulo, they encountered each other
PADKOS BIOSCOPE NO 7 Excitement is building for the padkos inter_mission “Tananas Tunes” event on the weekend at the Rainbow Jazz Restaurant. But in the week following, don’t forget the penultimate show in the current bioscope series. On Thursday 6 June we’re screening Al Jazeera’s Mumbai Land Grab (25 min). The slum-dwellers of Mumbai are being evicted – in