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SOLID in Aotearoa New Zealand

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presenting about SOLID : a screenmakers retreat, festival and yarning circle for Indigenous women, at The Healing Our Spirit Worldwide Gathering in Aotearoa New Zealand on November 17 > see the whole HOSW gathering program: http://hosw.com/sites/ default/files/ HOSW%20schedule%20v8%201%20 22102015.pdf > HOSW facebook event  https://www.facebook.com/ events/1464013690582608

SOLID SCREEN in Hawaii

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SOLID SCREEN Sisters had a hosted screening by The Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking on 27th October at 6pm FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | From 6:00 pm. to 7:30 pm  NEW Location: c/o Hawaii Filmmakers Collective 3167 Waialae Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816 https://www.facebook.com/ events/489717287855723 presenting a Talk Story about SOLID SCREEN for an event hosted by Hawaii Women in Film Making in Honolulu  what's something ancient that binds Hawaii and the Gold Coast together? ...Macadamia nuts native to east coast Australia were brought to Hawaii from Pimpama in the 1800's - they've been an industry in Hawaii ever since  * had to give some out during the SOLID screening - nobody said no 

SOLID SISTERS screen in Mexico

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SOLID SISTERS were invited to screen in Mexico for the Festival de Cine y Video Kayche' Tejidos Visuales held in Merida, Yucatan from September 27 - October 3, 2015

SOLID SCREEN Festival 2015 at The Cairns Institute

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Jenny Fraser introducing the SOLID SCREEN QUEENS works at The Cairns Institute 2015 cyberTribe presents SOLID - an International Festival of the Screen.  SOLID Screen includes a range of screenings from invited Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Native Canadian and Maori screen storytellers, that respond to important transformations that have reconfigured opportunities for experimental arts, remix and media arts practice, in recent times. The SOLID Screen Festival held on the 16th September 2015 screened works by women artists,  it was open to the public, and welcomed men, women and children. The screen makers are interdisciplinary practitioners from artforms such as animation, video, interactive media, photography, writing, performance, film and new media arts backgrounds. The screening took place at The Cairns Institute, Smithfield Campus, Far North Queensland. SOLID SCREEN Festival was a pre-conference event for The Tropics of the Imagination. Celebratin