Art
An Evening with Award-Winning Photojournalist Zoriah
by Jason Bosch on Aug.23, 2010, under Art, Events, Speaking
An Evening with Award Winning Photojournalist Zoriah
Thursday, August 26
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$10-20 suggested donation
Join ArgusFest at a special event with the award-winning humanitarian photojournalist Zoriah. His work includes powerful images of the worlds largest disasters and conflicts including war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, famine in Africa, and the 2004 tsunami in India. He has remained independent so that he has the freedom to cover stories that are sometimes overlooked by the advertising-driven media.
In 2008 a television crew from the show “In Harms Way” followed Zoriah to the Gaza strip where he shot images of the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. It was one of the only times I had ever seen American television present the Palestinians and their struggle in a fair light.
Also in 2008, Zoriah was embedded with the Marines in Iraq where he took photos of some dead American soldiers after a suicide attack. The U.S. military stripped him of his embed and he was forced to leave Iraq. Zoriah felt that it was important for us back home to see the reality of war. At the time he had taken more images of dead American soldiers than any other U.S. journalist and he may still hold that record. You can read about this incident in the NY Times Article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html
More recently Zoriah has worked covering the Haiti earthquake as well as the BP oil spill. He will be sharing some of his latest work and answering your questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the most dedicated and artistic photojournalists working today.
Because Zoriah is independent he needs our help to keep working so if you can make a donation towards his work he would greatly appreciate it. In the age of PR and perception management we need people like Zoriah to give us truth now more than ever.
Zoriah’s websites are:
http://www.zoriah.com
http://www.zoriah.net
Local fishermen, now working on a BP cleanup crew, inspect a
beach area after a new batch of oil washed ashore.
Ruins from the Rust Belt
by Jason Bosch on Nov.14, 2009, under Art, Events, Speaking
Ruins from the Rust Belt
Detroit Images
by Ric Urrutia
Thursday, December 3
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation
or 1 hour volunteer
Denver photographer/musician/labor activist, Ric Urrutia will by sharing his photography work from within Detroit’s abandoned buildings. Intriguing, beautiful, infuriating, and inspiring, Detroit’s abandoned buildings are fossils of a once thriving industrial metropolis. Conveniently overlooked by even the mainstream media, Detroit begs questions of our approaches to social justice and the wisdom of the free market system.
The event will also include some live acoustic music by members of Debajo del Aqua, which Ric is a member.
After Ric’s presentation we will be joined by coordinators from Emergency USA, which provides free-of-charge, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. This will be your opportunity to learn about this amazing organization and how you can get involved.
ArgusFest 6th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar
by Jason Bosch on Nov.02, 2009, under Art, Events, Film, Music, Speaking
ArgusFest 6th Annual
Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar
w/ Art, Music, & Culture to
Help End Poverty
Sunday, December 6
1:00 to 4:30 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
Do your holiday shopping with a clean conscience. Join ArgusFest at our 6th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar.
The event will feature vendors offering fair trade gifts, many of which whose sales help support organizations working to reduce conditions of poverty. Throughout the day we will feature live music, film, poetry, and education about poverty issues.
Vendors include:
- Bread and Roses Workers’ Cultural Center
- and more…
If you are interested in becoming a vendor please contact Jason Bosch at 303-669-7286.
More details coming soon…
Art, Music, & Culture to Help End Poverty
by Jason Bosch on Sep.21, 2009, under Art, Events, Film, Music, Speaking
Art, Music, & Culture to
Help End Poverty
& 6th Annual Fair
Trade Holiday Bazaar
Sunday, December 6
1:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
Calling all artists, musicians & creative people who support economic justice!
In cooperation with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, ArgusFest is helping to coordinate music and cultural support in Denver and Boulder around the upcoming “March to Fulfill the Dream”. This historic poor people’s march will travel from the Katrina-torn Gulf through the Mississippi Delta and on through the Rust Belt culminating in Detroit at the 2010 US Social Forum.
Today, America is facing unprecedented economic decline. Not since the Great Depression have so many people been facing poverty and homelessness. Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign notes that many once middle class people have now lost their financial security and are only one paycheck away from living on the streets and the situation is expected to get worse. It is not hopeless though. People are educating themselves about how we got to this place and how we can move forward towards economic justice.
We are calling on artists, musicians, poets, and performers who wish to learn more about the fastest growing social movement in America today and get culturally involved.
