HCTC’s Student Ambassador Program needs you to help by replenishing and restocking their “Blessing Boxes”.  You can participate between NOW and NOV 18th by bringing your nonperishable food items and blankets to these locations:

Hazard Campus – Jolly Classroom Center
Technical Campus – Devert Owens Building
Lees College Campus – Jackson Hall
Leslie County Center – Main Entrance

If you have any questions, please contact Delcie Combs at 606.487.3100

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Hazard KY Event – Blessing Boxes

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

Join us at the Appalshop Theater for a two-night festival of short films. The WE TELL National Touring Exhibition features some of the best examples of participatory media making over the past 50 years. Co-Curator Louis Massiah, Executive Director of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, will be here for the screenings as well as Pittsburgh area filmmaker Tony Buba.

The festival is free and open to the public for as many of the films as you’re able to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

The films are organized by theme and spaced over two days —

Friday, November 15
6:00pm – Program 1: TURF
8:30pm – Program 2: ENVIRONMENTS OF RACE & PLACE

Saturday, November 16
4:00pm – Program 3: STATES OF VIOLENCE
7:00pm – Program 4: WAGES OF WORK

THE PROGRAMS AND FILMS:

Friday, November 15
6:00pm – TURF (1979-2100) 91 min.
The works in TURF explore gentrification, homelessness, and housing in urban spaces. They reveal that cities have transformed into battlegrounds between communities and those who would take land and space to expand their economic and political power. Filmmaker Tony Buba, from Braddock, PA will be present to screen Voices from a Steeltown as part of this program.

-“Survival Information Television (SIT): Must You Pay the Rent?” (1975, 12 minutes, New Orleans Video Access)

-“The Invisible City: Houston’s Housing Crisis; Part 2: Messages” (1979, 28 minutes, South West Alternative Media Project)

-“Voices from a Steeltown” (1983, 29 minutes, Tony Buba) Filmmaker Tony Buba will be present.

-“Occupy Portland Eviction Defense” (2011, 6 minutes, B Media Collective)

-“Why Archive?” (2012, 2 minutes, Activist Archivists)

-“Take Me Home” (2018, 13 minutes, Detroit Narrative Agency)

8:30pm – ENVIRONMENTS OF RACE & PLACE (1967-2007) 92 minutes
This program expands notions of participatory community media, from discussions of police brutality in Third World Newsreel’s “Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig” to animations about toxic pollution made by the Indigenous youth media collective, Outta Your Backpack.

-“Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig Newsreel #19” (1967, 15 minutes, San Francisco Newsreel)

-“Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man” (1975, 39 minutes, Mimi Pickering, Appalshop)

-“Who I Became” (2003, 20 minutes, Vietnamese Youth Development Center)

-“Legend of the Weresheep” (animation) (2007, 3 minutes, Outta Your Backpack Workshop with Indigenous Youth)

-“Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: TRUST Alaska” (2011, 8 minutes, WITNESS)

-“Digital Smoke Signals Aerial Footage From The Night of November 20, 2016 at Standing Rock” (2016, 7 minutes, Myron Dewey, Digital Smoke Signals)

Saturday, November 16
4:00pm – STATES OF VIOLENCE (1978-2007) 108 minutes
The political environment of the American criminal justice system is complex, involving concerns about evidence, interpretation, laws, and policies that may center around a single case. States of Violence approaches this urgent topic from the perspective of those affected by domestic violence, incarceration, and policing—and by the international issues of war.

-“Ain’t Nobody’s Business” (1978, 22 minutes, YWCA Battered Women’s Program, New Orleans Video Access Center)

-“Inside Women Inside” (Third World Newsreel, 1978, 21 minutes)

-“Just Say No: The Gulf Crisis TV Project #55” (1990, 28 minutes, Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger Television)

-“Books Through Bars” (1997, 15 minutes, Books Through Bars, Scribe Video Center)

-“Military Option” (2005, 11 minutes, Third World Newsreel)

-“M4BL: Ceremony” (2016, 5 minutes, Movement for Black Lives)

-“A Cop Watcher’s Story: El Grito de Sunset Park Attempts to Deter Police Brutality” (2017, 6 minutes, Brooklyn Information and Culture TV, Copwatch Brooklyn)

7:00pm – WAGES OF WORK (1970-2019) 101 minutes
Citizens and communities approach issues surrounding job opportunities, occupations, wages, unemployment, and underemployment in different ways. They engage in union organizing. They reclaim hidden, repressed, and suppressed stories. They launch political protests. Wages of Work spotlights lives from across the United States operating under various constraints as they try to make a living.

-“Finally Got the News” (1970, 56 minutes, League of Revolutionary Black Workers)

-“The United Mine Workers of America: A House Divided” (1971, 14 minutes, Appalshop)

-“Los Trabajadores (The Workers)” (2002, 19 minutes, Scribe Video Center)

-“I’m NOT on the Menu” (2018, 12 minutes, Labor Beat)

*Banner image stills from “I’m NOT on the Menu” and “Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man.”

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Whitesburg KY Event – Appalshop

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

Join us at the Appalshop Theater for a two-night festival of short films. The WE TELL National Touring Exhibition features some of the best examples of participatory media making over the past 50 years. Co-Curator Louis Massiah, Executive Director of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, will be here for the screenings as well as Pittsburgh area filmmaker Tony Buba.

The festival is free and open to the public for as many of the films as you’re able to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

The films are organized by theme and spaced over two days —

Friday, November 15
6:00pm – Program 1: TURF
8:30pm – Program 2: ENVIRONMENTS OF RACE & PLACE

Saturday, November 16
4:00pm – Program 3: STATES OF VIOLENCE
7:00pm – Program 4: WAGES OF WORK

THE PROGRAMS AND FILMS:

Friday, November 15
6:00pm – TURF (1979-2100) 91 min.
The works in TURF explore gentrification, homelessness, and housing in urban spaces. They reveal that cities have transformed into battlegrounds between communities and those who would take land and space to expand their economic and political power. Filmmaker Tony Buba, from Braddock, PA will be present to screen Voices from a Steeltown as part of this program.

-“Survival Information Television (SIT): Must You Pay the Rent?” (1975, 12 minutes, New Orleans Video Access)

-“The Invisible City: Houston’s Housing Crisis; Part 2: Messages” (1979, 28 minutes, South West Alternative Media Project)

-“Voices from a Steeltown” (1983, 29 minutes, Tony Buba) Filmmaker Tony Buba will be present.

-“Occupy Portland Eviction Defense” (2011, 6 minutes, B Media Collective)

-“Why Archive?” (2012, 2 minutes, Activist Archivists)

-“Take Me Home” (2018, 13 minutes, Detroit Narrative Agency)

8:30pm – ENVIRONMENTS OF RACE & PLACE (1967-2007) 92 minutes
This program expands notions of participatory community media, from discussions of police brutality in Third World Newsreel’s “Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig” to animations about toxic pollution made by the Indigenous youth media collective, Outta Your Backpack.

-“Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig Newsreel #19” (1967, 15 minutes, San Francisco Newsreel)

-“Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man” (1975, 39 minutes, Mimi Pickering, Appalshop)

-“Who I Became” (2003, 20 minutes, Vietnamese Youth Development Center)

-“Legend of the Weresheep” (animation) (2007, 3 minutes, Outta Your Backpack Workshop with Indigenous Youth)

-“Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: TRUST Alaska” (2011, 8 minutes, WITNESS)

-“Digital Smoke Signals Aerial Footage From The Night of November 20, 2016 at Standing Rock” (2016, 7 minutes, Myron Dewey, Digital Smoke Signals)

Saturday, November 16
4:00pm – STATES OF VIOLENCE (1978-2007) 108 minutes
The political environment of the American criminal justice system is complex, involving concerns about evidence, interpretation, laws, and policies that may center around a single case. States of Violence approaches this urgent topic from the perspective of those affected by domestic violence, incarceration, and policing—and by the international issues of war.

-“Ain’t Nobody’s Business” (1978, 22 minutes, YWCA Battered Women’s Program, New Orleans Video Access Center)

-“Inside Women Inside” (Third World Newsreel, 1978, 21 minutes)

-“Just Say No: The Gulf Crisis TV Project #55” (1990, 28 minutes, Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger Television)

-“Books Through Bars” (1997, 15 minutes, Books Through Bars, Scribe Video Center)

-“Military Option” (2005, 11 minutes, Third World Newsreel)

-“M4BL: Ceremony” (2016, 5 minutes, Movement for Black Lives)

-“A Cop Watcher’s Story: El Grito de Sunset Park Attempts to Deter Police Brutality” (2017, 6 minutes, Brooklyn Information and Culture TV, Copwatch Brooklyn)

7:00pm – WAGES OF WORK (1970-2019) 101 minutes
Citizens and communities approach issues surrounding job opportunities, occupations, wages, unemployment, and underemployment in different ways. They engage in union organizing. They reclaim hidden, repressed, and suppressed stories. They launch political protests. Wages of Work spotlights lives from across the United States operating under various constraints as they try to make a living.

-“Finally Got the News” (1970, 56 minutes, League of Revolutionary Black Workers)

-“The United Mine Workers of America: A House Divided” (1971, 14 minutes, Appalshop)

-“Los Trabajadores (The Workers)” (2002, 19 minutes, Scribe Video Center)

-“I’m NOT on the Menu” (2018, 12 minutes, Labor Beat)

*Banner image stills from “I’m NOT on the Menu” and “Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man.”

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Whitesburg KY Event – Appalshop

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit

HCTC Libraries Presents:  WORLD WAR I Lessons and Legacies – On display at the Stephens and Lees College Campus Libraries until December 20th!

This exhibit is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Service and the National Museum of American History, with funding from the United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

For more exciting events like this one – Try our main page: HazardHappenings.com

Jackson KY Event – Exhibit