A People's History: Memorial for Howard Zinn
Thursday February 4th - 7:30PM
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
We pay tribute to radical historian and activist Howard Zinn (1922-2010), who will be remembered for A People's History to the United States (1980), a work which acted as a radical intervention in the field of US history. His writings gave breath, life, and dimension to our country's often forgotten radical heroes. Indeed, given Zinn's own work as a playwright (Emma, 1976; Marx in Soho, 1999), one might say Zinn crafted a philosophy of "history as performance" throughout his life.
Our program takes its inspiration from Zinn's performative history, including a reenactment and re-staging of a speech he gave in 1971; and an evocative and now appropriate elegy to our country's heroes past, Zinn included.*
--The Problem is Civil Disobedience: Howard Zinn 1971 - Port Huron Project/Mark Tribe, 2007, 5 minutes
--Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind - John Gianvito, 2008, 58 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 63 minutes | Digital Projection
Discussion with:
--Brian Jones - teacher and actor; star of Zinn's Marx in Soho
--Mark Tribe - artist, curator, professor; author of New Media Art (2006); founder of Rhizome.org; director of the Port Huron Project.
Co-sponsored by UnionDocs
(Mark Tribe's videos are available online at the Port Huron Project website. The Gianvito film was released on DVD (2009) by Watchmaker Films.)
*Written with Kazembe Balagun