Salon de Film: Original Short Films by Elijah Hasan

14 Northeast Killingsworth Street,Portland OR 97217

18 November, 2021

Description

The Soul Restoration Project Albina Arts Salon presents an evening of four short films celebrating music, painting, design, and dance. Salon de Film event includes Pre-show talk with the filmmaker, Elijah Hasan @ 6:30 PM Screening @ 7:00 PM The screening includes the films "Who We Carry "featuring Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater"Hues of Resistance""P-Town Groove" "The Gangsters" The artists showcased span six decades of creative mastery within the City of Portland and include: Christine Miller • Mo Fee • Isaka Shamsud Din • Toni Hill • C Anthony B • Randy Star • Calvin Walker • Thara Memory • Oluyinka Akinijola • Malik Delgado • Bethany Harvey • Michael Galen • Jamie Minkus • Decimus Yarbrough About the filmmaker: Elijah Hasan is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, composer, and writer. As a teaching artist through residencies and workshops, he’s introduced young people to creative filmmaking, photography, and various multimedia disciplines. Whether it be police officers working with students as artists or facilitating candid conversations between youth and civic leaders utilizing film as the medium, his hybrid artistic approaches to programming have resulted in transformative impacts on participants as well as their exhibition audiences. While primarily known for his films and still photography, he describes what he does more universally—as “making art.” His films often employ experimental techniques that work to blend complex concepts with powerful, graceful storytelling. About The Soul Restoration Project: The Soul Restoration began in the summer of 2021 this past summer as a laboratory to explore how art can activate and renew our civic space. Now in residence at the former site of the Albina Arts Center — a space of historic significance to Portland's Black Community, The Soul Restoration Project continues as "The Albina Arts Salon." Led by musician, educator, and activist Darrell Grant, the space is being activated with music, movement, spoken word, and images by Black artists exploring and honoring our communal history and future.