November 23, 2019 7:00PM Film Screening: "Steelpan Now: Notes on Where Pan Gone" at Scribe Video

Ryan Saunders is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker with deep roots in Philadelphia Collaborative Community Media. In his over 20 year relationship with Scribe Video Center, Saunders has taught numerous workshops and participated in various community history projects. “We are perhaps entrenched in the ‘4th wave’ of the Information Age, but the third wave highlighted a serious gap in information and technology that continues to leave many communities behind,” said Saunders when asked why he got involved with community media activism. “My involvement with Scribe showed me that there were communities of people who wanted to tell their stories, be it personal or about their communities.” In 2010, Saunders joined Philadelphia’s public access television network, PhillyCAM, as Technical Director. Born on the twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean, his more personal film work explores the history, culture and experiences of Caribbean immigrants in North America.

Saturday, November 23, 2019, 7:00 PM

Steelpan Now! Notes on Where Pan Gone (USA, 2019, 45 Min excerpt) by Ryan Saunders and Aaron R. Astillero
SteelPan Now! delves into the world of the steel pan instrument, its innovators, its players and the music that reverberates from it. The film follows the steelpan movement and seeks to highlight the evolution of the steelpan, a unique 20th century invention developed by the disadvantaged and denigrated youth in 1940s Trinidad.

Operating Outside the Lines (USA, 2013, 24 Min) Community Visions Project Facilitators: Corey Chao, Ryan Saunders, and Valerie Keller
Operating Outside the Lines explores the history of Brandywine Workshop’s 40 years of printmaking and other visual art, including testimonials from artists. Founded in 1972 by Allan Edmunds, Brandywine is a national center for printmaking.

Scribe Video Center

3908 Lancaster Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215 222 4201 

$5 admission

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