OPEN OFFICE

Tree Arrington speaks at OPEN OFFICE.

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Today the Alternative Media Seminar at Vassar College takes over OPEN OFFICE. A variety of projects and films are going to be presented throughout the day. Projects on graffiti documentation, mental maps, and the anatomy of social images, among other things. DeeDee Halleck brought a solar cooker and tons of food and now we’re all feasting on roasted plantains. In the viewing rooms right now we have Portable Channel’s Attica Interviews, People’s Communication Network’s Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison, and Deep Dish TV’s Lockdown USA. We’ll serve dinner at 6 pm tonight as usual and then at 7:30 pm we’ll be showing Barbara Zahm’s The Last Graduation. Tree Arrington, an advocate for inmate rights who is featured in the movie, will talk afterwards about the importance of prison education programs.

DeeDee Halleck has made a short video of Wednesday’s activities at OPEN OFFICE. DeeDee’s Alternative Media seminar contributed films, photographs and a multitude of projects to the space.

Thanks to DeeDee Halleck, Tree Arrington and the Alternative Media Seminar for making yesterday one of most fun and active days we’ve had yet. The place was buzzing all day long as we installed some new projects in Treatment Room #1, colored in some posters, watched some movies and did a haircut. The Last Graduation was a moving film and Tree had some honest and enlightening things to say about the work he’s done in Poughkeepsie. Good movie, good conversation, good evening. DeeDee brought incredible vegan chili and made delicious food in the sun cooker…

DeeDee Halleck and the delicious food she prepared for us (Photo: David Knowles)

Aidan and Jason installed a cool graffiti project (bathroom photos filed away office style) and Brittany and Elizabeth screened a movie they made.