BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Film Festival X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T062631Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52402129333230 DTSTART:20260411T020000Z DTEND:20260411T050000Z DESCRIPTION:But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women's Film Festival (1st Ed ition)\n\nApril 10 –11\, 2026 | Oshman Hall\, Stanford University (355 R oth Way)\nFree and open to the public: RSVP at this link \n\nPresented by Stanford Cinematheque\, Stanford Black Studies Collective\, Stanford Publi c Humanities\, the Stanford Creative Writing Program\, the Department of A frican and African American History\, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Housed in the Department of Art and Art History. \n\nBut Some of Us Are Brave takes its name from the groundbreaking 1982 anthology edit ed by Gloria Hull\, Patricia Bell Scott\, and Barbara Smith: All the Men A re Black\, All the Women are White\, But Some of Us Are Brave. This edited collection insisted that we take the study of Black women's intellectual and creative lives seriously. This two-day film festival honors that call and extends the directive to the screen. Bringing together rarely seen wor ks directed\, written\, and shaped by black women alongside live discussio n about what constitutes black (women's) poetics\, this series considers t he ineffable relevance of black women’s media histories. From Maya Angel ou's earliest works behind the camera to independent media by Bay Area wom en\, the program traces a lineage of black women who made work of self-pos session and self-determination before anyone made room for it while also c onvening independent media makers\, curators\, programmers\, and organizat ions of the Bay Area. \n\nThe Friday & Saturday films include works by: Ma ya Angelou & Alexis De Veaux (The Tapestry\, Circles)\, Pratibha Parmar (P lace of Rage)\, Cheryl Fabio (Rainbow Black: The Poet Sarah W. Fabio)\, an d Aarin Burch (Spin Cycle). This will be among the first screenings of The Tapestry and Circles since their preservation in 2021\; these teleplays r epresent an essential moment in public broadcasting which\, thanks to prod ucers like the late Barbara Schultz\, gave many black women a chance to ex plore the world behind the camera. \n\nThe program kicks off Friday April 10 at 7 PM with Opening Riffs -- a conversation on black poetics with Denn ing Visiting Artist Hanif Abdurraqib\; sculptor and sonic artist Yétúnd é Olágbajú\; choreographer and Institute for Diversity in the Arts Arti st-in-Residence Amara Tabor-Smith\; and will be moderated by Black Studies Collective co-directors Bryn Evans and Kyéra Sterling. \n\nDay 2 of Some of Us Are Brave engages the screen more directly\, beginning with Pratihb a Parmar’s A Place of Rage (1991) which offers a prolific assemblage of black women’s anger via interviews with Angela Davis\, June Jordan\, Tri nh Minh-ha and Alice Walker. We then turn to experimental 16mm with Spin C ycle (1991) – a ruminative exploration of black lesbian identity by Oakl and-based filmmaker Aarin Burch.\n\nSaturday will also feature Between the Frames\, a 1:1 conversation at 3 PM Saturday April 11 with filmmaker Cher yl Fabio (Stanford Documentary Film MFA ’76) whose film about “the Mot her of Black Studies” — Sarah W. Fabio — will screen prior. Rather t han a traditional Q&A\, director Cheryl Fabio joins series programmer Kyé ra Sterling for an intimate conversation spanning her time as a graduate f ilmmaker at Stanford in the 1970s to her current practice. Fabio reflects on a life in images — the forces that shaped her work\, the questions th at persist\, and the spaces between a film and the life that made it. \n\n Films then begin at 8:15 PM on Friday\, April 10 and run from noon until 2 :00 PM on Saturday\, April 11 with a concluding filmmaker talk with Cheryl Fabio.\n\nThe Tapestry and Circles (1976) were made available and preserv ed by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television. \n\nFree an d open to the public. Please RSVP at this link\, where you will be able to select what portions of the festival you hope to attend. \n\nFor question s\, contact Kyéra Sterling at kyera@stanford.edu \n\nSome of Us Are Brave : A Black Women’s Film Festival \nFilm Schedule \n\nFRIDAY April 10th \n 7:00PM – 8:00PM | TALK: Opening Riffs\n8:15PM – 10:00PM | The Tapestry & Circles (1976) \n\nSATURDAY APRIL 11TH \n12:00PM – 1:00PM | A Place o f Rage (1991)\n1:15PM – 1:30PM | Spin Cycle (1991) with pre-recorded int roduction by director \n1:30PM – 2:00PM | Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah Webs ter Fabio (1976)\n3:00PM – 4:00PM | TALK: Between the Frames with Cheryl Fabio \n\n**Note: Georgia\, Georgia (1972)\, the first theatrically relea sed film written by a Black woman\, will no longer screen as part of this program. The film's sole surviving prints are held by the Swedish Film Ins titute\, and the dissolution of its American distributor has left no viabl e path to a US university-based screening. That a film of this significanc e remains functionally inaccessible beyond to a select-few is itself part of the story this festival seeks to tell. GEO:37.432546;-122.171856 LOCATION:McMurtry Building\, Oshman Hall SUMMARY:But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Film Festival URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/but-some-of-us-are-brave-a- black-womens-film-festival CATEGORIES:Film/Screening END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T062631Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52402129334255 DTSTART:20260411T190000Z DTEND:20260412T030000Z DESCRIPTION:But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women's Film Festival (1st Ed ition)\n\nApril 10 –11\, 2026 | Oshman Hall\, Stanford University (355 R oth Way)\nFree and open to the public: RSVP at this link \n\nPresented by Stanford Cinematheque\, Stanford Black Studies Collective\, Stanford Publi c Humanities\, the Stanford Creative Writing Program\, the Department of A frican and African American History\, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Housed in the Department of Art and Art History. \n\nBut Some of Us Are Brave takes its name from the groundbreaking 1982 anthology edit ed by Gloria Hull\, Patricia Bell Scott\, and Barbara Smith: All the Men A re Black\, All the Women are White\, But Some of Us Are Brave. This edited collection insisted that we take the study of Black women's intellectual and creative lives seriously. This two-day film festival honors that call and extends the directive to the screen. Bringing together rarely seen wor ks directed\, written\, and shaped by black women alongside live discussio n about what constitutes black (women's) poetics\, this series considers t he ineffable relevance of black women’s media histories. From Maya Angel ou's earliest works behind the camera to independent media by Bay Area wom en\, the program traces a lineage of black women who made work of self-pos session and self-determination before anyone made room for it while also c onvening independent media makers\, curators\, programmers\, and organizat ions of the Bay Area. \n\nThe Friday & Saturday films include works by: Ma ya Angelou & Alexis De Veaux (The Tapestry\, Circles)\, Pratibha Parmar (P lace of Rage)\, Cheryl Fabio (Rainbow Black: The Poet Sarah W. Fabio)\, an d Aarin Burch (Spin Cycle). This will be among the first screenings of The Tapestry and Circles since their preservation in 2021\; these teleplays r epresent an essential moment in public broadcasting which\, thanks to prod ucers like the late Barbara Schultz\, gave many black women a chance to ex plore the world behind the camera. \n\nThe program kicks off Friday April 10 at 7 PM with Opening Riffs -- a conversation on black poetics with Denn ing Visiting Artist Hanif Abdurraqib\; sculptor and sonic artist Yétúnd é Olágbajú\; choreographer and Institute for Diversity in the Arts Arti st-in-Residence Amara Tabor-Smith\; and will be moderated by Black Studies Collective co-directors Bryn Evans and Kyéra Sterling. \n\nDay 2 of Some of Us Are Brave engages the screen more directly\, beginning with Pratihb a Parmar’s A Place of Rage (1991) which offers a prolific assemblage of black women’s anger via interviews with Angela Davis\, June Jordan\, Tri nh Minh-ha and Alice Walker. We then turn to experimental 16mm with Spin C ycle (1991) – a ruminative exploration of black lesbian identity by Oakl and-based filmmaker Aarin Burch.\n\nSaturday will also feature Between the Frames\, a 1:1 conversation at 3 PM Saturday April 11 with filmmaker Cher yl Fabio (Stanford Documentary Film MFA ’76) whose film about “the Mot her of Black Studies” — Sarah W. Fabio — will screen prior. Rather t han a traditional Q&A\, director Cheryl Fabio joins series programmer Kyé ra Sterling for an intimate conversation spanning her time as a graduate f ilmmaker at Stanford in the 1970s to her current practice. Fabio reflects on a life in images — the forces that shaped her work\, the questions th at persist\, and the spaces between a film and the life that made it. \n\n Films then begin at 8:15 PM on Friday\, April 10 and run from noon until 2 :00 PM on Saturday\, April 11 with a concluding filmmaker talk with Cheryl Fabio.\n\nThe Tapestry and Circles (1976) were made available and preserv ed by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television. \n\nFree an d open to the public. Please RSVP at this link\, where you will be able to select what portions of the festival you hope to attend. \n\nFor question s\, contact Kyéra Sterling at kyera@stanford.edu \n\nSome of Us Are Brave : A Black Women’s Film Festival \nFilm Schedule \n\nFRIDAY April 10th \n 7:00PM – 8:00PM | TALK: Opening Riffs\n8:15PM – 10:00PM | The Tapestry & Circles (1976) \n\nSATURDAY APRIL 11TH \n12:00PM – 1:00PM | A Place o f Rage (1991)\n1:15PM – 1:30PM | Spin Cycle (1991) with pre-recorded int roduction by director \n1:30PM – 2:00PM | Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah Webs ter Fabio (1976)\n3:00PM – 4:00PM | TALK: Between the Frames with Cheryl Fabio \n\n**Note: Georgia\, Georgia (1972)\, the first theatrically relea sed film written by a Black woman\, will no longer screen as part of this program. The film's sole surviving prints are held by the Swedish Film Ins titute\, and the dissolution of its American distributor has left no viabl e path to a US university-based screening. That a film of this significanc e remains functionally inaccessible beyond to a select-few is itself part of the story this festival seeks to tell. GEO:37.432546;-122.171856 LOCATION:McMurtry Building\, Oshman Hall SUMMARY:But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Film Festival URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/but-some-of-us-are-brave-a- black-womens-film-festival CATEGORIES:Film/Screening END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR