On October 20, 2017, the Embassy of the Philippines in Baghdad hosted a screening of AMIGO in Erbil, Kurdistan. Over 150 Filipinos attended the event. Erbil, Kurdistan is home to the majority of the 4,000 Filipinos living in Iraq. The screening was a part of the concerted efforts of Embassy of the Philippines to screen Filipino films and other films related to the Philippines. If you or any of your paysans were at this screening, please send photos to office@anarchistsconvent

John and Maggie are excited to be part of the upcoming Call of the Wild event at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, where they will read selected poems from Daniel Wollf’s The Names of Birds. The Call of the Wild event, part of the Wadsworth’s First Thursday series, is a celebration of the natural world. In addition to the poetry reading, there will be live music, a tour of artworks depicting nature, and a screening of the film WILD.  The event is on April 2nd

The Australian literary phenomenon Women of Letters is bringing their incredible cultural salon to New York for the very first time, with two events next week! John at SXSW with Marieke Hardy, co-founder of Women Of Letters. You might remember that John was part of the People of Letters event last year at SXSW in Austin, where the theme was “To the Thing I Wish I’d Written.”  John presented a letter to the Star-Spangled Banner.  Co-curated by Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hard

John Sayles, filmmaker | John Anderson, interviewer Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00 pm AtriumFlix AtriumFlix and JustFilms introduce free monthly screenings of social justice films. Don’t miss groundbreaking films and intimate conversations with leading filmmakers. 7:00: Conversation with John Sayles followed by a screening of The Brother From Another Planet click here for all the info John Sayles likes to be known as a storyteller.  GO FOR SISTERS is his 18th film, all of whi

One of the most exciting events at SXSW last week was the literary salon People of Letters, a Texas transplant of the Australian literary salon Women of Letters, held on Tuesday, March 12th in Austin. The panel of guests/presenters included John Sayles, Buck 65, Jenny Owen Youngs, Kim Boekbinder, Neil Gaiman, and Amanda Palmer.  Each read a hand-written letter to “The Thing I Wish I’d Written.” John’s letter, in the words of the Austin Chronicle’s Richard Whittaker, “ruminat[