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Anarchist Film Festival, Village Improvement Parade & Festival in Springfield |
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by Franklin Nord of 23 Skidoo
Email: fnord8102 (nospam) altavista.com (unverified!)
Address: Springfield, Illinois |
29 Apr 2001
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press release |
Anarchist Film Festival
and
Village Improvement Parade & Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CONTACT FRANKLIN NORD
fnord8102 (at) altavista.com
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS--An Anarchist Film Festival will take place Thursday, May 3, at Brookens Auditorium, UIS, from 7 to 10 p.m. Films include: RECLAIM MAY DAY (featuring puppets and street theater by Art and Revolution, San Francisco); THE PIE\'S THE LIMIT (see the Biotic Baking Brigade pie such deserving targets as Bill Gates); RADICAL CHEERLEADERS (by Indymedia Newsreal); and MUCH MORE.
This large-screen event is free and open to the public.
At high noon, Sunday, May 6, a Village Improvement Parade will begin at the home of visionary Springfield poet Vachel Lindsay (603 S. 5th). The parade will proceed to Douglas Park (Walnut & Madison), where a Village Improvement Festival will be held until 4 p.m. A concert will feature Abe Lincoln Continentals; the Non-Committals; Black Ops; and Linda Gifford with Bruce Williams, Jose Santiago, and Luke Turasky. Speeches will be given between sets, including representatives from the Springfield Independent Media Center and Media Activist Coalition. A poem remembering the Haymarket tragedy will be read. Informational tables will also be set up for the public.
This event is family- and kid-friendly. We are a free and proud and mellow jamboree. Vachel Lindsay, poet, artist, and visionary from Springfield, imagined a Village Improvement Parade of people from all walks of life gathering to celebrate Springfield and its potential. Inspired by his vision, we invite Springfield to join us in parade and celebration. It is a parade of participation--join us!
The Village Improvement Parade
by Vachel Lindsay
Guns salute, and crows and pigeons fly,
Bronzed, Homeric bards go striding by,
Shouting \"Glory\" amid the cannonade:--
It is the cross-roads
Resurrection
Parade.
Actors, craftsmen, builders, join the throng,
Painters, sculptors, florists tramp along,
Farm-boys prance, in tinsel tin and jade:--
It is the cross-roads
Love and Laughter
Crusade.
The sun is blazing big as all the sky
The mustard-plant with the sunflower climbing high,
With the Indian corn in firey plumes arrayed:--
It is the cross-roads
Love and Beauty
Crusade.
Free and proud and mellow jamboree,
Roar and foam upon the prairie sea,
Tom turkeys sing the sun a serenade:--
It is the cross-roads
Resurrection
Parade.
Our sweethearts dance, with wands as white as milk,
With veils of gold and robes of silver silk,
Their caps in velvet pansy-patterns made:--
It is the cross-roads
Resurrection
Parade.
Wandering \'round the shrines we understand,
Waving oak-boughs cheap and close at hand,
And field-flowers fair, for which no man has paid:--
It is the cross-roads
Love and Beauty
Crusade.
Hieroglyphic marchers here we bring.
Rich inscriptions strut and talk and sing.
A scroll to read, a picture-word brigade:--
It is the cross-roads
Love and Laughter
Crusade.
Swans for symbols deck the banners rare,
Mighty acorn-signs command the air,
For hearts of oak, by flying beauty swayed:--
It is the cross-roads
Resurrection
Parade.
The flags are big, like rainbows flashing round,
They spread like sails, and lift us from the ground,
Star-born ships, that have come in masquerade:--
It is the cross-roads
Resurrection
Parade.
SLOGANS from the banners in Lindsay\'s illustrations for The Village Improvement Parade
Fair streets are better than silver. Green parks are better than gold.
Bad public taste is mob law. Good public taste is democracy.
A crude administration is damned already.
A bad designer is to that extent a bad citizen.
Let the best moods of the people rule.
A hasty prosperity may be raw and absurd. A well-considered poverty may be exquisite.
Without an eager public all teaching is vain.
Our best pictures should be good painting. Our best monuments should be real sculpture. Our best buildings should be real architecture.
Ugliness is a kind of misgovernment.
Fair streets are better than silver. Green parks are better than
gold.
Bad public taste is mob law. Good public taste is democracy.
To begin, we must have a sense of humor, and learn to smile.
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