SCREENING/READING 

Thurs. Aug 21 - Lives on Fire
Doors at 7:30 pm // Reading and Short film Program at 8:00 pm 

River Selby will be reading from their new memoir “Hotshot: A Life on Fire” which navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting through a lens of intersectionality. Extremely personal memoir is interwoven with the damage of colonization – recognizing wounds of personal and national pasts and the effort that is needed to grow new futures.  

George Saunders describes the book as “A beautiful reflection on justice, the environment, the self, and much more.” 

The short films in the program have been curated by Kati Rehbeck around themes reflected in River’s book, broadly related to “fire” but also investigating how we make sense of damage while finding what keeps us burning or calms our flames. 

Short films and videos in the program:

Into the Ashes - Daniel Calil & Renato Ogata  - 23 min
Natural Disasters - Tiffany Jiang - 4 min
Embroidering the Abyss -  Fikri Al Murtaky - 7.5 min
End - Rita Casdia - 2.5 min
Tan/Vatan - Homa Sarabi & Meenakshi Garodia - 7.5 min
Burn out the day - Sasha Waters - 4 min
Flowers for an Old Shrine - Long Pham - 5 min
Clip0082 - Preben Verledens - 6.5 min