[statecom-discuss] Fwd: tonight 7PM movie about Women's Service Club at CCTV

[David Rolde]

Free Screening of "Movin Up - A Helping Hand"




Movin’ Up – A Helping Hand
a locally produced docudrama adapted from a play by Boston playwright  
Irma Askew, produced by former CCTV staffer Rudy Hypolite
Sunday, March 25th 7PM at CCTV
“Movin’ Up: A Helping Hand” is about young, black women who  
moved to Boston from the rural South in the 1960s and 1970s for  
employment as domestics in upper income homes. This docudrama  
utilizes both the narrative storyline of the dilemma encountered by  
these young women, the thriving jazz scene in Boston, as well as  
archival material and interviews with members of the Women’s Service  
Club, to advance this untold piece of Boston’s history. In Boston,  
the Women’s Service Club, a community service organization for black  
women founded in 1919, run by black women, came to the aid of these  
young women and served as a hostel to them, providing training, job  
referrals, and a supportive environment. Under the leadership of  
Roxbury’s well-renowned Melnea Cass, the Women’s Service Club also  
moved to help enact legislation to address the many inequities  
endured by the domestic worker, which are still on the books today.
The screening is co-sponsored by CCTV, the Boston Women’s Fund and  
the Women’s Service Club and is free and open to the public.
Movin’ Up will run every Sunday until April 22nd on CCTV's Channel 9  
at 9:00 PM, and
every Friday on Channel 10 at 1:30 PM until April 20th.

Cambridge Community Television | 675 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge MA  
02139 | 617-661-6900 |

Entrance on  Prospect Street.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Lloyd Smith" <liveinamerica at cctvcambridge.org>
> Date: March 25, 2007 1:56:31 PM EDT
> To: "Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) Administrative Committee"  
> <adcom at green-rainbow.org>, adcom at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: Re: [adcom] RE: AdCom Digest, Vol 33, Issue 28
> Reply-To: "Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) Administrative Committee"  
> <adcom at green-rainbow.org>
>
>   Hi Folks,Can someone help me to send an announcement about the movie
>   being screened at CCTV at 7:oopm?I hope that interested folks can  
> come
>   and learn about the Women's Service Club being portrayed in the  
> movie and
>   who will be represented in person by Louise Kerr (their  
> president), there to
>   talk about how we can come to their rescue, as they seek to reach  
> a younger
>   generation of membership.They are based at 465 Massachusetts Ave.  
> in Boston.
>   They're trying to reach out to the Greater Boston area.I'd like  
> to send this
>   out to whoever in our mambership in this area that might be  
> interested.
>   ILloyd
>
>
>