NEWS
Many of the protagonists have been graduating. Read more here and check out our Facebook page
Darius Simpson featured inStudent Stars in Feature Documentaryfrom The Eastern Echo after Q&A session at Finding the Gold Within Screening event.
Letter To My Unborn Son by Darius SimpsonfromKarinafilmsonVimeo
A poem of protagonist, Darius Simpson has gone viral and is featured in theThe Huffington Post.A poignant and original contribution to the conversation surrounding race, gender, and privilege. Watch below!
Excerpt from Finding the Gold Within
GET INVOLVED
THE GOLD FUND
Contribute to our outreach and engagement efforts! The time is ripe for discussions about the plight of young Black men in this country. We need $10,000 by December 31st to make possible the critical work of getting the film shown in communities across the country.
Your donations are tax-deductible via our fiscal sponsorCenter for Independent Documentary
At the Mill Valley Film Festival, the protagonists were present for three Q&As, in-school visits, radio and video interviews and a performance. In addition to screenings of Finding the Gold Within—we offer The Gold Within – Feel Us!, a live theatrical presentation with a Q&A as part of our community outreach plans. Another chance for audiences and the young men to bridge the gulfs that our society is still suffering from.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
The Gold Within – Feel Us!
An Evening of Stories, Poetry, Film Clips and Q&A with the Protagonists of the documentary Finding the Gold Within. See description
Sunday, March 22nd at 4 pm, Heights Christian Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Co-presented by Heights Christian Church and Cleveland International Film Festival See the flyer!
The Gold Within – Feel Us! Monday, October 6th at 6 pm, First Missionary Baptist Church, 501 Drake Avenue, Marin City, CA 94965
Co-presented by Mill Valley Film Festival Check out the flyer!
Community Partners: Performing Stars/Phoenix Project, The Hannah Project for Academic Achievement, Bridge the Gap College Prep, Marin City Fatherhood Council, Marin City Community Services District
THE NEWSLETTERS
Karinafilms Newsletter #19: August 30, 2016
Karinafilms Newsletter #18: May 6, 2016
Karinafilms Newsletter #17: November 17, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #16: August 29, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #15: May 8, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #14: April 21, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #13: March 31, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #12: March 13, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #11: February 6, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #10: January 6, 2015
Karinafilms Newsletter #9: December 5, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #8: November 22, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #7: October 21, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #6: October 2, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #5: September 23, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #4: September 13, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #3: June 21, 2014
Karinafilms Newsletter #2: April 7, 2013
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LEARN HOW TO BECOME A MENTOR
ALCHEMY, INC.
How Mythological Stories Can Help Urban Youth in Your Community
Since 2003, Alchemy, Inc. has provided in-school development programs to more than 1,500 elementary, middle-, and high school-aged urban youth in the Cleveland-Akron area.
On November 19th, 2012, Alchemy founder Dr. Kwame Scruggs was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Award.
Since 2013, Alchemy has worked with nationally acclaimed arts program, AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island, and groups of youth at the Harlem Renaissance Festival in Prince George Country, Maryland. The organization has also conducted training for youth development providers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alchemy is available to give workshops nationwide for community groups, schools, therapists, social workers, and others with a mission to help America’s youth.
MICHAEL MEADE AND HIS MOSAIC MULTICULTURAL FOUNDATION
Michael Meade is featured in Finding the Gold Within working with the Alchemy youth.
Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today.
Mosaic Multicultural Foundation is a network of artists, healers, social activists, and community builders. Mosaic formed to create cross-cultural alliances, creative mentoring relationships, and educational projects. Mosaic actively seeks to encourage greater understanding between people with diverse and divergent backgrounds and experiences. Projects include mentoring youth and developing elders, finding common ground between those in opposition, and shaping community events that unite people of various cultural and spiritual backgrounds. Mosaic means putting essential pieces together; shaping new social forms from separate, divided, even estranged parts. The creative process of finding, fitting, and weaving together divergent, yet necessary elements of a diverse culture involves making new social fabrics from existing ethnic, spiritual, psychological, and political threads.
