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Media Burn is a nonprofit dedicated to video’s overlooked histories and its most fiercely independent voices, from the 1960s to today.
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SEXUAL CINÉMA VÉRITÉ: THE MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER IN CONTEXT October 16-20 In 1968, a coalition of sex-positive, politically progressive San Francisco religious leaders and homophile activists founded the National Sex Forum. Led by the Methodist Rev. Dr. Ted McIlvenna, the NSF began producing films the following year, and was soon supplemented by a distribution arm called the Multi-Media Resource Center. The MMRC distributed both NSF films – most of them directed by McIlvenna’s friend and fellow minister Laird Sutton – and erotic avant-garde cinema by filmmakers from the Bay Area and beyond, among them James Broughton, Gunvor Nelson, Barbara Hammer, and Jan Oxenberg. The MMRC was radical not only in its ethos of sexual freedom as compatible with Christianity, but also its framing of experimental film as a form of sex education. While some NSF productions consist primarily of structured group conversations, many depict real couples and friends engaging in unsimulated and unscripted sex, termed “pattern films” or “sexual cinéma vérité.” Produced in San Francisco in the midst of the free love, women’s liberation, gay liberation, and disability rights movements; the films of the MMRC reflect a commitment to engaging with queer sexuality, women’s sexual autonomy and pleasure, and the sex lives of people with physical disabilities. They were also crucial to the development of Sexual Attitude Reassessment, or SAR, a technique originated by McIlvenna and his collaborators involving multi-day intensive sessions of explicit film and accompanying discussion. Despite contacts with legendary avant-garde filmmakers, and a long afterlife in the form of McIlvenna’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (which ceased operations in the mid-2010s), the MMRC is little-known today. Guest-curated by @talbotallen, this series introduces a modern audience to a body of work that has seldom been shown theatrically. Films distributed by the MMRC are paired with those that could have been: erotic avant-garde, educational, and agitprop films from the 60s & 70s sharing an ethos of free sexual expression. Still from SWEET DREAMS. A person is seen from the back, in blue jeans with a red hanky peeking out of their left pocket.
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So good to reconnect with Brigid Murphy from the infamous MLLYS ORCHID SHOW at Chicago's celebration of the first ever WORLD POETRY SLAM DAY at Newberry Library today!!!
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Let’s See You Represent 🙌🏾 Sound off for your Slam and celebrate World Poetry Slam Day!   The first-ever World Slam Day is Saturday, September 26, 2026. That’s when slammers around the globe will celebrate their unique slam.  In Chicago, the birthplace of the Poetry Slam, we will host our celebration at Newberry Library (link in bio only 200 seats available) | World Poetry Slam Day , repository of the Marc Kelly Smith Poetry Slam Collection. That’s where you come in.   We’d love to shout you out on Instagram. Tag us or create a collab with a video shoutout with your location. Tell us how you’re celebrating WSD we want to see and hear it!
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Saturday is the 1st World Poetry Slam Day!!! When: September 26, 2-4pm Where; The Newberry Library 📍Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Join us as part of an international celebration of the Poetry Slam featuring founder Marc Kelly Smith Countries around the globe will be celebrating the first-ever World Slam Day. It’s only fitting that the main United States Slam celebration is in Chicago—the birthplace of the Poetry Slam—and at the home of the newly acquired Marc Kelly Smith Poetry Slam Collection. The Slam movement has grown through the years—to France, Madagascar, and Singapore—as the phenomenon started at the Green Mill Lounge in Uptown. In partnership with Media Burn @mediaburnarchive The Newberry Library @newberrylibrary will be showing vintage interviews with Marc and footage of Slams past. Chicago-based performance artist Brigid Murphy (poet and host of Milly’s Orchid Show) will be discussing early Slam days. Brigid is best known for creating and hosting Milly’s Orchid Show, the vaudeville-style variety revue that has been running for over three decades. There will also be live performances from poets as well as video shoutouts and footage from around the world. Other performers and guests include: Edward Herrera Mark Messing Cin Salach Cost/ Registration Admission is free; a $10 donation is suggested 🔗link in bio
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Tuesday, Sept. 29: Join ESS and Media Burn for a 30-minute virtual field trip via Zoom to Marr Sound Archives in Kansas City, MO. Available only to our Plugged-In Supporters; join by supporting ESS with a donation of any amount. The Marr Sound Archives is an audiovisual archive, affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. It is one of four departments comprising the Special Collections and Archives division housed at the Miller Nichols Library, which contains an extensive collection of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The Marr Sound Archives hold a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs, compact cassette tapes, and open-reel audiotapes. During the field trip, Marr Sound Archives will share a short tour of their space, plus an overview of the organization's history and recent projects. Afterwards, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during a live Q&A with ESS & Media Burn; Zoom attendees will have their cameras off, but are encouraged to share comments and questions in the chat.
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World Slam Day, Sept 26. Per il Poetry Slam Day 💛 #poetryslamday #quibelloè #vermocane #schej
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World Slam Day partner @mrzurg Mr Zurg and Yopo, directly from the dedicated museum for Poetry Slam, the Maison du Slam (The House of Slam) in France 🇫🇷
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Represent your Slam at Chicago’s World Poetry Slam Day!   The first-ever World Slam Day is Saturday, September 26, 2026. That’s when slammers around the globe will celebrate their unique slam.  In Chicago, the birthplace of the Poetry Slam, we will host our celebration at the Newberry Library Newberry Library | World Poetry Slam Day , repository of the Marc Kelly Smith Poetry Slam Collection. That’s where you come in.   We’d love to shout you out on Instagram. Tag us or create a collab video shoutout with your location. Tell us how you’re celebrating WSD we want to see and hear it!   Thank you @slamontreal
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Chicago mark your calendars for the 1st World Poetry Slam Day!!! When: September 26, 2-4pm Where; The Newberry Library 📍Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Join us as part of an international celebration of the Poetry Slam featuring founder Marc Kelly Smith Countries around the globe will be celebrating the first-ever World Slam Day. It’s only fitting that the main United States Slam celebration is in Chicago—the birthplace of the Poetry Slam—and at the home of the newly acquired Marc Kelly Smith Poetry Slam Collection. The Slam movement has grown through the years—to France, Madagascar, and Singapore—as the phenomenon started at the Green Mill Lounge in Uptown. In partnership with Media Burn @mediaburnarchive The Newberry Library @newberrylibrary will be showing vintage interviews with Marc and footage of Slams past. Chicago-based performance artist Brigid Murphy (poet and host of Milly’s Orchid Show) will be discussing early Slam days. Brigid is best known for creating and hosting Milly’s Orchid Show, the vaudeville-style variety revue that has been running for over three decades. There will also be live performances from poets as well as video shoutouts and footage from around the world. Other performers and guests include: Edward Herrera Mark Messing Cin Salach Cost/ Registration Admission is free; a $10 donation is suggested 🔗link in bio
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At Chicagos World Slam Day, come see footage and live performances from Slam Poets featured at the original  infamous Milly’s Orchid Show. The chaotic, long-running modern vaudeville and variety show created, produced, and hosted by Chicago performance artist Brigid Murphy.  Link to reserve your spot at the Newberry Celebration in bio. Thank you to @mediaburnarchive for the footage! More About Milly’s Orchid Show 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Host and Alter Ego: Brigid Murphy hosts the show as Milly May Smithy, a chaotic Southern belle character modeled after a mix of Dolly Parton, Flo from Alice, and Ethel Merman.  Performances: The chaotic revue features an eclectic mix of underground and eccentric talent, including jugglers, fire eaters, dancers, comedians, musicians, poets, and bizarre novelty acts.  History: It originally launched in the late 1980s at Chicago venues like the Lounge Ax club in Lincoln Park and the Park West theater.  Notable Guests: Over the decades, the show has featured appearances and performances by groups and writers such as the Blue Man Group, David Sedaris, and Marc “Poetry Slam” Smith
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Represent your Slam at Chicago’s World Poetry Slam Day!   The first-ever World Slam Day is Saturday, September 26, 2026. That’s when slammers around the globe will celebrate their unique slam.  Look at this list of international involvement.   We’d love to shout you out on Instagram. Tag us or create a collab with a brief video shoutout with your location show us how you’re celebrating WSD! We want to see and hear it!   Thank you @mrzurg @ligueslamdefrance @lamaisonduslam for your amazing effort and passion to bring the world of Slam together ❤️🙌🏾🫶🏽
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At Chicagos World Slam Day, come see footage and live performances from Slam Poets featured at the original  infamous Milly’s Orchid Show. The chaotic, long-running modern vaudeville and variety show created, produced, and hosted by Chicago performance artist Brigid Murphy.  Link to reserve your spot at the Newberry Celebration in bio. Also see the 21st Anniversary Show footage provided by @mediaburnarchive in our link section. More About Milly’s Orchid Show 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Host and Alter Ego: Brigid Murphy hosts the show as Milly May Smithy, a chaotic Southern belle character modeled after a mix of Dolly Parton, Flo from Alice, and Ethel Merman.  Performances: The chaotic revue features an eclectic mix of underground and eccentric talent, including jugglers, fire eaters, dancers, comedians, musicians, poets, and bizarre novelty acts.  History: It originally launched in the late 1980s at Chicago venues like the Lounge Ax club in Lincoln Park and the Park West theater.  Notable Guests: Over the decades, the show has featured appearances and performances by groups and writers such as the Blue Man Group, David Sedaris, and Marc “Poetry Slam” Smith
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