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DESCRIPTION: GLIDE is excited to continue its thought-leaders’ series with a 
 screening of Lost Footage of Cecil Williams, part of the 1975 PBS series 
 Interface, directed by Robert Zagone on Wednesday, April 27 at GLIDE 
 Church.  Following the screening, three beloved San Francisco icons, 
 Reverend Cecil Williams, Janice Mirikitani (who joined Williams in 1965 
 to build GLIDE’s many programs), and Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr., 
 (two-term Mayor of San Francisco and legendary Speaker of the California 
 State Assembly), will reminisce about this unique era in San Francisco's 
 history and share insightful dialogue on creating unconditional love, 
 radical acceptance and beloved community throughout San Francisco's past, 
 present and future. \n\nThanks to the heroic efforts of film director 
 Robert Zagone and the Tenderloin Museum, a 1975 television program on 
 Reverend Williams, the legendary leader of GLIDE Church, is now available 
 for showing after four decades. Zagone, whose 1966 film Drugs in the 
 Tenderloin has played to two sold-out showings at the Tenderloin Museum and 
 a series of sold-out showings at the Roxie Theater, directed the television 
 program for the national PBS series, Interface, which presented an 
 innovative perspective on African-American and Latino culture. Zagone 
 captured Williams at his most fiery and most revolutionary. It is this 
 young, charismatic Williams whose Sunday services mesmerized audiences at 
 GLIDE and which became renowned throughout the world. If you want to see 
 the essence of Cecil Williams, you have to see this 
 film.\n\nWHAT:   \nGLIDE Presents Lost Footage of Cecil Williams, a film 
 screening and talk with Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr., Janice Mirikitani and 
 Rev. Cecil Williams on Wednesday, April 27\n\nWHERE:        \nGLIDE 
 Sanctuary, 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94102\n\nWHO:\nReverend 
 Cecil Williams, GLIDE’s Co-Founder and Minister of Liberation\n\nJanice 
 Mirikitani, GLIDE’s Co-Founder and Founding President who joined Williams 
 in 1965 to build GLIDE’s many programs \n\nHon. Willie L. Brown, Jr., 
 two-term Mayor of San Francisco, legendary Speaker of the California State 
 Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African-American 
 politician of the late twentieth century\n\nRandy Shaw, Director of the 
 Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Board member of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., the 
 group that operates and spearheaded the Tenderloin 
 Museum\n \nWHEN:         \nWednesday, April 27, 2016 \n\n6:00 
 PM:	Arrivals with a special performance of the GLIDE Ensemble and the 
 Change Band\n\n6:30 PM:  	Welcome message from GLIDE, Randy Shaw (Director 
 of The Uptown Tenderloin), film director Robert Zagone and screening 
 of Lost Footage of Cecil Williams\n\n7:00 PM:  	GLIDE Talk with Rev. 
 Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani in conversation with Hon. Willie L. 
 Brown, Jr. \n\n7:30 PM:   	Q&A with audience\n\n7:45 PM:  	Food and 
 Wine 
 Reception             \n\nADMISSION: \n        \nFree 
 and open to the public; registration required at: Eventbrite \n\nFor more 
 information, call 415.674.6060 or email echan@GLIDE.org\n\nADDITIONAL 
 INFORMATION:\n\nReverend Cecil Williams, for over 50 years, has expanded 
 the limits of spirituality, compassion and diversity as Co-Founder and 
 Minister of Liberation of GLIDE Memorial United Methodist Church in San 
 Francisco. As minister, author, social activist, lecturer, community leader 
 and spokesperson for the poor and underserved communities, Reverend 
 Williams is respected and recognized as a national leader on the forefront 
 of change and in the struggle for civil and human rights.  His ministry 
 underscores his roots in liberation theology. \n \nOften considered 
 controversial and radical, Rev. Williams was one of the first clergymen to 
 take a revolutionary stand for same sex couples by presiding over their 
 weddings nearly five decades before today’s marriage equality victory. 
 His vision for the 21st century church can be seen in GLIDE’s unique and 
 powerful blend of spirituality, principled compassion, and cutting edge 
 programs for those most in need. With a membership of over 11,000 and 
 located in the heart of the San Francisco’s toughest 
 neighborhoods, GLIDE is one of the fastest growing United Methodist 
 churches in North America. People of all races, ethnic backgrounds, 
 cultures, social classes, ages, faiths, and sexual orientations join 
 together at every Sunday Celebration to experience the energy of spiritual 
 liberation coupled with the fusion of jazz, blues and gospel performed by 
 the renowned GLIDE Ensemble and the Change Band. \n \nRev. Cecil 
 Williams is married to Janice Mirikitani, Co-Founder and Founding President 
 of the Glide Foundation. Together, they have created a radical and unique 
 partnership, bringing a powerful yet sensitive direction to GLIDE’s many 
 social programs which offer comprehensive support services to San 
 Francisco’s poor and homeless communities to overcome the barriers of 
 poverty, violence, addiction, dependency and low self-worth. The 
 organization has held steady the vision of supporting and uplifting the 
 disenfranchised through unconditional love, acceptance and respect for over 
 five decades. \n \nWilliams has authored two books, I’M ALIVE: An 
 Autobiography and NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our 
 Troubled Communities and co-authored BEYOND THE POSSIBLE: 50 Years of 
 Creating Radical Change in a Community Called GLIDE with 
 Mirikitani.\n \nJanice Mirikitani, a Sansei (third generation) Japanese 
 American, is recognized as a poet, visionary, editor, administrator and 
 community activist.  Mirikitani is the Co-Founder and Founding President 
 of GLIDE where she in partnership with her husband, Reverend Cecil 
 Williams, have achieved worldwide recognition for their groundbreaking 
 organization which empowers San Francisco’s poor and marginalized 
 communities to make meaningful changes in their lives to break the cycle of 
 poverty and dependence.  For over 50 years, they built comprehensive 
 programs that provide education, recovery support, primary and mental 
 health care, job training, housing and human services.   Mirikitani's 
 passion has been to create programs for women and families as they struggle 
 with issues of substance abuse, rape, incest, domestic violence, the AIDS 
 crisis, single parenting, childcare, health/wellness, education, and jobs 
 development.  \n \nMirikitani is San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate, 
 appointed in 2000.   She has authored five books of poetry -- OUT OF THE 
 DUSK, AWAKE IN THE RIVER; SHEDDING SILENCE; WE, THE DANGEROUS, and LOVE 
 WORKS -- and is the editor of nine landmark anthologies, which provide 
 platforms for writers of color, women, youth and children.   Mirikitani 
 is the co-author of the BEYOND THE POSSIBLE: 50 Years of Creating Radical 
 Change in a Community Called GLIDE with Rev. Williams. Mirikitani has also 
 worked in civil rights causes for various multi ethnic communities, 
 including the struggle for redress for Japanese Americans incarcerated 
 during WWII.\n \nMirikitani has received two honorary doctorate degrees, 
 graduated from UCLA, and received a teaching credential from UC Berkeley. 
 She and her family were incarcerated in a Rohwer, Arkansas concentration 
 camp with the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.\n \nHon. 
 Willie L. Brown, Jr. is the two-term Mayor of San Francisco, legendary 
 Speaker of the California State Assembly, and widely regarded as the most 
 influential African-American politician of the late twentieth century. He 
 has been at the center of California politics, government, and civic life 
 for an astonishing four decades. His career spans the American Presidency 
 from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, and he’s worked with every 
 California Governor from Pat Brown to Arnold Schwarzenegger. From civil 
 rights to education reform, tax policy, economic development, health care, 
 international trade, domestic partnerships, and affirmative action, he’s 
 left his imprimatur on every aspect of politics and public policy in the 
 Golden State. As Mayor of California’s most cosmopolitan city, he 
 refurbished and rebuilt the nation’s busiest transit system, pioneered 
 the use of bond measures to build affordable housing, created a model 
 juvenile justice system, and paved the way for a second campus of the 
 University of California, San Francisco, to serve as the anchor of a new 
 development that will position the City as a center for the burgeoning 
 field of biotechnology. Today, he heads the Willie L. Brown, Jr., Institute 
 on Politics and Public Service, where this acknowledged master of the art 
 of politics shares his knowledge and skills with a new generation of 
 California leaders.\n \nThe Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history 
 of one of San Francisco’s oldest and most unique neighborhoods. The 
 museum's permanent collection tells the story of the neighborhood from its 
 rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake through the present. The vibrant 
 community based arts and educational programming is built on the diverse 
 culture of this historic neighborhood. The Tenderloin Museum is a project 
 of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. Uptown 
 Tenderloin sponsored the application that created the national Uptown 
 Tenderloin Historic District, which includes 409 buildings on the National 
 Registry of Historic Places. Uptown Tenderloin also led the effort to 
 install nearly 100 historic plaques on Tenderloin buildings, and nine 
 “Lost Landmark” sidewalk plaques. The organization also worked with 
 Academy of Art University to create and install murals reflecting 
 Tenderloin history on the PG&E substation at Eddy and Hyde Streets. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/07/18784940.php
SUMMARY:GLIDE Talk & Screening with Rev. Cecil Williams, Janice Mirikitani & Hon. Willie Brown, Jr
LOCATION:GLIDE Sanctuary, 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/07/18784940.php
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