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Upcoming Events
"SUMMER PASTURE" CONSIDERS THE FATE OF TODAY'S TIBETAN NOMADS
Summer Pasture, a documentary film about a Tibetan
nomad family facing an uncertain future, will screen as part of the IDA’s
13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase from August 6-12 at
the Arclight Hollywood. For showtimes and tickets, please click
here.
In recent years, growing pressures from the outside
world have posed unprecedented challenges for Tibetan nomads. Rigid
government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern life
have prompted many nomadic families to leave the pastures for permanent
settlement in towns and cities. Summer Pasture is a feature-length
documentary that chronicles one summer with a young family amidst this
period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant
daughter spend the summer months in eastern Tibet 's Zachukha grasslands,
the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan
Province, China. he story of a family at a crossroads, Summer Pasture
takes place at a critical time in Locho and Yama’s lives, as they question
their future as nomads. As their pastoral traditions confront rapid
modernization, Locho and Yama must reconcile the challenges that threaten
to drastically reshape their existence.
Summer Pasture is directed by
Lynn True, Nelson Walker and co-director Tsering Perlo. The film was
conceived as part of The Kham Film Project, an association of American and
Tibetan filmmakers working together to improve the quality and diversity
of knowledge about Tibet by engaging Tibetans in the filmmaking process.
For more information on the project and film, click
here.
IDA’s 13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary
Showcase will present 18 feature films and 10 short films, a collection of
some of the best groundbreaking documentary films from around the world.
For a full listing of films, please visit their
website.
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(from 2008)
KEN HEARTS INDIA: Chinese-American Ken Lee, The Tibet Connection's
Chief Engineer, on how his travels to a Tibetan settlement in India
changed his life back in Los Angeles.
ART AS REFUGE: Art
Refuge UK, a non profit organization that gives a creative outlet to
Tibetan kids living in exile. What they are drawing might surprise you.
WHY THE DALAI LAMA MATTERS: Professor Robert Thurman on why he thinks that
the Dalai Lama is the solution to China, Tibet and the world.
 Los Angeles Friends of Tibet
is the founder and sponsor of
THE TIBET CONNECTION, a monthly radio
program on Sprouts, airing on Pacifica stations. The program features guests and stories that connect the
issues facing today’s world with the Tibetan experience. Please visit our
website,
thetibetconnection.org, to
hear the show, listen to the archives and learn more about our guests
and stories. Airing on
The Tibet Connection
website every month and Sprouts Pacifica stations the
2nd Thursday of every other month.
LAFOT and The Tibet Connection bring you Power of One, an opportunity
for you to do something for Tibet.
How to help Tibetan earthquake
victims:
Below are a list of recommended
organizations who work directly with Tibetans in Tibet and are taking part
in the earthquake relief effort. Please take a moment to visit one of
their sites and make a donation.
Tibetan Village Project
Tibetan Relief Fund
Machik
Tibet Foundation
Tibet Fund
Thrangu Rinpoche Trust
Clean, safe water at last: LAFOT's gift to the Transit School is up and running
Click here to
read the story about how a LAFOT fundraiser changed the lives of young
Tibetans in India.
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