Doctors Against The Bomb: "Helen's War" and "Last Laugh"

Wed, Aug 3
8pm
FREE! Donations gladly accepted

*** Doctors Against The Bomb: August 3, 8 pm ***
Rx Gallery, 132 Eddy Street @ Mason, San Francisco
"Helen's War, Portrait of a Dissident" with "Last Laugh" by Louis =20
Borgenicht, MD
www.simnuke.org/gallery.html
www.rxgallery.com
FREE! Donations Gladly Accepted

By special permission, the Simnuke Art Exhibit is doing a one-time
screening of "Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident," a film about
Helen Caldicott by her niece, Anna. We are lucky enough to combine
it with "Last Laugh," a talk on Nuclear Humor by pediatrician, anti-
nuclear activist, and PSR Board Member Louis Borgenicht.

About Helen's War
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With exclusive access, Caldicott's filmmaker niece, Anna Broinowski,
followed her pugnacious aunt during a year-long road trip through the
United States to promote her latest book, The New Nuclear Danger-
George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex. Playing
a reluctant cynic to her idealistic aunt, Broinowski challenges
Caldicott as she battles spin-savvy neo-conservative rivals and
attempts to raise money for her left-wing think-tank. But can
Caldicott win back the media, and inspire the huge groundswell of
protest she did in the 1980s? Helen's War asks whether pacifist
dissenters have a place in today's world.
www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/2397875830
www.nuclearpolicy.org/

About Last Laugh
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This multimedia presentation includes posters, bumper stickers,
parodies, official government propaganda (e.g. a three minute film),
music and other representations of our nuclear culture. They are
culled from the collection of Louis Borgenicht, MD a nuclear pack rat
for years.
The Last Laugh explores the utility of humor in dealing with the
incomprehensible and concludes with a quote from write Robert Stone:
"Laughter is primarily a moral response. It is a rejection of evil, a
renunciation of chaos and an affirmation of balance and soundness."
Dr. Borgenicht is a pediatrician from SLC, Utah and has been a member
of Physicians for Social Responsibility for twenty-five years. He is
currently on the Board of Directors.
www.psr.org/


About The Simnuke Art Exhibit
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Over the last sixty years, people all over the world have lived with
the looming threat of nuclear arms. For the artists exhibiting in the
Simnuke Art Exhibit, this struggle expresses itself through scathing
commentary and moving artwork condemning the nuclear arms race. We
are privileged to have Yosuke Yamahata's Nagasaki Journey Photos
taken the day after the Nagasaki bombing displayed alongside works by
Michael Light, Carole Gallagher, and Richard Ross.

The art of the Simnuke Art Exhibit is co-curated by Sasha Harris-
Cronin and Max Carlson and has 20 artists from the United States and
Japan. The exhibit pieces will range from photography to kinetic
sculpture, from humorous statements to solemn expos=E9s. In addition,
there will be an exhibit of government documents from the Prelinger
Library tracing the history of the atomic era in public policy.

The artists in the Simnuke Art Exhibit include: Carole Gallagher,
Michael Light, Richard Ross, Aaron Ximm, Yosuke Yamahata, Bryan Cole,
Robert Dohrmann, Joy Garnett, Jenne Giles, Mark Henson, Garret Izumi,
Tracy Jacobs, Kerry Loewen, Yoshiko McFarland, Yumiko Oda, Astrid
Olafsen, Megan Prelinger, Aryana Farsai Roxborough, Corrine Schulze,
Elin O'Hara Slavick, and Jeff Young.

Venue:

Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco

http://www.rxgallery.com

Cross street Mason, 1 block up Eddy from the Powell Street Station

Additional Info:

http://www.simnuke.org/gallery.html