DVDs
Blackbirds, Bottle Caps & Broken Records: Environmental Artist Bryant Holsenbeck at Work
Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist living in Durham, NC who makes art out of cast-off materials. It is her hope that people viewing her work will be inspired to become better stewards of the environment. RCWMS teamed up with filmmaker Margaret Morales to make this fifteen-minute documentary about Holsenbeck’s philosophy and work. The film has been made possible by generous contributions from many individuals. For more information about Bryant: www.bryantholsenbeck.com.
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Meinrad Craighead:
Praying with Images $35
This hour-long documentary opens a window to the lifelong pilgrimage of Meinrad Craighead and her mystical encounters with the Divine Feminine. Learn about the experiences that have influenced Meinrad, from her childhood roots in Arkansas and her formative relationship with her grandmother, to her time in Europe and as a nun, to her interactions with the culture in New Mexico where she now lives. Explore the connections of Catholicism, ancient mythology, and Native American shamanism to Meinrad’s art and ideas about God. Experience her moving images and stories of the devastating fire along the river near her home in 2003, and travel with her on a recent pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Montserrat in Spain. See nearly 100 of Meinrad’s paintings and prints in beautiful detail.
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CDs
Different Skies: Stella $12.97
"Luscious, eclectic, polyharmonic … 'The great appeal of the seven women of Stella is the wide variety of music they have in their repertoire and the astounding, complex harmonies in their combined a cappella voices'.” —Tim Kimrey, house concert impresario
Stella, a 7-woman vocal group based in the NC Triangle, has released their second CD. Different Skies reflects the singers’ compulsively eclectic tastes, their love of good stories, and their hunger for new musical adventures.
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Song for Us All: Lise Uyanik and the Mobile City Band
$14.95
This is the 25th anniversary CD from a North Carolina institution. Seventeen cuts include originals and covers, rock, R&B, and acoustic. A great dancing record from a group of Baby Boomers you won't forget. Produced by Minnow Media with support from RCWMS.
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Mary Evans: Happy With Jesus Alone
$14.95
Mary Emma Evans has been compared to Ethel Waters and Mahalia Jackson. "The way I'm feeling is the way I sing," she says. Mary brings all of her self--her childhood, her cultural heritage, the many challenges she has faced as a female pastor, and the long love of her husband and family--into this very powerful praise music. Evans grew up on a farm in North Carolina, the youngest of nine children. She has long been widely known in the northern Piedmont region of North Carolina as an outstanding preacher and a special minister to the marginalized. More recently Pastor Evans was elected to the Henderson, NC City Council where her work for social justice has found a new arena.
Produced by Minnow Media with support from RCWMS.
To order, visit Minnow Media at www.minnowmedia.net.