BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ultimate Community Events//LiveTaos.com//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e3afa011523ed2d5fd48ba911f87deff60140d78b31f776270bb56ebf585af0c@liveta os.com DTSTAMP:20261012T205004Z DTSTART:20261025T003000Z DTEND:20261025T033000Z SUMMARY:TCA Community Screening: Committing Poetry in Times of War With Po st-film panel discussion with producers\, film crew\, &\; participants URL:https://dev.livetaos.com/events/tca-community-screening-committing-poet ry-in-times-of-war-with-post-film-panel-discussion-with-producers-film-cre w-participants/ LOCATION:Taos Center for the Arts DESCRIPTION:TCA Community Screening\n\nCommitting Poetry in Times of War\n\ nWith Post-film panel discussion with producers\, film crew\, &\; parti cipants\n\nSat\, Oct 24\, 6:30pm\n\nGet Tickets Here\n\n2007 | Political D rama/Documentary | Written by Stravos | 1h 54m | NR\n\nThe powerful relati onship between art\, free speech\, and resistance takes\n\ncenter stage on ce again. TCA is screening a special 20th Anniversary Producers Cut of the award-winning 2007 documentary Committing Poetry in Times of War. This up dated version brings new life to a film that is even more relevant to ourw orld today than it was two decades ago.\n\nCommitting Poetry in Times of W ar tells the gripping story of Bill Nevins. He was a\n\ndedicated high sch ool teacher and poetry coach in New Mexico. In 2003\, Nevins was\n\nsuspen ded from his job. His crime? Supporting his student poetry team after they read\n\nan anti-war poem over the school’s PA system. The film tracks t he massive wave of\n\nstudent protests\, community legal battles\, and art istic resistance that followed his\n\nsuspension. It shines a bright light on the dangers of censorship during times of\n\nnational fear.\n\nThe bra nd-new 20th Anniversary Producers Cut and in-theater post screening\n\ndis cussion features freshly restored footage\, dialogue with the original par ticipants\, and\n\nreflections on how the struggle for free speech has cha nged over the last twenty years.\n\n“When we first made this film\, we w anted to capture a specific moment of political\n\ntension and artistic br avery\,” says the production team “But looking at the world\n\ntoday —where book bans are rising\, teachers face heavy restrictions\, and stu dents are\n\nstill fighting for their voices to be heard—we realized thi s story isn’t just history. It is\n\nhappening right now. This new cut i s a wake-up call and a celebration of the brave\n\nyoung voices who refuse to be silenced and the power of creativity to make change.”\n\nThe orig inal 2007 release won critical acclaim and multiple festival awards for it s raw\,\n\nhonest look at American patriotism and the right to dissent. To day\, as classrooms and\n\nschool boards become battlegrounds for free exp ression once again\, the film serves as\n\na vital tool for educators\, ac tivists\, and artists everywhere. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR