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  Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker

  Beyondmedia Education

  This documentary film produced by Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD and Beth Marks, RN, PhD chronicles the experience of a nursing student who entered a baccalaureate program using a wheelchair. The 23 minute film provides a forum for the voices of nursing students, faculty, administrators, and agency nursing staff to discuss trials and triumphs encountered during this experience. It is a real life example of the exploration of roles and responsibilities in nursing education, experiential learning, shifting perspectives, and being a part of old ways turning into new ways in the world of nursing.

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  Revisiting the Scene: Quentin Young’s Chicago

  Chicago Politics, Judy Hoffman, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Quentin Young, a notable Chicago physician and activist, visits various Chicago sites important to his personal history of political activism, providing the context for each site as he does so. Throughout the course of the video, Young visits Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park, the site of the 1937 Memorial Day massacre, Bughouse Square, 1515 S Hamlin, the John Alexander Logan Monument, Federal Plaza, Cook County Hospital, Michael Reese Medical Center, and Daley Plaza.

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  HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!

  Beyondmedia Education, Chicago

  00:15 Title animation: “HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!” followed by a classroom skit where students are asked what they of the word “viral”.  01:16 Onscreen text animation: “What is HIV?AIDS?” Reginald Davis and John Gafeney discuss being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.  02:33 Onscreen text animation: “Who gets HIV/AIDS?” Kevin Irvine says “Anybody can get HIV, it doesn’t matter who you are, it matters what you’re doing.” Discussions of the HIV epidemic’s disproportionate effects on young people, women, people of color, gay, and […]

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  Tracing the Light, documentary

  Arts & Culture, Chicago, Performance

  This brief documentary traces the creative and historical forces behind Donna Blue Lachman’s creation of Tracing the Light, a play about an internment camp in wartime Prague.

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  Silver Circle Award for Elizabeth Brackett

  Chicago

  Elizabeth Brackett’s acceptance speech for her Silver Circle Award in 2009, proceeded by a short reel of her life and work.