impact & ENGAGEMENT
LITTLE SALLIE WALKER strives to build partnerships with individuals and non-profit organizations whose goals and objectives connect with the themes and topics in the documentary. As part of our impact and engagement efforts both online and offline, we are organizing the LITTLE SALLIE WALKER Play Date Experience© with communities around the US. Partnerships with the LITTLE SALLIE WALKER team might include showing an updated teaser or the entire film once it is finished along with a panel and Play Date Experience© in your community. In conjunction with the documentary, we believe this experience should highlight the importance of Black storytelling, fellowship, games, creativity, joy, self-expression, fun, empowerment, and healing. To further enrich and deepen the experience with LITTLE SALLIE WALKER, we are also developing the online ‘Play Date’ Guide’©, which will be free and interactive. If you or your organization want to learn more and become a partner, please contact us. Let your network and community be next!
Past Events:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020. Working Films produced the LITTLE SALLIE WALKER National Strategy Summit. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summit took place as a virtual event and is designed to leave LITTLE SALLIE WALKER well positioned to carry out an impact campaign with a clear strategy, goals, and partners. The summit brought together dynamic individuals and organizations whose work focuses on Black liberation, Black women and girls, Black culture, gender equity and self-care. Yes, the summit centered play and joy!
Working Films builds partnerships between nonfiction media-makers, nonprofit organizations, educators and advocates to advance progress on critical issues of our time. LITTLE SALLIE WALKER is a recipient of a 2020 Working Films Impact Kickstart!
Photography by Richard Carter, Jr.
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 4:00 pm - 6:00pm. Doors open at 3:30pm. This end of the year Little Sallie Walker Play Date© event is a partnership with Double Dutch Dreamz. Come join us at the National Dance Institute at 217 West 147th Street in Harlem for an afternoon of play, storytelling and fellowship. Also see a work-in-progress sample of the film.
Co-Sponsors: Pickney Productions and Grown Girls GetDown
This Play Date© is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Go to Eventbrite to RSVP for this Dec. 14th Play Date©!
Photography by Imani Dickens
Saturday, November 16, 2019, 12 noon - 2:00pm, Partnership with Sister’s Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center, 1942 Amsterdam Avenue (near W. 156th St.) in Harlem, NY. This LITTLE SALLIE WALKER Play Date© event included an afternoon of play, storytelling and fellowship. Co-Sponsor: Community League of the Heights (CLOTH).
This Play Date© was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
See the Photo Galleries for the LITTLE SALLIE WALKER Play Date Experience© events in Brooklyn and Harlem, NY funded by the New York Women’s Foundation in 2019. All Photography by Dominique Sindayiganza©
Saturday, March 30, 2019, 1:00pm - 3:00pm, Partnership with Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, 212 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, February 23, 2019, 1:00pm - 4:00pm, Partnership with the New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women - The Founding Chapter
Saturday, March 23, 2019, 12noon - 4:00pm
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and the Jobs Plus program will present the LITTLE SALLIE WALKER Play Date Experience© at Restoration North Site, 630 Flushing Avenue, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
LITTLE SALLIE WALKER WORK-IN-PROGRESS SCREENING & DISCUSSION at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Join us for a screening of a work-in-progress sample of the documentary Little Sallie Walker and a discussion between the filmmaker Marta Effinger-Crichlow and Gallatin faculty member Michael Dinwiddie. The event will be held at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts - 1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003. Presented as a part of Gallatin’s Black History Month programming.
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference in Orlando, Florida
LITTLE SALLIE WALKER will offer a workshop at the CAAR Conference led by the film project’s Producer/Director Marta Effinger-Crichlow, artist and scholar Dr. J. Eve Graves of Clark-Atlanta University and Sydnie Mosley of SLMDances. The workshop will also include a screening of the work-in-progress sample. CAAR is excited to co-host its 13th biennial international conference with the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community and the University of Central Florida, which has designated the 2018-19 academic year as the YEAR OF ZORA. The conference will be held in conjunction with Eatonville’s ZORA! Festival.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
AfroFutura: A Community STEAM Day
LITTLE SALLIE WALKER joins Growhouse NYC for it's AfroFutura: A Community STEAM Day. Featuring virtual reality, music technology, film screenings, related giveaways, and more, it’s a day designed to provide exposure to new technology and art in a free, fun, low risk environment. Participants can wander from experience to experience, sign up for workshops, or both. An RSVP link can be found at https://growhousenyc.org/afrofutura/ . A free, all ages, all day arts and technology festival for Central Brooklyn at Shell’s Loft.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Embracing Joy / Roots Party with Edisa Weeks
LITTLE SALLIE WALKER joins multi-disciplinary artist Edisa Weeks at her Roots Party at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. LITTLE SALLIE WALKER showing a work-in-progress sample of the film followed by a community discussion on the themes and topics of the film project. Open to the public. The Embracing Black Joy / Roots Party is co-presented by 651 ARTS and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 1pm
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. event for Jack & Jill of Trenton, New Jersey at Christina Seix Academy. Workshop on inter-generational storytelling with children ages 6 - 11. (Private event)
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Little Sallie Walker Work-In-Progress screening and pilot Play Date Experience© at Reel Sisters 20th Anniversary Pre-Festival at Kumble Theater in Brooklyn, NY.
Friday, July 21, 2017 at 6pm
Meet and Greet at Organpi Farms Farmhouse at 1010 Water Avenue in Historic Downtown Selma. Showing an updated teaser. This event is open to the community.
June 14, 2017
New York Women's Foundation (NYWF): "Neighborhood Gathering in the Bronx: Art, Gender, and Social Justice at the Bronx Museum of the Arts"
(NYWF is celebrating its 30th Anniversary)
April 26, 2017
YWCA of New York: "The Social Responsibility of Today's Black Filmmakers" at the YWCA's Resource Center