partnerships Although the 2021 festival lives online this year, Ivy Film Festival’s home is in Providence, Rhode Island. Providence has given a tremendous amount to IFF over the past 20 years and while our events have always been free and open to the public, we are asking audience members to make an optional contribution to the Rhode Island Free Clinic and/or New Urban Arts in lieu of ticket fees. We appreciate any contribution.
IFF X The Rhode Island Free CLinic Established in 1999, the Rhode Island Free Clinic mobilizes vital health resources for RI’s uninsured adults. The clinic also provides the most efficient and cost effective alternative to emergency rooms for residents seeking comprehensive health care. At this time, the Clinic needs public support more than ever to address COVID-19 health concerns, vaccination distribution, and to continue to care for the chronic conditions for patients that would otherwise be unable to seek treatment.
IFF X New Urban arts In Providence, like in many other cities in our country, young people—particularly low-income youth and those in communities of color—are systematically denied access to high-quality, creative learning opportunities. This climate, alongside current economic trends, means that organizations like New Urban Arts are under increased pressure to meet students’ learning needs in the arts. New Urban Arts’ free, year-round out-of-school youth programs are an innovative response to that need. Each year, they serve over 1000 high school students and 2,000 visitors to their studio, through youth programs, professional development workshops, artist residencies, public performances, and exhibitions.
IFF X red canary song Red Canary Song is the only grassroots Chinese massage parlor worker coalition in the U.S. There are over 9000 workplaces like these across the country with no political representation, or access to labor rights or collective organizing. Anti-trafficking NGO’s that claim to speak for migrants in sex trades promote increased policing and immigration control, which harms rather than helps migrant sex workers. They also organize transnationally with Asian sex workers across the diaspora in Toronto, Paris, and Hong Kong.
Please consider going to https://bit.ly/SupportRIFC to support the Rhode Island Free Clinic and https:// bit.ly/SupportNewUrbanArts to support New Urban Arts and http://bit.ly/RedCanarySong to support Red
