Thursday, September 7, 2023 7:00 PM— 9:00 PM
The Vogue Theater 3290 Sacramento Street San Francisco, CA 94115USA
With world world wide support of the dementia community and, The Global Brain Institute,KEYS BAGS NAMES WORDS is now screening in more than 20 countries around the world in honor of upcoming
World Alzheimers Day on September 21, 2023.
For More information and screenings see: https://www.keysbagsnameswords.com/screenings/watch
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BOOKS
Chasing Mercury
“In the time of mercury poisoning loving someone enough to let them go is for cowards.”
Novel #1 of September Williams’ Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy
An epileptic black ballerina and a Powwow dancer, whistleblower journalist meet in the Montreal airport. They are both performing at an international youth festival in Berlin, 1973 Cold War Berlin. During a long layover in Zürich, he takes the ballerina to a Swiss Bank. Speaking French, the Powwow dancer deposits many thousands of dollars into his numbered account to which he adds her name, providing no true explanation…
“Chasing Mercury is a soaring love story that hat illuminates the powerful attraction between two human beings through intimate engagement with the historical movements that shaped them and their families, most importantly environmental justice.” Angela Davis
”Cinematic, luxuriant, and well written it is a fascinating braided narrative interwoven with the historical trail of severe human mercury poisoning…After reading it I’ll never look at mercury, gold or racism in the same way again.” Victoria Sweet, MD
“Chasing Mercury is a breathtaking journey that whisk love, death, sex and global activism into a froth so perfect you want to lick it from your fingers.” Dianne Houston. VIEW
Weighing Lead
“That long story for another time where the present meets the past. “
Novel #2 of September Williams’ Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy. Coming 2023. VIEW
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN MILK BANKING
From bioethicist September Williams, MD, the author of 'Chasing Mercury,’ with Mothers’ Milk Bank, San Jose, comes a non-ficiton work The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking. Seriously humorous, informative and timely, The Elephant… makes bioethics look sexy. The year 2018 will be remembered as pivotal in modern history. This year, the first mother-model (in more ways than one ) helped empower all families by breastfeeding her baby at work—on a runway during Fashion Week. How did we come to this point where breastfeeding VIEW
MINAMATA DISEASE & THE MINAMATA CONVENTION ON MERCURY
The Minamata Convention as others before it (like the Stockholm Convention on Persistant Organic Pollutants) is an important model for world wide environmental clean up of toxic materials, and will help to decrease the burden of other 'fellow traveler' industrial pollutants. This convention was developed as a type of instrument of the United Nations called a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA.) Once such a The convention has gone into force and it is a 'treaty' under international law since August 16, 2017. This is example of how the persistence required for environmental justice. VIEW
COVE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS
Cove International Publishers (CIP) supports written and visual arts illuminating environmental, civil and humanitarian justice concerns. CIP works with Ninth Month Consults/Bioethics, and Ninth Month Productions and Bioethics Screen Reflections. CIP has a bent toward works ultimately expressing points of congruency between narratives of diverse peoples and subjects related to health and the environment. VIEW
BIOETHICS SCREEN REFLECTIONS
September Williams’ Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics VIEW
Ninth Month Productions: Films written and directed by September Williams VIEW
Ninth Month Consults: is an independent 501c3 bioethics consultation practice housed in Santa Fe, New Mexico and seeks to provide conceptual support for multi-platform screen projects with where bioethical narratives explore screen literacy as an agent of health. VIEW
Bioethics VIEW
ABOUT: SEPTEMBER WILLIAMS is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker. All of her work seeks a better understanding of and between ourselves. And…yes she is named for a song. CONTACT