Progressive Achievers honors Lisa Durden with The Leader In Communication Award @ the Unstoppable!_Stepping Into Your Most Amazing Greatness Women of Power Luncheon. Sunday, September 28, 2014, from 3:00pm – 6:00pm @ The Gran Centurions, 440 Madison Hill Road, Clark, NJ 07066.
Here is your chance to get the 411 on internships!! Lisa Durden invites all of you CUNY (City College Of New York) students to attend her FREE workshop entitled: How to Make the Most of Your Internship. Where you’ll learn how you can turn your internship into a job. Presented by the CCNY Career & Professional Development Institute. There will even be internship opportunities FOR CREDIT, available for documentary projects she’s working on. Lunch is FREE!! That’s a good price!! SPREAD THE WORD! Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, The City College Of New York, NAC 1/116, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031. To register call 212.650.5327.
Lisa Durden will be the Mistress Of Ceremonies, at The Local Talk Community Foundation's, 5th Annual High School Students Public Speaking Scholarship Contest, where the winner will be awarded a $5,000 college scholarship. Saturday, 11am, November 22, 2014, live from Bella Italia Ristorante - 535 Central Ave. in Orange, NJ. To enter, please submit your entry at by October 1, 2014.
Produced an AfroPoP live stream and Q&A with AFROPUNK Presents The Triptych director of photography Shawn Peters, along with producers Jocelyn Cooper and Matthew Morgan. It was a live, online web event where they discussed the film series, and the state of Black art today. This event was a partnership with Imagenation (http://imagenation.us/) @ RAWSPACE in Harlem (2031 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. - 7th Ave. Between 121st and 122nd)!!
Produced the AfroPoP behind the scenes producer chats with director Terence Nance and Producer Jocelyn Cooper, of AFROPPUNK Presents The Triptych where they sit together to discuss the series and what the value of documenting the artistic process is.
Produced the AfroPoP behind the scenes producer chats with Filmmaker Maggie Betts where she takes some time to discuss her cinematic documentary "The Carrier," a wonderful tale of one Zambian woman struggling to save her unborn child from being infected with her own HIV.
