Portfolio
Triad Underground
triadunderground.com is an alternative internet publication, events calendar, and community hub serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point area of North Carolina. The planned launch is for early August.
Let Me Stand Alone
Let Me Stand Alone is a promotional website launched in conjunction with the publication of the book of the same name containing the journals of peace activist Rachel Corrie. The site was developed with the Corrie family to promote the book, the accompanying book tour, and the continuing performances of the play, My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
(Visit letmestandalone.com)
Darfur Diaries
Movement Studio worked with the filmmakers of the documentary Darfur Diaries to redesign their website. The site needed to be easier to update by volunteers with no html experience. We also wanted to incorporate RSS feeds, image galleries, and some streaming video clips to help promote the film.
(Visit darfurdiaries.org)
ICAHD USA
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, USA is the United States partner organization to ICAHD in Israel. Based in North Carolina, ICAHD-USA works to educate the American public about the negative effects Israeli government policy has on building real peace. The group also works to raise funds to support ICAHD-Israel’s program of rebuilding the homes of Palestinians demolished by the Israeli government.
(Visit icahdusa.org)
Ellen O’Grady
Ellen O’Grady is an artist in North Carolina. Ellen lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for several years coinciding with the beginning and end of the first intifada. Since then her work has attempted to tell the stories of the ordinary people she met during that time who, she discovered, are not ordinary at all. In 2005 Ellen self-published her first book, “Outside The Ark: An Artists Journey in Occupied Palestine” and toured the country promoting it.
(Visit ellenogrady.com)
Elevated Basement Studio
Elevated Basement Studio is Savannah, Georgia’s premier artist-friendly recording facility. The studio has hosted artists from across the spectrum, including Gregg Allman, the Atlanta Rythem Section, the late Vassar Clements, Tony Rice, Redneck Greece, Samurai Celestial of Sun Ra’s Arkestra and more. Famed producers Tom Dowd, John Snyder, Charles Dye, Cesar Sogbe and many others have engineered there.
(Visit elevatedbasement.com)
Tiny Team Concerts
Tiny Team Concerts is a small, Savannah-based independent production company whose goal is to present high-quality live shows by critically-acclaimed, nationally-known musicians and comedians.
(Visit tinyteamconcerts.info)
Superhorse
Savannah’s original shit-rocking supergroup, Superhorse has been flying the southern bar-rock flag for nearly 9 years. Their debut release (yes, their debut after 9 years) “The High Impedance Majesty of Superhorse” was named one of the best albums of 2005 by Georgia Music Magazine. They are consistently named at the top of Savannah and southern Georgia “best of” lists. Superhorse offers downloadable songs, their album and other ep releases, and merchandise at their site.
(Visit superhorseband.com)
International Trauma Treatment Program
The International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP) is a community-supported non-profit organization that trains practitioners to treat complex trauma inflicted by torture, war, and natural disasters. ITTP seeks to break these cycles and restore victims’ physical and psychological health through treatment and education.
(Visit ittp.org)
Projects
Movement Studio works with a number of deserving initiatives and organizations on a pro bono basis. If your group or project would like to be considered, please send us a brief prospectus through our contact page. Taking on new projects depends largely on our respective work loads at the time so no guarantees are made.
Greensboro HIVE
The Greensboro HIVE is a collectively-run community space in Greensboro, North Carolina. After opening its doors in October, 2007, The HIVE has become a hub of community and progressive movement building in Greensboro. Several of the Partner organizations located in The HIVE have their own distinct sections of the site. Planned site developments include pod and video casting and an online zine library and archive.
(Visit gsohive.org)
Rachel’s Words
Rachel Corrie was a young American activist who was killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip in 2002 while attempting to protect the home of a doctor and his family. The Rachel’s Words initiative was sparked by the cancellation of the New York run of the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Fully supported by the Corrie family, Rachel’s Words is working to build knowledge of Rachel’s legacy and to spread her message of cooperative peace-building.
(Visit rachelswords.org)