April 5th 2010, 7:30 PM
The Odd Mondays Series
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In the downstairs Fellowship Hall
Ramon & Judith Sender & the Noe Valley Ministry
present
“Papers: The Movie
Stories of Immigrant Youth"
followed by a panel discussion
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Imagine if you did not have the right to live in the country where you grew up. Imagine that you
couldn’t work or drive. Imagine you couldn’t apply for a state ID or get on an
airplane. Imagine you could be deported to a country you don’t remember. These are
some of the obstacles undocumented, immigrant youth face when they graduate from high school.
“Papers” is a feature-length documentary about undocumented youth and the
challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. There are approximately 2 million
undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are
young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the
U.S. as home and who graduate every year from high school without “papers.”
It is against the law to work or drive. It is difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend
college. Currently, there is no path to citizenship for these young people.
Graham Street Productions, a Portland-based film company produced this film in partnership
with Film Action Oregon. They worked in association with El Grupo Juvenil (the “Papers”
Youth Crew), who were actively involved in all aspects of the production, as well as other community
organizations around the country working to change immigration policy on their behalf.


Ramon & Judith Sender & the Noe Valley Ministry
present
Vincent Louis Carrella reading from and signing his novel
"Serpent Box"
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In the deep mountains of Appalachia a father spreads the gospel by handling deadly serpents and drinking lye.
in front of large gatherings. Believing his ten-year-old son to be a prophet, the patriarch takes the boy down a long
and arduous path though the postwar Deep South. But a sudden, shocking tragedy will shatter the father's dreams
and set the young boy on a dramatically different course.

"Serpent Box is an amazing first novel, one that brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's
Wise Blood and Harry Crews' The Gospel Singer. Carrella's prose has the clarity and
richness of poetry, and he crafts his story with the sure-handedness of a veteran novelist."
-- Ron Rash (from the back cover)

Vincent Louis Carrella is a writer and a designer of interactive digital media who has created original adventure games
and animated web serials and characters for various companies. He is co-founder of Drew Pictures and and founder of
Jinx Digital Studies. He lives in Noe Valley with his wife and daughters.