Interchange is a festival inspired by a series of chaos and imperfect moments. We all have closets, stories and social trauma. The profiled, the homeless, veterans, rape victims, being gay/transgendered, being bullied or telling someone you may die. We all have it. It’s the alternative to pushing away for fear of un acceptance. This year our topics include Racism, Human Trafficking, Women’s Rights, Homelessness, Veterans and the LGBT movement. This June 25-29, we’ll feature a Film Festival, Leadership Summit, The Remix Runway Show, Parade, Garden Party and Concerts featuring Paul Oakenfold, People Under The Stairs and more!
 
Check out our Kickstarter campaign “Planet Of Misfits”: This is a social investment and we risk the wages of obsession. Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and acknowledging that our greatest fear is what we desire most.  Like a kaleidoscope, we find the wonderfully complex grey area and smother ourselves in it.  The wallflowers. If we invest in social experience and develop empathy into our leaders, into everyone, we all learn, we all win. www.iaminterchange.com/kickstarter 
 
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014- Cinema at Interchange
Not Yet Begun To Fight- Retired Marine Colonel Eric Hastings remembers flight missions ‘high above the death and destruction’ in Vietnam. From the cockpit, he traced meandering ribbons that cut through the jungle. He recognized the shapes of the trout streams of home. Every night, he dreamed about fly-fishing. When he returned home to Montana in 1969, to a nation decades away from diagnosing PTSD, he went to the water. He tied a fly onto a line and cast. The river, he says, healed him.
 
In the space between war and a new battle, NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT unfolds: The Colonel reaches out to five men, a new generation returning from war. He brings them to the river and shares his secret: there are places where you can still be consumed by a simple act, find joy in a fight, and be redeemed as you gently release another creature, unharmed, into quiet waters.
 
Indian Relay- Indian Relay documents an unheralded aspect of modern-day Native American life and what it takes to win one of the more exciting forms of horse racing. From the bitter cold of winter to the heat of summer, the film follows teams from three different tribes as they compete across a grueling season.
 
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Emerson Cultural Center
Not Yet Begun To Fight- 7:00pm (Including Q&A With Producers)
Indian Relay- 9:00pm (Including Q&A With Producers)
More information and tickets available at www.iaminterchange.com