(Presentations, Lectures & Workshops)

April 3, 2010
Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project's trans workshop held at Wingspan. Jamie A. Lee, Project Director, will lead the group discussion to formulate oral history questions that are relevant to trans lives. Next Lee, along with Angela Soto and Brooke Willock will assist in digital video camera training and the interviewing of one another. All oral histories will be included in the streaming digital oral history archive, Tucson, Arizona. Funding for the workshop provided by the Institute for LGBT Studies through a grant from the Commission on the Status of Women at the University of Arizona.

January 27, 2010
Esmeralda del Desierto SNEAK PEEK at the Loft Cinema followed by panel discussion with Oscar Jímenez (writer/director/producer), Jamie A. Lee (producer/editor), Daniela Olea (actor), Alison Davison (Southern Arizona Gender Alliance), Isabel Garcia (immigration rights attorney), and moderated by Adela C. Licona, Ph.D., Tucson, Arizona.

January 21, 2010
"Frames of Change: A Focus on Blurred Boundaries." Presentation by collaborators, Jamie A. Lee and Adela C. Licona, Ph.D. as part of the University of Arizona School of Art and the Visiting Artists and Scholar Series, Transculturations: Cultural Hybridity in American Art, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.

October 13, 2009
Project Launch! Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project: Community Histories, Arizona's first and only recognized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender archive, is launched. Highlights of the digital oral histories were screened for the community and academic audience. Jamie A. Lee, Founder and Project Director, shared her vision for the growing and breathing oral history archive, which is currently streaming on iTunes University through the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. SEE CLIPS HERE.

April 18 , 2009
“This is my MANIFESTA!”  Workshop for teen girls at the University of Arizona’s Commission on the Status of Women’s Young Women’s Empowerment Academy, Tucson, Arizona.

April 9, 2009
“The Stories We Tell:  Re-visioning and Re-presenting Our Stories.”  Keynote address at the New Directions in Critical Theory / University as Community.  University in Community Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

November 2008
“Filmmaking, Organizing, and Rhetorical Criticism on/of the Borderlands: Transgressing the Borders between Feminist Academics, Art, and Activism.” National Communication Association, San Diego, California.

July 2008
“Aguamiel: Secrets of the Agave – A Roundtable Exploring Social Justice Media, Community and Transnational Activism, and Action Research: Daring to Make A Difference.” Women’s Worlds / Mundos de Mujeres 2008 Congress, Madrid, Spain.

February 2008
Screen and discuss "Green Green Water" at the Loft Cinema in Tucson, AZ. Co-director/Editor Jamie A. Lee will be present.

April 16 , 2007
Screen and discuss "Green Green Water" at the Ames Public Library. Co-director/Editor Jamie A. Lee will be present.

April 11 , 2007
Screen and discuss "Green Green Water" at Ottawa University in Ottawa, KS. Co-director/Writer Dawn Mikkelson will be present.

April 4 , 2007
Jamie A. Lee is featured guest at the Iowa State University English Club meeting to speak on filmmaking and storytelling.

March 19 - 23, 2007
Jamie A. Lee particpates in the Border Teachers Network (BTN) through the New Mexico State University border immersion program for teachers. BTN takes place in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and Anthony, New Mexico.

March 10 - 17, 2007
Jamie A. Lee, Adela C. Licona, and Miguel Licona film "agua miel: secrets of the agave" in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and Anthony, New Mexico. A special discussion meeting with Research As Praxis (RAP) educational group at New Mexico State University takes place on 16 March.

March 10, 2007 at 9 pm
World Premiere of "Boxers" at the Women With A Vision Film Festival through the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Director Joanna Kohler will be present.

March 8, 2007
Screen and discuss "THIS obedience" at Iowa State University's WS 203 class. Jamie A. Lee (co-director/producer/editor) will be present.

January 28, 2007 at 7 pm
Rough-cut screening of "Boxers" with the Chicago Filmmakers Group. Director Joanna Kohler will be present. (http://www.boxersdocumentary.com)

December 5, 2006
Screen and discuss "Green Green Water" through the Iowa State University Communication's Department Documentary Film Series. Co-director/Editor Jamie A. Lee will be present.

November 30, 2006
Special Screening and Fundraiser for "Green Green Water" at the Bell Museum of Natural History on the Univeristy of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. Director Dawn Mikkelson and Co-Director/Editor Jamie A. Lee along with Ken Bradley (Fresh Energy), Sen. Scott Dibble, Carol Kobliski (Justice Seekers of Nelson House, Manitoba) and Chief John Miswagon (Cross Lake, Manitoba) will have a discussion following the screening. (http://www.greengreenwater.com)

November 28, 2006
Screen and discuss "Treading Water: a documentary" through the Iowa State University ENGLQUEER group of faculty and students. Director/Editor Jamie A. Lee will be present.

November 9, 2006
Rough-cut screening/fundraiser for "Boxers" at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Director Joanna Kohler, Editor Jamie A. Lee, and all boxing participants will be present. (http://www.boxersdocumentary.com)

November 3, 2006
Planet In Focus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, following the screening of "Green Green Water". (http://www.planetinfocus.org/greengreenwater). Co-Director/Editor Jamie A. Lee will be present.

October 20, 2006
Iowa State University, “Rhetorical Analysis”. Discuss representation issues in documentary film with Jamie A. Lee.

October 19, 2006
Iowa State University, “Introduction to Documentary Film”. Discuss the process of producing documentary film and getting the best interview with Jamie A. Lee.


To inquire about speaking topics or screening opportunities, please contact Jamie.
Email:  jamie@visionariesfilmworks.com
Phone:  (520) 901-0379