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The Work

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Initial release March 11, 2017
Box office5,853 USD
DirectorsJairus McLeary
Composers Adrian Miller
Languages English Language
Produced by Alice Henty
Eon McLeary
Jairus McLeary
Miles McLeary
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About The Work


The Work is a 2017 American documentary film following three civilians on a four-day group therapy retreat with Folsom State Prison inmates. The film is the directorial debut of Jairus McLeary and was co-directed by Gethin Aldous.

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... But Dr Maybin says that optimism has to be tempered by the realities of medical research - some of The Work is quite exploratory...

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... The council has launched what it calls a civil protection plan to preserve the tower and said The Work now being started " represents the first phase of making it safe"...

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... Ms Hanafy attributed changes in Egypt s already arid climate, which scientists have linked to climate change, to " The Work of God and nature"...

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... " Personally, I would like to get to a place where I m just taken on the merit of The Work that I do, rather than every time I have a meeting with someone on the business side of things they re saying...

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'There's power in names': Antigua unearths lost ancestors

Nov 27,2023 8:11 pm

At precisely 47. 5 years old, house carpenter " Polydore" - surname Absent - is cited as a " good workman" and the property of His Majesty King George . So reads a 1785 register of enslaved Africans in Antigua in which Polydore appears among hundreds of others.

Polydore's real identity of course was erased The Second he was forced onto a ship in Africa bound for Britain's Caribbean colonies.

He was one of several thousand enslaved workers behind the construction and upkeep of Nelson's Dockyard, then a Safe Harbour for Royal Navy warships protecting imperialist Britain's prized sugar-producing islands.

Today it's a yachting hub, Unesco World Heritage Site and thriving Tourist Attraction as the Western Hemisphere's only working Georgian dockyard.

Local historians recently embarked on a ground-breaking project to formally identify The Faceless People who built it, whose stories have been wiped from history.

Through the meticulous scrutiny of documents found in London's National Archives, corroborated with Antigua-based ecclesiastical records, they have already unearthed an incredible 700 names.

They are now in The Throes of landmark genealogy work to link the Country 's modern-day residents - Many of whom share surnames like Joseph, James, Henry and Gardner - Back to their African ancestors.

For Desley Gardner , one of the researchers involved, The Venture is " validating".

" Often we don't know for sure who our ancestors were. It's empowering to be able to put a name to these People - especially those who played such an integral role in the development of Our Country - and illuminate their presence in our history and heritage, " she tells The Bbc .

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Justine Henry, who recently joined the research team, has tried in The Past to trace her Family History with limited success.

" I would love to see where The Work leads, and who I might be related to, " she says.

The Project was inspired by The Discovery of The Names of Eight Men who died in a gunpowder explosion at the dockyard in 1744. They had been recorded by plantation owners seeking compensation for The Loss of their property.

The researchers knew if they could find eight names, they could likely recover more.

But it's laborious work due to " massive archival silence" explains Dr Christopher Waters who is heading The Project on behalf of the Country 's National Parks Authority.

" Something we have to be very cognisant of is that these names are The Ones that were recorded by the enslavers, as part of the dehumanisation process, to ensure these People were thoroughly incorporated into a subjugated role, " The Heritage department manager says.

The original African names of those who arrived by ship may never been known. Others born into slavery were often named after plantation owners, slave vessels or derived from traditional English or Biblical names.

" We think there's a significant amount of power in these names, even if they're not their own, because it returns some of the personhood to these People that have been lost, " Dr Waters continues.

Artists were tasked with creating faces to represent The Eight men killed in The Explosion , which are on display in the dockyard's museum.

" We have started to try to bring Back People who have been forgotten, lost or intentionally erased from history.

" It's important to remember that slavery was the only thing that kept the dockyard going; the Royal Navy relied on it to ensure their fleet could succeed in The Caribbean , " Dr Waters says.

As the painstaking endeavours continue, The Team hopes that Oral History , along with centuries-old journals and diaries, will help forge direct links with People still living today. The Goal is to create an interactive website where residents can eventually do their own research.

" People have already been coming to us and asking questions. We aim to sit down with some who have done family histories plus some elderly residents, make our way through admiralty and church records and see what connections we can find.

" It's quite conceivable We Are only Three Generations away from someone who was enslaved here in Antigua, " Dr Waters notes.

More Than 300 years after The First slave vessel arrived in the Country , the maritime skills passed down over The Years are evidenced today in the wealth of Antiguan-owned businesses offering everything from carpentry and varnishing to sailmaking and shipbuilding.

" These industries married African and European traditions here in the dockyard. They have persisted in surrounding communities and have evolved to suit the modern yachting industry, " Dr Waters says.

" High-end yacht owners Will Tell you some of The Most skilled People in The Business are right here in Antigua. "

Ms Gardner agrees.

" English Harbour is now a yachting mecca. And The People who were here Back in Those Days provided The Foundation for it, " The Heritage resources officer says.

For Ms Gardner , a native Antiguan, the ongoing research offers an opportunity to put an African perspective on A Story defined by European colonists.

" I hope our work will be empowering to Antiguans and Barbudans, " she adds. " It gives us the opportunity to be The Tellers of our history. We can't change What Happened but we can try and understand why and who it happened to. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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