HeRSToRy 061 & 062 Sorrel Hays & Marilyn Ries

   A prolific composer and occasional video filmmaker, Sorrel recorded actions, stories and songs at Seneca and other peace camps in the U.S. and England throughout the 1980s. She and her partner, Marilyn, a sound engineer, have collaborated on a variety of feminist art - plays, operas, theater pieces, and the invaluable video, CD: The Ritual of Civil Disobedience (1987) and cassette, Peace Camps Sing (1987).

CLIP 1: Those were powerfully active years

CLIP 2: It was a marvelous time

INTERVIEW

Interview: Sorrel Hays & Marilyn Ries
Date: May 17, 2008
Location: New York City, NY
Present: Estelle Coleman, hershe Michele Kramer

One of Sorrel & Marilyn's many peace camp-inspired collaborations, Peace Camps Sing, 1987. The back side of the cover reads, Proceeds from the sale of this cassette will go to the Seneca Women's Peace Camp and other peace camps in the U.S. and England.

 Case liner for Peace Camps Sing.

The Hays/Ries collaboration, Disarming the World -- Pulling its Leg, is an hour-long play set at the peace camp and performed by Caroline Kava and Susan Stevens.

Sorrel & Marilyn's 3/4" master of the experimental film, C.D., The Ritual of Civil Disobedience was produced from footage shot at the Seneca Women's Peace Camp in 1986.