Turtle was started by filmmaker Michael H Shamberg in London in 2006, with subsequent events in Düsseldorf, Paris and New York. The 2640 event brings Turtle to Baltimore where Michael grew up. Donald Smith of London's Chelsea Space , site of the inaugural Turtle, described the salon as "an open and chaotic network of diverse but interconnecting ideas, people, projects, events and venues. Following an imposed period of inactivity and relative isolation, Shamberg reconnects with an international coterie of artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, musicians, dancers, architects... people, inviting proposals for readings, rantings, artworks, texts, performances and screenings."

Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death pairs select Berrigan poems with luminous color photographs of cemetery statuary by Adrianna Amari. In this beautiful collection, the images combine to form a meditation on the profound impact of the loss of any life, and bear witness to lasting grief, memory, and love. As noted historian Howard Zinn states in his eloquent introduction, "...it was in Baltimore that Adrianna Amari took her extraordinary photographs of sculptures scattered through the city. It is all there, as in Berrigan's poems- life and death, the prayer that comes with commitment, the hope that comes with resistance, the visions of a world where peace and justice prevail." At times tranquil, at times dramatic, the words and images in Prayer always implore readers to love one another and fight war no more

Profit motive and the whispering wind:  

Voted Best Experimental Film of 2007 by the National Society of Film Critics, Gianvito 's powerful film consists of elegantly composed shots of gravesites and public shrines that reflect radical American history
from colonial times to the present. A "monument to monuments," and a call to arms, it is a visual meditation on progressive history in the United States. Gianvito visits the resting places of such famed figures
as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Crazy Horse and Eugene V. Debs, along with many less familiar heroes, and also takes us to the markers of crucial strikes, protests and massacres. Loosely inspired by Howard Zinn 's "A People 's History of the United States," the film punctuates the visits to graves and historical sites with images of wind blowing through trees, a symbol of the eternal force and spirit of the many whose lives have been sacrificed in struggle. "Gianvito 's radical-left optimism looks ahead to a very different 'coalition of the willing, ' and suddenly seems not just hopeful but possibly prescient. Judge for yourself."—Michael Sicinski. (60 min)