I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: Fri, July 7 at 7pm Documentary | Directed By: Raoul Peck | Written By: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck In Theaters: Feb 3, 2017 limited | Runtime: 93 minutes Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House….
CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY Fri, July 21 at 7pm Produced and Directed by Matt Tyrnauer | Release: April 21, 2017 | Duration: 1 Hour 32 Minutes In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with…
Burn Motherf*cker, Burn! (2017) | A Film by Sacha Jenkins Fri, June 23 at 7pm A provocative documentary look into the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. 25 years ago, Los Angeles exploded when four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. But the city had been smoldering for…
The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968. An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede.
Visit the Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project web site.
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