UPCOMING EVENTS
April 16th, 2025 // 8PM
SOUND-FORWARD SCREENING:
"Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat"
Johan Grimonprez, (2024)
From Letterboxd:
"Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became the stage for a political earthquake as the struggle for independence in the Congo put the world on high alert. The newly independent nation faced its first coup d'état, orchestrated by Western forces and Belgium, which were reluctant to relinquish control over their resource-rich former colony. The US tried to divert attention by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the African continent.
In 1961, Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was brutally assassinated, silencing a key voice in the fight against colonialism; his death was facilitated by Belgian and CIA operatives. Musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach took action, denouncing imperialism and structural racism. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev intensified his criticism of the US, highlighting the racial barriers that characterized American society."
Suggested donation $5 - 20, but PWYC!
April 23rd, 2025 // 6PM
SKILL SHARE:
Resistance Training: Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour
Learn more here
As our movements grow and state repression increases we stay strong and learn from others in past and present solidarity struggles. One such example is Stop Cop City, where land defenders protect an old growth forest from the building of an increasingly militarized police training facility.
Free to attend!!
April 23th, 2025 // 8PM
SOUND-FORWARD SCREENING:
"Young Soul Rebels"
Isaac Julien, (1991)
From Isaac Julien:
"Young soul DJ Chris becomes implicated in a murder. The film is set in 1977, during the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Together with his partner Caz, Chris, a young black London DJ, runs pirate radio station Soul Patrol from an East End garage. When a mutual friend is murdered whilst cruising in a London park, Chris is arrested for the murder."
Suggested donation $5 - 20, but PWYC!
April 30th, 2025 // 8PM
SOUND-FORWARD SCREENINGS - DOUBLE FEATURE:
"Asparagus"
Suzan Pitt and Richard Teitelbaum, (1979)
From Suzan Pitt.
"The film is a circle more than a straight-ahead experience - you could enter at any point and the meaning would be the same. The taking in and spewing out, the searching and the discovering, the desire and the contact, the ever-evolving acts of nature."
"Alice" or "Něco z Alenky"
Jan Švankmajer, (1988)
From the Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze.
"Švankmajer's film Something from Alice is a tribute to Carroll's immense imagination, but at the same time an excuse to develop his own imagination no less. It is the author's memory of childhood, and at the same time an attempt to evoke the experience of childhood in the audience. Surrealists have always equated the infantile perception of the world with poetic intuition or the thinking of members of indigenous cultures. All these forms of human mentality are far removed from the reins of a logical and conceptual understanding of reality, in which there is no place for imagination, which is a much-needed means against the degradation of the human spirit."
Suggested donation $5 - 20, but PWYC!
May 7th, 2025 // 8PM
SOUND-FORWARD SCREENING:
"This Is Spinal Tap"
Rob Reiner, (1984)
From Roger Ebert:
"There are two stories told in the film: the story of what the rock band Spinal Tap thinks, hopes, believes or fears is happening, and the story of what is actually happening. The reason we feel such affection for its members is because they are so touching in their innocence and optimism. Intoxicated by the sheer fun of being rock stars, they perform long after their sell-by date, to smaller and smaller audiences, for less and less money, still seeking the roar of the crowd."
Suggested donation $5 - 20, but PWYC!