Category: Performing Arts and Film
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AfroMundo Festival: No Other Land
Join AfroMundo for a FREE screening of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land.”
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. “Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance with an Israeli journalist.”
The film screening in NHCC’s Bank of America Theater will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed; Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project; and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated by Doaa Omran.
Tickets are FREE but registration is required.
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AfroMundo Festival: Together We Stand
Join AfroMundo for a FREE screening of the documentary Standing Above the Clouds in NHCC’s Bank of America Theater.
“Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, the film explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural sites.”
Followed by a panel and Q&A. Panelists include Hawaiian tradition bearer Pua Case, Alaskan playwright Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle, and Grand Canyon Havasupai Carletta Tilousi. Moderated by filmmaker Amber Espinosa.
Reservations for the film screening are FREE but required.
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AfroMundo Festival: Changing the Narrative
Join AfroMundo in NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for presentations by Haitian American poet Patrick Sylvain, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy, and Egyptian Palestinian American author, filmmaker, and actor Randa Jarrar. Q&A to follow.
Tickets are free, but reservations are required.
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AfroMundo Festival: We Will Not Perish
The documentary “Ayiti Pap Peri: Ayiti Will Not Perish” shines a spotlight on Haitian expatriates returning to Haiti (Ayiti), despite many challenges, to work on behalf of their country.
The film screening will be followed by one of AfroMundo’s acclaimed panel discussions and Q&A. Panelists include the documentary’s director and journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro Cuban artist and actress Lili Bernard, and documentarist Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy.
Tickets to the screening at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater are free, but reservations are required. View the film trailer here.
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August Wilson’s Two Trains Running
Explore the depth of racism’s roots in America with August Wilson’s Pulitzer-finalist 1990 play. The last in Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle, the play takes place in the context of the civil-rights movement, rioting, and gentrification, and focuses on Memphis Lee’s attempts to get a fair price for his restaurant when the city pans to demolish it.
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Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival Finals
Don’t miss the hotly anticipated Chicharra (Cicada) Poetry Slam Festival Finals, where the nation’s top talents compete and the poetry buzzes with life! You won’t soon forget the poetry – from passionate love poems to powerful social commentary – you hear on this incredible night.
Team and solo competitions. Adults $25/kids $10. Come early to connect with the community!
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DAHOMEY
DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive documentary, delving into far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination, and restitution. From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), the film is set in November 2021, examining 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale.
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
This doc follows the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocked the world as they exposed the reality of Black life under apartheid.
The director allows Cole to largely tell his own story through his writings and the vivid lens of his work.
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Sunday Family Movie: Kazaam
Shaquille O’Neal takes on young Max’s problems as a seven-foot-genie named Kazaam!
