Upstate Films Rhinebeck, 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Join us Saturday April 1st at 10am in Rhinebeck for a free benefit screening (suggested donation $10), followed by a panel discussion anchored by Black Lives Matter Hudson Valley, SURJ Ulster County, and the Million Hoodies from Bard College.
This screening is presented by the ENGAGE Film Series (read more on the series below) and proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter, Hudson Valley. âNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.â â James Baldwin.
James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924. The oldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty and had a troubled relationship with his strict, religious stepfather â all before becoming a preacher for 3 years and ultimately a celebrated writer (Go Tell It on A Mountain, The Fire Next Time) and activist. In 1979, he wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends â Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwinâs death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minut
ENGAGE is presenting these films for free, with a suggested $10 donation. All proceeds will go to different local groups working on the ground in the Hudson Valley.
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