An Unapologetic Dream: A MLK Day Celebration by Hyde Park Art Center
Mon, Jan 17
|Location is TBD
**Update...please check HPAC's site for virtual connection information since this event has gone virtual** Join HPAC for program in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, featuring films, poetry and discussion with South Side artists and activists.
Time & Location
Jan 17, 2022, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location is TBD
About the event
From the Eventbrite site for the event:
About This Event
Hyde Park Art Center in collaboration with Arts + Public Life and South Side Community Art Center, presents a free public screening of Unapologetic by Chicago filmmaker Ashley O”Shay, a film told through the lens of Janaé Bonsu and Bella Bahhs, two fierce abolitionist leaders, that gives a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot. The highly acclaimed film has screened at various film festivals including, the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival in Toronto, the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago, and 2020 DOC NYC.
Opening the program will also be a screening of The Black Archive Project: Chicago Uprisings 2020 by local independent filmmaker and documentarian, Resita Cox, who uses documentary filmmaking as a means to archive the Black experience and retrieve Black history that…