The Luminal Theater is teaming up with Curiosity Coffee Bar to present a brand new series of Black films that will spark your imagination and curiosity about the world.
VIEWING RESERVED FILM SERIES
outdoors at
CURIOSITY COFFEE BAR
2327 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29201
doors open at 7:30pm/films begin at sundown (approx. 8:15/8:30pm)
donations encouraged
August 4 - BadddDD SONIA SANCHEZ
August 18 - BLACK THEATER: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
Sept. 8- THROUGH A LENS DARKLY (new date!)
Viewing Reserved will be presented bi-weekly in the parking lot adjacent to the entrance of Curiosity. Seating begins at 7:30pm, the films begin at sundown (approximately 8;15pm), and in between make sure to grab some drinks and eats at the bar and join us for pre- and post-screening discussions!
August 4
BadddDD SONIA SANCHEZ - Directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
SPECIAL GUEST: spoken word artist Tammaka Staley
Witness the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet and activist Sonia Sanchez who describes herself as "a woman with razor blades between my teeth." This portrait of the artist reveals her significance in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, often considered the artistic arm of the Black Power Movement, where she raised her voice in the name of Black culture, civil rights, women's liberation, and world peace and how she continues to do so in the present day. -- [2015] 91 min.
August 18
BLACK THEATER: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT - Directed by Woodie King Jr
SPECIAL GUEST: actor Arischa Conner
Out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s was born a bright new theatre. Witness a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, The Dutchman and For Colored Girls... reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the Black theater of the present. -- [1978] 114 min.
September 8
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY - Directed by Thomas Allen Harris
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost. Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of Black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the Civil War era, with Frederick Douglass photographed in a suit and black soldiers posing proudly in their uniforms. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and its founding ideals. -- [2013] 92 min.