[Peace] Whose Streets at the Art Theater (plus Q&A!) / Tues Sep 5 / 7pm

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace

Event: Film: "Whose Streets?" + Q&A
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Time: 7 PM - 9:30 PM
Where: The Art Theater // 126 W Church St, Champaign, Illinois 61820

Details and Description: Q&A is after the film.

Post-show Q&A w/ Sundiata Cha-Jua (UIUC History & The North End Breakfast
Club), Karen Olowu (Black Students for Revolution), & Gus Wood (UIUC
History & The North End Breakfast Club)

“Whose streets? Our streets!” became the iconic slogan of protesters
reclaiming public spaces to express their voices. Directed by artists and
activists Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, Whose Streets? is a compelling
film about police brutality in the U.S. nowadays. The narrative focuses on
the popular mobilization in Ferguson in 2014, where Michael Brown, an
18-year-old black teenager, was shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white
police officer. The documentary is a sprawling, powerful immersion into the
upheavals of the area, presenting the portraits of several suffering
inhabitants and activists, why they want to fight for justice, and allowing
those affected to stand up and give their perspective about race relations
in modern America and their vision for their community’s future.
Highlighting a provocative topic, the storytelling is captivating and
sincere, thanks to incorporation of original cell phone footages shot by
the crowd of protesters and social media quotes that had a tremendous
impact on demonstrations. Politically strong and knowledgeable, Whose
Streets? pulls no punches, enabling the viewer to feel and understand the
perspective of people of color, and link individual stories to the bigger
historical picture of racism. For this generation, the battle is not for
civil rights, but for the right to live. (2017, Sabaah Folayan & Damon
Davis, US, 100 min, NR)

(Bonus show sans Q&A Weds @ 7)

“Folayan and Davis’s outstanding and incendiary documentary about Ferguson
does a tremendous end run around mainstream news outlets and the
agenda-driven narratives that emerge, particularly on television.” -The
Guardian
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