Oct 2 to Oct 3

7:30pm

Dir. Danny Lyon - 2020 - 80m approx - Sliding scale donation from $1 to $20

NOTE THIS EVENT IS TO BE OFFSITE OUTDOORS AT THE FUSION FORUM, 700-708 1st St. NW (SAME LOCATION AS THE CELL THEATER IN DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE) ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 AND SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 AT 7:30PM!

A FUNDRAISER FOR THE ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR PEACE & JUSTICE! DIRECTOR DANNY LYON POSSIBLY IN PERSON TO DO TALK / Q&A !!

NO WALK UP ADMISSION SALES FOR COVID 19 SAFETY REASONS, MUST PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE! TO GET ADVANCE TICKETS & RESERVATIONS, PLEASE CLICK HERE

ALSO NOTE: Protective face masks required with social distancing in effect. Tables will be assigned as people register to attend. Up to four per table is allowable of people "Covid bubbling" together!

Using audio recordings made in the deep south at the height of the civil rights movement, along with hundreds of never seen B&W still photographs made by Danny Lyon as he was employed as the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) staff photographer, including audio made by Mr. Lyon of John Lewis, Julian Bond, Dotty Zellner, this film weaves together one of American history’s greatest struggles for Freedom. The story begins in 1962 in Cairo Illinois when Lyon, then a University of Chicago student, meets John Lewis, Freedom rider. In 1963 Lewis is elected Chairman of the SNCC and Lyon and he share an apartment in ATL. The story of this friendship continues until Lewis, stricken with cancer, makes his last video recording with Lyon, a stunningly intimate scene, with Lyon in tears and Lewis’s promise that a new generation of revolutionaries are “on their way.”

The film tells a parallel story of James Forman, the Executive Secretary of the SNCC, who hires Lyon and Julian Bond and is “like a father” to Lyon. After three years of successful protest, Forman engineers the ouster of Lewis and his replacement by Stokely Carmichael as Chairman. The Beloved Community is replaced by Black Power.

When Lyon was making his photographs for SNCC, Alan Ribback, who was the owner of the Gate of Horn in Chicago, arrived in Atlanta to record the movement. Long after Ribback’s death Lyon was able to locate Ribback's hundreds of hours of original analogue tapes. The film uses eight freedom songs recorded inside the churches during mass meetings, including “This Little Light of Mine”, "We are Soldiers in the Army" and the amazing “Ninety-nine and a Half Wouldn’t Do” performed by the Birmingham Movement Choir in 1963.

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