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The Color Purple + The Route To Emancipation Short Film Screening

June 17, 2024 @ 6:00 pm

$12

Basic Info

Date:
June 17, 2024
Time:
6:00 pm
Cost:
$12
Event Website / RSVP:
https://bit.ly/3Ranx1t

Who's Hosting This Event?

Paramount Theatre
Who We Are:
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Event Topics
Equality/Justice
Route To Emancipation
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Event Topics
Equality/Justice
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    • The Paramount Theatre
    Monday, June 17, 2024

    Doors: 6pm
    Film: 7pm

    1985 | 152 min. | Color | DCP
    Directed by: Steven Spielberg
    Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong and Oprah Winfrey

    You can get your ticket here.

    Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. From 1909 to 1949, Celie (Goldberg), a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love–despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

    About THE ROUTE TO EMANCIPATION
    Three friends embark on a 350-mile cycling route from Austin to the site in Galveston where Juneteenth began in 1865, exploring centuries of Black history in Texas through interviews with historians and community leaders.

    Be sure to meet the filmmakers, including Black History Bike Ride founder Talib Abdullahi in the Paramount lobby! Merch to support the organization will be available for purchase.

    Thank you to our event partner, The Queer Black Women Alliance!

    Venue