Juneteenth Movie Matinee
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Celebrate Juneteenth with a movie matinee showing of Questlove’s Summer of Soul! The winner of the 2022 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, this music documentary explores and reclaims the legacy of the six-week 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. It features unpublished footage of performances by Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight & the Pips at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park).
Rated PG-13 for some disturbing images, smoking and brief drug material.
Movie licensing by Swank Movie Licensing USA.
This program is offered by Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library in support of the PA Forward | Pennsylvania Libraries initiative. Libraries are key to powering progress and elevating the quality of life in PA by fueling the types of knowledge essential to success: Basic Literacy, Information Literacy, Civic and Social Literacy, Health Literacy, and Financial Literacy.