Black Screen is Oxford’s monthly black film event. We screen films from the big names in Black Hollywood, Caribbean and African films, and documentaries. It’s a community initiative, encouraging debate and discussion around the films in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. All screenings at our home base are free and donations are welcome.
Three times a year we are at The Pegasus Theatre opening the films up to a wider audience.
Past Screenings include:
- For Colored Girls
- Life and Debt
- Good Hair
- Love Jones
- Motherland
- Kirikou and The Sorcesses
- Africa United
- Marley
- The Story of Lovers Rock
- What Black Men Think
January 24th 7pm. Let Freedom Ring! Celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Day. Freedom Riders.
FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply travelling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in non-violent activism.
From award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson
(Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples
Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till) FREEDOM RIDERS features
testimony from a fascinating cast of central characters: the Riders
themselves, state and federal government officials, and journalists
who witnessed the Rides first-hand. The two-hour documentary is based
on Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle
for Racial Justice.
To watch trailer click here:
Tickets cost £5, contact the Pegasus Box office on: 01865 812150
Our Next Movie and dance night at the Pegasus Theatre is Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
102 mins documentary
Dir: Shola lynch
Free Angela is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 year-old newly appointed philosophy professor at the University of California at Los Angeles into a seventies revolutionary political icon. Nearly forty years later, and for the first time, Angela Davis speaks frankly about the actions that branded her as a terrorist and simultaneously spurred a worldwide political movement for her freedom.
After the film there is a brief discussion then relax with a drink, mingle and dance the night away to a DJ set.
Tickets are £5 contact Pegasus Box Office on: 01865 812150
Click here to book online
View trailer here:
For details of the films join our film club, by emailing us on kuumbania@yahoo.co.uk
Future Screenings
Celebrating Black History Season
Our Next Movie and Discussion Night at The Pegasus Theatre is:
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Friday 26th September 7.30pm.
A night of celebration through film, discussion and a theatrical curtain raiser. Come and join us.
Tickets from Pegasus Theatre Box Office on: 01865 812150
Click here for Pegasus Theatre website
Our Autumn screenings are at our home base from November and December. All screenings start at 7pm, with refreshments and
discussion, and as always they are free with donations welcome.
For details of the films join our film club, by emailing us on kuumbania@yahoo.co.uk
