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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners is Shola Lynch’s documentary about the scholar and activist Angela Davis and her 1972 murder trial. Join Birmingham Institute for Social Change for their monthly movie and discussion group. The film will start at 7 pm, and will be followed by a brief discussion.

This event will have a potluck-style snack bar. All are welcome to bring a snack for yourself or to share.

Magic City Agriculture Project and Birmingham Institute for Social Change will accept STRICTLY VOLUNTARY donations at the event.

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99 Films screening of Black Power Mixtape Tuesday, April 19th, 7 pm

April 17, 2016 Robyn Hyden

Join Magic City Agriculture Project and Birmingham Institute for Social Change for another movie in their series of films on race.

Featuring footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States and edited together by Göran Hugo Olsson, the filmmaker behind our first 99 Films choice: Concerning Violence.

$5 suggested donation.
Light refreshments provided.

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99 Films Presents Gaining Ground: Tuesday, Feb. 16th, 7 PM

January 31, 2016 Our Beloved

On January 19, we screened “Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street.” This is the followup of that award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change in the Roxbury Neighborhood of Boston. We will continue the discussion about the development of one of the most successful community land trusts in the nation, and how the City of Birmingham can learn from Dudley Street.
Led by Susan Diane Mitchell, founder of Birmingham’s first ever community land trust, the Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust.

Magnolia BBQ and Fish will have a hot dog stand out front.

$5 suggested donation.

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99 Films Presents Holding Ground: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 7 pm

January 11, 2016 Our Beloved

We hope to see everyone after the New Year at Beloved for a screening of the documentary, “Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street,” facilitated by Carol Judy from the Clearfork Valley in Tennessee. Carol is a Rural Development Leadership Network Fellow, and former resident and leader of the Woodland Land Trust in Tennessee, one of the oldest community land trusts in the country.

This award-winning documentary is about community vision, struggle, and change in the Roxbury Neighborhood of Boston, including the development of one of the most successful community land trusts in the nation.

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“Beasts of the Southern Wild” screening December 15th

December 10, 2015 Robyn Hyden

The next film in the 99 Films Series, presented by Birmingham Institute for Social Change (BISC), will be hosted at Beloved on Tuesday, December 15th.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” is narrated from the point of view of a young girl in New Orleans. It shares her experiences living through Hurricane Katrina, with her family and community binding together to overcome the injustices that followed.

This is the third film in BISC’s five-film series which focuses on land, cultural identity and community. These five films (Daughters of the Dust, My Brooklyn, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Holding Ground, and Gaining Ground) all serve in BISC’s popular education platform to address common themes and issues of land as sacred space; cultural identity, migration, and community; and gentrification, resistance and just transition in Birmingham black and brown communities, and tying our lived experiences in with other marginalized peoples in global sites of resistance.

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Thanksgiving Day potluck + film at Beloved 3-6 PM

November 24, 2015 Neko Linda

“My Brooklyn” film screening Tuesday, October 20th, 7 pm

October 5, 2015 Robyn Hyden

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“Recovering Racist” film screening October 9th, 6:30 pm

September 21, 2015 Our Beloved

You are invited to the public premiere of a film featuring our Beloved Rev. Lawton Higgs, about his journey from a racist upbringing to founding a multiracial church. This screening is free and open to all, Friday, October 9th, 6:30 pm at Beloved.

More details from the Kickstarter campaign: “In 1984, the Rev. R. Lawton Higgs, Sr. had a religious epiphany standing in the turn lane of 8th Avenue N., in Birmingham, Alabama.

‘I discovered that my beliefs were incompatible with God’s call to love one another,’ he says. In that moment, Lawton became a ‘recovering racist,’ and in the years to follow, he founded a multicultural, multiracial church in the heart of downtown Birmingham, ministered to the homeless, and became an advocate for the poor.”