MLK Streets Project Documentary Screening and Reception
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D Street NW, Washington, DC
Monday, January 9, 5:30pm
The Black Philanthropic Alliance (BPA), in partnership with Woolly Mammoth Theatre and Straight, No Chaser Films, presents a screening of The MLK Streets Project, a documentary film co-produced by the "A Nu View" Youth Crew.
The MLK Streets Project is a revealing documentary film that follows 8 Washington, DC high school students as they travel cross-country to observe and record, first-hand, the condition of America's MLK streets with a historic, geographic, economic and racial viewpoint.
Three years in the making, the film was created through the "A Nu View youth filmmaking program", an innovative arts-media education experience funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC.
Celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and the recent unveiling of the national monument dedicated to Dr. King, the film screening will include a cocktail reception and a community discussion regarding the current state of MLK streets in relation to Dr. King's "Dream."
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