Street Movies! @ Univ. of Penn, W.E.B. Du Bois College House

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Thursday, January 19
7:00 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois College House
3900 Walnut Street
WEST PHILADELPHIA
Free & open to the public
*Persons over the age of 16 must present photo ID to enter the event.

Opening music performance by The Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters

Presented in partnership with Jubilee School and W.E.B. Du Bois College House

Since 1977, Jubilee School students, teachers, staff, parents and extended family have been building a community of learners based on mutual respect. Join Scribe, Jubilee School and the W.E.B. Du Bois College House for this special Street Movies! honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Films include:

King on the Avenue by People’s Emergency Center CDC and Scribe, about Dr. King’s speech in front of 10,000 people on August 3, 1965 at the intersection of 40th and Lancaster Avenue (2009, 8:54 min).

The Future of Our History by the Jubilee School documents a two year all-school study of W.E.B. Du Bois engaged in by students in kindergarten through sixth grade. (2011, 23 min)

Walls and Doors: Inspiration from Our Elders by the Jubilee School, as part of Scribe Video Center's Community Vision program. The Jubilee School used years of interviews with community elders to demonstrate the value of an older generation's tales of courage and resistance by underscoring the power of these stories to inspire respect, pride and activism in young people. "Walls and Doors" honors elders as both witnesses and creators of under-told parts of history. The film carries on a legacy which has given the Jubilee youth a transformative sense of the power of their voices and their ability to create change. (15 min)

Bury Me in a Free Land: The Story of Eden Cemetery
by Friends of Historic Eden Cemetery and Scribe Video Center
This sacred burial space has been used by African American families from across Philadelphia for over a century. Since the graveyard’s first internment in 1902, when mourners gathered after dark to avoid white residents who had blocked the burial service the day before, Eden’s shifting relationship with its neighborhood has been as multilayered as its continued cultural and personal importance to African Americans in the region. (2011, 12:00 min)