Screenings

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Friday, November 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

Saving Etting Street by Dena Fisher and Amy Scott (USA, 2025, 67 minutes) preceded by Elder Abuse in Housing, a project of Scribe's Primary Source participatory journalism project (USA, 2024, 5

bts
Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Cost: $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

Tribute to Christine Choy Loose Pages Bound: Asian Americans in the Delaware Valley by Christine Choy and Third World Newsreel with JT Takagi (USA, 1978, 56 minutes) Co-sponsored by the Philadelphia

Wole
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds by Raynald Leconte (USA, 2025, 65 minutes) Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds chronicles the enduring legacy of Yoruba civilization and its profound global influence. Following

Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Cost: Free, Registration Required

Please join us at the ICA to view and celebrate new works from the 2026 Documentary History Project for Youth. For this year’s theme, Sites of Remembrance, student filmmakers researched and

Friday, December 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

She Dared to Dream: Ayanna Pressley (USA, 2025, 28 minutes) and Judges Under Fire (USA, 2026, 24 minutes) She Dared to Dream is a powerful portrait of Ayanna Pressley, the first Black woman elected to

Friday, January 29, 2027 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $8 General, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

A Good Eye: Capturing Joy by Floyd Webb (USA, 2026, 60 minutes) In his latest film, Chicago-based Media Renaissance Man Floyd Webb examines the largely untold history of Black photography in Chicago

Friday, February 5, 2027 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for Scribe Members

The Story of Karen & Omar Askia Ali by Julie Flandreau and Juliette Rando with Karen Ali (USA, Work in Progress, 20 minutes) When Karen fell in love with Omar Askia Ali, he was serving a life sentence

Friday, February 12, 2027 at 7:00 PM
Cost: Pay As You Wish

Join us for the Scribe premiere of four digital media works created in 2026 for the John Coltrane centenary and North Philadelphia History Festival, including: A Supreme Love (USA, 21 min), ft. Steven

rumba
Friday, February 19, 2027 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for Scribe Members

Philly Rumba by Melissa Beatriz and Andres Cisneros (USA, 2026, 25 minutes) In Philly Rumba, a group of African American men who gravitated toward Cuban rumba as an expression of their African roots