Fri, Nov 11
|Glasgow film theatre
GLASGOW / ONLINE UK ONLY - Afro-Punk Screening w/ Pre-recorded Q and A
20TH ANNIVERSARY: AFRO-PUNK + DIRECTOR Q&A
Time & Location
Nov 11, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM UTC
Glasgow film theatre, 12 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RB, UK
About the event
In person - 6pm or Online Tickets ( 9 days ) - https://watch.eventive.org/aim2022/play/635fa101a8c0bb0036dd1970
SYNOPSIS
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of James Spooner's Afro-Punk, an award-winning documentary exploring the roles of African Americans within what was, then, an overwhelmingly white punk scene across the United States of America. The film focuses on the lives of four African Americans dedicated to the punk rock lifestyle and its values, interspersed with interviews from Black punk rockers from all over the United States. Fans of the film and the music inspired an alternative movement that later became the annual Afropunk Festival.
Afro-Punk explores the lives of Black youth within a white punk subculture, with the aim of expanding notions of Blackness and reclaiming rock's roots by providing a platform for Black artists that were not given the opportunity elsewhere. Growing up bi-racial on the streets of New York City, Spooner…