Thu, Aug 13
|Bright Eye Beer Co.
LONG BEACH, NY - BOOK TALK W/ MOE MITCHELL, CIPHER LIVE
Filmmaker James Spooner and Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell (Cipher) talk Afro-Punk, Spooner's new memoir It Starts with Anger, and what came after, followed by Cipher's first-ever hometown show. $10 at the door benefits @communitysolidarity.
Time & Location
Aug 13, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Bright Eye Beer Co., 50 W Park Ave, Long Beach, NY 11561, USA
About the event
IT STARTS WITH ANGER: A Book Talk with James Spooner & Maurice Mitchell
James Spooner (director, Afro-Punk; author, It Starts with Anger) sits down with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party and frontman of Cipher, for a conversation on the film, the movement it sparked, and whats happened in the twenty years since its release.
Talk draws on themes from Spooner's new memoir. Book signing and sales to follow, then a live set from Long Island hardcore legends Cipher, playing their hometown for the first time ever.
Bright Eye Beer Co, Long Beach NY
Doors 7pm
$10 at the door, benefits @communitysolidarity