Sensible Cinema: “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”

When:
March 15, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm America/Los Angeles Timezone
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Where:
Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin Street @ Geary Blvd.
San Francisco
CA
This month’s film features Loraine Hansberry, the first African-American dramatist, playwright of Raisin in the Sun, lesbian and civil rights activist in the 1950s-60s.  The film Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart celebrates her short time on Earth (she died at 34 years old).  

                                Sensible Cinema

   Sponsored by the UUSF Social Justice Council

 In celebration of Women’s History  Month

 Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

Friday, March 15, 2019, 6:30pm

Unitarian Universalist Center 1187 Franklin Street @ Geary Blvd.

Artist, activist, rebel and visionary are the forgotten traits of playwright Lorraine Hansberry brought to light in the documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart by filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain.

    Using her (Hansberry) personal papers and archives including home movies and rare photos the film explores the influence that shaped Hansberry’s childhood.  Future art and activism and  viewers are  also given an in depth look into the making of her most notable work Raisin In The Sun.

    In Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart the filmmaker resurrects the Lorraine Hansberry we have forgotten or never knew. 

Free Admission (donations appreciated).

As usual, popcorn and other refreshments will also be available.

For more information please contact: Melvin Starks (mcs104@hotmail.com) or Larry Danos (415-722-6480)

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