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Trailer: The Spook Who Sat by the Door

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Black Film. Black Art. Black Creations. Black Communion.Come feed your mind, body and soul$0 - $20In the Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara Film Screenings and Workshop Series is a gathering for Black folks by Black folks to commune, engage critically with Black film and art, create, connect, converse, and dream.Once a month from September - November we are recreating the intimate living room gatherings Toni Cade Bambara held in her home in Atlanta where new worlds and ideas with new people were possible. Each screening will include a workshop, a discussion and food to share.We will feed you. We will host you. We will make you think. All while engaging in a Blackity Black space made by us to celebrate us. All Black ethnicities are welcomed and encouraged to attend.An appropriate alternative (or addition to) your Thanksgiving plans, November's theme, Violence for Violence, examines violence and non-violence as tools that have been used for social change as well as oppression. We will interrogate the notion of the “Master’s Tools”, as named by Audre Lorde, and determine if violence is an appropriate response to continued oppression. Join us for a facilitated workshop on the timeline of violence/counter-violence and the showing of the 1970s film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a fictionalized take what would happen if a radical Black man successfully infiltrated the CIA and shared its tools with the hood.This event is supported by funds from the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Learn more about their work below.