Film Screening
& Discussion:
Fruitvale Station
Join us on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7
pm in the Woodbury Room for a screening of Fruitvale Station.
This is the next event in a film & discussion series which began in 2014
and continues to look at issues of race. A facilitated discussion will be
held after the screening.
Fruitvale Station was released
in 2013, and was a 2013 Sundance Film Festival Winner, among other awards and
prizes. This film tells the story of the murder of African American Oscar
Grant in 2009 by Oakland transit police. This is a gripping film that
highlights Grant’s humanity and explores some of the issues of recent police
killings of unarmed black men. Please note that this film is
rated R.
Free and open to the public. For more
information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.
This film series is co-sponsored by the Jones
Library and The Coming Together Project. More information about The
Coming Together Project can be found at http://www.coming-together.org/.
