BLACK History Month Film Series

The Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) is hosting a Black History Month Film Series, courtesy of the Great Black Music Project.

These films are all about music!  All films will be shown every Wednesday this month, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at CCICS, in Donn F. Bailey Legacy Hall.  Admission is free. 

Wednesday, February 13

THUNDERSOUL

Alumni from Houston’s storied Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for their beloved band leader who turned the struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.

Wednesday, February 20

DINGO

This film traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris.

Wednesday, February 27

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Louis Armstrong grew up poor in a single-parent household. He was 13 when he celebrated the New Year by running out on the street and firing a pistol that belonged to the current man in his mother’s life.  At the Colored Waifs Home for Boys, he learned to play the bugle and the clarinet and joined the home’s brass band.

Again, all films will be shown every Wednesday this month, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at CCICS, in Donn F. Bailey Legacy Hall.  Admission is free.  See you there!