Coming To Santa Cruz: Free Showing of 'Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine'

Sunday, Jan. 18:

Al Helm film: African-American Playwright and Gospel Singers Go to Palestine to Help Stage a Play on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

Free showing at 7 pm, Jan. 18 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St.

Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine is an illuminating and moving documentary by award-winning producer Connie Fields (Have You Heard from Johannesburg). The film follows an African-American choir on their journey in Palestine as they sing in a play that brings Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights struggle to a Palestinian audience.

African-American playwright and historian Clayborne Carson and gospel singers travel to the West Bank to work with a Palestinian director Kamel el Basha and his acting troupe. With excellent production quality, Al Helm—Arabic for “the dream”— shows several (largely) apolitical, Black Americans meeting a people still locked in the nightmare of oppression.

Sunday, January 18 at 7 pm Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean St Santa Cruz

for more information: 831.423.1626

No charge, all ages