Join Volunteer New York! for an Advanced Screening of 'Selma' and Q and A with Actress Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black)

When: December 15 at 7pm

Where: The Picture House, 175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, NY 10803

Ticket Info: http://www.thepicturehouse.org/advance-screening-of-selma-and-qa-with-actress-lorraine-toussaint/

Volunteer New York! will be on hand at the screening in the hope that viewers will be inspired to help turn Dr. King’s teachings and lessons from Selma into positive local community action to address local needs. Screening attendees will have the opportunity to sign up early ( http://volunteernewyork.org/MLK) for Volunteer New York!’s MLK Day of Service, presented in partnership with United Way of Westchester and Putnam. Through this initiative, hundreds of Westchester neighbors will band together to perform local community volunteer work from Saturday, January 17 to Monday, January 19.

Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.