With the short films More Than Hair and Fish Boy

Admission: Free/PWYC (no ticket required to attend) 

Event details: 

Eats & Treats for sale @ 7 pm / Showtime @ sundown (~ 9:00pm)

Programme runtime: 2hr 15min

BYOBlanket & Chairs

Films are screened with captioning 

“In moonlight, black boys look blue.” The premise of Moonlight revolves around this sentence. The film offers an intimate, raw, and poignant look into three chapters in the life of Chiron, a Black boy living in a systematically oppressive social environment. We watch as Chiron grows from a young, innocent boy to a hardened, guarded man while navigating his queer sexuality. While coming of age, we see him suppressing his attraction to a childhood friend, his strained relationship with his mother, and reckoning with masculinity as he becomes involved in a life of crime and drugs. 

Barry Jenkins’ breakthrough, Academy Award-winning film is a revolutionary and rare glimpse into themes of Black queer love that are not often represented. Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes each portray Chiron with exceptional honesty during each key phase of his life. Their performances, combined with Jenkins’ direction, compel us to confront uncomfortable yet vital truths about race, sexuality, and gender.