LeadMN will be hosting the spring 2019 Minnesota Peacebuilding Film Series. Films will usually be aired every third Thursday of the month. You can check back as the dates come closer for more information and to save your seat.

Questions?

Contact info@mnpeace.org or LeadMN Manager of Equity & Inclusion May Yang at myang@leadmn.org.

Film #2: "I Am Not Your Negro"

Date: Thursday, February 21
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: LeadMN Office, 1515 Robert Street South, West St. Paul, MN 55118
Cost: Free!

Join us for this month's film, "I Am Not Your Negro". The films are free and open to the public, but space is limited – please reserve your seat!

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

Film #1: "I Am"

Date: Thursday, January 17
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: LeadMN Office, 1515 Robert Street South, West St. Paul, MN 55118

Join us for this month's film, "I Am". The films are free and open to the public, but space is limited – please reserve your seat!

"I Am" is the story of a man who had it all until something happened to make him realize he might have it all…wrong. After a near-death experience, Hollywood film director Tom Shadyac (“Ace Ventura”) decided to spark a conversation around two rarely asked questions: what’s wrong with our world and what can we do about it? And so Shadyac traveled the globe interviewing today’s greatest thinkers. And while he may have been filming a documentary, his film reveals a plot twist straight out of a blockbuster movie: scientific proof that we are all connected. By the final scene, it’s clear that while he started out asking what’s wrong with our world, he ended up discovering what’s right with it.