It all starts @4PM with BAD FRIDAY, and goes through til 3AM at the LADIES ROOM party

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SATURDAY @ PATOIS

Today is our busiest day! Packed full of amazing films and a dance party, just for you.

@4PM: BAD FRIDAY: RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS

BAD FRIDAY focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. It chronicles the history of violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community, and shows how people use their recollections of past traumas to imagine new possibilities for a collective future.

@5:30 PM: GENTRIFICATION AND THE NEW NEW ORLEANS

-Bye Bye Bywater is a short film parody of the New Orleans Tourism Board’s promotional video of the “restaurant revolution” in the Bywater.

-Changing the Channel was one of the first US films anywhere to look at the concept of gentrification and displacement of the poor in neighborhoods with rich architectural histories.

@7PM: THE HAND THAT FEEDS

At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back.

@9PM BOUND: AFRICANS VS. AFRICAN-AMERICANS

African versus African Americans (AVAA) is a hard hitting documentary that addresses the little known tension that exists between Africans and African Americans. AVAA uses personal testimonials to expose this rift, then it takes us on a journey through the corridors of African and African American historical experiences as it illuminates the moments that divide and those that bind Africans and African American.

@9PM-3AM: PATOIS AT THE LADIES ROOM

DJ Ruby and DJ Nice Rack
Spinning disco, funk, boogie and breaks so you can get down!