Free Screenings & Panels the week leading up to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Collaboration Aims to Spotlight Segregation in Texas, Both Historic & Modern-Day Incarnations
THE STAND-INS (2015): New documentary chronicling the Central Texas protest movement in the early 1960s that triggered desegregation at scores of movie theaters across the South. Filmmakers & civil rights veterans in attendance!
San Marcos Public Library, 625 E. Hopkins
Monday, Jan 11 at 7 PM
GIANT (1956): The legendary film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson & James Dean, in his final performance, that highlighted injustices confronted by Texans of Mexican ancestry
Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, 211 Lee St.
Tuesday, Jan 12 at 5:30 PM
INSECURUS (2015): A penetrating documentary on recent elimination of in-person visitation at nearly two dozen Texas county jails – replaced by “video visitation,” a costly system with often faulty equipment that deprives loved ones of face-to-face contact. Film followed by panel of award-winning criminal-justice advocates: Lauren Johnson & Jorge Antonio Renaud of Grassroots Leadership.
San Marcos U.U. Fellowship, 510 N. Guadalupe
Thursday, Jan 14 at 6:30 PM
THE CALABOOSE MUSEUM
Free tour of exhibitions about African American history in San Marcos; 200 MLK Dr.
Sunday, Jan 16 at 2 PM
About San Marcos Cinema Club: Created in October 2015, the Cinema Club aims to cultivate a community unified by the shared desire to explore our collective knowledge & insights via the art of motion pictures.