THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 • 7PM • AT THE CAPRI THEATER
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Tickets to First Thursday Films are now free for Northside residents (zip codes 55411, 55412, 55430). Northsiders will be asked to submit their zip code information at the door or enter it as a promo code during checkout.
Post-screening community discussion with Music Director and Producer Gary Hines, lead by MSP Film Programmer Craig Laurence Rice.
About the Film
Featuring incendiary performances by Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Staple Singers, the Emotions, the Bar-Kays, and other greats of soul, R&B, and gospel-- plus biting humor from a then little-known Richard Pryor -- Wattstax/em> is more than a concert film. It also captures a heady moment in mid-1970s, "black-is-beautiful" African-American culture, when Los Angeles's black community came together just seven years after the Watts riots to celebrate its survival and a renewed hope in its future.
Staged by Stax Records, a renowned Southern soul label founded in 1959 in Memphis, the Wattstax concert drew over 100,000 predominately African-American Los Angelenos, who themselves put on an exuberant display -- memorably captured by Wattstax -- of '70s funk and soul culture.
FIRST THURSDAYS @ THE CAPRI
Be @ the movies! Noteworthy films with good conversation that follows each screening on the first Thursday of every month. The series is presented by MSP Film, the Capri Theater, and the Minnesota Historical Society.
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