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Film: Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 8:45 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: $8.00

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Description:
The Lyric Theatre presents the film "Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project" on Friday, November 17, 2023.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling documentary portrait follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80. The film explores Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve.

Looking back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures, Giovanni acts as our guide and narrator, with refreshingly unorthodox filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson refraining from traditional chronologies or talking-head conventions. Going to Mars is fueled by constant intellectual engagement and radical imagination in the search for emotional and political fulfillment in a world of disenfranchisement. An HBO Documentary Films release.

For more information about the film, visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7196012/.

Admission is $8.00 and $7.00 for Lyric Members.

The Lyric Theatre is located at 135 College Avenue in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://www.thelyric.com/going-to-mars-nikki-giovanni/ or https://www.thelyric.com/event/going-to-mars-the-nikki-giovanni-project/ or https://www.facebook.com/lyric.blacksburg or https://www.instagram.com/thelyrictheatre/ or call 540-951-4771.