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99 minutes

Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 PM @ Capri Theater

Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Conversation Leader: Musical composer M. Jamison

ABOUT THE FILM

Visionary artist Rashaad Newsome has always been on the cutting edge, eluding nearly every label, as he creates incredible works of multidisciplinary art. With a group of diverse artists, performers and collaborators (including a non-binary AI named Being), he transforms a former military armory into a utopian dream.

Art and performance meet at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. As Newsome notes, this one time “bastion of white military power” is turned on its head and into an exuberant celebration of Black and queer culture. At once a vision of intergenerational resilience, a raucous display of human expression and liberation, and a mind-blowing dive into the soul of Being, an AI character whose emotional complexity will surprise you, Assembly is truly like nothing you will ever see, and nothing you’ll ever forget.

FIRST THURSDAY FILMS @ 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 Society, the Capri Theater, and the Minnesota Historical Society.

Tickets to First Thursday Films are 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.

Relased 2025

Directed by Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons

113 minutes

Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 PM @ Capri Theater

Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Conversation Leader: Selina Lewis Davison, Director of Acts and Reparation

ABOUT THE FILM

Two filmmaking friends, Selina, a Black woman, and Macky, a white man, head south together to explore their roots and the insidious legacy of slavery. Visiting with family in Louisiana, Selina discusses the secret histories of her family, while Macky, in Georgia, confronts his family’s inherited privilege. What emerges is an eye-opening story of hope and redemption.

FIRST THURSDAY FILMS @ 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 Society, the Capri Theater, and the Minnesota Historical Society.

Tickets to First Thursday Films are 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.

Relased 2024

Directed by Selina Lewis Davidson, Macky Alston

119 minutes

Saturday, November 15 at 4:00pm

Presented in partnership with Sound Unseen

Featuring an intro and Q&A with filmmaker Chris Pretti.

ABOUT THE FILM

GREEN BLAH! THE HISTORY OF GREEN BAY PUNK ROCK is a documentary that tells the story of the punk rock and independent music scene of Green Bay, WI and its neighboring communities in NE Wisconsin. Green Bay is easily identified as being the hometown of the smallest NFL franchise, the Green Bay Packers. It is also home to paper mills, pickle factories and cheese curds. Behind the scenes, Green Bay fostered a punk rock scene that spawned from meager beginnings and had a hard-core roster of local punk bands and characters, some with ties to the football team itself!! If you ask the “man-on-the-street ” what punk rock is, the obvious answers are plain to see: The Ramones in NYC, the Sex Pistols in the London or Black Flag in LA. But what happens when Punk Rock invades a small, Midwestern city with its former glory years fading in the twilight of the rust belt???

Green Bay also developed into a destination point on the map for major touring punk bands: Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, the Decendents, ALL, The Dickies, Toxic Reasons, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, 7 Seconds, Soul Asylum…plus countless other bands. See the cast of characters that shaped and created an independent and vital punk scene from the ground up. See the story of how a DIY punk scene took hold in a small, Midwestern city known as the National Football League’s “Titletown” USA!!!

Through the course of the project, the filmmakers have unearthed a vast treasure trove of archival materials. Thousands of photos, flyers, fanzines, audio recordings and video footage were curated and gathered to form a historical archive. The project began with a Top 25 list of punk scene movers and shakers that needed to be interviewed and snowballed into a list of interviewees that number over 90! The project meticulously culled through materials at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Cofrin Library, the photo archives at the Neville Public Museum and the Howard-Suamico Historical Society.

Relased 2024

Directed by Christopher Pretti, James J Baker