Film Screening: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Thu, Sep 17
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us for an amazing evening screening of The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025) documentary, a film by Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez. After the screening, filmmaker Louis Massiah will join us in a community discussion.
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes) is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.
Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia.
He has developed production methodologies that assist first-time makers to author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration - A City Transformed; and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.
Massiah’s documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the…
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