Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) invites Nashville and Middle Tennessee to join in a nationwide watch of the riveting new documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble, which looks at the impact of Rep. John Lewis’s life and work.
In collaboration with more than 60 arts and cultural institutions, TPAC is providing audiences with digital access to the film from Magnolia Pictures now and an opportunity to take part in a live virtual conversation about Rep. Lewis’s remarkable legacy on Sept. 21 at 6pm CT. The film’s rental fee, $12, includes a $5 donation to TPAC. After unlocking, you’ll have 30 days to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 72 hours to finish watching.
Freedom Rider and Congressman, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and conscience of the nation, John Lewis served the cause of social justice for decades, both as an elected representative and as a groundbreaking activist whose fervent belief in getting into “good trouble, necessary trouble” for the cause of racial equality changed our country.
John Lewis: Good Trouble celebrates his 60-plus years of activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration through rare archival footage and exclusive interviews with the late Congressman.
This special access to the documentary includes two extra features: Film of an interview Rep. Lewis gave to Oprah Winfrey shortly before his death as well as a one-hour panel, recorded in July, between the documentary’s director, Dawn Porter, and two of Rep. Lewis’s fellow original Freedom Riders, Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Dr. Rip Patton.
After screening the film, audiences are invited to register for a live, interactive online panel discussion about Rep. Lewis’s history and impact on the social justice struggles of today. Panelists include Porter; Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who worked to establish the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker from New Jersey will provide opening remarks.
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