Our Dance of Revolution (Phillip Pike, 2019)

🔥The one where we speak about Black Queer folks from Toronto🔥

Hellou CP-lover,

…how are you doing these days?

Are you getting ready for our next screening (which — by the way — will be the last before the summer break)?🐸

We’re wrapping up the first round of documentaries with Our Dance is Revolution, and you won’t want to miss it!

This wonderful documentary tells the story of how:

Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community. Capturing first-person accounts and invaluable archival photographs across a span of four decades, this feature-length documentary is more than a previously untold oral history, more than a reclamation of unsung people and events.

Through director Phillip Pike’s lens, we glimpse at the central role historically played by Black lesbians in Toronto’s queer community, the impact of the HIV epidemic and grassroots efforts for education and support, the distinction of Toronto’s Church Street drag queens, and the defiance of Blockorama to the whiteness of Pride.

“Our Dance of Revolution” is ultimately a human-scale reckoning of how audacious individuals find themselves by connecting with others, and how they muster the courage, tenacity, and creativity to prevail against the forces of marginalization.

The documentary is in English and French, with English subtitles.

…see you there! 🎬

📆 Thursday June 12th

⏰ The screening starts at 7pm, doors are open from 6pm

📌 Veranstaltungsraum at Amerlingshaus (Stiftgasse 8, 1070), Vienna

❗Info on accesibility:

• The “Veranstaltungsraum” is located on the ground floor—you can access it through the inner courtyard by turning on the left. It’s barrier-free.

• We still have a stock of FFP2 masks, but we kindly ask you to bring yours if you can. We will decide before the screening on whether the masks are a prerequisite for anyone joining the event. If wearing them is important to you, please don't hesitate to contact us via DM on instagram or via email wien@cinemapolitica.org. You can also reach out the very same day, so “kein Stress!”, as they say in German❗

💸 Entrance is, as usual, free — conscious donations are always welcome!

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