BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260701T183034Z UID:ccgHOg DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181103 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20180917T072606 DESCRIPTION: November 2nd starting at 6pm\, held at The Uptown Theatre in R ichland. \n\n Join us for a red-carpet screening of LA 92 to be followed b y a Q&\;A with the film’s director\, Academy Award Winner T. J. Marti n. The evening will also include a poem read by Husaya Hama and music pro vided by hip-hop artist MistaDC. \n\n 10% of ticket sale proceeds will ben efit a local\, youth non-profit in the construction of a "Hope Wall." \n\n Mr. Martin is the first film director of African American descent to win an Oscar for a feature-length film—his 2011 production Undefeated\, whic h chronicles the football team of Manassas High School in Memphis\, Tennes see. His subsequent film\, LA 92\, showcases the neighborhoods of Los Ange les\, California\, just after the Rodney King verdict was announced. Viole nt protests\, looting\, and arson lasted several days and left more than 5 0 people dead. Twenty-five years after the 1992 verdict\, Mr. Martin’s a cclaimed documentary LA 92 explores the events leading to the violence\, a s well as the chaos and destruction that happened. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20181103T010538 LOCATION: ORGANIZER:mailto:noreply-calendar@tito.io SUMMARY:An Evening With Academy Award Winner TJ Martin URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/Poet-Jordan-Presents/an-evening-with-tj-martin URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/Poet-Jordan-Presents/an-evening-with-tj-martin END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR