February Book + Film Club: Black Lens - If Beale Street Could Talk presented by Gilead Sciences

Name: February Book + Film Club: Black Lens - If Beale Street Could Talk presented by Gilead Sciences
Start: 2025-02-26T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-26T21:00:00-06:00
Location: 1821 2nd Ave. N. , Birmingham, AL, United States, Alabama 35203

Schedule

Wed Feb 26 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1821 2nd Ave. N. , Birmingham, AL, United States, Alabama 35203 | Birmingham, AL

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.
Registration Deadline to have books mailed: Friday February 7th. Books will be mailed within 72 hours of this date.
Registration Deadline to have books picked up: Monday, February 17. Books can be picked up from our Box Office during our regular operating hours Thursday & Friday from 2pm til Close and on Saturday & Sunday from 10:30am until close. You will receive an email when your book is ready to be picked up.
Book: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—”a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless” – The New York Times Book Review
Film: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) dir. Barry Jenkins
If Beale Street Could Talk is writer-director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s same-named 1974 novel about young lovers forced to overcome unexpected — yet universal — struggles in 1970s Harlem.
Private screening and discussion will take place at Sidewalk Cinema February 26th at 7:00pm.