Mound City Messenger Launch Party

Name: Mound City Messenger Launch Party
Start: 2024-10-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-09T22:00:00-05:00
Location: The Whiskey Ring

Schedule

Wed Oct 09 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Whiskey Ring | St. Louis, MO

The newest independent, DIY news and culture website in St. Louis is celebrating its launch with a night of film, music, and poetry. Join us at the Whiskey Ring in the Cherokee arts and dining district from 7pm-10pm. We'll also be discussing the state of local news media and the need for non-commercial outlets to fill the void left by an ever-shrinking number of journalists at an also-shrinking number of commercial outlets.
A full entertainment listing will be added as details are confirmed.
Film Screening
Chan Maurice Evans - They Called Me A Sellout
This documentary series began as an autobiographical venture into my life growing up in a medium-sized, suburban Illinois town, as, sort of, an outcast. I am a Black American that happened to prefer the sounds of Rock, Pop and Alternative music, and that enthusiasm put me at odds with my family and Black friends. I was called a “sellout,” and I was bullied and given rude nicknames, and they would ask, in jest, “Why do you listen to that white-boy music?” What I didn’t know was, Rock & Roll was borne of The Blues, Negro spirituals, African rhythms and musical scales that came directly from the bowels of slave ships, cotton fields, and Black American ancestry. What I did not see coming, in my research and development of these stories, was a whole lot bigger than just me. This is American music history.
Poets
James Stone Goodman
He is a writer and a musician, playing guitar, oud, percussion and other instruments of the eastern Mediterranean. He has published three books: Espaclaria is a Mirror (Sometimes Cloudy Sometimes Clear), Fountain, and Vigil.
He is a rabbi serving the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis Missouri. He performs with several musical groups, all of which specialize in original materials based on traditional themes, integrating story and music in a performance art form.