Rooftop Selects: The Janes

Date: Friday, June 3rd

Venue: Old American Can Factory

Address: 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

8:00 PM: Doors Open

8:30 PM: Live Music from beccs

9:00 PM: Film Begins

10:30 PM: Q&A with filmmakers Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes and special guests

11:00 PM: After-Party

THE FILM

The Janes

Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes | US | 101 mins.

In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Seven women were arrested and charged. Using code names, blindfolds, and safe houses to protect their identities and their work, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. They called themselves Jane. Facing off against the mafia, the church, and the state, the Janes exhibited unparalleled bravery and compassion for those most in need. Courtesy of HBO Original Documentaries.

A part of 2022 Rooftop Selects:

This year, we're launching a new series called Rooftop Selects. Once a month, Rooftop Selects screenings will highlight a special indie gem. Rooftop Members attend free! Not a member yet? Learn more at rooftopfilms.com/support.

PERFORMER

beccs

Hailed as one of NYLON Magazine’s “favorite cool girls”, a John Lennon Songwriting Finalist, and an “indie-pop vocalist of astonishing candor” by the HuffPost, beccs confronts and heals audiences with a soul-stirring voice that is as dynamic as it is vulnerable. The alternative pop artist has been critically acclaimed by Refinery29, NYLON, AudioFemme, PopDust, Huffington Post Queer Voices and featured on The BUILD Series with Monet X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race) for her queer-inclusive Christmas hit “Before This Christmas Ends”. Holding up a mirror to herself and society at large, beccs’ songwriting has been awarded by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, the International Songwriting Competition, Coffee Music Project, and more. Her majestic indie pop single "Such A Love", self-produced in quarantine with Godfrey Furchtgott and mixed by Alex Epton (Arca, FKA Twigs, Bjork), calls out our self-aggrandizing ways and calls to action a self-sacrificing love to save what's left of the land and the sea. beccs is recording her sophomore EP which is set to release in 2022.

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NO REFUNDS. IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT THE SAME LOCATION. NO ALCOHOL IS PERMITTED.

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