Sun Ra: Do The Impossible Community Film Screening

**Due to overwhelming response, we will be releasing additional tickets on Friday, January 23rd. Please note that seating for this event is first-come, first-serve.**

The Billie Holiday Theatre

In Partnership with the Office of Council Member Chi Osse and Field Meridians

Presents a FREE community screening of Firelight Films'

Directed by Christine Turner

With former Arkestra member, Ahmed Abdullah

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The Billie Holiday Theatre

Doors at 6PM

Film at 6:30PM

Conversation with Ahmed Abdullah and Timmhotep Aku to follow

A production of Firelight Films in association with American Masters

Poet, philosopher, Egyptologist, bandleader. Jazz visionary Sun Ra was all of these – and more. With his ever-evolving band, the Sun Ra Arkestra, he produced more than 200 albums, stretching the boundaries of free-form jazz while weaving ancient Egypt, interstellar metaphors, and scientific musings into a singular musical and spiritual vision of Afrofuturism that continues to reverberate across generations. Director Christine Turner takes us on an illuminating journey through the life of this multi-faceted artist, gracefully balancing recollections from the Arkestra’s still-devout band members and dancers with insightful interviews from music scholars, and unforgettable film and performance footage of Sun Ra himself. The result is a portrait – informative, inspiring, and mind-bending – of a man whose audacious vision, otherworldly imagination, and uncompromising artistry helped shape not only the sound of jazz, but the cultural landscape of the 20th century and beyond.

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