Fade to Black: Revisiting 'Tales From the Hood' Virtual watch party & panel21633|https://www.langstonseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tales-from-the-hood.png|full Thursday, October 29, 6:30 pm PST | Facebook Live It has been a year since the Fade to Black series started and has seen incredible success with guests like Tananarive Due, Tony Todd, Rachel True, and Gerard McMurray. Remarkably the series still continues...

In celebration of Hip Hop History Month, LANGSTON & Wa Na Wari present a rebroadcast of the full 2(06) The Break series that debuted in May. Episodes 1-7 will be aired at 6pm each evening, November 11-17.

One of the foremost thinkers on Global South cinema as well as one of its leading practitioners, Abderrahmane Sissako’s films are unsparing, visually innovative indictments of the global forces that shape African lives. Sissako is a Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer whose themes include globalization, exile and the displacement of people. His films have received global recognition: Waiting for Happiness (Heremakano) screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning the FIPRESCI Prize. His next film, Bamako (2006), received the first Film Award of the Council of Europe. In 2014 Timbuktu was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in the main competition section at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In celebration of Hip Hop History Month, LANGSTON & Wa Na Wari present a rebroadcast of the full 2(06) The Break series that debuted in May. Episodes 2 will be aired at 6 pm at bit.ly/WaNaWariLive. Set compositions by Kylea and DJ Sean Malik. Conversation and commentary between Margo Jones, hip hop entertainment and fashion entrepreneur, and Daudi Abe, author, and professor of hip hop history and cultural theory.

In celebration of Hip Hop History Month, LANGSTON & Wa Na Wari present a rebroadcast of the full 2(06) The Break series that debuted in May.

2(06) The Break Episode IV: Women In Hip-HopThe Ladies with DJ's Kween Kay$h & Toya B and commentary from Jus Moni & Kylea21682|https://www.langstonseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/JusMoni.jpeg|full Saturday, November 14, 2020 | 6 PM PST Episode Four: Women In Hip-Hop  In celebration of Hip Hop History Month, LANGSTON & Wa Na Wari present a rebroadcast of the full 2(06)...

2(06) The Break Episode V: The 2000'swith DJ's Freequeensee & Sureal and commentary with Yirim Seck & Njuguna Gishuru21694|https://www.langstonseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1454899380331-1.jpg|full Sunday, November 15, 2020 | 6 PM PST Episode Five: The 2000's  In celebration of Hip Hop History Month, LANGSTON & Wa Na Wari present a rebroadcast of the full 2(06) The Break series that debuted...

LANGSTON and Holocaust Center for Humanity present Technology, the Holocaust, and Human Rights with Professor Clyde Ford, author of Think Black.

On Wednesday, November 18th at 7 pm, wrapping up the celebration is a conversation with Dr. Daudi Abe and Jazmyn Scott, to discuss his brand new book, Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle. Registration required: tiny.cc/daudiabe

Simone Pin and LANGSTON partner to bring you Dollhouse, a Southern Gothic burlesque, live from the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.

LANGSTON Seattle Black Film Festival invites you to join multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer berette macaulay as she catches up with our 2020 festival award-winning filmmakers, to talk about overcoming the challenges of 2020 and what lies ahead.