2025 DOC & TALK SERIES
MOVIES & COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Union
Date TBA
A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island challenges one of the world’s largest companies in a unionization battle.
Let the Little Light Shine
September 18 – 6pm
A high-achieving elementary school near downtown Chicago is a lifeline for Black children – until gentrification threatens its closure.
We Are Not Ghosts
October 16 – 6pm
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
Complimentary equity tickets are available upon request at the box office for low- or no-income community members, or anyone facing a financial barrier to attending this show.
Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street
November 20 – 6pm
In the midst of the economic meltdown , ‘Gaining Ground’ explores the innovative, grassroots organizing efforts of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston. Over the course of two years, we watch a new generation of leaders working to prevent foreclosures and bring jobs and opportunities for young people to one of the city’s most diverse and economically challenged neighborhoods.
Complimentary equity tickets are available upon request at the box office for low- or no-income community members, or anyone facing a financial barrier to attending this show.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
December 18 – 6pm
This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years.
Complimentary equity tickets are available upon request at the box office for low- or no-income community members, or anyone facing a financial barrier to attending the Doc & Talk Series.
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Past 2025 Doc & Talks
JOIN OR DIE
Centers on America’s civic unraveling through the journey of scientist Robert Putnam, whose research on the decline in American community lights a path out of our democracy’s present crisis.
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community.
Complimentary equity tickets are available upon request at the box office for low- or no-income community members, or anyone facing a financial barrier to attending this show.