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Film: The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen

African American Artist and Activist
Thursday, 8/31/2023
3:00 - 4:15
Golden Gate Valley Meeting Room
Golden Gate Valley

1801 Green Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
United States

415-355-5666

Award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Abod provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen, a woman who grew up in inner city Boston during the Jim Crow era and went on to become a classical ballerina, legendary dance teacher, black lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor.

For six decades Bowen has influenced and inspired untold numbers, speaking out as strongly for the Arts, and Black and Women’s Rights as she has for LGBTQ Rights. Candid, compelling, and inspiring, Passionate Pursuits depicts Bowen's life across the decades, with archival footage, timeless musical selections, photographs and interviews.

NR, 74 min., 2016. Closed captions (CC) in English.

 

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