Coming soon in West County are two local screenings of thought-provoking and entertaining films.
 I hope you'll join me at one or both.
Romeo is Bleeding,
a production of
RAW talent, a performing arts program at the
RYSE youth center in Richmond, is a documentary about local poet Donte Clark's inspirational urban adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, written and performed with young people.
The Beautiful Country is a moving feature film about a young Vietnamese man's journey to find his mother in Saigon, and his father in the United States, a GI in the Vietnam War.
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The Beautiful Country
7:15 pm, Thursday, May 7,
Rialto Cinema, 10070 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito,
FREE. First-come, first-served.
This is one in a series of events sponsored by the Contra Costa Library examining the 40th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Check the Library's Big Read event website for more. |
