CineSPEAK Returns to Clark Park With DJ’s, Food Trucks and Free Independent Movies
Love music events and outdoor movies? Why choose? Every Friday starting on May 26th through June 16th, cinéSPEAK, will bring the two worlds together for evenings filled with music, food and of course movies. Taking place at The Bowl in Clark Park (4300-4398 Baltimore Ave.), each event boasts city premieres of independent films from around the world, local DJs a rotating line-up of food vendors and much more. The best part is that it’s free to attend, so great for a fun and unique date.
The 3rd Annual cinéSPEAK Under the Stars at Clark Park kicks off with the *Philadelphia Premiere* of Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes —”the highly-anticipated documentary exploring ‘the life and music of the legendary drummer, composer, bandleader, and social activist through a remarkable series of creative peaks, struggles, and personal reinventions—from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights years, surveying the heady days of post-war modern jazz to hip hop and beyond,” the description states. This event is produced in partnership with WRTI & Ars Nova and will feature two of West Philadelphia’s beloved
food vendors—Siddiq’s Real Fruit Water Ice & Atiya Ola’s Spirit First Foods.Workshop. See full lineup below:
FRIDAY MAY 26:
Pre-Show DJ: Cosmo Baker(all jazz set)
Film: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes *Philadelphia Premiere*
In Partnership with WRTI & Ars Nova Workshop
Co-Directors Sam Pollard & Ben
Shapiro / US / English / 2023 / 82 min
Synopsis: Exploring the life and music of the legendary drummer, composer, bandleader, and social activist through a remarkable series of creative peaks, struggles, and personal reinventions—from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights years,surveying the heady days of post-war modern jazz to hip hop and beyond.
FRIDAY JUNE 2:
Pre-Show DJ: John Morrison (all vinyl set; 60s psych, garage rock and soul)
Film: Hung Up On A Dream *Philadelphia Premiere*
Dir. Robert Schwartzman / US / English / 2023 /116 min
Synopsis: British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from teenage friends to legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
FRIDAY JUNE 9:
Pre-Show DJ: lil Dave (Bossa Nova, Samba, and other Brazilian sounds)
Film: Marcel Camus’ Black
Orpheus / Orfeu Negro (1959)
Dir. Marcel Camus / Brazil, France / Portuguese / 1959 / 100 min
Synopsis: Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography
and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
FRIDAY JUNE 16:
Film: Little Richard: I Am Everything – *Special Engagement*
In Partnership with BlackStar Projects Pre-Show DJ: Blaak The Ninth Man (all vinyl set; rock, soul & gospel)
Dir. Lisa Cortés / US / English / 2023 / 98 min
Synopsis: Telling the story of the Black Qqueer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner
world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and Queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.
