Summer of Soul + late bar playing soul sounds + One Love kitchen

Screening as part of our Summer Music Season 2024, this film is back by popular demand and is part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Stick around after the film for cool soul sounds at the bar.

You can also enjoy a Jamaican food feast from St Leonards-based One Love Kitchen at the screening. They will be serving great value, delicious, authentic Jamaican street food to buy before and after the film.

Gorge on buffet style Jamaican finger food including Patties (veg, lamb), fritters (vege), Jerk chicken, and dumplings (callalo, saltfish or akee). Plus come and try the Jamaican Rum Cake!

Doors open early at 7pm so come hungry!

Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten - until now.

Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more.

"A magnificent documentary" - Mark Kermode, The Observer

"In one astonishing performance after another, Stevie Wonder does a ferocious drum solo, Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples sing gospel together, Gladys Knight and the Pips do Motown, and BB King plays the Blues." - 5 Stars - BBC.com

"Ahimr “Questlove” Thompson’s look back at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival rescues a milestone series of live shows — and is damn near a music-doc masterpiece" - 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone

Winner of the Best Documentary at the Academy Awards 2022.

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