James Baldwin at 100: I Am Not Your Negro + Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

In association with Dark Matter and Penguin Classics, join us to celebrate 100 years of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. 

We're giving away 100 books from James Baldwin's backlist. A bundle of books have been selected for each screening and will be hidden under randomly selected seats. Book your ticket today and try your luck!

MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS

Tense, combative, discursive: a meeting with James Baldwin doesn’t quite go according to plan for a group of presumptuous white filmmakers in this rarely seen, Paris-set short film. An illuminating snapshot of Baldwin’s intellectual worldview that bristles with friction and ideas.

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.

‘James Baldwin is one of the most important writers of the 20th century and his work resonates as profoundly today as when it was first published. It has been an enormous privilege and honour to witness the renewed interest in his work over the past ten years. We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate the centenary of his birth – and to bring his timeless works to a new generation of readers.’

Josephine Greywoode, Publishing Director at Penguin Press

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