Do The Right tHING

Fort York
Tuesday, August 25 2020

do The Right Thing

With short film Savage

Race, gender, culture, politics, and music collide in the late Reagan-era masterpiece Do the Right Thing, an essential film that has only become more relevant in the three decades since its release. Cinematic maverick Spike Lee’s enthralling, colour-saturated aesthetic captures the complicated lives of a diverse, interconnected cast of Brooklynites over the course of one fateful day, as the sweltering heat, anger, and bigotry intensify towards an inevitable breaking point.

Anishinaabe filmmaker and multimedia artist Lisa Jackson (whose VR installation Biidaaban: First Light made waves in 2018) likewise centres the power of music and culture in challenging racist and colonial oppression in her short film Savage. Provocatively blending traditional Cree songs with hip hop aesthetics, Savage wrestles with the shameful history and traumatic legacy of Canada’s residential schools. By drawing together these two powerful films, this screening highlights the resonances and contrasts between parallel struggles against systemic violence and the crucial necessity of solidarity in building a better future.

Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee, 1989

With the short film Savage
directed by Lisa Jackson, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2020
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Venue: "Walled Fort" of Fort York National Historic Site - entry at west gates of 100 Garrison Road

Event details:
Gates open @ 6:30pm / Showtime @ sundown
COVID-19 on-site protocols - please read before attending
Snacks and alcoholic beverages for sale (no outside alcohol permitted)
BYOBlanket & Chairs
Please see the accessibility features of Fort York
Films are screened with captioning
This programme is rated 14A and includes some content that is potentially disturbing to some viewers (including police brutality), and some mature language

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