Name: The Public
Start: 2019-06-28T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2019-06-28T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Emerson Cultural Center

The Public
June 28, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Venue: Emerson Cultural Center

Venue Phone: 406-587-9797

Venue Website: http://www.theemerson.org/

Address:

111 South Grand Avenue, Bozeman, Montana, 59715, United States

Description:

The Emerson is a thriving arts and community center located a block from historic downtown Bozeman. The building was originally an elementary school built in 1918, attended by thousands of Bozeman youth before its closure in 1991. With the building facing demolition in 1992, a grassroots coalition of community members dedicated to historic preservation and celebration of the arts formed a non-profit board, raised funds, and bought the building from the City of Bozeman.

Friday June 28, 2019 at the Emerson

Adult GA $9.75/ Senior-Student $9.25 (In-Store)

“WRITER-DIRECTOR-STAR EMILIO ESTEVEZ TURNS A LIBRARY OCCUPIED BY HOMELESS

CITIZENS AS GROUND ZERO FOR OUR UNDER-FIRE DEMOCRACY.” PETER TRAVERSE,

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

The Bozeman Film Society partners with the Bozeman Public Library for a screening of The Public, the new acclaimed film from writer/director/actor Emilio Estevez. A dramatic comedy set inside one of the last bastions of democracy-in-action: your public library, the story revolves around the library patrons, many of whom are homeless, mentally ill and marginalized, as well as an exhausted and overwhelmed staff of librarians who often act as “de-facto social workers” and care for those regular patrons.

After an unusually bitter Arctic blast has made its way to downtown Cincinnati and to the front doors of the public library, library officials are at odds over how to handle the extreme weather event after the patrons turn the building into a homeless shelter for the night by staging an “Occupy” sit in. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what’s really happening inside the building. Tackling some of our nation’s most challenging issues, including homelessness and

mental illness, Common Sense Media exclaims, “Estevez achieves a career high with this empathetic look at homelessness, concentrating on a rousing, inspiring story, rich characters, and a fluid, detailed visual style.” Panel discussion follows film. Rated PG13, the film runs 119 minutes.

Tickets available day of show in Emerson lobby at 6:00 pm. Concession/beverages at 6:30 pm. Doors open 7:00 pm. Learn

more at www.bozemanfilmsociety.org – and Keep ‘Em Flickering! Read the Rolling Stone review

HERE.

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Venue: Emerson Cultural Center

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