Join WXXI for a special FREE screening of Free for All: The Public Library, a film that looks at how public libraries shaped the country and continue to be a sanctuary for Americans everywhere, followed by a panel discussion.
About the Film:
Free for All: Inside the Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
Indie Lens Pop-Up presents this free screening:
Thursday, April 10 from 2-6pm
The Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County
115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY
Tentative schedule:
2pm: Opening remarks by Emily Clasper, Director, MCLS and RPL
2:30pm: Screening of film
3:30-4pm: Q&A and Discussion of film
4-5pm: Tour of Library by Alicia Gunther, MCLS Librarian, including a visit to the Local History Division and a talk by Special Collections Librarian, Brandon Fess
Panelists to be announced soon.