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Thumbs Up for Mother Universe

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February 21, 2021 3:00 pm

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Free Online

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Thumbs Up for Mother Universe at Appalachian Theatre Boone NC A FREE ONLINE EVENT. Tommy Nichols, founder of the Charlotte Black Film Festival, leads a discussion with director, George King and the artist, Lonnie Holley immediately following the screening of the film. SYNOPSIS Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley is a 95-minute documentary film about the life and work of Alabama visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley. This story of survival, endurance and triumph has much to say about race and social class in the American South. Lonnie Holley’s remarkable life and the improbability of his success are an inspiration. But the pain of the memory of many of these stories remain with him to this day. As he says in the film, “My art was the salve for a lot of those memories.” Over the 22-year course of filming Lonnie Holley, we have shot and acquired an archive of interviews, still photographs, scenes with Holley’s family, and footage of Holley collecting materials, and making art and music. It is a unique record of an artist’s life and work. The feature length film, Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley is really, the tip of the iceberg. We see the film as an introduction to a cornucopia of materials on this website. Here viewers can go deeper–reviewing uncut interviews, photo galleries of Holley’s art, unreleased cuts of music recorded at live performances, short films created for the website, and stories that we simply could not get into the film. Lonnie Holley is particularly interested in encouraging the creativity of young people. Beyond the possibilities of festivals, TV, and streaming video, we intend to screen the film—with accompanying workshops with Holley, in community venues to reach this audience. FROM THE FILMMAKER This story of survival, endurance, and triumph has much to say about race and social class in the American South. Lo

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Freehttps://highcountryhost.com/images/events/Thumbs+Up+Mothere+Univers+logo.pngThumbs Up for Mother UniverseThumbs Up for Mother Universe2021-02-21 15:00:002021-02-21 15:00:00Free OnlineFree OnlineThumbs Up for Mother Universe at Appalachian Theatre Boone NC A FREE ONLINE EVENT. Tommy Nichols, founder of the Charlotte Black Film Festival, leads a discussion with director, George King and the artist, Lonnie Holley immediately following the screening of the film. SYNOPSIS Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley is a 95-minute documentary film about the life and work of Alabama visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley. This story of survival, endurance and triumph has much to say about race and social class in the American South. Lonnie Holley’s remarkable life and the improbability of his success are an inspiration. But the pain of the memory of many of these stories remain with him to this day. As he says in the film, “My art was the salve for a lot of those memories.” Over the 22-year course of filming Lonnie Holley, we have shot and acquired an archive of interviews, still photographs, scenes with Holley’s family, and footage of Holley collecting materials, and making art and music. It is a unique record of an artist’s life and work. The feature length film, Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley is really, the tip of the iceberg. We see the film as an introduction to a cornucopia of materials on this website. Here viewers can go deeper–reviewing uncut interviews, photo galleries of Holley’s art, unreleased cuts of music recorded at live performances, short films created for the website, and stories that we simply could not get into the film. Lonnie Holley is particularly interested in encouraging the creativity of young people. Beyond the possibilities of festivals, TV, and streaming video, we intend to screen the film—with accompanying workshops with Holley, in community venues to reach this audience. FROM THE FILMMAKER This story of survival, endurance, and triumph has much to say about race and social class in the American South. Lo