Join us for the final screening in our special Summer Series guest curated by filmmaker Stephen Winter and poet Pamela Sneed, BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS, coming up on Monday, August 17th!
WHAT: Angel Nafis presents FRIDAY
WHEN: Monday, August 17, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
FRIDAY
1995. US. 91 min. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
“Bye, Felicia!”
Friday was hailed as an instant classic the moment it hit theaters in 1995, thanks to a breakout performance by Chris Tucker and its l...
Join us for the final screening in our special Summer Series guest curated by filmmaker Stephen Winter and poet Pamela Sneed, BLACK SUMMER NIGHTS, coming up on Monday, August 17th!
WHAT: Angel Nafis presents FRIDAY
WHEN: Monday, August 17, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
FRIDAY
1995. US. 91 min. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
“Bye, Felicia!”
Friday was hailed as an instant classic the moment it hit theaters in 1995, thanks to a breakout performance by Chris Tucker and its loving send-up of familiar black neighborhood figures. For tonight’s guest, poet Angel Nafis, whose work has been compared to Ntozake Shange and June Jordan, seeing her world reflected on screen was a powerful experience, but even more important was the presence of “impossibly fine” actress Nia Long, as a “black girl next door” who wasn’t a stereotype. Nafis found a rare on-screen role model, and felt, “almost itchy with the desire to put her face near my face.” Don’t miss this special 20th anniversary screening.
As always, our screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!
ANGEL NAFIS
Angel Nafis is an Ann Arbor, Michigan native and Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, FOUND Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, Decibels, The Rattling Wall, Union Station Magazine, The Bear River Review, MUZZLE Magazine, Mosaic Magazine and more. In 2011 she represented the LouderArts poetry project at both the Women of the World Poetry Slam and the National Poetry Slam. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder, curator, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. Facilitating acclaimed generative writing workshops and reading poems in Universities, High schools, bookstores, detention centers, theaters, teen centers, bars, conferences, and tattoo parlors across the United States and Canada. Author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012) she lives in Brooklyn with artist/musician/writer Shira Erlichman and an orange cat named Deuces.
http://www.angelnafis.com/