[NFBSF] Respond by 4:30 today - Free Movie Screening

[Christina Daniels]

Hey All,

Tomorrow, August 31, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco, there’s an open audio described performance of the documentary Vision Portraits about four blind and visually impaired creative artists at 7:10 p.m. We have a few free tickets left, but you need to send a response to PBlaney at lighthouse-sf.org by 4:30 p.m. today August 30 to get yours. There will be a Q&A afterward with Georgina Kleege, Senior Lecturer at UC Berkeley and a scholar of how blindness intersects with visual art. The address is 601 Van Ness. 

If you’re interested in the movie but can’t join us tomorrow, you can see it at another time with closed audio description. https://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/opera-plaza-cinema/film-info/vision-portraits

Vision Portraits is a deeply personal documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother) as he explores how his loss of vision may impact his creative future, and what it means to be a blind or visually impaired creative artist. It’s a celebration of the possibilities of art created by a Manhattan photographer (John Dugdale), a Bronx-based dancer (East Texas native Kayla Hamilton), a Canadian writer (Ryan Knighton) and the filmmaker himself, who each experience varying degrees of visual impairment. Using archival material alongside new illuminating interviews and observational footage of the artists at work, Evans has created a tantalizing meditation on blindness and creativity, a sensual work that opens our minds to new possibilities.

Christina