Film screening and discussion of "The Times of Harvey Milk"
Saturday, January 30, 2010 @ 7 PM
with Gregg Drinkwater, executive director of Jewish Mosaic
Directed by Rob Epstein
90 minutes, color and B&W
Boulder JCC
3800 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
Co-sponsored by Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder
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Cost: $6 for Boulder JCC members, $8 for guests, free for students with valid student ID
Special guest: Gregg Drinkwater, executive director of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, president of Limmud Colorado and co-editor of the recently published book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible will lead an after film discussion and talk-back
"This is an enormously absorbing film, for the light it sheds on a decade in the life of a great American city and on the lives of Milk and Moscone, who made it better, and certainly a more interesting place to live." - Roger Ebert
This Oscar-winning documentary film covers the successful career and tragic assassination of San Francisco's first openly gay man to be elected to office. Directed by Rob Epstein and narrated by Harvey Fierstein, the film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath, interweaving newsreel footage and personal interviews to construct a compelling portrait of these turbulent times.
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