Title: Black History Month: Soda_Jerk's Astro Black + Sun Ra + START DATE: Saturday February 23 TIME: 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Location Details: OTHER CINEMA @ Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Event Type: Screening Contact Name Craig Baldwin Email Address info [at] othercinema.com Phone Number 415.648.0654 Address On Saturday, February 23, ATA Gallery’s OTHER CINEMA celebrates Black History Month with a focus on African-American musical contributions, notably those associated with Afro-Futurism. The West Coast premiere of Soda_Jerk’s complete Astro Black suite is a half-hr. collage-narrative of wildly juxtaposed scenes, from music hall through electronica to UFOs. PLUS Cauleen Smith’s masterful choreography of a Chicago marching band’s flash-mob street performance of a Sun Ra composition. ALSO: three rare Sun Ra segments expressing his way-out sci-fi cosmology, righteous clips of Muhammad Ali and a 10-year-old Michael Jackson, and an irresistibly funky chunk from that classic 16mm time-capsule Black Music in America—Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nina Simone, B.B. King, et. al. $6 http://www.othercinema.com/calendar/ Added to the calendar on Saturday Feb 16th, 2013 12:28 PM