This Wednesday, Dec 11th at 7:30PM the Austin Film Society is screening a new documentary about the life of the illustrious Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple. If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. Do yourself another favor, and learn more about the lady at the screening of Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth. The documentary studies the author’s life from beginning to end covering the struggles of her and her family in Georgia in the 1940s and 50s — Walker’s mother working 11hrs days just to make enough to ensure Walker had an education. Walker took that education and ran with it to become an artist, an activist, a self-proclaimed renegade, and the first black woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize.
The film, like the woman and her writing, is sure to be both breathtaking and impassioned.
Make sure to drop by and catch this film. Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30 PM over at AFS at The Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd). Price is $8 General Admission with discounts for AFS members and students. You can also get more details over on the AFS website.
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