Pip and Zastrow special screening is a huge success!

Maryland Hall looked sold out tonight for a special screening of Pip and Zastrow.  I arrived as the film began and there was no place to sit in the auditorium with 800 capacity seating.  The film was very well put together with strong graphics, gripping historcial video, and excellent story telling.  

Zastrow said it best “I represent the youth and the elderly”.   The film chronicled not only the friendship formed between Zastrow Simms and Pip Moyer during the challenges of the days following MLK’s assasination but, also followed their difficulties faced in present times with healthcare and neighborhood plight. 

The crowd was beautiful, filled with well dressed people celebrating the film’s success.  The reason for the word beautiful not one that is typically thrown from my lips, is the fact that the whole “tale of two cities” was busted wide open.  Annapolis was in full bloom, ebony and ivory in perfect harmony.  It sheds a little light on how the arts bring us together, and not in a contrived sense but, in a genuine method, one which creates interaction and demonstrates we are not that different.  If we take notice, we see the subtle cultural nuances that give us further individuality but, these should not be the somethings that make us as seperated as we have been.

Tonight was a victory.  Martin Luther King is smiling.  Keep it moving Annapolis. 

Next up…Friday night April 4th another special screening for the “Pip and Zastrow” at the Stanton Center on West Washington Street. 

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Posted in September 2007