A New Color, The Art of Being Edythe Boone:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Thursday, January 12th, 2016
7:00 – 8:30pm | $15A New Color is the first of two documentary films presented at the Lafayette Library as part of a conversation on “the power of storytelling.” The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion that includes the director, Mo Morris, Edythe Boone, and Jorge Mario Abundis, a student featured in the film.
Celebrated San Francisco Women’s Building muralist and educator Edythe Boone is the subject of the award-winning documentary A New Color, a film by Mo Morris. Edythe Boone paints walls to build bridges toward unity when the chokehold death of her nephew and his final words ignite a national outcry for racial justice.
A New Color was the Audience Favorite Special Mention at Mill Valley Film Festival and won Best Documentary in Chicago.