Silver Screen Sistas: A Black Women’s Movie Marathon

Honor Women’s History Month at The Griot Museum with three amazing St. Louis women who changed the way we see blackness on the big screen!

Free to members, your admission to the museum will include a movie marathon that will showcase Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and Katherine Dunham. Screenings will be followed by short conversations to further discuss their impact around black representation, highlighting stories housed within our permanent collection.

Light refreshments, including popcorn, will be available but feel free to bring your favorite movie snacks and drinks!

Screening Times:

1:45pm: Zou Zou (1934) starring Josephine Baker

4:00pm: Episode 1 of Blacks, Blues, Black! (1968) prod. by Maya Angelou

6:00pm: Stormy Weather (1943) starring Lena Horne, ft. Katherine Dunham

Silver Screen Sistas: A Black Women’s Movie Marathon

Honor Women’s History Month at The Griot Museum with three amazing St. Louis women who changed the way we see blackness on the big screen!

Free to members, your admission to the museum will include a movie marathon that will showcase Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and Katherine Dunham. Screenings will be followed by short conversations to further discuss their impact around black representation, highlighting stories housed within our permanent collection.

Light refreshments, including popcorn, will be available but feel free to bring your favorite movie snacks and drinks!

Screening Times:

1:45pm: Zou Zou (1934) starring Josephine Baker

4:00pm: Episode 1 of Blacks, Blues, Black! (1968) prod. by Maya Angelou

6:00pm: Stormy Weather (1943) starring Lena Horne, ft. Katherine Dunham

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OBS Appreciation Night Celebrating the Black Rep – Sept. 23, 2026

Jazz, blues and gospel music carry us through Celie’s odyssey and all who affect her in this landmark musical based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Born into a life of brutality in the 19th century American South, Celie perseveres as everyone she loves slips through her fingers. Daring to survive against the odds, she discovers the power of her own voice and that love is worth believing in.

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