In honor of Black History Month, The Waldo will screen the short film‘Love and Solidarity’, followed by ‘Amazing Grace’ on Saturday, Feb 18th, starting at 6:30pm. 

Amazing Grace is a 2018 concert film "realized and produced" by Alan Elliott. The film's footage was shot under the direction of Sydney Pollack, who does not receive directorial credit, just a "special thanks."  Amazing Grace stars Aretha Franklin recording her 1972 live album of the same name. It co-stars James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton, and the Southern California Community Choir, and features her father C. L. Franklin. Producers: Aretha Franklin, Alan Elliott, Jerry Wexler. Awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary – Film

Love and Solidarity is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organizing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have helped to remake the LA labor movement. Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson’s discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today’s struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice. Runtime: 38 minutes.

Online tickets are available for $8 in advance, $10 the day of the event at: https://waldotheatreinc.thundertix.com/events/208187. Youth tickets are $5. Tickets are available at the box office starting at 6:00pm. Concessions will be available for purchase. Free parking is available on Main St. and School St.