Admission:
General $12
Student $10
October 8, 2026, 6pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
The African Film Institute is pleased to invite you to e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, October 8 at 6pm for a screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes), directed by Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez, marking a return of the film following its national and international festival run.
Structured as a series of classes in cultural organizing, TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing reconstructs the life of a woman whose literary works and film collaborations became a catalyzing force in 20th-century political movements. Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney, and filmmaker Haile Gerima are among those who testify to Bambara's humor, fierce commitment to collective action, and gift for galvanizing artists into community work. The film is a warm and stylish portrait that makes a compelling case for why her approach to activism feels as urgent now as it did then.
This program continues Two Thousand Seasons, the 2026 programming of the African Film Institute, driven by methods of collective study and collaborative action, and pointing to alternative sites where memory is held and where learning is made. Moving between the film image and practices beyond the screen, the programming samples transitional ways of recording histories and practicing commemoration, foregrounding inspiration as both a lesson and a tool for loosening the grip of manipulation characteristic of the world today.
For inquiries addressed to the African Film Institute, please write to africanfilminstitute@e-flux.com.
For general and press inquiries, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator that leads into the e-flux office space. The entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.
