Screening of 'Singing for Justice'
Post-screening Zoom Q&A with Christie Herring
PLUS a singalong with special guest Ted Warmbrand, veteran folkie rabble-rouser
An American original, Faith Petric (1915-2013) rejected conformity, built musical communities, and refreshingly embraced aging. Through her journey, SINGING FOR JUSTICE shows how committed networks of people sustain resistance to inequality – through speaking up and singing out. Told largely by Petric herself, the film draws upon a treasure trove of sources – creating a seamless narrative in which Faith was not abstractly affected by world events but chose actively to engage with them.
Born in a log cabin and radicalized during the Great Depression, Faith discovered folk music in college and in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1940s. She began singing for social justice – labor, peace, civil rights, and women’s rights — for the rest of her life. After raising her daughter as a single mother, Faith retired at age 55 and reinvented herself as a traveling folk singer. For decades she toured the U.S. and internationally, performing into her 90s. She nurtured the San Francisco Folk Music Club, opening her home to generations of musicians and anyone who wanted to play and sing along. Faith’s legacy of folksinging activism continues to inspire audiences of all ages to create music, build intergenerational communities, and engage civically.
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