Name That Tune Night

1508 SW 8th St,Miami FL 33135

02 June, 2021

Description

Join us as we kick-off African American Music Appreciation Month with a night of music and trivia! Join MDC’s Tower Theater Miami, Vinyl Social Club and Sweat Records as we kick-off African American Music Appreciation Month with a night of music and trivia! Start the night vibing to a specially curated Vinyl Social Club set of all your Soul Music favorites inspired by the upcoming film, SUMMER OF SOUL. Then, ‘Name That Tune’ for prizes in our music and movie trivia contest hosted by Miami Film Festival Co-Director of programming, Lauren Cohen. Enjoy unlimited Buy One, Get One Free beer and wine the entire evening. Bring your records and bring your friends. SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) is a documentary directed by Questlove that features 40 hours of never-seen-before footage of The Harlem Cultural Festival. It features many extraordinary performances by artists including Stevie Wonder, Sly and The Family Stone, Nina Simone, B.B. King, the Staple Singers, the 5th Dimension, David Ruffin, Mahalia Jackson, Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight and the Pips. MDC’s Tower Theater is one of Miami’s oldest cultural landmarks. When it opened in December of 1926, it was the finest state-of-the-art theater in the South. In the early 1960s, large numbers of Cuban refugees fled to Miami. The area surrounding S.W. Eighth Street – “Calle Ocho” – became a place of new beginnings. For many Cuban families, films at MDC’s Tower Theater were an introduction to American culture in addition to pure entertainment. Soon MDC’s Tower Theater altered its programming to include English-language films with Spanish subtitles, and eventually Spanish-language films. However, after almost sixty years of operation, MDC’s Tower Theater was closed to the public in 1984. In 2002, the City of Miami authorized Miami Dade College to manage theater operations. Now proudly under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Department, MDC’s Tower Theater continues to serve as a historic gathering place for cultural connections in Little Havana, where the community can enjoy alternative and culturally specific exhibitions and performances, free educational lectures given by MDC faculty and other scholars in our community, and both Spanish-language films and English-language films, subtitled in Spanish. In 2011, USA Today declared MDC’s Tower Theater “one of the 10 great places to see a movie in splendor” in the newspaper’s round-up of the best old-fashioned movie palaces in America. Contact: 305-237-2463