HERStory Celebration: She Did That. & Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different

1801 Mississippi Avenue Southeast,Washington DC 20020

25 March, 2022

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THEARC Theater and Anacostia Library are celebrating a community pop-up film double-header experience celebrating Women's History 2022. Celebrate Women's History with some great movies, libations and great conversation. Join HERStory film celebration featuring She Did That. @ 4:30PM Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different @ 7PM at THEARC West Black Box. **Must be over 21+ and present ID to consume alcoholic beverages** Come for the Happy Hour and stay for the movies! Food and drinks will be provided. We will have local black women owned vendors, door prizes and games during the Happy Hour. Special guest performances and a conversation for the 2nd film. An event not to be missed. Proof of vaccination or negative test must be presented to enter event. Mask are required for this event. She Did That., is a 2019 documentary, An extension of Renae Bluitt's In Her Shoes blog, "She Did That." offers an intimate peek inside the lives of four Black women who continuously raise the glass ceiling for future generations. The film features vulnerable conversations with four change agents - Luvvie Ajayi (NYT best-selling author), Lisa Price (founder, Carol's Daughter), Melissa Butler (founder, The Lip Bar) and Tonya Rapley (founder, My Fab Finance.) Their powerful testimonies as to how grit and perseverance set the stage for success reminds audiences that Black women are indeed bosses in business, embarking on their own ventures at six times the national average. Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different, is a 2017 film, Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She "was the first..." as former husband Miles Davis said. "Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince". An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70's scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles - startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named "Bitches Brew". She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she just vanished. Betty Mabry Davis is a global icon whose mysterious life story has until now, never been told. Creatively blending documentary, animation and nonfiction techniques, this movie traces the path of Betty's life, how she grew from humble upbringings to become a fully self-realized black female pioneer the world failed to understand or appreciate, revealing the mystery of her 35-year disappearance and her battle with mental illness and poverty. After years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations. —Philip Cox ARTS4ALL CANDID CONVERSATIONS: Elise Perry, Grammy Chapter, DC (President) for a conversation about Grammy U and women artist in the DMV music movement. COVID protocols require showing proof of vaccination or negative test to attend this event. Mask wearing is required indoors accept when eating or drinking.