Join the Acme Screening Room and Flemington DIY on Saturday, May 16, at 6 p.m. for the documentary TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, plus live jazz with the Jerome Jennings Quintet.

Film producer and director Louis Massiah commissioned accomplished jazz drummer Jerome Jennings to score the soundtrack. His music complements the visuals, transporting the audience back to the time and places of Cade Bambara, an influential writer, filmmaker, and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues, and students.

Drummer, activist, bandleader, sideman, and Emmy Award-winning composer Jennings has performed, toured, and recorded with legendary musicians like Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Gerald Wilson, Christian McBride, Ron Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wynton Marsalis, the Count Basie Orchestra, Philip Bailey, Henry Butler, and many others. He has also made recordings and shared the stage with contemporary musicians as well and has been a member of piano master George Cables’ trio since 2021.

A food and wine reception will be held during a half-hour intermission after the film. All funds from the evening will benefit the programming of Flemington DIY and the ACME Screening Room.

For more information and tickets, visit AcmeScreeningRoom.org.

ACME Screening Room is in the Phillip Pittore Justice Center, 25 South Union Street, Lambertville. It is a nonprofit weekend theater that presents classic, independent, and documentary films to educate and inspire, and where audiences come together to discuss contemporary ideas presented through the world of film.