TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing Film Screening

Join the Center for Black Visual Culture as welcome filmmaker Louis Massiah for a screening a conversation on TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing. This program is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora and NYU Arts & Science Department of English.

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes) is a biography of the 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.

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) was a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist whose groundbreaking works, including The Black Woman (1970), Gorilla, My Love (1972), and The Salt Eaters (1980), helped define the Black Arts and feminist movements. Her life’s work continues to shape contemporary thought on art, education, and liberation.

Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia. His works include the documentaries The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets and TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing. At Scribe, he has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” fellowship and many other honors.

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Dates:  May 1, 2026

Time:  6:00pm to 9:00pm

Locations: Cantor Film Center, Theatre 102, 36 E 8th St, New York, NY 10003.

Doors will open at 5:45pm, please note Cantor Theatre will not allow guests to enter before doors officially open.