VLA welcomes you to a Private, Pre-Release Screening of BANNED TOGETHER, Thursday, October 17 beginning at 8:30pm in the Marriott Ballroom 4, Fourth Floor. Popcorn will be provided. Drinks can be purchased at the bar on the Third Floor at the Hampton Ballrooms.
A diverse cast of visionary teenagers, intriguing characters, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and profanity-laced school board meetings: this is the world of the explosive new feature documentary, Banned Together.
Banned Together pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools.
Banned Together follows three young women during their senior year of high school as they fight hostile community members and school board officials to reinstate these banned books. We witness their evolution from local to national activists as they advocate at school board meetings, sit down with national politicians, famous authors and constitutional scholars, and ultimately, speak on stage at the Right to Read Rally during the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago.
As we follow their activist journey, Banned Together illuminates the radical political forces vying for control of public education and the nationwide resistance to their efforts.