Chatham Community Library, in conjunction with the Community Remembrance Coalition - Chatham, will host an in-person film screening of the documentary Acts of Reparation on Saturday November 23rd from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, in the Holmes Family Meeting Room. This program is free and open to the public.

Produced by Selena Lewis Davidson and Macky Alston, Acts tells the story of two friends – one Black, one white – who travel South to their ancestral lands to explore what reparations means to them. From kitchen tables to porches, lost cemeteries to discovered diaries, their journeys lead to unexpected opportunities that transform their friendship, families and communities. Prior to the screening there will be a virtual discussion with Mr. Alston.

Acts of Reparation is told in the first-person plural. Throughout the film, viewers are guided by a conversation between two old friends. With different histories – the enslaver and the enslaved, the colonizer and the colonized – Macky and Selina are determined to figure out together what is possible to transform relationships, communities and this country. While their long friendship provides a backdrop of trust and candor, there are conversations they have never shared about how race and its history shape their relationship and their lives.

Residents may visit the libraries’ website www.chathamlibraries.org, or contact the Library at (919) 545-8084 for more information on this and other events and programs.

Members of the media interested in attending/covering this event are asked to please notify Public Information Officer Kara Lusk in advance at 919-542-8258 or kara.lusk@chathamcountync.gov.