Date and Time
Wednesday Jan 17, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM CST
January 17, 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Location
349 S. Gladstone Ave Aurora, IL 60506 Perry Theater in the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley Center for Cultural Enrichment
Fees/Admission
Free of charge but reservation required
Contact Information
Suzy McGary
630-844-6534
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Description
Short description: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Long description: “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award in 2013 for Best Picture. The film, directed by Steve McQueen, is an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations for 12 years before eventually being released. Movie trailer: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/12yearsaslave/
