Martin Luther King Jr.
January 10, 2018
Page 35
2018 special edition
Arts &
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A new documentary “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Hurt,” on the life of Lorraine
Hansberry, a black writer, feminist and outspoken trailblazer at the
height of the Civil Rights movement, gets a screening in Portland with
the firm’s director in attendance on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,
Monday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum. The film pre-
miers nationwide on PBS on Friday, Jan. 19 at 9 p.m.
Revealing Portrait of Activist Artist
A new documentary on the life of Lorraine
Hansberry, a black writer, feminist and outspo-
ken trailblazer at the height of the Civil Rights
movement gets a free screening in Portland
with the film’s director in attendance.
“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling
Heart” will be shown at Whitsell Auditorium in
the Portland Art Museum for the Martin Luther
King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 15 at 7:30
p.m. The screening, with director Tracy Heath-
er Strain in attendance, will be in advance of
the film’s national premiere on public televi-
sion later in the week.
Hansberry led an active life, befriending
James Baldwin, inspiring Nina Simone, break-
ing barriers from Broadway to Hollywood, be-
ing monitored by the FBI, and seeking love on
her own terms, all before her untimely death at
age 34.
Drawing upon multiple archives, the film
goes deep into the stage and screen productions
of Hansberry’s landmark work “A Raisin in the
Sun,” about at black family in her hometown
Chicago. We hear from Sidney Poitier, Ruby
Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., and others involved in
its productions.
The film’s title comes from Hansberry’s
view that “one cannot live with sighted eyes
and feeling heart and not know or react to the
miseries which afflict this world.”
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