ABOUT INDIE LENS POP-UP
Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations. Featuring documentaries seen on PBS’s Independent Lens, Indie Lens Pop-Up draws local residents, leaders, and organizations to discuss what matters most, from newsworthy topics and social issues, to family and community relationships.
Every season, there are hundreds of local events hosted by Indie Lens Pop-Up partners across the country. Since its inception in 2005, more than 6,700 Indie Lens Pop-Up events have brought an estimated 400,000 participants together to discuss issues that impact local communities.
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Community Film Series
KIXE PBS and Viva Downtown Present:
We Want the Funk
Friday, April 5th, 5:30PM
IOOF Hall, 1492 California-Market Alley, Redding
Let’s dance!
We Want the Funk is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown’s dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, the story also traces funk’s influences on both new wave and hip-hop.
Join KIXE PBS and VIVA Downtown for April’s First Friday. Dance to the music of Soul Punch after learning about the history and tradition of Funk.
We Want the Funk premieres on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on April 8 2025, at 9 p.m. The film will also be available on the PBS Video app.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
Wednesday, May 14th 5:00 PM
Dignity Health Connected Living 200 Mercy Oaks Dr, Redding
Alzheimer’s disease transforms the lives of three families who confront the challenges of becoming primary caregivers.
Join KIXE PBS, Dignity Health, Shasta Older Adult Policy Council, Shasta County Health and Human Services Healthy Brain Initiative , Alzheimer’s Association and Public Service Area Agency on Aging 2 to watch a movie and learn what resources are available in our area to help families in a difficult time, you are not alone. Resource Fair opens at 5PM.
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's premieres on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on May 5 at 2025, at 9 p.m. The film will also be available on the PBS Video app.
Free For All: The Public Library
Thursday, June 5th 5:00 PM
Redding Library 1100 Parkview Ave, Redding, CA 96001
Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.