Screening: Nickel Boys

Special Screening: ‘Nickel Boys’

6p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25

Maya Cinema  • 1000 California Avenue (93304)

Join us for a special screening of “Nickel Boys” hosted by The Hub of Bakersfield in partnership with NAACP Bakersfield Branch, The African-American Network of Kern County, Morgan Clayton, and Community Interventions.

Tickets are available by contacting NAACP Bakersfield Branch, Community Interventions, and at the “Tickets” button below.

Movie Synopsis: In the 1960s, African-American Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. While there, he meets a boy named Turner, and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators. Decades later, an investigation takes place after the academy's walls are found to have hidden a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.