Free State Festival

The last event of 2024's #FreeStateFest is a brand new documentary from Kevin Willmott about civil rights activist Alvin Brooks - who will also appear at the post-screening Q&A! Don't miss this special occasion at 6PM.

Learn about the annual squirrel hunt in Tonganoxie, Kansas with #FreeStateFest's 4PM showing of the documentary Community Squirrel Hunt, accompanied by a Q&A with director Kevin McKinney.

#FreeStateFest has partnered with @lawrencemodern for a 1PM screening of the 1955 noir Kiss Me Deadly, followed by a discussion with classic cinema scholars @IrishJayhawk66 and @alancinephile.

The last Saturday screening for #FreeStateFest is Sav Rodger's documentary Chasing Chasing Amy at 8PM, followed by a Q&A with Rodgers (@filmhunk).

Our Blood of a Poet art experience for #FreeStateFest is SOLD OUT!! Looking forward to this event at 6PM @LawrenceArtsCtr.

#FreeStateFest is excited to show @davidkirkman's Afrofuturist epic Underneath: Children of the Sun at 2PM today @LawrenceArtsCtr. The film is preceded by the short Old Times Not Forgotten and followed by a Q&A with Kirkman and producer Jason Wilson.

#FreeStateFest's Saturday matinee showing is @FStrickwerda's ultimate frisbee documentary Ultimate Citizens. The screening starts at 12PM and stick around for a Q&A afterwards!

Pow Wow vocalist @joeraineysr closes out #FreeStateFest's Friday events with a performance @LawrenceArtsCtr at 9PM!

#FreeStateFest screens Bring Them Home, a new documentary about the decades-long effort to return buffalo back to the Blackfeet Reservation, at 7PM @LawrenceArtsCtr. The film is followed by a Q&A with producers @RebekkaSchlich1 and Candice Dalsing.

Come to #FreeStateFest's 5PM free screening @LawrenceArtsCtr of filmmaker Tweesna Rose Mills' revisionist take on the historic silent film The Daughter of Dawn. Learn more about the movie's history here: freestatefestival.org/event/…