A December double feature! Next month we are honouring the AIDS activists who fought against those who couldn’t care less if we lived or died with not one but TWO stunning films.

On December 6, we will screen David France’s deeply powerful, Oscar-nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague, which focuses on the vastly influential New York City AIDS activist group ACT UP. And we are very excited that one of the central activists featured in the movie, the great Peter Staley will be joining us for a virtual Q&A afterwards! (Also: go buy his book Never Silent: ACT UP and my Life in Activism 🩷)

A week later on December 13th, we will head to Paris for Robin Campillo’s cinematic banger BPM Beats Per Minute. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and best picture at the Césars (the French Oscars), BPM is a fictionalized account of the activists at ACT UP’s Paris chapter… and it’s gonna leave you pretty wrecked, we must warn.

Both of these glorious posters were created by the wonder that is Eric Kostiuk Williams, who recently released a book 2AM Eternal that sure would make a great gift for anyone interested in local queer history (we’re just saying). Both posters will be for sale at the screening, and would make great little gifts themselves!

Tickets for How to Survive a Plague are here and tickets BPM Beat Per Minute are here. See you soon and then soon again, queers!