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Sci-Fi Night: Sun Ra’s Space is the Place (1974)

Arcata Theatre Lounge

Ready for your fix of the best in science fictions movies, drive-in classics, psychotronic weirdness, and more? Wednesday, August 31st. Pre-Show @ 6PM. Raffle @ 7:35PM. Movie Starts @ 7:40PM Happy Hour Food & Drink Specials during the Pre-Show. $5 Admission. Rated R | Running Time: 1hr. 22min. All Ages - Parental Guidance Suggested. FREE RAFFLE!! - Admission grants you one raffle ticket for a chance to win some very cool, very strange science fiction prizes including: movie tickets, figurines, posters, books, cards, VHS movies and more for that inner science fiction enthusiast in us all. Don’t miss our custom curated pre-show. Always themed to the movie and packed with: behind-the-scenes footage, movie trivia, unique short films, house-made trailers, and more. Retro-gaming available in the lobby. ********** Main Feature: Sun Ra’s Space is the Place (1974) Sun Ra—space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader—lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra disembarks and proclaims himself “the alter-destiny.” He holds a myth-vs.-reality rap session with black inner-city youth at a rec center, threatening “to chain you up and take you with me, like they did you in Africa,” if they resist his plea to go to outer space. He duels at cards with The Overseer, a satanic overlord, with the fate of the black race at stake. Ra wins the right to a world concert, which features great performance footage of the Arkestra. Agents sent by the Overseer attempt to assassinate Ra, but he vanishes, rescues his people, and departs in his spaceship from the exploding planet Earth.

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WHERE

• Arcata Theatre Lounge

PRICE

• $5
• $9 Admission + Poster