You are invited to a special showing of the film Origin on Saturday, August 24.  FPC will host two screenings.  The first will be from 2:00-4:00, and the second screening will be from 6:00-8:00. A discussion will take place over a pizza dinner at 5:00 pm in Watts-Hill Fellowship Hall.

Origin is a highly acclaimed film and dramatic, poignant narrative that follows Isabelle Wilkerson’s inspiration and research while writing the book Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The book topped the New York Times non-fiction best seller list.  The film Origin follows Wilkerson as she considers the ways in which caste operates through American racism from slavery through the modern day, anti-Semitism during WWII, and the caste system in India.  It explores the ways in which oppression and marginalization  of groups may be clothed differently in distinct moments of time and space, yet share the same insidious origins.  FPC’s Racial Equity Task Force invites you to watch this autobiographical film that is simultaneously disturbing, hopeful, and all together moving.  We hope we can also reflect on the questions the film raises and what it calls us to do.

Please sign up HERE and let us know your preferences if you’d like to join us for pizza.  We would appreciate a reply by Thursday, August 22, though you are welcome to come to either showing of the film without a reservation.