FESTIVAL EXPRESS Screens Thursday February 8th at Schlafly Bottleworks

FESTIVAL EXPRESS screens Thursday February 8th at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, MO 63143). This is part of the A FILM SERIES “Culture Shock” Film Fest which has moved to the second Thursday of every month. 

In the summer of 1970, some of the world’s premier rock musicians – prime among them The Grateful Dead, The Band and Janis Joplin, the Band, the Fly Burrito Bros, Buddy Guy- got together to perform a series of concerts across southern Canada. Rather than just flying to the various venues then afterwards going their separate ways, the performers boarded a train in Toronto and headed west to Calgary, stopping off at various places to “do their thing” for appreciative audiences. That train ride, which turned into a nonstop jam session among some of the top rock ‘n roll talents of the time, became known as the Festival Express and this film is the chronicle of that experience.
FESTIVAL EXPRESS juxtaposes footage of the event with present-day interviews from some of the people who were on that train. We see the musicians jamming together in the cars then performing their sets in open-air stadiums. FESTIVAL EXPRESS is a wonderful time capsule for reminding us about what the culture was like 35 years ago.

A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/211367972755872/

$6  for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds.

“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together(http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.

The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.