Friday 1st November
We are delighted to be one of the venues for the just-gets-better-and-better Africa in Motion Film Festival this year. If you come along to the ACC on Friday 1st November at 7pm you can watch Twilight Revelations: Episodes in the Life and Times of Emperor Haile Selassie.
The documentary sheds new light on the personality, leadership style and humanity of the last and final Emperor of Ethiopia.
Many know only of Haile Selassie's connection with Rastafari but he did not consider himself to be a God, nor did he consider himself to be Rastafarian apparently. There's more information on how he came to be considered to be God by Rastafarians here.
Little known fact - Haile Selassie fled Ethiopia after the Italians invaded in the 1930s. Guess where he ended up? Wemyss Bay and Skelmorlie! For those who don't know both lie on the West Coast approximately 30 miles from Glasgow and between Greenock and Largs. He was harboured by Lord Inverclyde for some time but details are sketchy and so little is known about that time that we bet the film doesn't mention it.
Come along to the ACC, 66 Osborne Street on Friday at 7pm and find out for yourself. Free entry.
Other films showing in the Africa in Motion Film Festival are listed here.
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