Red Emma’s Bookstore Screening and Recap

After we had screened in the Baltimore area during our last tour, we got an email from Red Emma’s Bookstore asking us if we could set up a screening with them. While we weren’t able to schedule anything in our Fall 2010 tour, we made sure to contact them for this one.

The film showing was held at St. John’s United Methodist Church, which Red Emma’s uses for performance-related events. It definitely was the most unique place we’ve screened Autumn Gem in! In some ways, it reminded me of the church from the John Woo film, The Killer. I was half expecting doves to start flying around the church when the film started!

We had an eclectic group of about 30 people at the screening, ranging from students at Johns Hopkins to a teacher and students at College of Notre Dame at Maryland to San Francisco Bay Area residents who were in-town visiting! We had come with Larry, Caitlin and Caitlin’s father to the screening. Afterwards, we drove down to Red Emma’s for a quick bite to eat. We noticed that Qiu Jin was listed among the various F-Bomb feminist revolutionaries in the bookstore’s main window.

WP-SmugMug Plugin: http://tow.com/projects/wordpress/*[[](/batch.download.php?aid=6956326)One of the more unique places that we screened the film at, the St. John’s United Methodist Church.](http://photos.tow.com/823217573onnYZ-L.jpg) *Inside St. John’s United Methodist Church, where we screened Autumn Gem with Red Emma’s Bookstore in Baltimore, Maryland. *Outside St. John’s United Methodist Church. *Rae at the front door of St. John’s United Methodist Church. *Sine from Red Emma’s Bookstore introduces us to the assembled guests for the Autumn Gem screening. *Sine from Red Emma’s Bookstore. *Listening to Rae’s introductory presentation. *Rae answers questions from the crowd following the Autumn Gem screening. *Rae talks with Jen, Sara and Stephanie following the screening. *Jen, Sara and Stephanie. *Thanks to Sine and Kevin for organizing the screening!