Street Movies to be screened on Broad

A portrait of Philadelphia's African American dance schools and their legacy, a look at the innovative, engaged printmaking operation of the Brandywine Workshop, and a glimpse of the work and ideas of visual artist Sedrick Huckaby will be featured in a series of short films screening Wednesday evening on the Avenue of the Arts.

The films, part of Scribe Video Center's 16th year of Street Movies, will be shown in collaboration with the Brandywine Workshop and the Clef Club and preceded by a performance of the Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble.

The free event begins at 7:45 p.m. on the lawn at the Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad St. Tiffany Bacon, a TV and radio personality, will lead a post-screening discussion with the audience. (In the event of rain, the event will move inside the Clef Club, 738 S. Broad St.)

Films to be screened:

Operating Outside the Lines, by Brandywine Workshop and Scribe, exploring 40 years of printmaking and other visual art; 711, by 711 Precious Places Group and Scribe, recalling the Sydney King School of Dance and other schools founded in Philadelphia in the 1940s, '50s, and early '60s; Sedrick Huckaby: Hidden in Plain Sight by John Thornton; Sun Ra and his Arkestra by Steven R. Berry.

Also: Invite the World to Come and Learn Art by Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial and Scribe; and Oni Ise Owo by Kenneth Shofela Coker, an animated adaptation of an African myth about seeking identity in hard times.