Indie Lens Pop-up

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU with partner the Carbondale Public Library will host a screening of “Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s,” featuring a community discussion and free dinner. The event will be held Tuesday, May 20 at the Carbondale Public Library.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU with partner the Carbondale Public Library will host a screening of “WE WANT THE FUNK!” featuring a free dinner and community discussion. The event will be held Tuesday, April 15 at the Carbondale Public Library.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU with partner the Carbondale Public Library will host a screening of “Home Court,” featuring a community discussion and free dinner for the first 35 participants. “Home Court” follows the ascent of Cambodian American teenager Ashley Chea, a basketball prodigy whose life intensifies amid college recruitment, injury, and triumph.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU with partner the Carbondale Public Library will host a screening of “Bike Vessel,” featuring a community discussion and free meal for the first 35 participants. “Bike Vessel” follows the heartwarming journey of a father and son who embark on a cycling journey to celebrate their health transformation after the father overcame three open-heart surgeries at the age of 70.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU with partner the Carbondale Public Library, will host a screening of “Free for All: The Public Library,” featuring a panel discussion and free meal for the first 35 participants. “Free for All: The Public Library” tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

WSIU, the Carbondale Public Library, and Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS will host a screening of “The Tuba Thieves,” featuring a free dinner and community dialogue. Directed, written, and produced by hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel, the film uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore the nature of sound itself, through several d/Deaf people telling stories in the film equivalent of a game of telephone.

Join WSIU and the Carbondale Public Library for a free dinner, film, and community discussion on Wednesday, March 27.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and WSIU/Carbondale Public Library will host a free dinner and screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary “Breaking the News,” featuring a community discussion about better media coverage of diverse issues and perspectives. The discussion will be moderated by Alee Quick of the News Literacy Project and WSIU Executive Director Fred Martino, Ph.D.

WSIU and the Carbondale Public Library will present a film screening and discussion on January 17. The event is free and open to the public; dinner will be served.

On Wednesday, November 8 at noon, join WSIU at the Carbondale Public Library for an Indie-Lens Pop Up screening: A Town Called Victoria. When the local mosque is burned to the ground, the town of Victoria, Texas, must overcome its age-old political, racial, and economic divides to find a collective way forward. The film debuts on WSIU-TV on November 13 at 8 p.m.