Events

Thursday, July 9 | 7:30 pm
Jazz & Jacob
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s witnessed a burst of African American cultural life. The Brooks brings that excitement to Memphis by celebrating all the arts on Thursdays in July.

FILM: Jump at the Sun
$5 for members; $7 for non-members; Free with VIP Film Pass. VIP Film Pass: Available for Brooks Members Only $35 for a year of free films!

Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering writer and anthropologist, and one of
the first black women to enter the American literary canon for Their Eyes
Were Watching God. She established the African American vernacular as one
of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive
film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her