This month’s installment of Highlander Center‘s “Off The Hill” screening series (featuring free admission & concessions) presents a stirring feature documentary on the life and work of famed Knoxville poet Nikki Giovanni, who passed away late last year.

This award-winning documentary travels through time and space to reveal the enduring influence of Nikki Giovanni, one of America’s greatest living artists and social commentators. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project reckons with the inevitable passing of time through a collision of memories, moments in American history, live readings, and visually innovative treatments of Giovanni’s poetry.

“Breaks the traditional documentary format and presents a raw, sensitive, and lyrical portrait of its subject.” – Chicago Reader

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