DayLong Film + Video Festival: screening & fundraising event

DayLong is a celebration of films, videos, and moving images that tell us about Chicago. The one-day event will feature panels, performances, workshops and more to complement the screening selection. Contributing to the city's dynamic archive, we aim to provide a space for discovery and connection, reaching intergenerational audiences. For our debut event, we'll spotlight Black Queer communities, honoring their contributions to Chicago.

Join us for a mini-screening this Pride of two films hosted by DayLong that will be a part of the larger festival this fall. All ticket proceeds go directly to making DayLong happen!

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FEATURED FILMS

Queenie a 73-year-young Black lesbian and resident of Marcy Houses, navigates applying for Stonewall House, NYC's first LGBT elder affordable housing.

The Funnel, a short film by Charlene A. Carruthers.

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Doors at 6pm and our screenings begin at 7pm and will last under an hour. Dorothy remains open until 10pm.

Tickets are a sliding scale $10, $15 & $20. All proceeds are given back to DayLong.

Dorothy is 21+ and requires all guests to show physical ID upon entry. Dorothy is also ADA accessible with elevator access on Campbell Avenue. If you're a guest who requires elevator access, either reach out before the show, stop by Split-Rail on your way in for assistance or speak to our security person when you arrive.

Please note: refund requests will only be honored until noon the day of the show.

Want to dine at Split-Rail before the show? We recommend making a reservation.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

Nia Robinson is a writer, creative strategist, and event producer from Chicago. Her writing focuses on poetry, fiction, and long-form articles, all communicating her worldview as a Black lesbian. During her career so far as a creative strategist and event producer, she has worked on dozens of projects ranging from international celebrations for Black creators to digital campaigns for Pride. More recently, she won a Webby for her strategy work on Kerry Washington’s Street You Grew Up On. Nia is also a Peer Lead of the 20s group at Affinity Community Services, the longest running intergenerational organization servicing black LGBTQIA+ communities (with a focus on Black women). As she continues her work, she looks forward to connecting with her community, providing space for them to tell their own stories.

The Reservoir Collective is a mutual-aid collective serving Black queer trans and disabled creatives by pooling resources to help artists complete their projects, providing affordable creative development feedback, and implementing impact-driven community outreach and exhibition. Recent projects include a showcase of filmmakers of color in collaboration with Mezcla Media, in addition to mixers in collaboration with Black Alphabet and Mezcla Media. The collective is made up of individuals of varying disciplines, all with a passion to create and hold space for our communities.

Charlene A. Carruthers (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, community organizer, and Black Studies PhD Candidate at Northwestern University. A practitioner of telling more complete stories, her work interrogates historical conjunctures of Black freedom-making post-emancipation and decolonial revolution, Black governance, and Black feminist abolitionist geographies. She is a 2020 Marguerite Casey Presidential Freedom Scholar and Mellon Interdisciplinary Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work spans more than 15 years of community organizing across racial, gender and economic justice movements. Charlene wrote and directed The Funnel, a short film, which received the Queer Black Voices Award at the 35th Annual aGLIFF Prism Film Festival. As the founding national director of BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), she worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a member-led organization dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence Magazines. She has appeared on CNN, Democracy Now!, BBC and MSNBC. The Chicago native has also written for theRoot.com, CRISIS Magazine, Teen Vogue, Truthout, Colorlines and the Boston Review. She is recognized as one of the top 10 most influential African Americans by The Root 100, one of Ebony Magazine's "Woke 100," an Emerging Power Player in Chicago Magazine and is the 2017 recipient of the YWCA's Dr. Dorothy I. Height Award. A believer in telling more complete stories about the Black Radical Tradition, the filmmaker is a highly sought after speaker at various institutions including Wellesley College, Shaw University, Princeton University, Northwestern University and her alma mater Illinois Wesleyan University. She is author of the bestselling book, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.