This event has limited seating and an RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early to secure seating for the screening.

‍Join us for a screening of KORLA, a documentary on John Roland Redd, an African American who successfully passed as an Indian musician from New Delhi.  Known for his live television show in the 50s, where he played popular tunes and East Indian compositions on his Hammond organ, he has been called the Godfather of exotica music.  Korla is the story of one man's secret and the life he led to protect it.

Director John Turner and producer Eric Christensen will attend the screening.  John is an author and art curator, who along with Eric, worked at KGO TV News.

The film will be introduced by award winning Bay Area news broadcaster Carolyn Tyler, and will be followed by an audience discussion led by Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.

FREE ADMISSION -- RSVP here

‍This program is presented in conjunction with Third Thursdays in Yerba Buena.