Join us for an in-person screening and viewing of "Freeman Vines" at the Common Power office in Downtown Seattle.

The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and the Institute for Common Power are partnering to present the 2025 award-winning documentary, Freeman Vines, co-directed by André Robert Lee (The Prep School Negro) and Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse), and produced by Gill Holland.

Freeman Vines is a moving portrait of self-taught luthier and sculptor Freeman Vines, from eastern North Carolina. Filmed when he was 82-years-old and battling multiple myeloma, Freeman has been trying to make a guitar that can reproduce an elusive sound the instrument made decades ago. The search and his artwork took on even more significance when Freeman acquired a stack of lumber from a tree used in the lynching of a young Black man named Oliver Moore. Oliver Moore was lynched on August 19, 1930, not far from where Freeman lived. Freeman’s work invites us to revisit Oliver Moore’s story, and to listen to the past with new ears so that we might carve a different future.

The film screening will begin promptly at 4:00pm PST.