Jackson Heights Life

Monday June 8th Join us for Letters for Julio

Presented by: Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee with support from the Queens Council on the Arts and the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights

A sneak preview of a documentary (in production) about the Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade and the life and death
of Julio Rivera.

Local filmmaker and photographer Richard Shpuntoff presents, for the first time, material from his forthcoming documentary film including photographs from the first ten years of the parade, film footage of the parade from 2001 to 2008, and interviews with key figures. Letters for Julio is a personal portrait of Jackson Heights centering on the brutal 1990 murder of Julio Rivera in the PS 69 schoolyard and the birth and life of the Queens Pride Parade.

Monday, June 8, 2009, 6:30 PM
Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, 37-06 77th Street

Admission is free. Complimentary pizza and soda will be served.

For more information, see www.QueensPride.com or call (718) 228-7599.

This event is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program,a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts,administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.