Picture This! La Bamba

Program Type:

Celebration Month, Art, Cultural Appreciation, Films, Performing Arts

Age Group:

Middle School Age, Teens, Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

La Bamba

In honor of Nuestra Cultura, Picture This colleague Guillermo has selected this 1987 love letter to Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of Chicano rock.

Synopsis

A biography of Ritchie Valens, the young rocker who died in a 1959 plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.

Production

PG-13 | 108 min. | Directed by Luis Valdez | Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. | 1987

Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Danielle von Zerneck, Rosana De Soto, Joe Pantoliano

Picture This features free film screenings every Monday at 6:30 pm in the Central Library's Neil Morgan Auditorium. Check back here, on the library calendar, for the most up-to-date lineup of films.

This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required. Underground parking can be accessed from 11th Ave and is free for 2 hours with validation in the main lobby. The Central Library entrance is also conveniently located along the Blue and Orange trolley lines, between the Park/Market and 12th/Imperial trolley stops.

Accessibility

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