Optimist Club travelogue series ends in March

The Bay City Noon Optimist Club Travel & Adventure Cinema Series concludes its 32nd season on Mon., March 24 at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre with "The Salt of the Earth," narrated by Juliano Salgado and Wim Wenders.

Photographer Sebastião Salgado, the son of a Brazilian cattle rancher, studied economics at Sao Paulo University, earning a Master’s Degree in 1968. The film documents his life and work.

While working for the Ministry of Finance, Salgado joined the popular movement against Brazil’s military government. Seen as a political radical, he was exiled in 1969 and fled with his wife to France.

While on assignment in Rwanda for the International Coffee Organization, he took his first life-changing photographs and became a freelance photojournalist in 1973.

Major sponsors of the film series include: Robert and Linda Hafford, Paramount Rehabilitation, Summit Printing & Graphics, Lake Michigan Credit Union, and Prime Brothers Furniture.

Tckets are available for $10 in advance at Herter Music and the State Theatre or at the door. For more information, call (989) 893-9578 or visit the Bay City Noon Optimist website

 
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