POSTPONED--Youth and Sports Day Benefiting I.T. Bookman Community Center

SAN FRANCISCO - Nov. 21, 2014 - PRLog -- "Youth and Sports Day" Benefits I.T. Bookman Community Center at the West Bay Conference Center, 1290 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, 2-4 p.m., Saturday, November 22nd has been postponed until early next year due to scheduling conflicts.

Now being scheduled for early 2015, The family-friendly community event will examine "the power of sports as a tool for life lessons and success" and will also take a look at media coverage of sports figures. Join the panel discussion/town hall meeting (express your thoughts about media coverage. Is there a double standard).  The event is a collaboration of  LaHitz Media, San Francisco Black Film Festival, The Oakland International Film Festival and Wright Enterprises to bring visibility and support to I.T. Bookman Community Center.

Sports related media and films will be screened for your input. It all happens the day before the 49ers take on Washington. Join the discussion and you may listen to the sports announcers with a different perspective. What messages are being sent to our youth and you!

Film Lineup Includes:

"I JUST WANNA BALL," directed By Robert "Fleetwood" Bowden, shows the determination of young women in Oakland, CA to shut out the streets while they strive for their dreams.

Back to Africa- "ABIDJAN" is an award winning Short Film by acclaim Filmmaker Alexander Etseyatse. This film is a fictional story that follows a hesitant young soccer player from Brooklyn, New York to his mother's homeland in Cote D'Ivoire Africa during a summer vacation.

April Wilson's "Two-A-Days"- A high school girl tries out for the football team and must power through resistance from her quarterback brother and parents to make the team.

Tracy Jenkins' "Pull Your Pants Up" examines the impact of Urban Youth's fashion statement.

By Dan Chace & Bob Hercules "PERSEVERANCE" tracks one of college football all time greats, Dr. Billy Taylor's early rise, and the depths of his great fall. . . until extraordinary circumstances inspired him to recover his health, regain his faith, and restore his family.

(Film Line up Subject to Change)

"Thanks to LaHitz Media's Jacquie Taliaferro for his vision for the event and the collaborators, San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Oakland International Film Festival and Keith Hazell ," said Jackie Wright, Executive Director, I.T. Bookman Community Center. "To have this event in the Fillmore District supporting an institution in the OMI (Ocean View, Merced Heights and Ingleside) breaks down neighborhood walls and is a reminder that through collaboration community centers serve beyond their geographical boundaries. We look forward 2015."

I.T. Bookman Community Center has also launched the $10 X 10 I.T. Bookman Friends Campaign.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/10-x-10-i-t-bookman-fr...

For those who don't want to give via the internet:
make a contribution for the benefit of I.T. Bookman Community Center by check to South West Community Corporation, 446 Randolph Street, San Francisco, CA 94132. I.T. Bookman Community Center is a 501c3 non profit, Tax ID # 94-329-7348

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About I.T. Bookman Community Center

Board of Directors: Carl Barnes, Gale Rosboro, Joyce Watson, Sharon Page-Pressley, and Barbara Lee

From the "Neighbor 2 Neighbor Intergenerational Digital Project to Free Monthly Senior Citizens Luncheons, the I.T. Bookman Community Center is home away from home for youth and elders alike.

"The Jewel of the OMI," I.T. Bookman Community Center is one of San Francisco's first public/private partnership projects as a result of visionary I.T. Bookman and former Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Located at 446 Randolph Street at Arch in San Francisco, programs include: YMCA After School Care, YMCA Summer Program, Hip Hop Health Clinic by SFHD, Senior Programs supported by SF DAAS, Blood Pressure Screenings, Nutritional Services, Health Services, Info & Referrals, Computer Classes, Exercise, Board Games, Excursions, Line Dancing, Intergenerational Digital Media Projects, Community Movie Nights & more benefiting seniors, youth, single adults & families in the Ocean View, Merced Heights, & Ingleside neighborhoods and greater San Francisco.

https://www.facebook.com/ItBookmanCommunityCenter?ref=br_tf

"I Just Wanna Ball" by Robert "Fleetwood" Bowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEnEkoY-Z0