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Poster for Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

Opens on November 18

Director: Varda Bar-Kar Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP

Starring: Janis Ian

Special Premiere Screening!

Janis Ian and the Art of Song (working title) will chronicle the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child”” (about an interracial love); her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen” (about body shaming); and her release of the disruptive album Breaking Silence which she leveraged to come out publicly about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.

Tickets: $15 general admission; $10 students, seniors, and Brattle members; No passes

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