The Underground History film screening and community discussion will present a work-in-progress documentary and gather feedback about the film from the audience. The event will provide an opportunity for discussion with the filmmakers and project advisors, as well as exploration of ideas for ongoing engagement in community efforts around St. Petersburg’s history, archeology and cultural heritage.

Underground History is a documentary film project designed to explore connections between the Tampa Bay region’s diverse cultural history and emerging community efforts to acknowledge that past in charting the future. The project considers the links between the history and remaining archeological sites of the region’s Indigenous Ancestors, the displaced contemporary African American communities and erased black cemeteries, and historic waterways which once created a connectivity for these places and people.