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A Special Black History Month Screening: Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round


A Special Black History Month Screening:

AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND

Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm | Mount Saint Joseph Academy

Free and Open to the Mount Community. Appropriate for viewers aged 11+.

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We are pleased to invite you to Mount Saint Joseph Academy's Black History Month Kick-Off event with a meaningful afternoon screening of the documentary "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round." This groundbreaking film reveals the relatively unknown story behind the civil rights battle to desegregate Washington D.C.'s Glen Echo Amusement Park, three years before Dr. King would lead his march in the city. The screening event will be held on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm in the Fournier Auditorium at MSJA (120 W Wissahickon Ave, Flourtown, PA 19031). Following the film, there will be a live Q&A with the director of the documentary, llana Trachtman (biography below).

Open to all members of the MSJA community, this event offers a wonderful opportunity to gather as a community to learn, and engage in dialogue in support of the Sister of Saint Joseph mission “to live and work so that all people may be united with God and one another.” Mount Saint Joseph Academy is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging. Our mission is rooted in the legacy of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and guided by our beliefs as a school community. We remain fully committed to “educating founders” and empowering students to be agents of transformation in the face of moral and ethical challenges in an ever-evolving society.


We hope you will join us for this important evening and look forward to seeing you there. Please confirm your attendance to aid us in planning. 


llana Trachtman, Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Producer/Director

llana Trachtman is an Emmy award-winning documentary director/producer.  For   over twenty-five years, she has created programs for numerous  networks   including PBS, HBO Family, ABC-TV, Showtime, Discovery,  Lifetime, and the  Sundance Channel. llana believes that true stories,  carefully told, have unique   power to inspire compassion, action, and  community-building. Her topics have   ranged from the legacy of slavery in  Latin America (Black in Latin America with   Henry Louis Gates, PBS) to  Gulf  coast shrimpers (Our Heroes, Ourselves,   Lifetime), to glassblowing  for at-risk youth (The Arts Advantage, ABC-TV).