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Bike Vessel: Free Event at The East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Indie Lens Pop-Up Preview Screening

Presented by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Date & Time

Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at 3 p.m.

Location

The Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806

Cost

Free and open to the public. Pre-registration is recommended.

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Join Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library for an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of Bike Vessel on Sunday, February 16 at 3 p.m. at The Main Library at Goodwood in Baton Rouge. This screening is an exclusive first look at the documentary ahead of its premiere on LPB on Tuesday, February 25th @ 10pm.

The event will include a showing of Bike Vessel followed by a panel discussion.

After the screening, hear and participate in an engaging panel discussion about how healthy lifestyle habits and exercise, such as cycling, can encourage transformative experiences including building relationships, overcoming adversity, and more. Panelists include Charles Daniel, CEO & Owner of Geaux Ride, Dustin LaFont, Director and Founder of Front Yard Bikes, and Dr. Rani G. Whitfield (‘Tha Hip Hop Doc’), Board Certified Family Physician with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Robyn Merrick, Vice President for External Affairs and University Relations at Southern University and A&M College System.

Bike Vessel will have open captions. There will be an ASL interpreter to enhance accessibility during the panel discussion. Additionally, the library will provide portable receivers/headphone units for audience members who may be hard of hearing.

Bike Vessel:

Bike Vessel follows the heartwarming journey of a father and son who embark on a cycling journey to celebrate their health transformation after the father overcame three open-heart surgeries at the age of 70.

Twenty years after Donnie Seals Sr. went through a medical crisis, he makes a miraculous health recovery after discovering his love for bicycling. Approaching the age at which his father underwent surgery and facing similar health conditions, Director Eric D. Seals proposes an ambitious idea to his father: bike together from St. Louis to Chicago—350 miles in 4 days.

Bike Vessel serves as a meditation on kinship and connection, centered on a father who reclaims his life against all odds. It also examines health disparities among Black men, who statistically have the lowest life expectancy and highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups.