Dap (Laurence Fishburne) and Julian, Big Brother Almighty (Giancarlo Esposito) conflict over their opposing political views in Spike Lee’s second joint, SCHOOL DAZE, one of the first feature length theatrical films focused on presenting the Black American college experience.

At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movements -- one day he hopes to rally the students as a united front. At the other end of the spectrum, Julian, the head of the biggest fraternity on campus, is more concerned with maintaining a strict social order. In between, Dap's conflicted cousin, Half-Pint (Spike Lee), spends most of his time rushing the fraternity.

SCHOOL DAZE examines the experiences of regular college life in collision with black identity, class division and colourism. While Dap is busy organising and Big Brother Almighty hazes the new cohort, sororities of "Wanna-be’s" and "Jigaboo’s" are divided by their complexion. Their main quarrel comes from their opposing ideologies of what progression for Black women should look like. 

As cinematographer Ernest Dickerson states, SCHOOL DAZE is about student apathy and class divisions within the Black community, Mission College (the film's university) has financial interests in South Africa, and the main character — Dap, leads a campaign to persuade the school to divest them. However, most of the students either aren’t interested in his activist movement or don’t want to rock the boat. They just want an education in order to get a good job,”.

This screening is hosted by NEVER WATCHING MOVIES, so expect raffles (all ticket holders are immediately entered into the raffle), intro, and fun before the film with an appearance from self-proclaimed MAYOR of Stevenage, artist and presenter TEGAN CHINOGUREI.