Location: McColl Center 721 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 282022 

FREE Screening | Registration Required

Join the IPH at the McColl Center for a special outdoor community screening of Wild Style (1982). The screening will take place on McColl’s front lawn on N. Tryon St. Chairs will be available, but you can also bring your own chair and/or picnic blanket. 

Wild Style (1982) is a seminal hip-hop film that captures the raw energy and creative spirit of New York City’s early 1980s street culture. Following graffiti artist Zoro (Lee Quiñones), the film offers an intimate look at a movement in the making, where subway cars become canvases, street corners transform into stages, and sound systems pulse with emerging voices. Blending narrative storytelling with real-life artists and performances, the film immerses viewers in the birth of hip-hop’s four elements (graffiti, breaking, MCing, and DJing) while tracing the tensions between artistic authenticity, recognition, and commercialization. The result is a vivid, unfiltered portrait of a cultural revolution whose influence continues to shape art, music, and identity today.

Thank you to our event partners McColl Center and Cine Casual. This outdoor screening at the McColl Center is part of Charlotte SHOUT!