Screening Date: Wed. Nov. 14
Time: 6:45pm
Venue: Bryant Lake Bowl
Cost: $15
Premiere Status: Midwest
Run Time/Year/Country: 102min, 2024, USA
Director: Scott Crawford

Featuring a post screening Q&A with director Scott Crawford and special guest Greg Norton (Husker Du)

Co-presented by Extreme Noise Records

“Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” is a documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.