FILM SCREENING

"The Last Class with Robert Reich"

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Screening and Q&A with NYS Senator Patricia Fahy, who worked for Reich during the Clinton administration, moderated by Paul Grondahl, Opalka Endowed Director, NYS Writers Institute

Scene One Spectrum 8 Theatres

290 Delaware Avenue, Albany NY 12209

Tickets $15 at the door / $10 advance

(Directed by Elliot Kirschner. United States, 2025, 71 minutes, color)

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling.

"The Last Class" captures a master educator wrestling with the dual realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance. Reich confronts the impending finality with unflinching candor, humor, introspection, and a rawness of emotion he has never shared publicly before.

One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on campus — the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that society has to stay the way it is. His final assignment: Who will be the teachers of tomorrow?

Proceeds will benefit The 4th Family violence prevention program and Hood’s House of Hoops nonprofit community center, both in Albany.

Presented in partnership with the office of State Senator Patricia Fahy