Thursday newportFILM Event Moved Indoors

If you’re heading to tonight’s highly-anticipated screening of “What Happened, Miss Simone” by newportFILM, there’s a change in venue.

The event will now be held inside the Casino Theatre. It had previously been set to be held outside at Doris Duke’s Rough Point.

Meredith Nordhem said that they’ve been monitoring the weather all day and with the chance of high winds and thunderstorms, the move seemed necessary.

There are 290 seats at the Casino Theatre, so space is limited.

An RSVP for the outdoor event will not promise you a seat, so it will be first-come, first serve.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Casino Theater has no lot, but there is non-resident street parking on Freebody and King Streets and metered parking on Memorial Bouelvard.

You can also find paid parking in the Bellevue Gardens lot.

The schedule of events will remain:

· 7:00 PM - Doors open

· 7:15 PM - Food vendor opens & pre-film music by La Méchante et le Connard begins

· 8:15 PM - George Wein & director Liz Garbus will introduce the film

· 8:30 PM - Film begins

· 10:15 PM - Post-film conversation moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Tatiana Siegel with the film’s director Liz Garbus

What Happened, Miss Simone is described as a “metiulously researched, tough-love portrait of the brilliant but troubled folk/jazz/soul diva,” according to Variety.