

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Film | We Want the Funk!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a screening of the 2025 documentary "We Want the Funk!"

Experience a syncopated voyage through funk music’s history from its African and jazz roots to James Brown’s early work and the rise of Parliament-Funkadelic.

This film explores how funk’s infectious grooves became a force of cultural resistance and self-determination. Loaded with rare footage, legendary performances, and in-depth interviews with funk pioneers. (2025; 80 min; Rating: Mature)

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/richmond/film-|-we-want-the-funk/200029307230628
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 114

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.vmfa.museum/events/film-we-want-the-funk-7661?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=richmond-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Richmond
- **state**: VA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23220
- **lat**: 37.5557
- **long**: -77.47455
- **full address**: 200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23220

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (https://allevents.in/org/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts/20962611)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 200 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23220
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Film | We Want the Funk! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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