WCPL has long been connected to the academic community. Partner events with WKU’s campus library and other departments have long played a role in the public library’s history. Now, with its management of the Capitol, the public library is getting to work with Western University’s Potter College of Arts and Letters (PCAL) to show independent films via the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers film series for free to local film goers. The screenings, co-sponsored by the PCAL Cultural Enhancement Series, are shown with support from South Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Southern Circuit has worked with screening partners for more than five decades to connect independent filmmakers with community audiences throughout the South. Films with compelling stories are accompanied by conversations with filmmakers, bringing important topics and the art of filmmaking to the forefront of community conversation.