In honor of Banned Books Week, Albuquerque’s Central & Unser Library (8081 Central Ave. NW) is hosting a free public screening of Bless Me, Ultima as part of its Banned Books to the Big Screen series. This 2013 film, directed by Carl Franklin (Once False Move, Devil In a Blue Dress), is based on Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 coming-of-age novel of the same name. One of the most acclaimed novels in the Chicano literary canon, the story centers on a young boy growing up in rural New Mexico during World War II whose family takes in an elderly curandera. The book showed up on the “Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books” list in 2008 and 2013 and has been removed from countless school curricula over the years—often because the book’s view of traditional indigenous spirituality has been branded as “occultism/satanism” by conservative Christians. In 1981, for example, the Bloomfield School Board in San Juan County, N.M., burned copies of the book. If you wanna be a rebel and watch the movie version, you can do so on Friday, Sept. 28 from 1:30 to 3:30pm.