We’ve been invited to do a program by the Storefront gallery at 97 Kenmare St. Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 to 8:00. (just E. of Mulberry). The Storefront for Art and Architecture displays multimedia work and arranges discussions about new ways to think about architecture, art and design.
It will feature a special showing of Harriet Hirshorn’s short documentary (in progress) about East River Park and a talk by the inspirational Alicia Boyd, who has been successfully pushing back against the forces of overdevelopment and gentrification in Crown Heights. She’ll be talking about City of Yes, the rezoning proposal that will let developers do whatever they want with no red tape and no requirements for improving neighborhood infrastructure to accommodate bigger buildings. There will be time for feedback about the film (Harriet is hoping for constructive comments) and for discussion about the continuing fight to make NYC more environmentally conscious as it continues to build.
Please come and participate. Invite others, too.
Here’s the announcement from the Center. Please share:
Open Session #9 (hosted by East River Park Action)
Tuesday April 30, 2024, 6:30pm
For the ninth in our Open Session series, Pat Arnow and Harriet Hirshorn from East River Park Action convene an evening of discussion around the question, “What can we do to stop the city from continued environmental and social destruction?” The workshop will be anchored by a screening of Hirshorn’s film-in-progress Greenwashed! What happened to East River Park which documents the efforts between 2018-2021 to save the East River Park from demolition.
Alicia Boyd from the anti-gentrification group Movement to Protect the People, will then talk about the citywide zoning proposal called City of Yes that is actively planning to continue destruction.
This Open Session is an invitation for the audience to think through how the city has ravaged the environment of the Lower East Side neighborhood in order to supposedly protect the community from the ravages of climate change, and unpack the complexities and dangers of this approach.
Open Sessions are a series of evenings curated and hosted at Storefront by an invited guest during the last week of each month. These informal gatherings will open a space for collective learning where critical issues surrounding ecological and socioeconomic intricacies that lie at the threshold between bodies of water and land are shared and discussed.