Aug 27, 2015
My Brooklyn
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My Brooklyn
[#FILM SCREENING + PANEL] My Brooklyn: Unmasking the Takeover of America's Hippest City Wednesday, November 19 | 7pm The Billie Holiday Theater | @BSRC (Restoration) Admission: $10 For tickets, visit http://bit.ly/1uye5VR Website: mybrooklynmovie.com
On Wednesday November 19th at 7pm, come to the Billie Holiday Theater for a special screening and panel discussion of My Brooklyn at in the heart of Bed-Stuy.
We have a great panel lined up to discuss the current and pressing topic of gentrification in Brooklyn.Please spread the word and apologies for the short notice!
My Brooklyn is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by cheap rents and bohemian culture. By Michael Bloomberg’s election as mayor in 2001, a massive speculative real estate boom is rapidly altering the neighborhoods she has come to call home. She watches as an explosion of luxury housing and chain store development spurs bitter conflict over who has a right to live in the city and to determine its future. While some people view these development patterns as ultimately revitalizing the city, to others, they are erasing the eclectic urban fabric, economic and racial diversity, creative alternative culture, and unique local economies that drew them to Brooklyn in the first place. It seems that no less than the city’s soul is at stake.
“Sensitive study of gentrification... Ms. Anderson traces a tale of aggressive rezoning, multimillion-dollar development deals and racial displacement.”
— The New York Times
"When big companies get money from the government it subsidies when minorities get money it's welfare"
MY BROOKLYN - TRAILER:
Check out this amazing and important movie. Gentrification is the antithesis of diversity!
Loren Connors ~ My Brooklyn
Loren Connors ~ My Brooklyn
There is little in our different relationships to great cities that is not ultimately musical in some way or another, be it the immersion into the rhythmical polyphony of architecture set against hundreds of passing cars and people, the indescribable drone of the massive coming together of sounds and noises over vast distances, or the strangely silent corners one finds a few steps off…
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