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White Ignorance and the Struggle Against Gentrification audio files

May 23, 2015
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On May 21, 2015, The Radical Imagination Project was pleased to host a community event titled White Ignorance and the Struggle Against Gentrification, Past and Present featuring Concordia University professor Dr. Ted Rutland, Dr. Ingrid Waldron of the Dalhousie School of Nursing, community and labour activist Lynn Jones and Halifax’s poet laureate El Jones. Here…

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White Ignorance and the Struggle Against Gentrification in Halifax, Past and Present

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A presentation by Ted Rutland, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, with responses from local activists and organizers. Wednesday, May 20, 6-8pm at The Company House, 2202 Gottingen St.

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Screening: My Brooklyn (2012) and Remember Africville (1991)

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MY BROOKLYN (2012, Dirs. Kelly Anderson & Allison Lirish Dean, 76′) 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…

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Screening: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2010)

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THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2010, Dir.Chad Freidrichs, 83′). It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing…

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Gentrification and the Arts of Resistance. Documentary film series, April/May 2015

January 9, 2015
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Cities are growing and changing, but in whose interests and for whose benefit? These documentary films explore urban space, wealth, race, and the role of the arts, past and present, local and global. Join us for provocative documentary films, followed by moderated discussion. A collaboration betweenThe Radical Imagination Project and the Cinema Politica Network and the…

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