Join us for a free public film screening of “Sedition” (2008, 16mins) folllowed by Spoken Word performances by Rebecca Thomas (Halifax Poet Laureate) and Poets For Progress https://www.facebook.com/events/1252289604801649/ Paul O’Regan Hall https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/sedition Commissioned by PEN Canada in 2008, Sedition is a 16-minute documentary by Min Sook Lee that explores issues around media and bias, and…
Screening: The Little Black School House (followed by a discussion with the Director) Dir. Sylvia D. Hamilton, 2007, 60m April 4, 6:30pm – Paul O’Regan Hall This one-hour documentary unearths the story of the children, women, men who were students and teachers in Canada’s racially segregated schools. With a vibrant musical score composed by jazz legend, Joe…
The Black Power Mixtape is an archive- and music- driven documentary that examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975.
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…
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.
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…
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…
