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IMA alumnae Sarah Nelson Wright and Laura Chipely will be opening their new group exhibit, Combined Overflow which is an exhibition of creative responses to the Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal, two New York City waterways with similar histories of industry, pollution and neglect.
Combined Overflow will be exhibited from April 26th to May 24th at Proteus Gowanus, located at 543 Union Street (Nevins Subway Station) in Brooklyn, New York.
Prof. Buddy Stein and the Neighborhood News featured The Hunts Point Express in The New York Times. Eight reporters from The Hunts Point Express discussed issues in the South Bronx with the borough’s district manager of Community Board 2. The reporters were Hunter College Students who held a news conference with Mr. Salamanca at Hunter with an objective to ferret out stories that will inform, connect with and give a voice to residents who might not otherwise have one.
Prof. Martin Lucas will be screening his film, Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, as part of the Cinema Conservancy screening series. Two screenings events will be held at separate time and places, one on April 27th at The Queens Museum and the second on May 12th at The Bronx Documentary Center. The guests include filmmaker Martin Lucas, historian of American 20th century politics, Kim Phillip-Fein, and activists from Brooklyn’s People’s Firehouse movement that will take part in a discussion after the film’s Queens Museum screening. Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, was also featured in the Movies section of The New Yorker.
Date, Time and Locations:
April 27th at 2PM at The Queens Museum,
Flushing Meadows Park, Queens
May 12th at 7:30PM at The Bronx Documentary Center,
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx