Dear Readers: Posting an email sent to me and if you want to see my photos and read my thoughts on Washington Square Park just type in the park in my search engine for this blog.
PREMIERE FILM SCREENING :
“WASHINGTON SQUARE SQUARED”
SUNDAY, JUNE 1ST * 7 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club * 308 Bowery
(between Houston & Bleecker) * Manhattan
Music performances also!
**********************************
“Washington Square SQUARED” is a one hour documentary which covers the proposed redesign of Washington Square Park and what’s taken place over the last four years: how the Bloomberg Administration pushed through its agenda to get this famous park in ‘line’ - literally.
It begins with the fountain, that famous theatre-in-the-round, home to political protest, art and musical freewheeling. The new design calls for this structure to “align” with the historic Arch (after over a century unaligned), more “picture perfect” for tourists traveling down Fifth Avenue, and reduction of the voluminous public space that surrounded it transformed into quaint areas with landscaped lawns.
The government plays bait-and-switch games with the outraged community, as they watch the City attempt to transform the Washington Square Park that they know and love into one that is pretty and pacified and far from its artistic, bohemian roots.
If you’ve been wondering how it got to this - with much of Washington Square Park behind gates and bulldozed - “Washington Square SQUARED” brings into sharp focus what’s happened thus far and what’s in store.
This is the premiere screening of this documentary.
Directed by Matt Davis
With Musical Guests: The Fools, A Brief View of The Hudson, Jeff Dickinson, Farbeon
This SUNDAY, JUNE 1st, 7 p.m.
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery between Houston & Bleecker
F train to 2nd Avenue; 6 train to Bleecker
Four Dollars
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment