Saturday, May 16 at The National Black Theater
ImageNation presents a special FREE works in progress community screening of…
CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM
a film by Shawn Batey
Saturday, May 16th you and a guest are invited to a FREE work in progress screening of Shawn Batey’s film CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM. Following the film will be a panel discussion with city officials, community leaders and Harlem activists. Arrive early, seating is limited.
Harlem, this is your chance to state your opinion about the “New Harlem” before this documentary film is completed and plays to the world. The community screening is free and open to the public and donations are welcomed (suggested donation is $5).
CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM reviews development in Harlem over the last twenty years and ponders the future of the community. From the voices of residents, business owners, politicians, developers and clergy, this documentary reveals feelings of betrayal and hope, deferred dreams, and struggles of a neighborhood. The film illustrates how, in the years of the 1980s and 1990s, the New York City government along with non-profit faith based organizations saved and revamped the abandoned vacant housing stock that became synonymous with Harlem.
FREE, 7pm at the National Black Theater
located at 2031-33 National Black Theatre Way
Fifth Avenue (Btwn 125th & 126th Streets)
| ImageNation, a Harlem-based organization, was established in 1997 to counteract negative images and stereotypes that are propagated about people of color, through mass media; and, to establish a chain of independent art-house cinemas dedicated to cinema of the African Diaspora. Imagenation uses independent cinema and progressive music to foster media equity, solidarity and cross-cultural exchange throughout communities of color worldwide, with special foci on the USA and South Africa.
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Posted on May 11, 2009 by D. Bell