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SUMMARY:Artist Legacy Work on Film: The White Rose + Flying Lessons
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Anthology Film Archives in partnership with Soft Network/AFELL and Noble Gas Media\nBruce Conner\nTHE WHITE ROSE\n1967\, 7 min\, 35mm\nA work born of Bruce Conner’s profound friendship with artist Jay DeFeo\, THE WHITE ROSE captures the 1965 removal\, from her first-floor San Francisco apartment\, of DeFeo’s eponymous painting\, a monumental work that she began in the late 1950s and worked on obsessively for eight years\, eventually layering over two thousand pounds of paint onto the canvas. The intimate black and white film captures the fabled painting’s last moments in the apartment’s bay window recess\, a space covered in chunks of paint as though an extension of the work\, which Conner likened to a site-specific environment and “a temple”. Sutured by Conner’s sharp\, rhythmic editing and set to music from Miles Davis’s album “Sketches of Spain”\, THE WHITE ROSE is a tender document of artistic friendship\, and an affectionate record of a key moment in Beat Generation art history. \nElizabeth Nichols\nFLYING LESSONS\n2024\, 84 min\, DCP\nAt a community meeting held to address their gentrifying landlord’s aggressive treatment of longtime tenants\, filmmaker Elizabeth Nichols meets Philly Abe\, an older punk artist who swiftly becomes the younger woman’s muse\, attentive neighbor\, and friend. While tracking Philly’s activism and struggles in the face of harassment\, Nichols surfaces her life story through extraordinarily candid conversations\, as well as a gloriously SD video archive of concert footage and DIY downtown New York films by the likes of Todd Verow and Mike Kuchar in which the fabulously brash Abe starred. The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious\, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished. \nTotal running time: ca. 95 min. \nFollowed by a Q&A.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/artist-legacy-work-on-film-the-white-rose-flying-lessons/
LOCATION:Anthology Film Archives\, 32 2nd Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nMoRUS will be screening films about squatting in the Lower East Side. After each showing\, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come!\nDOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April 23rd till May 28th 2026\nLocation: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 \nFILM SCHEDULE:\n4.23…El Corazon de Loisaida + Viva Loisaida w/ Special Guests\n4.30…Your House is Mine + Survival Without Rent w/ Elana Heiserman\, Katie Meyers\, and Caroline McCaughey\n5.7…Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest\n5.14…Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy\n5.21…Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria\n5.28…Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/film-screening-tompkins-square-riot-footage/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nMoRUS will be screening films about squatting in the Lower East Side. After each showing\, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come!\nDOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April 23rd till May 28th 2026\nLocation: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 \nFILM SCHEDULE:\n4.23…El Corazon de Loisaida + Viva Loisaida w/ Special Guests\n4.30…Your House is Mine + Survival Without Rent w/ Elana Heiserman\, Katie Meyers\, and Caroline McCaughey\n5.7…Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest\n5.14…Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy\n5.21…Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria\n5.28…Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/film-screening-squatters-a-nyc-documentary-w-catalina-santamaria/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nMoRUS will be screening films about squatting in the Lower East Side. After each showing\, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come!\nDOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April 23rd till May 28th 2026\nLocation: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 \nFILM SCHEDULE:\n4.23…El Corazon de Loisaida + Viva Loisaida w/ Special Guests\n4.30…Your House is Mine + Survival Without Rent w/ Elana Heiserman\, Katie Meyers\, and Caroline McCaughey\n5.7…Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest\n5.14…Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy\n5.21…Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria\n5.28…Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/film-screening-take-over-whose-neighborhood-is-it-anyway-w-peter-kinoy/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nMoRUS will be screening films about taking over abandoned buildings\, fixing them up\, and turning them into communal housing in the Lower East Side. After each showing\, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come! \nDOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April 23rd till May 28th 2026\nLocation: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 \nFILM SCHEDULE:\n4.23…El Corazon de Loisaida + Viva Loisaida w/ Special Guests\n4.30…Your House is Mine + Survival Without Rent w/ Elana Heiserman\, Katie Meyers\, and Caroline McCaughey\n5.7…Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest\n5.14…Take Over + Whose Neighborhood is it Anyway? w/ Peter Kinoy\n5.21…Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria\n5.28…Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/film-screening-squat-or-rot-how-to-squash-a-squat-w-franck-lazare-and-special-guest/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:May Day - Creative Labor Creative Conditions
DESCRIPTION:Organized by New York Theatre Workshop\n\nMAY DAY\nThis special event will run from\napproximately 12:30–2pm. \nImmediately following\, please\njoin us for a special watch party of: \nFALL OF FREEDOM\nin partnership with National Black Theatre\nand Lena Waithe. \n\n\n\nOn May 1\, 2026\, New York Theatre Workshop will lead a May Day public activation on the Lower East Side as part of the Creative Labor\, Creative Conditions initiative\, centering artistic labor through a neighborhood-wide celebration of the East 4th Street Cultural District. With support from the Doris Duke Foundation and additional support from the Arison Arts Foundation\, the project will culminate in a “walk the block” activation produced in partnership with corridor organizations\, bringing together artists\, cultural workers\, local business owners and residents in an open-air\, site-responsive experience. Participating artists include Flako Jimenez\, Muriel Borst-Tarrant\, Daniel Watts\, Nick Polonio\, Bruce Cohen and Resistance Revival Chorus. \nAcross the block\, 10–15 site-specific activations including performances\, open studios\, and guided experiences\, will be presented by partner organizations and independent artists. Organizations include La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club\, WOW Cafe\, Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company\, Rod Rodgers Dance Company and Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc). Additional elements include artist interviews accessible via QR code and community-based artmaking\, extending engagement beyond live performance. \nGrounded in Creative Labor\, Creative Conditions\, the activation recognizes the cultural district as civic infrastructure\, a dense ecosystem of small and mid-sized arts and community organizations whose continued presence reflects decades of creative collaboration and organizing. By compensating participating artists and framing the gathering as both symbolic and practical civic infrastructure\, the event makes visible the interdependence required for creative work to endure. \nThroughout the day\, Doris Duke will travel in an “arts crawl” from Times Square to Governors Island to the East Village to the Upper West Side and conclude in Harlem\, celebrating artists and cultural workers across New York City. \nAfter walking the block\, join us for Fall of Freedom!
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/may-day-creative-labor-creative-conditions/
LOCATION:E 4th Street Cultural District\, E 4th Street btwn 2nd Ave & Bowery
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lower East Side History Month,Outdoor Event
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