"Green Streets" Alcove Cinema Screening
Join us at Alcove Cinema for a screening of "Green Streets", a NYC documentary on the grassroots emergence of community gardens in the 70s and 80s. The filmmaker Maria De Luca will be present for a Q&A following the film.
Doors 7:00 PM, film begins 7:30 PM.
The Field Meridians Sunday Seeds collective will be distributing free seeds from our community seed library and copies of the spring issue of our seasonal local newsletter, the Field Meridians Observer.
The Tea Stand NYC, a community-funded, anti-capitalist project, will also be serving free iced and hot tea for attendees.
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More about the film:
"Green Streets" follows the spontaneous emergence of community gardens across all five boroughs, documenting how residents transformed abandoned lots into green community spaces during the city's fiscal crisis and years of disinvestment. It focuses on the people behind the movement and the social impact these gardens had on neighborhoods. Since 1973, when guerrilla gardener Liz Christy threw the first seed bombs into a barren lot on the Bowery, community gardens have taken root. Here is a showcase of this movement.
About Field Meridians:
Field Meridians is planting seeds for a public food forest in central Brooklyn. With our neighbors in Crown Heights, we are braiding together art making practice, environmental justice, and collective visioning to build a resilient civic space—an edible ecosystem as classroom. We are an artist collective committed to creating tools for ecological resilience through social practice. With site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages our community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty and infrastructures of repair.
Field Meridians Observer Issue 2
About The Tea Stand:
The Tea Stand serves free tea to create spaces for local connection.
Together, we can build local autonomy, practice reciprocity, and continue serving FREE TEA FOR ALL!