New York Matters: Film Series!

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Spoke the Hub
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New York Matters: Film Series
Gowanus Arts Building / 295 Douglass Street btwn 3rd & 4th Aves.
2nd Friday of every month @ 7:30pm

SPOKE THE HUB is proud to host the upcoming film series "New York Matters", curated by Isabel Hill. The New York Matters film series digs deep into the core of the issues, stories, places, changes and people that make New York a community. On the second Friday of every month, Spoke the Hub will open its doors at the iconic Gowanus Arts Building to present films that are unmistakably New York. Perfect for families, dates, friends and nights when you would love to watch a great movie in a huge loft space among fellow Brooklynites. Suggested donation: $5.00

New York Matters Film Series Schedule

2/8 "City of Water" by Jasper Goldman & Loren Talbot
A look at how public officials, environmentalists, recreational boaters and regular New Yorkers see our waterfront and its future as development proceeds at gold-rush pace.
*Filmmaker will be in attendance for a question and answer session following the film*

3/14 “Every Mother’s Son” by Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold
Three different women lose sons to police brutality in New York City and unite to fight for change.

4/11 “The Collector of Bedford Street” by Alice Elliot
An Academy-award nominated film about a neighbor with disabilities and how a New York community makes a plan to help him stay in the neighborhood.

5/9 “Metropolitan Avenue” by Christine Noschese
An inspiring film about a Brooklyn community, the changing role of women and how powerful ordinary people can be when they join together to fight for something they believe in.

6/13 “Made in Brooklyn” by Isabel Hill
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America.

7/11 “Lavendar Lake” by Alison Prete
A Brooklyn community dreams and battles over a new and suddenly desirable urban landscape.

8/8 “Taking the Heat” by Bann Roy
The daring story of the first women firefighters in New York City.


Spoke the Hub's mission is to nurture both individual and community health and happiness through providing the general public with affordable creative arts study, contemplation and practice opportunities of the highest caliber.
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