Turners Falls RiverCulture Calendar
Neighbor By Neighbor: Mobilizing and Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine Sunday, February 7th, 1 p.m. at The Brick House, 24 Third Street, PO Box 135, Turners Falls, MA 01376. (413) 863-9576.
Join filmmaker Craig Saddlemire for a screening and discussion of his recent documentary film, Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine. In 2004, the city of Lewiston announced plans to flatten part of a downtown residential neighborhood to make way for a new four-lane boulevard -- an urban renewal scheme that would have displaced 850 people, most of them low income, from their homes. Saddlemire followed residents of the targeted area as they worked together to defeat those plans, and in turn developed and pursued their own vision of neighborhood improvement. This story of ordinary people becoming community organizers and agents of their own destiny is not to be missed. We will provide refreshments, and invite you to stay after the screening for a discussion with the filmmaker -- and some of your own neighbors. For more information call 413 863-9197.
To view the trailer visit: www.roundpointmovies.org/roundpointmovies/neighbor.htm
"This is not just a film about a social issue: it springs directly from the struggle for justice by the marginalized residents of one of America's forgotten industrial cities. This is what an American Political Documentary should look like" - Maple Rasza, activist/filmmaker
