Housing is a Human Right [trailer]

From the producers: "Housing is a Human Right is an ongoing multimedia documentary portrait of the struggle for home in New York City. Composed of oral narratives and photographs, along with testimonies and memories of home, woven and remixed this collection of viscerally honest, first-person narratives serve as a reminder that home is as tenuous a space as the shelter that sustains it. housingisahumanright.org"



From the website: Housing is a Human Right kicks off with a feature length performance of sounds, sights, and stories of home at a laundromat in Fort Greene Brooklyn.

Admission: a load of laundry

WHERE: 81 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

GETTING THERE: G train to Fulton St, C to Lafayette, 2,3,4,5,B,Q Atlantic Ave, D, M, N, R Pacific St

This is an ON-GOING project that is just beginning. In an effort to share with the community what it is we are doing, invite participation, feedback, and dialogue we are presenting a kick-off exhibit of 11 stories we have collected to date along with “remixed testimony” proclaiming the right to our home and housing. Come hear your neighbors and let your voice be heard!

Wash and Play Lotto is a working coin-op. To respect the business please feel free to bring a small load of laundry. It will be much more fun to get some laundry done while meeting and mixing it up with the neighbors.

ABOUT THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT:
The Laundromat Project is a community based arts organization committed to promoting the well-being of low-income communities of color. Understanding that creativity is a central component of healthy human beings; vibrant neighborhoods; and thriving economies, The LP’s programs bring art to where people already are: the laundromat. Its two core programs, Works in Progress and Create Change Public Artist Residency Program, focus on making art education broadly accessible for all ages and skill levels, as well as providing professional development opportunities for artists of color looking to build or deepen a community-engaged art making practice by creating new public works in their own neighborhoods.

Each year, The Laundromat Project sponsors three artists of color to develop neighborhood-specific artwork through its Create Change Public Artist Residency Program. Following selection by a juried process, participating artists are charged with creating socially-relevant works using the space of their local laundromat to engage their neighbors.

ABOUT SUPERFRONT:
Since January 2008, SUPERFRONT has invited students, emerging architects, designers, visual artists, and performance artists to engage in a public forum that raises awareness of contemporary architectural practice and theory. Dedicated to supporting, promoting, and producing radical contemporary architecture while fostering creative interdisciplinary exchange, SUPERFRONT recently opened a satellite gallery in the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles in addition to its location in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.