UPTOWN / OUT OF TOWN

Le Petit Versailles presents:

UPTOWN / OUT OF TOWN
Sunday September 30th at 7:00 PM

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street @ Avenue C
212 529 8815 www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
petitversailles@earthlink.net
Free / Voluntary donation $5 >>> rain or shine
Subways: F/V >> Second Avenue - J/M >> Delancey Street

Uptown/ Out of Town
A program of film, video, and discussion about gentrification and urban development.
Linda and Aissia Richardson will present Precious Places, a new DVD compilation of the oral histories of neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Chester , PA. The centerpiece of the compilation is the Uptown Entertainment & Development Corporation’s history of the Uptown Theater. http://www.avenueofthearts.org/venues_uptown_theater.php
The Richardsons will describe their on-going project to preserve and revive the Uptown, which began as a 1920’s movie palace that later became a cornerstone for soul music and rhythm & blues by launching the careers of such entertainers as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptation, Patti Labelle and many others.

Rios O’Leary-Tagiuri will act as a respondent on the subject of the relationship of communities of color, women, queers and other marginalized populations to gentrification and urban development processes.

A historical perspective will be given by the 1959 experimental documentary film Skyscraper by Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke.

Skyscraper
1959/ 20' , Color/B/W
Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke
A whimsical documentary on the construction of the Tishmann Building at 666 Fifth Avenue, as seen from the worker's point of view. The dazzling images of 666 Fifth Avenue being built from the ground up are set to a jazzy score of beat-style poems and songs and blended with the voices of actors playing construction workers, in this unique and wonderfully funny document. Magnificently capturing the speed and spirit of New York City, its inhabitants and its structures, Clarke transforms the meaning of industrial documentary and reveals the collaborative process in making of Skyscraper.

The program’s continuity will be upheld by recognizing mechanisms of change in global finance and real estate speculation by way of intercultural relationships.
The connection between New York and Philadelphia was noted in an August 14th, 2005 New York Times Fashion and Styles feature citing gay migration as a feature of Philadelphia’s gentrification as New York City’s “Next Borough”

(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/fashion/sundaystyles/14PHILLY.html?ex=1281672000&en=c2dde94c3019c7d8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;,
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

September 23 & 24 -Sunday/Monday

Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St.
F/V train to 2nd Ave, J/M to Delancey
212-529-8815 http://www.lptv.blogspot.com

Sept 23 Sunday 2-6pm
FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS BENEFIT SALE
featuring Art and Artifacts by LESLIE LOWE and others.
Also furniture,collectibles,must-haves and must-go's!
Portions of the proceeds will go to keeping the garden GREEN.

September 24 MONDAY 6-9 pm.
RESTLESS NATIVES
an interactive performance project of movement, music, and word
on the smile, the bomb, and the silence between.

Join us to energize & revitalize our spirits with this gathering and performance in preparation for the visit of President Bush to the United Nations on Tuesday September 25th.

“We must resurrect the dream that created the U.N. out of the nightmare of World War II. We must show courage, wisdom, and love by acting now to confront a bullying, rogue Superpower which refuses to allow the U.N. to act in accord with its own charter as world events bring us closer to the threat of expanded warfare and nuclear annihilation. The alarm has sounded. It blares agonizingly in our ears, beckoning conscientious action.” Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams.
TAKE ACTION- BE INVOLVED.
To join us and for more information, write to arrestbush@gmail.com and/or visit our website at www.arrestcheneyfirst.com. You may also call any of the following numbers for more info:
Brad Taylor at 917-287-5597, Joan Pleune at 718-855-2581, Laurie Arbeiter at 917-915-6115.

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;,
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

HOWL ! OUT ! AGAINST THE WAR - September 9

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Le Petit Versailles & HOWL! 2007 & M.M. Serra
present
The 4th Annual Avant Garde(N) program
HOWL! OUT!
AGAINST THE WAR

Sunday, September 9th - At Dusk~ (8pm)
Le Petit Versailles -346 East Houston St at Avenue C
Subways: F/V >> Second Avenue - J/M >> Delancey Street
FREE VOluntary Contribution

“Vers Reves: Am-er-ique”
Celeste Hastings
Soundscape/Costume/Butoh Dance

Transfiguration of Sisyphus’s bondage - social, personal & transpersonal power over life and death. Dream, madness, assisted suicide, freedom? Expanding on the ideas of a full-length piece presented in Normandy & Paris in May/June 2007.

Celeste Hastings is a NYC based performer/choreographer/costume, soundscape, set and video designer interested in mixing mediums. Her work, both solo and group fuses dance, theater, butoh and visual art. She is director /choreographer of the satirical group The Butoh Rockettes. She was a lead dancer for 12 years with postmodern butoh company Poppo and Gogo Boys, and has enjoyed collaborating with many artists & companies over the years. She was selected to join Akira Kasai’s Butoh America work at Japan Society this Oct. ’07. Presented solos this year at Foundation Boris-Vian in Paris, in Normandy, Dixon Place, Studio 111 and Dumbo Dance Festival.
For more info see:
(http://home.earthlink.net/~celestehastings/) and (http://home.earthlink.net/~butohrockettes/)
See The Butoh Rockettes Dec. 21 ’07 at St. Marks Church Food for Thought series.

For Life Against the War Again! DVD - TRT: 88 minutes


For Life updates a concept first enacted in 1967, at the height of the previous debacle. Then, an event called The Week of Angry Art asked 60 filmmakers to make 16mm works of three minutes or less in response to the war in Vietnam; participants included a collection of now-canonical figures such as Jonas Mekas, Robert Breer, and Shirley Clarke, as well as less well-remembered names. Last year, avant-garde film distributor The Film-Maker's Co-op issued a similar open call for new works about today's war, resulting in a program of 25 video shorts; both the 1967 and 2007 editions screen at Anthology this week.
“Pro-Life Artists return to the Vietnam protest model with For Life Against the War . . . Again”
by Ed Halter Village Voice, May 8th, 2007

Film-Makers’ Coop Executive Director: MM Serra
DVD Curator: Lynne Sachs
DVD Project Manager: Lili White
DVD Tech Programmer: Bosko Blagojevic
Poster & Cover Design: Ben Oldenburg


LPV programs are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts.
LPV is supported, in part, by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Film events are made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

EDIBLE CITY - Saturday September 8

THE EDIBLE CITY: An evening of food, film, video and radio

Curated by Estee Pierce and Noe Kidder
At Le Petit Versailles, 346 East Houston Street
Saturday, September 8th, Dusk/ 8pm- garden opens at 7pm, rain or shine
(Come early, space is limited!)

Featuring:

FLOWERS FROM THE DEAD EARTH
Beet Down Radio Collective
Produced by Andrea Appleton, Lawrence Lanahan, Jina Moore,
Bree Nordenson, Bruce Wallace, and Daniel Weiss

"A short spoof documentary on the "actual social phenomenon" of community gardens that includes every known public radio cliché," says Ira Glass of This American Life: "I loved this so much...so amazingly funny. I loved especially the guy talking to the plant."

BODEGA
Directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
Written by Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam.
Graphics by agent b
Music by Kevin Macleod

A humorous yet searing commentary about the choices confronting people who live in "the poorest urban county in the country." Under the yellow awning of the Bronx Bodega, all the important food groups are represented. Join Dallas Penn of DallasPenn.com and Rafi Kam of OhWord.com as they illustrate the finer points of the Bodega Food Pyramid. You should never look at a bag of potato chips the same way again. 6 min

YARD WORK IS HARD WORK
By Jodie Mack

Yard Work is Hard Work is an experimental animation and musical that wants to be a romantic comedy. 17 min

GREENSTREETS
By Maria De Luca

Long before Parks and Rec. created the Greenstreets program in 1996, Maria De Luca discovered a group of active New Yorkers putting aside their differences and doing their part to transfer wasteland into thriving gardens. Her film chronicles the growth of the community gardening movement in New York City through the 1970s and 1980s, and features unique footage of long-gone and still-present gardens of the era. Notable plots include the Liz Christy Community Garden at Houston and Bowery (formerly the Bowery Garden), and the now bulldozed St. Vincent¹s Triangle, across the street from St. Vincent¹s Hospital at 7th Avenue and Greenwich. But DeLuca¹s film is more than a glance back in time. Citing the effects of green spaces on property values, and the subsequent price-out of gardeners from their neighborhoods, the documentary points to an irony in gentrification as relevant today as it was 25 years ago. 87 min

A discussion with director Maria De Luca will follow the screening!

Many Thanks -- Peter & Le Petit Versailles, Michael Park, Tim Reardon, Hyunch Sung, Alan Weber, Rural Route Film Festival

LPV Programs are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts. LPV is supported, in part, by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Film events are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.