Monday,
April 23 at 7pm
Bread
& Roses Community Fund Film Series
Film
Screening and Discussion on Housing, Displacement, and Homelessness
P.
Baltimore
- Philadelphia Premiere
dir.
Eran Preis, USA, video, 60 mins, color
Join
Bread & Roses Community Fund and local activists for the
Philadelphia premier of P. Baltimore and a discussion
on housing, displacement and homelessness in Philadelphia.
Presented
by Barbara Smith Community School in partnership with Community
Leadership Institute, Anti Displacement Solidarity Committee,
Neighbors Allied for the Best Riverfront and the African American
Business and Residents Association.
 Why
are people abandoned on the streets when there are so many abandoned
buildings? How will Casinos change our neighborhoods? What impact
will Industrial Transformation Districts have on our community?
Looking for answers to these and other questions about our neighborhoods?
P.
Baltimore is a documentary
about Patricia Baltimore, a proud, outspoken African American
woman who spent seven years on the streets of Philadelphia.
We meet Patricia as she enters her first home.
Optimistic,
that she has overcome homelessness, Patricia meets other homeless
people on the streets of Philadelphia and tries to help them
as they confront the impossible conditions placed on them by
the city and state government. The documentary explores homelessness
as a lived experience and questions whether a home is a privilege
or a right.
"You
see a city where people are running in from the cold, running
in from the violence. It’s sad because we as homeless people
had no place to run." Patricia Baltimore
Discussion
to follow with Patricia
Baltimore; Al Alston, African
American Business and Residences Association; Lena Helen, Neighbors
Allied for the Best Riverfront; Carolyn Thomas, Community Leadership
Institute and David
Dunbeck, Horizon House.
For
more information 215-731-1107 x204 or
sarah@breadrosesfund.org.
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