The Fort Greene Park Conservancy is excited to announce that on Saturday, October 14th, Spacebuster will set up shop in Fort Greene Park. The day program will consist of a furniture building workshop, supervised by raumlaborberlin. Community residents are invited to participate in building a chair—and taking home their creation. The chair building exercise is part of GENERATOR, an ongoing prototyping experiment by raumlaborberlin, where community input from each workshop engenders a new model. Brooklyn residents will build the “Sedia Venezana”, developed in Venice during the Biennale di Architetura, and the feedback from here will be used in the future towards the “Brooklyn Boheme Chair”.
At dusk, Spacebuster will present an hour of curated short films by Hamburg and Berlin independent film makers including Baltic Raw, and Quick Animation (1989), an Eastern Bloc “Berlin-wall era” take on hip hop culture. At 7:30 pm, a screening of Brooklyn Boheme, a love letter to Fort Greene’s past as a vibrant cultural mecca of the late 80s and early 90s. Film makers, Nelson George and Diane Paragas will be on hand for a talk back moderated by writer / performer Carl Hancock Rux (who also features in the film).
12:00 pm Furniture making workshop
6:00 pm Screening: Short works by Berlin and Hamburg independent film makers
7:30 pm Screening: Brooklyn Boheme
8:45 pm Talk back with filmmakers, Nelson George and Diane Paragas, moderated by Carl Hancock Rux
Free, kid-friendly, and open to the public.