As powerful forces continually reshape cities and uproot communities, there are pockets of resiliency where people continue to pass on traditions, preserve culture, maintain roots, and simultaneously inspire and cultivate youth to create new art and participate in grass roots movements.
The Bayview Hunters-Point neighborhood and Bahama Village in Key West, Florida may seem about as different as two neighborhoods can get. But as we will uncover together, the connection between the two places illuminates the urgent race against time that we see in historically Black communities across the country. The other key similarity is both communities are utilizing the power of intergenerational art strategies to successfully cultivate resiliency and staying power.
This program will examine how arts programs that engage youth and elders create resilient institutions that prevail even as neighborhood dynamics change. We will highlight the important and innovative work of two organizations, the Bahama Village Music Program and the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center, in sustaining places where generations come home – and ask can these models be replicated elsewhere and what would it take?
Full program featuring artist William Rhodes and the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center community in San Francisco’s Bayview/Hunters Point:
Panelists
Kawana Staffney-Ashe
Executive Director, Bahama Village Music Program
William Rhodes
Artist and Director of Intergenerational Program, Bayview Senior Services
Films
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City Is Alive Bayview Murals
USA | 2020 | 9 mins. | Directed by Susannah Smith
Mini docs about several murals located in Bayview Hunters Point SF that depict the neighborhoods everyday heroes. Originally commissioned for projection on Egbert Ave on Oct 17, 2020 as part of the City Is Alive: BayviewLive event.
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Southernmost
USA | 2020 | 2 mins. | Directed by Lindsey Shavers, Max Shavers, Sydney Shavers
Southernmost – Celebrating Key West’s Black History
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Village with a Voice
USA | 2019 | 4 mins. | Directed by Damali Shakur Phipps
A video corrugating some of the voices still remaining in Bahama village (in 2019).
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A Concerto is a Conversation
USA | 2020 | 13 mins. | Directed by Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Partners
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