PASS IT ON! COME
ONE, COME ALL
to an important talk taking place at The New York Open Center,
83 Spring Street, 1/2 block east of Broadway, phone: 212 219 2527.
Saturday,
June 17, 8pm Millennium's Neighborhood—Against the Malling of New York:
Discussion hosted by Reverend Peter Laarman, Bill Talen (Reverend Billy), and
Reno.
"Millennium's Neighborhood," initiated in December of 1999 as the downtown alternative to the Millennial bash at Times Square, featured some 80 artists dramatizing their defense of New York City neighborhoods in 8 days of performance and discussion at Judson Church. The events were hosted by the dynamic and irrepressible "Reverend Billy," aka Bill Talen. The remarkable response to this first-time festival suggests that the "malling" of The Great White Way spurred artists whose lives are tied to a strong sense of neighborhood. The chain store logos and gigantic ads now rolling over New York are creating "a sea of identical details," a feeling of placelessness. This evening our hosts hope to engage us all, artists and citizens, to discuss how our communities can resist the bulldozers and the instant billboards and what role the artist-activist can play in this struggle against the commodification of all public space. $6.