Saturday, March 4, 7:00 PM - Free full capacity screening for Jane’s Walk Halifax
Matt Tyrnauer | Documentary | USA | 2016 | 92m
About Jane’s Walk
This year, Jane's Walk will be taking place on the weekend of May 6-7th. Every year hundreds of participants gather to hear from incredible walk leads as they share unique and fascinating histories and perspectives about our city.
To kick off Jane's Walk this year, Jane’s Walk Halifax and Carbon Arc invite you to join us for a screening of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a documentary about visionary activist and author Jane Jacobs as she fights against the ruthless redevelopment projects of urban planner Robert Moses. This documentary screening will help set the stage and share the history of Jane Jacobs, and the movement of Jane's Walk that takes place every year around the world.
If you come away from the screening feeling inspired or curious to learn more, please visit janeswalkhalifax.com. Jane’s Walk Halifax has also officially launched a call out for walk leads to share their walk ideas, so if you'd like to lead a walk please fill out the form here: janeswalkhalifax.com/lead-a-walk.
To keep with the ethos of Jane's Walk, this screening is free of charge and open to all.
About the film
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, is a film about cities through the lens of Jane Jacobs, author of the 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today though the lens of one of its greatest champions.
"gorgeous, tightly written and entertaining" -Alex Bozikovic, Globe and Mail
"A documentary that should be seen by anyone interested in the future of cities." -Ken Eisner, Georgia Straight
Free admission.
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Seats will be available on the night of the screening on a first come first serve basis.
