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New documentary film to show in Boston: "UNITE HERE History
on TV and the Museum of Fine Arts!
The new video documentary, “At Home in Utopia,” describing
the building of co-op apartment buildings for union members
in 1920s New York, will play this summer on WGBH TV and at
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The politically radical
builders included members of UNITE HERE “ancestor” union,
the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Enjoy the
film, and bring your friends!"
At Home in
Utopia
What happened when radical labor built a house of its own.
In the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers
put a new spin on the American dream by building four big,
beautiful, cooperatively owned apartment complexes in the
Bronx. At Home in Utopia is the story of the struggle for
equity and social justice in the most radical of the houses
– the United Workers Cooperative Colony, aka the Coops.
At Home in Utopia will show at the Museum of Fine Arts,
in Boston. Most of these showings feature guest
speakers and audience discussion with the filmmakers, Michal
Goldman and Ellen Brodsky.
Thursday June 12 @ 8 PM
Special guest appearance by the Yiddish Community Chorus
of the Workmen’s Circle
Sunday, June 15 @ 2:15 PM
Special guest: Matt Thall, housing and community
activist
Thursday, June 19 @ 1 PM
Special guest: Dr. Alvin Poussaint, psychiatrist,
author, expert on race relations
Sunday, June 22 @ 12:20 PM
Special guest: Vivian Gornick, author
Thursday, July 3 @ 6:30 PM
Jeff Crosby, President, IUE-CWA Local 201
Sunday, July 6 @ 2:15 PM
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
is at 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston 02115.Take the Green
Line E train to the Museum stop, or the Orange Line to
Ruggles. For tickets in advance, call the MFA at
617 369-3306, or go to
www.mfa.org and then go to calendar/film and the date of
your choice.
Questions? Contact Michal or Ellen at Filmmakers
Collaborative, T 781 647-1102,
coops@filmmakerscollab.org.
At Home in Utopia will be broadcast locally in the Greater
Boston area on WGBH in July. And watch for the national
broadcast on public television as part of the 2008-2009
season of Independent Lens. At Home in Utopia is a
co-production of ITVS in association with WGBH, funded in
part by the Puffin Foundation, the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
These screenings at the MFA are part of the Boston Jewish
Film Festival’s Encore Series. |
