Screening with Meida McNeal, Keli Stewart, and David Weathersby
Sunday, June 29 at 7 PM
6018 N Kenmore Ave

We will begin with a exhibition tour with Meida McNeal at 7 PM, followed by a screening of their film Fifth City Revisited with filmmaker David Weathersby and producer Keli Stewart.

Fifth City Revisited tells the story of a radical community movement from the 1960s-1990s on the Westside of Chicago. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part urban planning critique, Fifth City Revisited explores how we create healthy communities while also considering the scale at which we must do this work in order to grow and sustain it. The film employs dance, story, and media to consider the impact of Fifth City's community power against the backdrop of city planning systems that have all but erased its work. What lessons does the Fifth City movement have to teach us in our current and cautiously hopeful era of grassroots change where a renewed commitment to neighborhood investment is bubbling up across Chicago’s West and South sides?