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Thu Nov 01, 2018 - Day 24

10:40am: Listen to Bowery Boys Chinatown Podcast @ Sweet Garden I had breakfast listening to the Pod cast in Sweet Garden

12:00pm: Exploring the streets of New York’s Chinatown with Bowery Boys It’s like exploring in China.

1:30pm: Lunch @ Shanghai 21 (only cash) I had Mapo Tofu (lunch special, with steamed white rice)

2:30pm: Museum of Chines in America

There’s free gallery admission on first Thursday of the month. I was interested in their exhibition of woodblock, and metal type blocks. It’s not big as much as I expected but looked well organised.

4:00pm: Tai Chi in Elizabeth Street Garden

Another closure! But Elizabeth Street Garden was beautiful. I got to know that the class wasn’t there today from the staff of the Garden. They said that although there’s no class, you could do your own Tai Chi yourself, but I said no. (Because I didn’t know what is Tai Chi…)

About the China day, today: Actually, it’s not so impressive because there are Chinatowns throughout Korea as well, even nearby my SASG residency and nearby my hometown. But I like the process: storytelling-> exploring locations-> Museum

5:00pm: MoMA PS1

Because I had some time until the screening, I headed to MoMa PS1. (It’s one of the places I wanted to go in NYC, I had the museum pass now, and it’s close from Union Docs) The place was interesting (the building reminded me my school in London, Chelsea College of Arts), but I was surprised the fact that I was not so much interested in the exhibition. (It might be… I had much more interesting adventures here for the last 3weeks.) And I had an iced latte and snack in the café.

7:30pm: Union Docs Screening: HERE AFTER Documentary

It’s popular. All tickets were sold out. But I was interested in the organisation, ‘Union Docs’ than the movie. Because the trailers and their program introduction before the movie, looked so interesting. Fortunately, it’s not so long, took about 1 hour. Now I am searching their website.

“There’s a film from 1984, and there’s all this new work that we’ve done with to bring it out. A lot of that has been creating relationships and working with the people who are here,” says Allen. “For the organization, the point is to be connected and make the current point of the city as connected as it was in the film.”

Williamsburg, 1984

“White Adidas kicks, boomboxes, break dancing — the 1984 documentary “Los Sures” is an eye-popping New York time capsule. There are other signs of those times, too, like graffiti, boarded-up buildings and empty lots that blemish the neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the film takes place. This is the old Williamsburg, back in the day, before it was synonymous with white expansionism and became grist for trend stories about beards, brew pubs and organic toys for pets, specifically the Williamsburg known in Spanish as Los Sures — the Souths or Southside.” “‘Los Sures’ Resurrects South Williamsburg in 1984″, – The New York Times.                                 

“If you can survive Los Sures, you can survive anything. Pero los Sures is love.”

Los Sures at the Metrograph

Los Sures is a documentary about the predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood and produced and directed by Diego Echeverria. Used with permission, © 1983 Ellen Tolmie. Did you miss the screening of Los Sures and the presentation of the Living Los Sures project last month at NYU? Good news, then! Beginning tomorrow, Metrograph—New York City’s newest independent film venue—will be screening Diego…

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