IMA alum Sekiya Dorsett is participating in an event called Housing Justice/Housing Futures which is part of Barnard’s Center for Research on Women’s (BCRW) 48th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference on February 24th + 25th. Located at the Event Oval, Diana Center Barnard College 117th and Broadway NYC.
“This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs.”
Sekiya is part of a workshop that starts at 1:30p on February 25th about the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood called I Love Bed-Stuy: Preservation of Our Neighborhood Through Community Activism, with Renee Gregory (The Brownstoners), Nicole Greaves (Bridge Street Development Corporation), Sekiya Dorsett (filmmaker, I Love Bed-Stuy), Michael Williams (Nostrand Willoughby Block Association), and Stephanie Zinerman (Assembly member 56th District New York), moderated by Obden Mondsir (Barnard College) Sekiya’s film in development, I Love Bed-Stuy is a love letter to the neighborhood and weaves scripted scenes and actors with long time residents and their life stories. Sekiya is quoted in a feature article about the film in BK Reader, “The story is vitally important to tell right now, as a gentrifying Bed-Stuy is seeing many Black residents priced out of their own neighborhood.”
https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/housing-justice-housing-futures/
http://www.seabreezemedia.co
