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(Re)Thinking Gentrification
ATB is thrilled to introduce you all to Ronel JF Remy, one of our community partners for This Place/Displaced! Originally from Haiti, Ronel has lived in the US for over 20 years, making his home in Boston neighborhoods including Dorchester, Somerville, Hyde Park and Roslindale. After seven moves due to rent increases and other housing […]
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An Interview with Playwright Manuel Aquiles Lopez Torres
Meet Manuel Aquiles Lopez Torres, artistic entrepreneur and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Mani to find out a little bit more about his play, Small Up Yuhself (Move Over), and what […]
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Engaging with Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City’
To expand and contextualize our knowledge of housing inequity, ATB members will engage with relevant media before, during, and after our production of This Place/Displaced. Below, find Julia’s review of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning ethnography, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City.” Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted” opens with an anecdote and an allegory: a […]
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An Interview with Playwright David Valdes Greenwood
Meet David Valdes Greenwood, Boston native, nationally-acclaimed playwright, and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. As the performance approaches, we reached out to David to find out a little bit more about his writing process […]
