The short film More Than One Thing was filmed in 1968 and 1969 by director Steve Carver, then a graduate student at Washington University. The film explores the daily life of Billy Towns, a teenager living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project. In the film, viewers learn about the joys, hopes, and dreams of a young Pruitt-Igoe resident in a story that often contrasts the stereotypically negative Pruitt-Igoe image that has defined the housing development over the decades. More about the film and its preservation: https://library.wustl.edu/exhibitions/more-than-one-thing/
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On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:00am, in partnership with the Community Remembrance Project of the Equal Justice Initiative, the Reparative Justice Coalition of St. Louis will hold a Soil Collection Ceremony commemorating the April 28, 1836 lynching of Mr. Francis McIntosh, a free Black man who was abducted by a white mob from the Saint Louis jail at 6th & Chestnut, chained to a tree a block away at 7th & Chestnut, and burned alive. No one was held responsible. The burned tree was left as a monument to racial terror.
Soil Collection Ceremony - St. Louis Community Remembrance Project
Belonging: Cross River Art Exhibition builds connections and invites collaboration between artists working in the vibrant art scenes of the greater St. Louis and surrounding Illinois communities. Exhibited works–ranging from drawings to wall sculpture to film– combine historical analysis with visual aesthetics in an exploration of what it means to belong in community. The exhibition is curated by Allena Marie Brazier (MFA-VA23).DATE AND TIME April 29, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00am
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