InterGeneration Outdoor Release Screening at the Boston Nature Center

500 Walk Hill Street,Boston MA 02126

11 September, 2021

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Please join us on September 11, 2021 for an outdoor release screening of InterGeneration at the Boston Nature Center at 7pm. Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center in Mattapan will host an outdoor release screening of Carolyn Shadid Lewis’ film, InterGeneration on September 11, 2021 at 7pm. A Q&A with participants will follow the film at 8pm. In the event of rain, the screening will be rescheduled for September 12 at 7pm. Come to the BNC early for a walk through the trails or a picnic dinner. Bring your own lawn chairs or a blanket. The screening will begin at sunset at 7pm. ABOUT THE FILM Beginning with an ancient Wampanoag myth that accounts for our Boston Harbor landscape, a group of Boston teens and elders take the viewer on a personal journey through the city’s colonial past and inequitable present. From the perspective of mostly Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black community leaders, artists, activists, educators and public health workers, InterGeneration processes our current moment through storytelling and animation. Armed with their home devices, the teens create magical worlds from the elders’ stories with drawing, paper cut-outs, found objects, and their own bodies revealing universal experiences of anxiety, loss, and hope during a global pandemic and a national struggle for racial justice. PARTICIPATING TEENS Anita Adiukwu, Giovanni Depina, Rose Gelin, Erin Harvey, Dayra Jimon, Isaac Madera, Marieliza Manigat, Vladimir Mesidor, and Chenaya Valeus PARTICIPATING ELDERS James Coleman, Carolyn Ingles, Tim Juba, Robert Peters, Alberto Rodriguez, Carolyn Walden, and Dr. Gloria White-Hammond. FILM PARTNERS InterGeneration began in the Teen Bridge Artist-in-Residence Program at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain. The film was generously supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Boston Public Health Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts . InterGeneration was produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary. The above image is an animation still of Giovanni Depina’s interpretation of Robert Peters’ story of the giant Moshup, a Wamponoag myth.