Paradise Not for Sale & Building Utopia
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Screening 3: Paradise Not for Sale & Building Utopia.
Paradise Not for Sale (Lieven Bulckens and Line Algoed) follows the struggle of the people of Barbuda to protect their island from being sold to property developers. Under the 2007 Barbuda Land Act, land is owned communally rather than privately. Land is ancestral, and the foundation of a way of life built on collective care. As global capitalism pushes private ownership and large-scale tourism, the film shows a community refusing to treat land as a commodity and defending its mangroves and coastline as a matter of climate justice.
Building Utopia (Carla Cavina) gives voice to leaders of the Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since 2004, residents of seven self-built neighbourhoods have collectively owned and managed their land. This protects them from displacement and gentrification while they restore the polluted Martín Peña waterway and improve housing and infrastructure.
Followed by a presentation of Our Land, Our Survival by Dr. Line Algoed.
→ Monday 7 dec. 6:30pm.
→ Rue du Poinçon 53, 1000 Brussels.
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Community Land Trust Brussels, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies and Brussels Academy invite you to a series of five film screenings exploring grassroots struggles for access to land and housing around the world. From Argentina to South Africa, via Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, Spain and Canada, these films tell the stories of communities and grassroots movements organising to defend their rights, fight evictions and imagine alternative ways of living and shaping our cities.
23 November | A Place in the City | Screening followed by a discussion with director Gabriel Silvestre. https://fb.me/e/6mYAJbuoB
30 November | Sí Se Puede | Screening followed by a Q&A with director Pau Faus. https://fb.me/e/4ZLGUY0s9
7 December | Paradise Not for Sale & Building Utopia | Followed by a presentation of Our Land, Our Survival by Dr. Line Algoed. https://fb.me/e/55AYuKw5Y
14 December | Mother City | Screening followed by a discussion with director Pearlie Joubert.https://fb.me/e/8G3YgmhWl
21 December | Tenants Take Over | Screening followed by a discussion with Brussels-based housing cooperative Coop Haute 51. https://fb.me/e/6kZxdC6Uo
→ Every Monday at 6:30 pm.
→ Rue du Poinçon 53, 1000 Brussels.
All events are in English.
Paradise Not for Sale (Lieven Bulckens and Line Algoed) follows the struggle of the people of Barbuda to protect their island from being sold to property developers. Under the 2007 Barbuda Land Act, land is owned communally rather than privately. Land is ancestral, and the foundation of a way of life built on collective care. As global capitalism pushes private ownership and large-scale tourism, the film shows a community refusing to treat land as a commodity and defending its mangroves and coastline as a matter of climate justice.
Building Utopia (Carla Cavina) gives voice to leaders of the Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since 2004, residents of seven self-built neighbourhoods have collectively owned and managed their land. This protects them from displacement and gentrification while they restore the polluted Martín Peña waterway and improve housing and infrastructure.
Followed by a presentation of Our Land, Our Survival by Dr. Line Algoed.
→ Monday 7 dec. 6:30pm.
→ Rue du Poinçon 53, 1000 Brussels.
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Community Land Trust Brussels, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies and Brussels Academy invite you to a series of five film screenings exploring grassroots struggles for access to land and housing around the world. From Argentina to South Africa, via Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, Spain and Canada, these films tell the stories of communities and grassroots movements organising to defend their rights, fight evictions and imagine alternative ways of living and shaping our cities.
23 November | A Place in the City | Screening followed by a discussion with director Gabriel Silvestre. https://fb.me/e/6mYAJbuoB
30 November | Sí Se Puede | Screening followed by a Q&A with director Pau Faus. https://fb.me/e/4ZLGUY0s9
7 December | Paradise Not for Sale & Building Utopia | Followed by a presentation of Our Land, Our Survival by Dr. Line Algoed. https://fb.me/e/55AYuKw5Y
14 December | Mother City | Screening followed by a discussion with director Pearlie Joubert.https://fb.me/e/8G3YgmhWl
21 December | Tenants Take Over | Screening followed by a discussion with Brussels-based housing cooperative Coop Haute 51. https://fb.me/e/6kZxdC6Uo
→ Every Monday at 6:30 pm.
→ Rue du Poinçon 53, 1000 Brussels.
All events are in English.
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Priemstraat 53, 1000 Brussel, België, Priemstraat 53, 1000 Brussel, België, Brussels, Belgium
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