[booklyn] FW: Pete's Candy, 730pm Mon night, Squatterific

HELLO, we're giving a little talk.....  In WillyB.

 

--Peter Spagnuolo

 

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From: matt metzgar [mailto:mattmetzgar@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:13 AM
To: matt metzgar
Subject: Pete's Candy, 730pm Mon night, Squatting discussion

 

Hi everyone,

Me and Pete Spagnuola are part of Jamie Hook's Open City Dialogue lecture
series tomorrow night.

Hope you can make it....cool little place, good sandwiches, back yard
smoking area, close (enough) to Metropolitan L train stop by Kellogs
Diner...gotta walk up Meeker, hang a left on Lorimer.

--Matt and Pete


THE ONCE AND FUTURE SQUATTER:
w/Matt Metzgar & Peter Spagnuolo

FREE LECTURE!!!
Monday, April 11 7:30pm
Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St. Brooklyn)

In the 1980's and '90's the squatter-homesteaders of New York City's  Lower
East Side created an urban movement attempting to answer directly  the
housing needs of low-income and homeless persons by seizing abandoned
tenement buildings and improvising their own homes and  culture. The evening
will address current efforts by squatters and homesteaders to  create a
research archive "from the ground up"-collecting, preserving and organizing
the evidence of underground, insurgent movement-as well as the significance
such a collection may have for scholars and the  public.  With reference to
other American cities, the pro's and con's of strategies  of direct methods
of housing, the predominance of squatting as a global phenomena, and the
specific cases of "Social Center" squatting in Europe, and its lack in the
USA--the evening hopes to make palpable an overlooked, yet palpable legacy
that boldly proclaims: Homeless/Artist/Activist:  House Thyself, Socialize
the Community!

MATT METZGAR is a furniture/cabinetmaker and the Director of the Lower East
Side Squatter Homesteader Archive Project, a assemblage of documents
pertaining to the struggle for entitlement of squatted buildings in "East
Village" of Manhattan, circa 1980-2000 where, from 1989-2001 he occupied
abandoned buildings with roughly 300 others.  He hopes to be part of the
resurgence in direct-action housing in this Age of Foreclosure.

PETER SPAGNULO is a poet and writer living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; he
co-founded the Lower East Side Squatter Homesteader Archive Project.  He has
been a squatter on both coasts of the United States, and organized the East
13th St. squatters' adverse possession lawsuit against the City of New York
in 1994-96. His poetry books include The Squatters' Midden, Ten by Fourteen,
and Egg and Dart.

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