Wreck City is 2013 film about an artists collective in the Calgary community of Sunnyside. After learning an entire block including the 809 Gallery was to be torn down, 150 artists decided to decorate the doomed block before the demolition with their art. Wreck City lasted for 10 days.
It will be followed by a question and answer session period with artist Caitlind r.c and director Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi.
It will be followed by another movie about public, art, impermanence and , progress and gentrification called “Paris Tower.”
“ Usually it would be a public screening, but because of the pandemic, we aren’t able to. so it will be a virtual presentation,” said Allied Arts Council communications director, Kelaine Devine.
This event is co-sponsored by The Gallery at Casa, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge and AMAAS.
The presentation begins at 7 p.m. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOQmuCL_Lk
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
