Join us in-person or virtually for a free screening of Alice Street on the PSU campus, followed by a panel discussion about the film and its themes of public art, displacement, community engagement, and neighborhood change.
SYNOPSIS
In a rapidly gentrifying city, the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural forcing the artists and a neighborhood to rally to protect its history, voice, and land. Two Oakland artists, Pancho Peskador, a Chilean studio painter, and Desi Mundo, a Chicago-born aerosol artist, form an unlikely partnership to tackle their most ambitious project to date, a four-story mural in the heart of downtown Oakland. Their site is situated at a unique intersection where Chinese and Afro-Diasporic communities face the imminent threat of displacement and gentrification. Prior to painting, the mural faces numerous obstacles: complex negotiations with profit-minded property owners, satisfying a community of diverse residents, and resolving the artists’ own aesthetic conflicts.
PANELISTS
Spencer Wilkinson, Director, Alice Street
C.N.E. Corbin, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Amie Thurber, Assistant Professor, PSU School of Social Work
Ernesto Fonseca, CEO, Hacienda CDC
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Photo: Ayse Gursoz