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The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council

'In the Footprint' benefit performance
Start Date: 
December 6, 2010 - 7:00pm
Categories
Topic : 
Atlantic Yards
Sponsored By: 
The Civilians/BrooklynSpeaks sponsors
Location: 
The Irondale Center
85 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Description: 
Ready for a new perspective on the Atlantic Yards project? The CiviliansIn the Footprint has garnered praise from audiences and theater critics alike.
 
·         The New York Times says “…the company’s entertaining, insight-rich show about the controversial redevelopment plan in Brooklyn, restored my faith in the ability of theater artists to engage meaningfully with the world, here and now.”
·         The New York Post says, “’Footprint’ is as entertaining as it is enlightening."
(Now, if we could only get these papers to cover our recent court victory against Forest City Ratner and the Empire State Development Corporation!)
 
If you want to have a great night at the theater, hear the latest in the fight for public engagement on Atlantic Yards, and help the cause all at the same time, join BrooklynSpeaks for
 
a special benefit performance of
 
 
Monday, December 6
7:00PM
The Irondale Center
85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn
 
 
Click here for tickets and enter code “FUTURE”!
 
The performance will be followed by a conversation with
 
Deb Howard, Pratt Area Community Council
Jo Anne Simon, District Leader, 52nd Assembly District
Gib Veconi, Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
 
on the current status of Atlantic Yards advocacy, the significance of the recent NYS Supreme Court decision, and where the fight goes from here.
 
A portion of the ticket cost will support continuing legal action challenging the Atlantic Yards development process.
 
 
For more information about In the Footprint, please visit
www.thecivilians.org/current/in_the_footprint.html
Open to: 
General public