night one Bill Weinberg presents LIVE Tompkins Square: Legacy of Rebellion + Mutual Aid + Captured [re CLAYTON PATTERSON]. night two SETH TOBOCMAN presents live FREE THE LAND! + Paul Garrin’s Man with a Video Camera/Free Society + Echoes in Tompkins. night three NYC anarchist book fair Emma Goldman Film Festival featuring @ 9pm Tompkins Square History – A Live Slide Concert by ERIC DROOKER.
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Full Program:
Thursday, September 11 at 7PM
Green Oasis Community Garden 8th St between Ave C & D
Bill Weinberg [live presentation]
Tompkins Square: Legacy of Rebellion
150 Years of Protest and Resistance on New York’s Lower East Side.
Daniella LaGaccia’s Mutual Aid (2024)Shot in summer 2024 at the height of the New York refugee crisis, this short documentary looks at the Tompkins Distro food distribution, and the history of Tomkin’s Square Park’s activist history.
Clayton Patterson’s Captured (2008)
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds.
Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag, hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.
Friday, September 12 at 7PM
LaPlaza Cultural SW corner 9th St & Ave C
Seth Tobocman [live presentation]
FREE THE LAND!
comics for revolution by Seth Tobocman
Paul Garrin’s Man with a Video Camera/Free Society (1988)
Paul Garrin’s film captures the “virality” of the Tompkins Square Park riot footage and is paired with his video art piece “Free Society.”
Elizabeth Frickey’s Echoes in Tompkins (2025)
Combining archival and contemporary concert footage alongside interviews with musicians, organizers, and park-goers alike, Echoes in Tompkins captures the social and political significance of Tompkins Square Park through the rich lens of its music scene(s).
Saturday, September 13 at 8PM
Tompkins Square Park
As part of the NYC Anarchist Book Fair Emma Goldman Film Festival at 9PM
Tompkins Square History – A Live Slide Concert by Eric Drooker
Native New Yorker Eric Drooker will project hundreds of slides as he recounts his childhood in Tompkins Square and traces the park’s history back to the 19th century. Accompanied by live music, he’ll transform the evening into a “cartoon concert” right in the park.