Please join Carolyn Shadid Lewis on September 11, 2021 for an outdoor release screening of her film InterGeneration at Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center in Mattapan at 7pm followed by a Q&A with participants at 8pm. The event is free but requires registration.
In the event of rain, the screening will be rescheduled for September 12th.

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View the trailer

About the Film

Beginning with an ancient Wampanoag myth that accounts for our Boston Harbor landscape, a group of Boston teens and elders take the viewer on a personal journey through the city’s colonial past and inequitable present. From the perspective of mostly Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black community leaders, artists, activists, educators and public health workers, InterGeneration processes our current moment through storytelling and animation. Armed with their home devices, the teens create magical worlds from the elders’ stories with drawing, paper cut-outs, found objects, and their own bodies revealing universal experiences of anxiety, loss, and hope during a global pandemic and a national struggle for racial justice.

Participating Teens
Anita Adiukwu, Giovanni Depina, Rose Gelin, Erin Harvey, Dayra Jimon, Marie Liza Manigat, Vladimir Mesidor, and Chenaya Valeus

Participating Elders
James Coleman, Carolyn Ingles, Tim Juba, Robert Peters, Alberto Rodriguez, Carolyn Walden, and Dr. Gloria White-Hammond.

InterGeneration began in The Teen Bridge Artist-in-Residence Program at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain. Now a feature-length film, InterGeneration was generously supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Boston Public Health Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts . InterGeneration was produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary.

BNC’s caretaker, Tim Juba is one of the elders whose story the teens animated on the BNC grounds. Tim is a retired construction worker and former activist for racial justice in Dorchester with ACORN (Association of Community Organization for Reform Now) The teens and I look forward to sharing Tim’s story and many other inspiring stories with you on September 11th at 7pm in an ecological sanctuary within our city. Bring your own blanket or chair and come early for a walk through the beautiful grounds.