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You’re Invited: A Special Screening of “Blueprint for America” with the Film’s Director
We’re proud to be teaming up with Wayne State University and Transportation Riders United on May 18th to present a special screening of the PBS documentary, Beyond the Motor City with its director Aaron Woolf. Followed by a special get together to advocate legislation to improve transit in SE Michigan.
Beyond the Motor City is a new PBS documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn) and produced as part of BLUEPRINT AMERICA, the precedent-setting, multi-platform initiative—produced by Thirteen/WNET and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation—that shines a spotlight on one of our country’s most critical issues: America’s decaying and neglected infrastructure.
Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in this country. The film explores Detroit’s historic investments in infrastructure—from early 19th-century canals to the urban freeways that gave The Motor City its name and made America’s transportation system the envy of the world. But it also reveals that over the last 30 years, much of the world has left Detroit—and America—behind, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation.
In a journey that takes us into the neighborhoods of Detroit and then beyond to Spain, California, and our nation’s capital, Beyond the Motor City urges us to ask how a symbol of America’s urban decay might transform itself into a model of urban revitalization. Can we finally push America’s transit system into the 21st century?
Join us at the Wayne State University Law School Auditorium for a partial screening and discussion of Beyond the Motor City, with Director Aaron Woolf and local transit leaders.
Director of Beyond the Motor City, Aaron Wolfe
Reception and Networking at 6:00 pm
Screening (highlights) at 6:30 pm
Panel Discussion at 7:00 pm
Q&A and Call-to-Action at 7:30 pm
Post-event discussion, advocacy and drinks at Circa 1890's Saloon (5474 Cass Ave, Detroit) at 8pm
Presented by Transportation Riders United, Let's Save Michigan, and Wayne State University.
For more information call Ruth Johnson (313) 963-8872
Get there on public transit!
http://www.google.com/transit
Blueprint America
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/
Transportation Riders United
http://www.DetroitTransit.org/
Let's Save Michigan
http://www.LetsSaveMichigan.com/
Wayne State University Law School
http://www.law.wayne.edu/
