Join us for a special evening of collaborative programming as our current photography exhibition “Two Views: North Shore” (extended through December) intersects with our Cinema Connex film series. Visit ArtSpace for a special viewing of the show, documenting life on the North Shore of Staten Island. Then walk with us up the street to Search Party Studio for a screening of “Monsters and Men.”

Watch the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnpybNQ-hU

FREE | RSVP Required at Ticket Link
6:30pm: “Two Views: North Shore” wine reception w/ Errigo’s gourmet pizza | ArtSpace @ SI Arts
8:00pm: Screening of “Monsters and Men” | Search Party Studio | 71 Wave St., SI

“Monsters and Men” is a Sundance Award-winning portrait of race, family, and consequence. Director/screenwriter Reinaldo Marcus Green–a graduate of Port Richmond High School–draws parallels to Eric Garner’s killing in this fictional account of the impact of police violence. The story explores the differing experiences and viewpoints of three individuals in a community pushed to the brink after the police shooting of an unarmed black man. 1hr 36min | R

“Two Views: North Shore” features the work of two documentary photographers, Gareth Smit and Stephen Obisanya. The exhibition views the North Shore of Staten Island as a borderland — a place where the culture wars of our decade play out in the everyday lives of its residents: housing and a gentrifying urban landscape, policing and race relations, immigration and the experience of LGBTQI+ youth. Smit originally took an interest in the North Shore during the aftermath of Eric Garner’s death when he photographed Garner’s family and friends while chronicling stories about a community in transition. Obisanya began his work on the North Shore as a means of recording the underpinning moments in a community undergoing transformation, exploring the foundations of human connection and condition through the lens of family and community.

We hope this joint programming will provide some time and space for our communities to further engage with the critical themes raised by both the exhibition and the film, both of which offer nuanced and complicated perspectives.