BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d5a0851b-1095-4a0c-b4f9-4780723b5d82 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260731T030148Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230614T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230614T200000 SUMMARY:Community Screening Events LOCATION:Anacostia Neighborhood Library\nAnacostia Neighborhood Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Anacostia Neighborhood Lib rary;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Anacostia Neighborhood Library:geo:38.86584 93,-76.9786176 GEO:38.8658493;-76.9786176 DESCRIPTION:This is a story of Barry Farm\, but it is also a story of Wash ington\, DC. And\, in its cycles of placement and displacement\, it is a s tory of the United States..\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/8554499 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Directed By Sabiyha Prince &\; Samuel G eorge

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Produced By The Bertelsmann Foundation &\; DC Legacy Proj ect

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Length: 50 minutes

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 \;Take a right off of the Anac ostia Freeway on to Firth Sterling Ave &ndash\; what do you see? You see e mpty fields. You see new development just breaking ground. Construction eq uipment. Sweeping views of the capital. \; As one community member sta tes in this film\, if you are a developer\, you see a gold mine.

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& nbsp\;But these empty fields hold powerful memories. Enslaved people once worked this land. Later\, during Reconstruction\, the formerly enslaved pu rchased it\, and built one DC&rsquo\;s first thriving Black communities.\n

 \;Here\, the city built a sprawling public housing complex in the 1940s\, beloved by insiders\, if notorious to outsiders. Here\, the mo vement for Welfare Rights took shape. Here\, the Junkyard Band honed its c hops on homemade instruments before putting a turbocharge into the city&rs quo\;s Go-Go music. Here\, residents lived in the Barry Farms Dwellings up until 2018\, when the final community members were removed for the redeve lopment.

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 \;This is their story. Featuring folks who lived on Barry Farm over generations as well as some of Washington\, DC&rsquo\;s le ading historians\, artists\, musicians and analysts\, this sweeping docume ntary tells the story of a community&mdash\;one\, like so many others in W ashington\, that risks being erased from the map.

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