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The Cities We Need: Book Launch and Conversation

October 29 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm

Join us at The LP Storefront for a celebration of The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places, a new publication written by photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, a long-time community partner in developing arts & pedagogy at The LP! 

The Cities We Need is a twenty-year collection of thoughtful prose and neighborhood portraits of Brooklyn, NY, and Oakland, CA. The book explores how unassuming public places foster a sense of belonging and community, particularly in the face of gentrification, large-scale development, and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. From churches to donut shops, our everyday places set the foundation for building an interconnected society rooted in public health and social justice.

The evening will include a riveting conversation between Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, author of The Cities We Need, Blondel Pinnock, President and CEO of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), and Ayesha Williams, our beloved Executive Director of The LP!

Refreshments will be provided.

Free

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