Event

Gutting

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the wounds of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward continue to fester.

While the rest of the country's attention drifts, fourteen-year- old runaway Kali is forced to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life. Rhyming, stealing, and scamming her way through the neighborhood, she grapples with the real cost of what she lost and the even higher cost of moving forward.

With Gutting, we hope to restore the human face to the tragic and still unfurling disaster of 2005. But these issues are not unique to Louisiana. Here in New York, communities especially the poorest sectors of society are getting displaced from their homes as neighborhoods are getting turned over to gentrification. We will partner with the tenants' rights community of Brooklyn, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, The Center for the Living City, Hurricane Katrina expert and author Roberta Brandes Gratz, Picture the Homeless, and Housing is a Human Right, among others, to initiate creative dialogue and action plans around this issue.