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DESCRIPTION:The evening begins with an optional social hour and pot luck supper at 6:00 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion at the end 
 of the film.\n\nBUMS' PARADISE\n\nThis unique local film depicts the lives 
 of people who lived in the ten-year-old Albany Landfill community prior to 
 their eviction.  The film follows them through their eviction and documents 
 them one month afterwards.  But instead of being a documentary about 
 homelessness, about bums, this film considers the question:  What if the 
 homeless ─ the indigent, the bums ─ told their own stories?   \n\nThis 
 is exactly what filmmakers Tomas McCabe and Andrei Rozen set out to explore 
 with the Albany Landfill residents.  Both McCabe and Rozen shot for five 
 months.  Landfill resident Robert "Rabbit" Barringer was also given a 
 camera to film life as he experienced it as a resident on the Landfill.  
 Rabbit's sophisticated drawings, eloquence, and college education are a 
 metaphor for the short distance between us and a life on the Landfill.  He 
 stands as a bridge, showing us how fate alone separates us from a life on 
 the streets. \n\nWhat unfolds is a rich and complex story showing the full 
 spectrum of human experience.  We see segments on love, family, home, 
 politics, community, art, insanity, and addiction.  But the film emphasizes 
 the residents' concepts of community and the amazing art that they created. 
  We see the lifestyle they created together and the codes of protocol they 
 lived by which included sophisticated ideas such as community meetings to 
 discuss problems.  And art blossomed there because the residents were 
 "allowed to live free of public scorn and scrutiny and the daily harassment 
 of police."  In this film, we know the residents and they're not just 
 faceless panhandlers.  They're a poignant reminder of what we lose when we 
 lose the human face of homelessness.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/17/18608636.php
SUMMARY:Bums' Paradise
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/17/18608636.php
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