The Living School: Poverty

The Living School is a mobile event series organised by Brandon LaBelle which focuses on the issues of housing, common property, and the precarious subject.

For this second session in the series, the school concentrated on the topic of poverty. Liz Allen, archivist at Toynbee Hall, Andrew Conio, lecturer at the University of Kent, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman of Fugitive Images lead presentations on indebtedness and liquidity, the history of the settlement house movement, and homeless communities who sustain a marginal existence. Poverty was brought forward not only as a scene of being without, but equally as the basis for forms of resistance and expressions of weak-strength.

Andrea Luka Zimmerman presented Dark Days, by Mark Singer, and led discussion of the issues in the film.

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