Emma Rose Jacobson

Just 1,100 kilometres from the Antarctic Peninsula, Ushuaia is often referred to as la Ciudad del Fin del Mundo, or the City at the End of the World. This summer, DCTV is proud to welcome 17 year old Ushuaia native resident Juanita Adillon to our Youth Media program.

In April, May, and June 2024, DCTV and Chinatown Art Brigade joined forces to co-present a screening series, Chinatown: At the Margins and the Center. The series centered around community resistance and resilience in the face of inextricably linked gentrification, displacement and incarceration in New York City’s Chinatown.

Trainspotting (1996) and Requiem for a Dream (2000) argue that the desire for substance use is really a desire to break out of the everyday cycles of surviving and choose “something different”. Something where magic, whimsy, euphoria, and absurdity can exist.