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citydrift or an Essay On “letting go” in Brooklyn

By Peter Hopkins

citydrift  or an Essay On “letting go” in Brooklyn

citydrift or an Essay On “letting go” in Brooklyn

By Peter Hopkins

citydrift  or an Essay On “letting go” in Brooklyn

By Peter Hopkins

I have recently been in lengthy discussion with Katarina Hybanova, the Editor of Bushwick Daily, about citydrift, a project of mine, which has been in development for over three years, and is debuting on September 7th. citydrift is a 3 day “meta” event that seeks to connect over a dozen galleries in Bushwick, dozens of curators, hundreds of  artists, poets, musicians, urban planners, and writers, and thousands (?) of curious, but somewhat skeptical participants in a 72 hour walking, thinking, talking exploration of our “urban grid”.

Describing the “point” or purpose of citydrift is something I have spent countless hours trying to do with so many people throughout these past years, that sometimes even I grasp…

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