Two back to back arts events organized by long time Bushwick artists and residents are scheduled for this Saturday, and both events are intended to serve as forums for community engagement with rampant gentrification and its affects on Bushwick and greater Brooklyn.

On Saturday afternoon from 1-4, the public is invited to “Sharing | Present,” a town hall-style meeting and art share at FiveMyles Gallery (558 St. John’s Place in Crown Heights). “Sharing | Present” is the second of three major public events scheduled during the duration of a show entitled “Progress,” which organizers Anthony Rosado and Mackenzie Angelo Seecharan describe as “performances and installations reflecting on progress through the lens of gentrification.”

“[Sharing | Present] is a town meeting and art share for organizations, tenant councils, native residents, and POC identified artists who currently engaged in the fight against displacement and racial and economic inequality,” Rosado explains. It’s scheduled between “Past”, the show’s opening event, which was in conversation with the artist’s personal histories with gentrification, and a performance-based closing event which is entitled “Future.”