The Pink Room
Residents of the four storey walk-ups of the Carlton Housing Estate are being relocated so the building can be demolished.
The Pink Room – which I haven’t gone to see yet, but think sounds great – is an exhibition documenting some of the residents’ lives in stories, pictures and found objects.
I’ve given you a map since I was too lazy to ‘borrow’ their picture. It runs through the end of the month.
When: Thursday, 13 September – Sunday, 30 September
Where: Flat 3/486 Drummond Street, Carlton
Hours: Thursday to Friday midday to 6pm, Saturday 2pm to 5pm
Cost: Free
Ring (03) 9658 9658 or visit the website (scroll down) for details – there are some other art listings on this site as well.
Seems interesting. I can tell you in the 3 years I lived across the street from the housing estate, I have memories of:
-2 flats on fire
-police storming the estate after someone shot a couple of people (1 dead)
-a bald guy who would yell “Oi” repeatdly for hours on end to anyone passing on the street
-a guy who would point a laser at anyone passing by
-fire engines showing up at least twice a month
-someone politely asking if I had a needle
and my favourite, a guy who looked like Sean Connery sitting outside on a bench with a cigarette, giving everyone passing by a sly Connery nod.
So you’re not sad to see them go then, I take it.
I lived across from there, too, and had a great time. It’s nice that the city is doing this exhibit, but I feel bad for people being displaced.
Well, its not going. They are replacing it with accommodation which will house public and private housing. Not sure if it will successful but I wouldn’t want to pay to live in a housing commission.
What I really don’t like is that they are adding a public/private housing complex to the former school grounds on Keppel and Cardigan St. I feel bad for all the people who bought a property there in a quiet area of Carlton. It also will sandwich the houses and flats in between into a “bigger” crime zone.
I forgot to add, tires on every car on the housing commission side of the street slashed, junkies shooting up in a laneway behind my house leaving used needles everywhere, a guy walking down the street attacked by a mob of guys, and my house got burgled twice.
More on the project http://tinyurl.com/35jbj5.