#  Premiere Screening of Van Alen Sessions: Borderlands 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 7, 2019** 

 06:30PM - 09:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street New York, NY**  



 

 



 

 [Professor Patricio Del Real](/people/patricio-del-real), Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at HAA, will be part of a panel discussion which follows the premiere screening of ***Borderlands**,* the sixth season of *Van Alen Sessions* at the Van Alen Institute*.* Produced in partnership with [*The New Yorker*](https://video.newyorker.com/), *Van Alen Sessions* is a short-documentary series highlighting current debates about urban infrastructure.

 *Borderlands* visits six border towns in California, Texas, and Mexico to investigate how urban design can increase cross-border collaboration, strengthen social and economic networks in sister cities where the local economies are linked, and mitigate the environmental impact of construction of border walls in delicate ecosystems.

 Following the film’s premiere, [**Stephania Taladrid**](https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/stephania-taladrid) of *The New Yorker* will moderate a panel discussion with the filmmaker, **Merete Mueller**; **Martita Abril**, Mentor, Immigrant Artist Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, and performer, choreographer, and curator; **Steven Alvarez**, Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University; and **Patricio del Real**.

 Presented in partnership with[ SVA MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism](https://designresearch.sva.edu/), this screening is **free and open to the public**.

 This season of *Van Alen Sessions* is supported, in part, by the [National Endowment for the Arts](https://www.arts.gov/) and the [Fledgling Fund](http://www.thefledglingfund.org/).

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