Living on the
Dime cultural
initiatives, events, lectures, multimedia presentations, and community meetings.
LOTD
Public Programs List (.pdf)
Exhibits
Paved
With Good Intentions:
multimedia exhibition
Compelling photos
and text convey the stories of communties along the I-10 freeway and document
their relationship with this powerful monument to the notion of ‘progress’.
The ‘Living
on the Dime’
documentary video series
contains interviews from a wide range of perspectives that
illustrate the impact the I-10 freeway in southern California has on the lives
of the people who live along it.
Access Living
on the Dime
story outlines, photo galleries,
audio clips, video, interview transcriptions, web-links &
more !
This is a
story about the powerful social, political, economic and environmental effects
the I-10 freeway in Southern California has had on communities that live along
it's route. Nearly everyone in the region rides, drives, or lives within several
miles of these structures, but is the Interstate more than just concrete,
wood, and steel?
A powerful cultural and economic symbol, linking regions together but generally out of mind unless one is stuck in traffic on a hot summer day, the freeway profoundly influences our collective psyche and poses problems familiar and unique to communities along its route.
‘Living
On the Dime’ will tell stories of the people and the land from
San Bernardino and Riverside, two counties that make up the region popularly
known as the ‘Inland Empire’. Specifically, a stretch of Interstate
10 that runs through the population center of one county and the rapidly changing
rural fringe of the other, from Rialto to Blythe, California. It is also a
story of sacrificing rivers of earth, stone, and water to construct a new
‘river’,
a river of technology, concrete, and steel that has served to increase wealth
and centralize development, replacing and in some cases obliterating communities,
and altering migration and transportation routes throughout the region. Many
residents including descendants of the earliest inhabitants and the most recent
arrivals will relate their stories.
These stories
will form the basis for a narrative looking at perceptions of the region,
its people, and the physical landscape, a narrative that will be incorporated
in project activities and presented to the public throughout the region.
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