MIT Department of Anthropology

The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project Launch Documentary Screening Southeast: A City within a City with Live Music 

MIT Anthropology

The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project Launch Documentary Screening Southeast: A City within a City with Live Music by Steve Walsh, Coco Gomez, + Matt Goetz

Text: Join us for an immersive experience that blends documentary film, live narration, and musical performances.   Original music performed live by writer/director Steven Walsh and his grandfather Roger "Coco" Gomez (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz)!    Friday Sept. 27th at 5:30 in  Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street  Building E15, Atrium level. Image of movie poster depicting a SE Chicago watertower and highway through haze - title: Southeast: A City Within A City, image of filmmaker Steven Walsh on stoop

Friday, 9/27/2024 5:30 - 7pm  Bartos Theater,  E15-070 in Wiesner Building 

SOUTHEAST: a city within a city A hands-on exploration of what it felt like to live in a neighborhood that once produced more steel than any other place in the world. The documentary brings together builders, soldiers, scholars, gangsters, musicians, and politicians from the Southeast Side’s past and present to explain what happened to neighborhoods full of life and different cultures after the jobs disappeared. 

Join us for an immersive experience that blends documentary film, live narration, and musical performances. Original music performed live by writer/director Steven Walsh and his grandfather Roger "Coco" Gomez (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz)! Friday Sept. 27th at 5:30 in MITs Bartos Theater, Building E15 basement off Ames St.