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Fire Through Dry Grass

October 14, 2025 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Pratt Institute Library Alumni Reading Room, 3rd Floor Brooklyn Campus

A promotional poster for a film screening titled "Fire Through Dry Grass" at Pratt Institute, featuring four individuals in wheelchairs. The event is free and open to the public, scheduled for October 14, 2025. It includes a film screening at 5:15 PM and a Q&A session at 7 PM. The film follows disabled Black and brown nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting their experiences. The venue is accessible via ramp and elevator.

A screening of Fire Through Dry Grass, award-winning documentary and New York Times’ “Critics Pick,” followed by a discussion with co-director Alexis Neophytides and Reality Poets Vincent Pierce and Theresa Williams, moderated by Pratt Professor Paul Haacke.