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Join us for a special screening of "A Reckoning In Boston," find out how to design safer streets and communities of care on threesixtyCITY, scroll through our website revamp & more!  Focus On    We are hosting the first Canadian screening—an exclusive offer for NewCities' community.  After its world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Feature, and its Boston premiere at the Independent Film Festival of Boston just last week, NewCities is proud to present "A Reckoning in Boston", a new documentary illuminating racism and inequality. We teamed up with Lost Nation Pictures & LTD to get you this exclusive virtual HD screening, NewCities’ network only! Join us on June 23rd from 5pm to 7pm EDT for the screening, followed by a special Q&A with Director James Rutenbeck and co-producer Kafi Dixon.    Follow this event on Facebook and LinkedIn to get updates and to share with your network.   BOX OFFICE NewCities.org Have you visited our website lately? It’s gotten a revamp! Take a tour of our editorial features, browse through our focus areas, or stop off on our About Us page to learn more about our mission, members, Fellows, and more! Housing, Climate, AI, Mid-Sized Cities—everything is now organized to optimize your experience with easy access to all of our resources.   VISIT NOW [Save the Date] Our Wellbeing Cities initiative kicks off on May 26th at 12 pm EDT with "Better Data, Better Cities" a discussion with the Managing Director of Citi Ventures Studio, Valla Vakili. This is the first event of our month-long program filled with stimulating conversations, webinars, fireside chats & more. Follow us for more program notifications or add the kickoff event to your calendar now.    Meanwhile at NewCities  Two NEW episodes on threesixtyCITY Don’t miss our latest 30-minute episodes on creating communities of care with MIT artist and filmmaker Marisa Moran Jahn and reimagining the safety of our streetscapes with Columbia law professor Sarah Seo.

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Urban Farming + Food Justice Call for op-ed contributors! With the arrival of spring, and a new season of climate victory gardens in bloom, our next Big Picture will focus on urban agriculture as a means of designing more humanistic cities by increasing the socio-ecological resilience of our urban communities. > Are you an urban farming advocate, community garden leader, or implementing policy and programs at the city-level? Send us an email!     What we're reading: The ‘15-Minute City’ Isn’t Made for Disabled Bodies  –Bloomberg CityLab Bill C-230 marks an important first step in addressing environmental racism in Canada  – The Conversation What the “Infrastructure” Fight Is Really About – Politico The economics of climate change – Swiss Re Institute