Join us on Sunday, March 26 at 4pm for “Shooting the Fires” with photojournalist Bill Bayer. It’s the 4th in our series of 6 Exhibit Events that complement our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982.” Bill worked as a photographer for the Hudson Dispatch at the time of the Hoboken Fires. The event is free, and refreshments will be served. Bill’s event can also be viewed live on Sunday, March 26 at 4 pm. To watch and chat on  YouTube, just click here. To watch and comment on Facebook, just click here. 

Bill will be presenting, “a show and tell. It was a different time back in 1978-1982 in Hoboken. People were on edge due to the horrific fires and the death toll that kept climbing, with no apparent end in sight. I’m going to talk about what it was like to work and report here -through photos – during that time period.” Bill also says, “To this day, I hate this word, ‘gentrification.’ To me, that word represents oppression, death, community destruction, greed, bigotry — the word gentrification needs to be taken out of the English language.”

There are two more “Fires” Exhibit Events left in the series at 1301 Hudson Street:

Sunday, April 2, 4pm: “The Fires and the founding of The Hoboken Shelter”. Mark Singleton in conversation with the Museum’s Collections Manager Rand Hoppe. Mark grew up in Hoboken and was board president of the Hoboken Shelter for many years. Rand is a long-standing Shelter board member.

Sunday, April 16, 6pm (note 6pm start time): “The Survival of a People: A conversation about the living memory of the Hoboken fires,” with Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Ph.D. and Hoboken-born consultant on the exhibit, in dialogue with Chris López. Dr. Figueroa-Vásquez is an award-winning writer, scholar, and associate professor of afro-diaspora studies at Michigan State University.