HIOW: Guerilla Drive-In

Hackable Idea of the Week has been on a bit of a hiatus, but a story on NPR's Weekend Edition caught my ear.

Across the country, citizen-run guerilla drive-ins are springing up in municipal public spaces and vacant lots. A loose collective of folks puts together a showing of a movie projected outdoors on the side of a building, and invites other people to show up. Primarily an urban phenomenon, the drive-ins have an anarchistic edge, with loose organization, word-of-mouth promotion, and an emphasis on reclamation of public spaces with spontaneous activity.

Here in Providence, Cornish Associates, an urban development company, has been running movie nights on Thursdays during the summer, without the self-organized subversive construct of the Guerilla Drive-Ins. Still, props to them for being a catalyst.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive in offers a DIY guide to starting your own.

NPR' story on the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive In.