45 Dreams: A Love Letter to Community

About this event

A Community Collaborations Event Presented in partnership with The Senior Center, with a post-screening discussion featuring LaTasha DeLoach and director Joshua Booth There will be a cateredreception starting at 6pm In 1981, the Iowa City Senior Center opened its doors for the first time. Forty-five years later, the building has been renovated, the programs have changed, and thousands of people have walked through. What has stayed the same is harder to photograph: the reason people keep coming back. 45 Dreams: A Love Letter to Community is a documentary by filmmaker Joshua Booth of Diamond Label Films that goes looking for that reason. Filmed on location at the Senior Center and built from conversations with members, volunteers, instructors, and staff, the film moves through art classes and rehearsals, hallway conversations and standing lunch dates, and the ordinary weekday moments where community actually gets made. The people on screen talk about connection, creativity, grief, reinvention, and the particular kind of friendship that forms when you show up to the same room week after week for years. This is not an institutional history. It is a love letter, written by the people who live in it, to a place that has spent 45 years insisting that older adults deserve somewhere to belong.