The Ghetto Savants: True Grit(s) in Brooklyn

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

True Grit(s) in Brooklyn

Act Now Foundation Short Film Collective

In Conjunction with NY Perks Present:

True Grit(s)

Thursday June 12th At NY Perks
193 Smith Street

Between Warren & Baltic Street,

Brooklyn NYF or G Train to Bergen St

Reception 6:30
Film Screening: 7:30
After Party: 9:00
347-274-0563

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Clinical Definition of Ghetto Savant

Ghetto Savant, sometimes abbreviated as ghettosavantism, is not a recognized medical diagnosis, but community psychologist Blaine Teamer defines it as a rare condition in which persons with environmental disorders (like being poor and/or from the ghetto) have one or more areas of expertise, ability or brilliance that causes a global paradigm shift and is in deep contrast with the individual's overall limitations (like being poor and/or from the ghetto). Teamer says the condition can be genetic, but can also be acquired, and coexists with other developmental disabilities such as being "too anything” (too fierce, too fly, too fab) or any dis-ease that occurs before (pre-natal) during (peri-natal) or after birth (post-natal), or even later in childhood or adult life.