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1. MORE GARDEN EVENTS ACROSS THE CITY
Summertime in the city is an experience unlike any other. Every corner of the city is ablaze with activity, and the gardens, as always, are in on the action. We chose to highlight the upcoming garden tour in Harlem, the ENY annual fish fry and the LES Kung-fu program, but the events page of our website is constantly being updated, so click there often: www.greenthumbnyc.org/events
Harlem Community Garden Tour
Saturday, August 18th, 2007, 10am-3pm
Harlem Green, A Tour of Harlem Community Gardens
10am-The P.S. 76 School Garden on West 120th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
11am-The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden, West 122nd Street btw. AC Powell & Frederick Douglass Blvds. COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST HERE!
12noon-The Clayton Williams Memorial Garden, West 126th Street near Frederick Douglass Blvd.
1:45pm-130th Street Block Association Garden, 130th btw. 5th and Madison
3pm-The Harris Garden, West 153rd Street near St Nicholas Avenue: BARBEQUE HERE!
[download attachment for complete list]
harlemgreen.pdf
Fish Fry
Euclid Pine Garden
Friday, August 17th, 2007, 11am-2pm
Brooklyn -On the corner of Pine Street and Dumont Avenue. Take the A, C train to Euclid Ave., walk south 4 blocks to Pine St.
Butterfly Festival
Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden (RING)
Saturday, August 18th, 2007, 11am-4pm
Manhattan -1835 Riverside Drive. Cross streets are Riverside Drive, Dyckman, Broadway, Seaman
10 Year Anniversary Celebrations
Backyard Garden
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
4pm-BBQ and Potluck
5pm-Queen Moonracer - drums and bagpipes!
6pm-Surprise Mystery Guest
7pm-Micheal Arenella & His Dreanland Orchestra
8:15pm-An Inconvenient Truth
Brooklyn -61-73 Hamilton Avenue, @ Van Brunt St. Take the B61 bus to Hamilton and Van Brunt.
Kung Fu
Dias y Flores
Every Tuesday, 6pm
Manhattan -520-522 East 13th Street between Aves. A & B.
2. UPCOMING ADVENTURES IN THE ARTS EVENTS
GreenThumb is sponsoring two more exciting events for the month of August! Join the local community in the South Bronx at the El Flamboyan Garden, this coming Saturday August 18th, in celebration of the "Beats that Bind Us". Bring your drums and other percussion instruments to the artist circle. Brotha Sean (skilled with both West African Djembe music and Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba) will lead us as we explore the rhythms that link us to each other and to our environment.
Then on Saturday August 25th, GreenThumb will support the Art on Dean event at the Walt L. Shemal Garden in Brooklyn. Come and get some exposure for your paintings, photos, collages and sculptures. Read your poetry, or perform your songs. All artists welcome to participate. Details below:
CALL TO ARTISTS:
Local artists needed! The Walt L. Shemal Garden is planning an all day open art fair. All disciplines are encouraged. Please call Glenis Holder at 212.788.8073 or Greg Anderson at 718.593.3782.
Beats That Bind Us
El Flamboyan
Saturday, August 18th, 2007, 4-7pm
Bronx-The corner of Tinton Avenue and 150th St. Take the 6 train to E 149th St, 2,5 to Jackson Ave. OR the Bx19 bus to 149th St & Southern BLVD, Bx4 to Westchester & Tinton, Bx17 to 149th St & Prospect Ave.
Art on Dean
Walt L. Shemal Community Garden
Saturday, August 25th, 2007, 2-7pm
Brooklyn -1093-1095 Dean Street between Bedford and Franklin Avenues. Take the A/C train to Nostrand Ave, walk uphill to Dean, turn right, walk half a block pass Bergen St. or the 4/5/2/3 to Franklin Ave. Walk downhill to Dean, turn right and walk toward Bergen. OR take the B65 bus on Dean.
3. THEATRE AND MOVIES IN THE GARDENS
HIGHTLIGHTS
Hoi Polloi Productions Presents: Susan Lori-Parks
A theatrical performance for New York's parks and community gardens.
In November 2002, the Pulitzer prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks sat down and committed to writing one play a day for the following 365 days. Four years later, the Public Theater selected several theater companies to produce each week of these plays, naming their year-long festival "365 Days/365 Plays."
From June 21 - 24, 2007, the theater company Hoi Polloi presented their spirited take on one week of these short plays to community gardens and parks in the South Bronx, East Harlem and Jamaica, Queens. The following are highlights from the presentation of the play at the Diamante Garden in East Harlem.
COMING UP
Movies on the Farm!
Added Value
Thursday, August 16th, 8:15pm
Bring a blanket, bring the family, then grab a lemonade or some locally-produced ice cream, and lean back on a hay bale for this summer's Movies on the Farm!
When We Were Kings (PG)
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali!
Brooklyn- Call (718) 855-5531 for details.
Red Hook Farmers Market
Every Thursday, 10AM - 2PM at the Red Hook Senior Center.
Intersection of Dwight and Wolcott Streets.
Every Saturday, 9Am - 3PM at the Red Hook Community Farm.
Visit the Added Value website for details.
www.added-value.org
Southside Summer Fiesta!
El Puente Espirito Tierra
Saturday, Aug 18, 2007, 3-8pm
Summer celebration in Community garden with Puerto Rican and Dominican music, a marengue dance group, bomba drums, and tales performed on the stage in the garden.
Brooklyn -South 2nd, between Driggs & Roebling
Free Outdoor Movie Night: The Blues Brothers
Amazing Community Garden
Saturday, Aug 25, 2007, 8-10:30pm
The Blues Brothers (1980): Epic comedy in which the musicians of the title (John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) attempt to save an orphanage. Featuring musical tunes by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles. Directed by John Landis.
Brooklyn -261 Columbia St. at Carroll St.
4. NETNEWS NETWORKS
Just Food (Free Workshops) - Owen Taylor
City Farms Training and Livestock Coordinator
August is a great month to be in the garden. Come learn how to grow and prepare more healthy food in community gardens and urban farms throughout NYC. The City Farms trainers are community gardeners who use hands-on workshops to pass on their knowledge and skills in a fun and effective way. For example, you may be stuffing green beans and dill in a jar for those cold winter months at a Canning workshop, or putting hoops and row covers into the ground to grow food year-round at a Season Extension workshop. Open the attachment or click on the link to choose from the upcoming workshops.
We look forward to seeing you in the gardens! The City Farms August07 Workshops.pdf
Center for Environmental Research & Conservation (CERC) at Columbia University - Catherine A. Tissot
Program Manager
Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research & Conservation (CERC) is dedicated to environmental education and leadership. CERC is a consortium comprised of the world’s leading scientific institutions – Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, Wildlife Conservation Society, The New York Botanical Garden, and Wildlife Trust. CERC’s part-time Certificate Program in Conservation Biology offers classes in the important environmental issues of the day – climate change, bio-diversity and conservation, energy and water issues, sustainable development, and environmental economics and finance. Students receive a Columbia University Certificate after completing 120 hours of instruction. The program has rolling admissions which allows students to begin classes throughout the semester. For more information, please contact Catherine Tissot, Program Manager, at ct2119@columbia.edu or (212) 854-8664. www.cerc.columbia.edu
New York Open Center - Lesley Rodriguez
Marketing Manager
The New York Open Center in association with Tri-State Food Not Lawns will be sponsoring a nine session course in Permaculture Design. Permaculture is a design system to create sustainable, abundant and efficient human habitats by integrating insights from ecology, organic gardening, indigenous farming practices, architecture, agroforestry and economics. It involves attention to factors such as wind, water and sun exposure, with extensive use of composting, mulching and integrated pest management, reducing the need for chemicals and fuel, supporting local farmers while lowering carbon emissions. For complete information about this program please visit the following link
www.opencenter.org/content/view/961/82/
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