Posts tagged community

Feb 24, Sunday: A Healing Happening

Invitation
Join East Village Wellness Circle, Moving For Life/Studio 55 C
A Healing Happening

A Journey through Radiance
Sunday 2/24
Studio 55 Avenue C NYC • 2-7pm

RSVP on “WithFriends.co”
The East Village Wellness Circle, in our 5th yr now, has put together consultations & studio journey for you. Join us as we introduce you to a new space called Studio55C the home for somatic movement + arts. run by MovingForLife.org.

Details and Participants below.

10/8 East Village Wellness Circle: Social Resilience

10/8/2017 2nd Sunday East Village Wellness Circle 2PM- 5PM at El Jardin Del Paraiso Community Garden, 311 East 4th St. NY, NY  (between C and D) Free : structured as mutual aid. Presenting: “Preparedness”  Social Resilience We will look at NYC Ready, LES Ready and Bike Ready. What does Wellness Ready look like? What can […]

Building with Belts: functional fashion?

After having to move and reassemble compost bins a few times gardeners at Smiling Hogshead Ranch had the idea of using belts that would easily untie. (A bag of belts at Goodwill cost around $10.) Making Compost Bin Signs Planting fruit trees on either side of the railroad track Gorgeous original SHR Tenant grandfathered in. […]

S21-22-23: Side-Shift à la carte NYC-update

Update: Monday 9/24: wonderful weekend. If anyone wants to put something together like this I can help you. (mixing site specific dance/contact /biking/ somatic studies/urban sustainability/arts) Next: starting to work on loisida garden’s Harvest Arts Festival’s MoS LabORATory Arts. Oct 5, 6, 7. A few Photos from our roamings: lots from the art faire on […]

Video “This is My Home” An Elder Story

This Is My Home from Mark on Vimeo. (click link if not embedding well on blog) Listening to elders. What is their role in community? Are we herding elders off to gated zones .. separating them form people because it s easier and more cost efficient? Can planners integrate them and can neighbors step up […]

Local Associations Respond to Needs

As budgets are cut, and professionally run service programs close, it may be appropriate to imagine the emergence of modern day Village Improvement Associations (VIA) and consider what projects they would now inspire. Following the Civil War, VIAs were started all over America. Small in scale, place-based, citizen driven, they were flexible to respond to a specific community. The Associations might organize concerts or put up window boxes on Main Street buildings, but just as easily serve regular meals to those in need or build a wing on the hospital or collect supplies for distribution after a flood swept through the town.