Spring 2010 e-newsletter
In this issue…
Upcoming Events with HSC:
April 14: HSC Volunteer Happy Hour
April 17 & May 1st: Get Your Hands Dirty at P.S. 134 Dirt Days
May 15: Save the Date for It’s My Park! Day
HSC Volunteer Teaching Assistants Needed
HSC Volunteer Happy Hour
Have creative energy to spare? HSC needs your help!
Join us at our workshop on Wednesday, April 14th from 6:30 to 8:30, and help us develop new ideas for our Ground Up program at P.S. 134. Drinks and food will be provided:just bring your innovative ideas and desire to have a great time.
At this HSC Happy Hour, we’ll be playing with different art materials and prototyping elements of the project to help develop a long-term plan. This spring, P.S. 134 students in HSC’s Ground Up design education program will be learning all about food production and growing vegetables in their outdoor classroom and garden.
As part of these lessons, they will undertake a design project building tables for use in the school’s Outdoor Classroom that include artwork based on plants and vegetables that they’ve studied.
We look forward to your creative input to make this project a success. Stop by HSC at 6:30 on Wednesday, April 14th, or email Dylan House for more info.
Hester Street Collaborative
113 Hester Street
B/D to Grand Street, F to
East Broadway
Get your hands dirty at P.S. 134 Dirt Days
Spring is here again, and with it come Dirt Days at P.S. 134!Join HSC staff, students and teachers from P.S. 134, and local community members in the P.S. 134 Outdoor Classroom/Community Garden to water, weed, plant, harvest, and build new garden elements on Saturdays throughout the spring and summer. The garden is beautiful this time of year, so come out with your friends and family, get your hands dirty, and help HSC maintain and expand the garden’s amazing impact on the students and community of P.S. 134.
Dirt Days typically run from 10 am – 1 pm at P.S. 134 (293 East Broadway). Adults and kids of all ages are welcome! Contact Dylan House or 212-431-6780 for more information.
Upcoming HSC Dirt Days:
Saturday, April 17th
Saturday, May 1st
Save the Date for It’s My Park! Day on the Allen & Pike Street Pedestrian Malls
On Saturday May 15, 2010, HSC will join organizations all across the city to host an “It’s My Park! Day” on the Allen & Pike Street Pedestrian Malls. It’s My Park! Dayis a citywide effort to care for and celebrate New York City’s parks coordinated by Partnerships for Parks.
HSC’s partners at Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) and the UNRAP Coalition will join us to create a fun, engaging, and productive on the Malls, which are undergoing significant renovation and revitalization (all based on community input) by the NYC Parks Department and the NYC Department of Transportation. Activities for community members of all ages and walks of life on It’s My Park! Day will include flower planting, cleaning and maintaining the park, and helping to create and install the first phase of a temporary art and wayfinding installation on the Malls with a team of local artists and youth.
We look forward to seeing you there– save the date, Saturday May 15th , 11 am – 3 pm, and join us on the Allen & Pike Street Pedestrian Malls (at Hester Street)!
Call HSC at 212-431-6780 for more information or to join us as a volunteer team leader!
We Love the People’s Plan!
Following an extensive community visioning and charrette process on the East River Waterfront, the OUR Waterfront Coalition (of which HSC is a member) has released "The People’s Plan for the East River Waterfront," a report that advocates for a redesign of the waterfront that will meet local community member’s needs.
After contributing design schemes, informational graphics, and the overall design of the People’s Plan report, HSC has designed and helped to distribute a wide-scale advocacy and promotion campaign called “We Love the People’s Plan, "including multi-lingual posters, postcards, buttons, and stickers.These materials are being distributed throughout the community in order to raise awareness and support of the People’s Plan,fostering a groundswell of grassroots support as HSC and other local organizations continue to advocate for the allocation of capital funds for the Waterfront’s renovation.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
HSC is looking for part-time Teaching Assistants.
We are looking for several motivated, creatively-minded volunteer teaching assistants to join our teaching artists to prepare for and teach Ground Up design education workshops in several of our partner schools in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
Join us to provide unique, high-quality design education to New York public school students!
To learn more about these exciting opportunities, available this Spring, email Dylan House or Jess Pastore, or call 212-431-6780.