Description: SAVE THE DATE!
May 3rd 2012
HSC’s 10th Anniversary
Benefit Party!
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
210 Lafayette Street at Kenmare Square

Start Time: 7 pm
Date: 2012-05-03
End Time: 10 pm

Please Join Hester Street Collaborative and Leroy Street Studio to celebrate the Year of the Dragon at our annual Lunar New Year Party!

5:30 pm design activities for children in the HSC workshop
7:00 pm drinks and hors d’oeuvres
113 Hester Street (between Eldridge & Forsyth)

That week HSC will also be unveiling the 5th annual installation of Lunar New Year lanterns, created by local youth from M.S. 131, the Chinatown YMCA in nearby Sara D. Roosevelt Park!

Start Time: 5:30pm
Date: 2012-01-26
End Time: 10:00pm

WHEN: Friday January 13 – Sunday January 15, 2012
WHERE: The New School in New York, NY
ADMISSION: $10/youth; $25/adult

MORE INFO:

http://www.recycleabicycle.org/about-us/youth-bike-summit

OVERVIEW: Recycle-A-Bicycle’s Youth Bike Summit is a three day gathering geared toward youth, bicycles, education, and advocacy. This national conference aims to bring people from different disciplines to explore, network, and learn how bicycling can be a legitimate and safe form of transportation for today’s youth. Planned with a Steering Committee of officers and educators from youth bike education programs throughout the country, the Youth Bike Summit will offer a dynamic inter-generational exchange through educational workshops and panel discussions that are both interactive and practical. The Youth Bike Summit will also provide tools and information on fundraising and best practices for schools that wish to incorporate bikes into the physical fabric of the learning environment.

This year’s conference will feature a “staff track” of workshops led by officers, administrators, managers, and instructors from organizations dedicated to working with youth and bikes. These sessions will highlight practical issues such as fundraising strategies, challenges, and best practices.

More than 200 people traveled from 14 states and Canada to attend the first annual Youth Bike Summit in January 2011. The conference took place at The New School in New York, NY and featured a Keynote address by NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Youth Environmental Justice Advocate Kimberly White.

HISTORY: In March 2010, Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB) attended the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit with two high school interns who had completed a comprehensive job training program and Earn-A-Bike program at RAB. Both participants learned they loved bicycles and expressed an interest in learning more about how bicycling fits into policy, the environment, social entrepreneurship, and community-building. Traveling to Washington DC for the first time, the 17 year old participants explored the nation’s capital by bike, attended the conference, and lobbied elected officials. As we debriefed on the bus ride home, we discussed the importance of engaging youth in the national dialogue of cycling education and advocacy. As a result, the idea of the Youth Bike Summit came into being. Both young advocates were active participants in the planning of the conference in 2011.
Start Date: 2012-01-13
End Date: 2012-01-15

We will be presenting models for collaboration between designers and community-based partners that help to engage local residents around planning issues, demystify complex public policy, and empower people to make real-world change in their communities.

Free and open to the public, RSVP to prattpspd@gmail.com

Date: 12-16-2011
Start Time: 3:00 pm
End Time: 5:00 pm

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) hosts a panel discussion about the East River Waterfront redevelopment. Featuring Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative, Damaris Reyes, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side), and Esther Wang, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Moderated by Kaja Kühl, GSAPP.

About Where is New York: Each month, one program at GSAPP will identify a site within the five boroughs that has been important to their discipline within the past year and bring designers, policymakers, developers, community activists, and other New Yorkers together to discuss the site and question where we are.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-11-28
End Time: 20:30

Free Food!
Bike Raffles!

Meeting conducted in English with Spanish and Chinese
translation, Facilitación de Español. 有中文翻译)

Start Time: 6:30 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM
Date: 11-15-2011

Start Time: 6:30 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM
Date: 11-02-2011

Location: P.S. 69 Auditorium, 77-02 37th Ave.  Jackson Heights, Queens

Description:

HSC has been working with Chhaya CDC in Queens to engage residents around the development of a South Asian Community Center.

Please join us for this town hall to share your thoughts and ideas on community needs. We will conduct a short presentation of what we have developed so far with input from the community followed by an open discussion.

For more information or RSVP call:
Rasel Kaber, Chhaya CDC
719-478-3848 Ext. 18
or email: rasel@chhayacdc.org
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
Date: 11-01-2011

THE PROJECT
To do this we are going to design and build an interactive pop-up center which will serve as both a mobile home base for visioning activities and an advocacy tool to build support for a permanent center. The pop-up center will be a lightweight and mobile structure, somewhat like a pushcart or vending cart that can be easily packed up and transported to sites around the West Village.

FIERCE’s research and visioning process utilizing the pop-up center is being conducted in partnership with the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project.

WE NEED YOU!
We’re looking for a group of enthusiastic designers, architects, artists, and creative thinkers to help us conceive, develop and build the pop up center.

Like a think tank, the volunteer design/build group will meet at HSC’s workshop for two evening sessions on Tuesdays in October. Then on two consecutive Saturdays we will build the pop-up center to get it ready for FIERCE’s Town Hall on November 12th.

Tentative design/build dates:
Tuesdays 10/18, 10/22 from 6pm-8pm
Saturdays 10/29, 11/5 11am-5pm

to get involved email dylan@hesterstreet.org
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2011-11-05
End Time: 17:00