HSC September E-Newsletter
1. Volunteer at HSC’s next Dirt Day
2. Design Camp a huge Success
3. HSC Board Member Profiled in Time Out
1. Volunteer at HSC's next Dirt Day!
Come and join HSC at the first Dirt Day of the Fall in the P.S. 134 Outdoor Classroom and community garden on Saturday September 8th. Dirt Days are volunteer days in the garden where youth and adults can get their hands dirty gardening, helping with ongoing construction projects, and being creative with different art and design activities. Join us for the whole day or just stop by for a little while. We will be in the garden beginning at 10am through late afternoon.
The P.S. 134 Outdoor Classroom is a school-wide initiative to re-claim and transform a derelict community garden into an outdoor classroom for inter-disciplinary hands-on learning.
This spring and summer we’ve built a retaining wall around the garden, new planting beds, and constructed a new storage and greenhouse shed!
> Please email: dylan@hesterstreet.org, if you'd like to volunteer!
2. Design Camp a Huge Success!
HSC held its first ever summer Design Camp for 6-10 year olds this past month. It was a week long day program combining lessons in design, hands-on making, community service, and stewardship helping in the reconstruction of the P.S. 134 Outdoor Classroom. One of HSC's high school Citizen Designer Interns had this to say:
"It was a greatly tiring and fun week for us interns, who basically watched and played with the ten kids. We took care of a lot of business this week: making concrete stepping stones to be put into the ground in the garden, silk-screening with the kids (and making t-shirts and book covers), taking care of the garden, painting, making models of the garden, and, most of all, cleaning!"
> Read more about the Camp through the eyes of the Citizen Designer Interns, on their blog here
3. HSC Board Member Profiled in Time Out
Thomas Sze Leong Yu, was featured in this week’s Race and Culture issue of Time Out New York for his work in affordable housing development at Asian Americans for Equality and Downtown Manhattan Community Development Corp. “Thomas Yu is a housing Robin Hood. The Harvard grad regularly swoops into the real-estate market and
buys valuable properties. Then he makes them available to the poor...”
> Continue reading the article here |
