Occupy Wall Street's 1st Brooklyn General Assembly - Franklin Ave

Occupy Wall Street – which began on Oct. 17, 2011,  is a self – pro-claimed -

“leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions”.

Agree with their stance or not, the movement has been picking up international steam, sparking similar movements across the globe.

And tonight, Oct. 20, 2011 @ 7PM @ 613 Franklin Ave., in Crown Heights, Brooklyn - OWS is having their first ever:

Occupy Brooklyn General Assembly

“Come one, come all to the next General Assembly of Occupy Brooklyn.

We would like for these meetings to be representative of the Brooklyn community at large, so we hope that people all of backgrounds living anywhere in Brooklyn will come out.

A team appointed at the first GA has identified a location and time and has offered a proposed agenda.

At the GA, all members will be able to propose further agenda items, and vote on a final agenda at the beginning of the meeting.”

Proposed Agenda:

1. -Basics of the GA, why and how this is participatory
2. -Finalize Agenda
3. -Brief Announcements and Check-ins about what work is already being done in Brooklyn
4. -Relationship to OWS
5. -Should we occupy?
6. -Possible direct actions
7. -Identify working groups
8. -Divide into working groups

Great news!!  A few months after Nostrand Park launched the first ever Nostrand Avenue clean-up, Council woman Letitia James is taking up the charge to clean-up and beautify Nostrand Avenue.  According to the Brooklyn Eagle:

“The day will include graffiti removal, store front cleaning, garbage removal and street tree care. NYC Community Clean Up, a not-for-profit organization, will provide these services, except for street tree care, at no cost to the merchants and residents. Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force will be responsible for the tree care which will include soil aeration, mulching and pruning. The Crown Heights Mediation Center conceived of the “clean-up day” as a way to support new and existing businesses on Nostrand Ave.

This will be the first partnership between New York City Community Clean-Up, Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force and IKOKO Inc. (IKOKO is providing outreach and meeting space on Saturday), in which store-fronts will be encouraged to work together and revitalize an already vital merchant’s block.”

Looks like spring cleaning does not just have to take place in the spring!

This sounds fun …

Local freelance journalist and videographer made this exceptional video montage of the recent Franklin Avenue Kids Day.

Franklin Kids Day 2011 from Aulistar Mark on Vimeo.

Copyright - Anderson Zaca

Brooklyn Photo Salon and The ARTGROUPIENATION

Present BLOCK PARTY – SOUL OF SUMMER ART EXHIBITION – An exhibition by Anderson Zaca
Celebrating New Yorkers across race and class, sharing regional pride from different neighborhoods.

Anderson Zaca: Block Party Soul Of Summer Art Exhibition

Opening Reception
Thursday, August 4, 2011 from 6:00PM to 9:00PM
Exhibition through August 2011
1158DEAN Gallery – 1158Dean Street, Brooklyn | NY 11216

Closing Reception
Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 5:00PM to 10:00PM
Walt Shamel Community Garden
1093-95 Dean Street, Brooklyn | NY 11216

Nostrand Park is seeking the assistance of a couple of talented artists, calligraphers, and/or graphic designers to volunteer their skills in helping us create vibrant window displays along Nostrand Avenue.

If you haven’t seen the media coverage, basically, on Saturday, June 25th, Nostrand Park will be launching its exciting new initiative, “Destination Nostrand” – creating a pop-up store installations in vacant storefronts along Nostrand Avenue, in Crown Heights Brooklyn.

We would like to work with a couple of artists to create a simple window decal  for each of the stores.  (Maybe something like the below, but snazzier).

If you are interested, please contact us:

Raphael Niles
Masai Marketing
Principal
www.masaimarketing.com
info@masaimarketing.com
646-552-2774

OR

Laurel Brown
Nostrand Park
Director of Community Planning
info@nostrandpark.org

Nostrand Park – in collaboration with VAMOS Architects, Masai Marketing, NYC Dept of Small Business Services, and desigNYC – is excited to announce the launch of its new pilot program, Destination Nostrand, intended to beautify, promote, enliven, and enhance Nostrand Avenue:

If you are interested in participating, showing off your artwork, opening up your commercial space, have a business idea that you would like to test out, or if you just want to help make sure that Nostrand looks great on the day of, just let us know: http://nostrandpark.com/destination-nostrand/

Special thank you to DANIEL GERGLEY, NICOLE MACIAS, JENNIFER MACCHIARELLI, and GroundUp Designers for their tremendous marketing and promotional assistance!

To view some of the design concepts for DN, check out our gallery below. Since the project is in its pilot phase, we will only be launching 3 of the concepts, but feel free to let us know which ones you like best:

Looks like St. Lucia’s tourist board is doing fun promo events in Crown Heights.  Got the word about this event from a friend, and figure we’d pass it along.  The pics from last year’s version of this event look nice.  Anyone attend?

PLG Arts Production of “Daydream”
A 45 minute, family friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Friends of Brower Park would like to invite you to come out to Brower Park to enjoy the live PLG Arts production of
“Daydream”
Two Saturdays in June
June 11th 2011 and June 18th 2011
3:30 PM

Seating is on the ground so bring a picnic blanket or something to sit on!

PLG Arts is a local Brooklyn organization that promotes the arts, supports local artists and builds community through celebrating the vibrant creativity of the residents of Brooklyn.  The PLG Arts Summer Theater Project brings free live theater to the public and creates an opportunity for local professional actors, directors and theatrical artist to collaborate and share their talent.

For more information about the show visit www.plgarts.org

Hope to see you there!