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REPORT RELEASE!
Creative Transformations: Stories, Learnings, and Recommendations to Support Arts, Culture, and Public Housing Communities
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Our Creative Transformations program was shaped by a research and planning process, kicked off by a cross-sector roundtable held in July 2015. The program ultimately grew to support 17 pilot projects, including 19 partners and the participation of more than a thousand public housing residents and artists. Learn about key themes that have come out of the work so far, plus recommendations and tips to support and do the work well. Arts and culture in public housing communities can:
support community leadership and resident organizing • break down isolation, connecting fellow public housing residents and their neighbors • build community cultural infrastructure • strengthen activism • further economic development and entrepreneurship • shape community planning • and deepen healing
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THIS SATURDAY!
Peer Learning Exhange:
Cultural Marketplaces and Entrepreneurship
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REGISTER HERE! - Saturday, 12pm at the East New York Farmer's Market
An event of our Peer Learning Exchange series, we're asking: What are the values behind community-based markets and cultural entrepreneurship? What are the conditions needed for them to thrive? Learn how creative leaders are managing bureaucracies, navigating logistics, and creating resourceful marketing strategies in an effort to build local small business and foster neighborhood gathering places.
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Facilitated by Mitty Owens.
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This Spring, on Saturday, May 4, youth groups across the city came together for Youth Voices 2019, a forum designed by and for teens. They explored topics that shape their worlds, and determined ways to collaborate in the future. They hosted and participated in workshops, including:
- Radical Creativity: Button- and Zine-Making, with No Longer Empty
- Young Sharks (developing entrepreneurial pitches), with El Puente
- Defining What Neighborhood Means and How to Create a Safe Space for Expression, with Aamnah Khan and Fabliha Anbar of Kensington Cultural Council
- Exploring the Road Less Traveled Through Dance!, with Brian HallowDreamz Henry and The Nuu Knynez
- Let's Talk About Us, with The POINT CDC
- Youth Advocacy, with Red Hook Initiative
This event was co-sponsored by NOCD-NY, No Longer Empty’s Youth Action Council, and El Puente, in collaboration with THE POINT CDC, University Settlement and other NYC youth groups. We are looking for new opportunities for this citywide network to convene in the future, so reach out to us if you have any youth connections!
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Avenue C Plaza and the Kensington Cultural Council
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Established in 2016, Avenue C Plaza is a public space in Kensington, Brooklyn that is used for arts and cultural programming and civic engagement. NOCD-NY joined cultural leaders in the community to help form the Kensington Cultural Council in late 2018, which plans ongoing programming on the plaza and in the neighborhood. One of the most diverse zip codes in New York City, Kensington neighbors come together to speak up, through their culture, for unity and their common humanity.
The 2019 summer season started with a Community Iftar in late May, Immigrant Heritage Month activities through June, and a culminating concert, Celebrating Immigrant Culture (pictured: Ballet Nepantla, photo: Anna Rathkopf), on June 29th.
Check out upcoming activities!
Facebook: https://facebook.com/avecplaza/
Twitter: #AveCPlaza
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What Creates Health?
@ Queensbridge
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We are thrilled to partner with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on the National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town grant, What is Health? @ Queensbridge, with our friend and collaborator Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement this year. More to come on that soon!
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Peer Learning Exchange: Creative Collaborations with City Government
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On March 13th, in collaboration with A Blade of Grass, we co-hosted Creative Collaborations with City Government, a peer learning exchange and discussion about the diverse ways arts and cultural groups intersect with city government, emerging opportunities for collaboration, and best practices for working together. Visit A Blade of Grass's blog post, Creative Collaborations with City Government: Discussion Dispatch, for their summary of the conversation.
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