Protecting and improving the community for the people who live and work here

Thank you to the MKGardeners for your years of work creating this oasis and thank you to the BRC for always sharing with your neighbors!!

Prep Crew: Xiaoyan and Zihe (and K)

EVERYBODY HAS A STORY TO TELL is written by Obie Award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera based on stories shared during community workshops in Chinatown and L.E.S.

Directed by Alexandra Aron

Performed by: Christopher Bisram, Ana Sophia Colon, Darlenis Duran, & Yike (Coco) Huang

Produced by: Xianyan Zhu and Zihe Tian

Costumes by: Tine Kinderman

Stage Manager: Lily Cox

Move out of Storage Crew: the intrepid leader Ted Enoch, Volunteer extraordinaire Michael Sheehan and the ARTIST himself Emanuel Oni!

K Webster and Steve Elson – hard at work preparing the site

Back at MKGarden’s Patio…

Before Mess

After

Until its next adventure:

And a visit from our long time Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition leader Thelma Pridgeon!

Presented: Mindful Motion and Creative Emotion!

Thank you to all the volunteers, and especially to Wellington Chen and Rosie De Rong!!

Thank you to the M’Finda Kalunga Gardeners!

Thank you Kim Fong, Dee and the BRC!

EVERYBODY HAS A STORY TO TELL

MAY 16-17

2pm and 4pm

In the M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden 

Rivington between Chrystie and Forsyth

Returning to the Lower East Side for what is becoming RTP’s annual community production, created from stories shared during workshops and encounters over the year. This year, we are expanding – performing in several community gardens over two weekends in May.

written by Obie Award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera

Directed by Alexandra Aron

FREE & OPEN TO ALL AGES

Hope you can join us!

EVERYBODY HAS A STORY TO TELL is written by Obie Award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera based on stories shared during community workshops in Chinatown and L.E.S.

Directed by Alexandra Aron

Performed by: Christopher Bisram, Ana Sophia Colon, Darlenis Duran, & Yike (Coco) Huang

Produced by: Xianyan Zhu and Zihe Tian

Costumes by: Tine Kinderman

Stage Manager: Lily Cox

FREE EVENT for Children of All Ages

We continue to have cargo -bikes riding fast across the Rivington Transverse in Sara Roosevelt Park.

Children regularly use this crossing to get to their day-care centers near the Park.

The Transverse is also the path between the Playground and a Community Garden’s Children’s Area (and NYC Parks Senior Protected Space).

Added bonus?  Trash with Amazon’s name on it dumped here.

They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the spring

-Pablo Neruda

Thanks to Housing Works Postive Health Project for their offering of Needle Boxes for safe disposal throughout Sara Roosevelt Park.

Never touch needles!!!

• Report it: Call 311 immediately.
• Do not move them: Do not throw needles in public trash cans, recycling bins, or leave them on the ground.
• Secure the area: Keep a safe distance from the needles.
• In case of injury: If you are poked by a needle, wash the area with soap and water immediately and seek medical attention at an urgent care center or emergency room.

• If you must move a needle, use tongs or pliers, place it into a puncture-resistant container (e.g., a thick plastic laundry detergent bottle), seal with duct tape, and label it “Home Sharps”.
• You can drop off sealed containers at any NYC hospital or nursing home.

• NYC Parks staff routinely collect thousands of needles per week across the city and are trained in their safe removal.
• Some parks with higher incidents have locked, secure syringe disposal kiosks.