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FABnyc and GOLES: LES Young Artist of Color Fellowship Application – due Saturday Jan 9th

FABnyc https://www.fabnyc.org/
and
GOLES https://www.goles.org/
are launching a new fellowship program for young artists of color, ages 18-25, who are residents of the Lower East Side.  
As the Lower East Side continues to fight displacement, marginalization, and racial inequities, our organizations recognize that sustaining a sense of community requires efforts beyond successfully preventing evictions.  People also need to feel that they have a community, a place, in the LES. Arts-based placemaking efforts, like the LES Young Artists of Color fellowship, can strengthen a sense of belonging across generations.

Besides their importance as creative voices in the LES, young artists of color are underrepresented in the arts sector as a whole.  Peer circles of support combined with opportunities to share work and learn from others can be a critical factor in moving their professional development forward.

Fellows will each receive a $500 stipend, meetings and exchange with established arts professionals of color, and  a supportive circle for sharing artistic works-in-progress and career challenges.  Fellows will have the opportunity to share their work publicly through a culminating group event.

The program will meet for 16 weeks by Zoom, Monday evenings in spring 2021, March 1 – June 14.  Attendance to all sessions is required. We will accept 8 fellows into the program this spring.

Artists in any discipline may apply.

If you have questions about the application, please contact Imani Vieira – imani@fabnyc.org

All proposals must be received before midnight on Saturday, January 9th.

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Pratt Institutes Interior Design Students Offer Up Ideas to Spur Our Thinking for the Stanton ParkHouse’s Return to the Community

Envisioning the Stanton Building’s Return to the Community

Monday, December 7th

7–8pm

https://www.facebook.com/StantonBldg/live

Please join us for an online presentation by students in the Interior Design program at Pratt Institute who have been applying their skills and infusing fresh thinking into a community vision for the Stanton Building in SDR Park. 

Brief presentations by these Fall 2020 students of their designs for the Stanton Building will be followed by a dialogue with community members. Please join us!

hosted by the Stanton Task Force

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Masks Really Work

From the NYTimes:

Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How

“The public health debate on masks is settled. When you wear a mask, You protect yourself, you protect others, you prevent yourself from touching your face. And you signal that wearing a mask is the right thing to do.”

– Joseph G. Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard

“With coronavirus cases still rising, wearing a mask is more important than ever. In this animation, you will see just how effective a swath of fabric can be at fighting the pandemic.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-mask-covid-particles-ul.html

 

Comprehensive look at all kinds of masks, how they protect, which are best for which purpose, etc. A good read. Knowledge is Power.

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Council Member Chin on Conditions at 174-184 Forsyth Street (across from SDR Park)

Council Member Chin “This morning we stood in solidarity with tenants of 174-184 Forsyth Street to demand the landlord address the building’s disrepair. For months, correspondence from my office to management has gone unanswered, while living conditions worsen.

The chronic lack of responsiveness forces us to escalate enforcement and explore intervention in property ownership and management. We continue to work with tenants and Cooper Square to strategize on a long-term solution.”

 

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Educational Alliance: International Overdose Awareness Day August 31

From Educational Alliance:

In honor of International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st, we are running a campaign to increase knowledge and awareness around the 911 Good Samaritan Law. We created the flyers below that you can share on your social media networks, hang in your buildings, send in an email to your participants, etc. Also be on the look out on our Facebook page for other 911 Good Samaritan Law social media campaigns that you can share to your page in the coming days.

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