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Sukkot Celebration at M’finda Kalunga Community Garden

Sunday, Sept 26, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Rivington Street b/t Forsyth & Chrystie

Please join the MK Community Garden and the Manhattan Workers Circle School

for a family celebration of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot!

Parents and kids of all ages are invited to make sukkah decorations & learn Sukkot songs and traditions.

“Great to see such a happy event and so many people in the garden today. “

“Workers Circle was fantastic – welcoming, kind, respectful..”

NYTimes “Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a short window to stop things from getting even worse.”

Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded.

Thanks to Alison, Jennifer, Bud, Colleen, Irit, Rainer, Sam, Diego, Sgt Kakit Yip, PO Urena, “man of steele” and Explorers, Paul, Christina, Chris and  – and everyone i’m forgetting!!

Beautiful day!

Photos Christina Tsang-Fox and K Webster

His work continues to beautify this neighborhood.

They ARE cute!!

“Outstanding Leadership and Volunteerism”

Long Time M’Finda Kalunga Gardener and Director of Education for “The Hort” received this well deserved honor for her tremendous work in the community from Council Member Chin.

Her work partnering with Emma Lazarus High School to care for the local environment with park clean ups and plantings, her solution- oriented empowerment of local communities in answer food insecurity by starting vegetable gardens and distributing fresh produce as well as organizing green job trainings.. and so much more.

The citation rightly refers to M’Finda Kalunga as her “backyard”.

In the tradition of Jane Goodall: “I have to go on doing it because I care passionately about nature. I care passionately about children.”

Our thanks to Pam.

From Pam Ito:

“This award is reminder that my work and my volunteer efforts in District 1 are not only seen, but celebrated.  This has lifted me up and paved my path in sunshine. Thank you.”

With a very large thank you to AudubonNY’s  Richard, Lily, Yamina and Audubon Volunteers, Rob Watson and Volunteers, Con Ed’s Ulysses Ifill and volunteers and Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition and volunteers!!

Celebrated here since 2004

Come Visit!

Organized by Debra Jeffrey Glass (for years)

Readings by Eddie Glass and Debra Jeffrey Glass

Installation honoring the Black and Indigenous histories of the Lower East Side by Dennis RedMoon Darkeem

Sky Manna Band

Performances by Bobby Bryan

Film by Lee Elson (soon)

From FABnyc & Buscada June 2021

Peer Learning Spaces

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“When FABnyc and Buscada began this project in mid-2019, we were interested in how learning spaces and peer networks help arts practitioners sustain themselves through challenging times…”

“The project’s conversations with community arts practitioners in New York City showed us that we are not without a roadmap for facing challenges; the strength and capacity to do that lies in the networks and peer learning that the arts have been building for a long, long time”

This report explores four central needs for the future of socially-engaged art /art in community that emerged from our research with practitioners..

• reimagine the field;
• work cross-sector;
• create spaces for leadership learning; and
• sustain necessary networks in times of crisis.“