An Invitation: The LP's Field Day

[Kemi Ilesanmi]

Hello all, just a note to say you're invited to Field Day, The Laundromat project's new, fun & free neighborhood arts festival this coming Saturday the 21st!

It's family-friendly and taking place in 3 neighborhoods (Bed-Stuy, Harlem, Hunts Point) simultaneously. Much more info below!

Also, if you can't join us for this, consider attending our annual Public Art Potluck instead.

Hope everyone is off to a fabulous fall :)

Kemi

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Join us on September 21st from 12 to 5 PM for free art-making, storytelling, food games and demos, face painting and more! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear Kemi, Our first ever Field Day is only a week away! This festival highlights The LP's Create Change Fellows and Artists-in-Residence as well as our incredible community partners. We and can't wait to infuse the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Harlem, and Hunts Point with lots of free, fun, neighborhood-focused arts workshops and programs for New Yorkers of all ages. We especially want to say a big thanks to our lead community partners: Archiving the City, Art in FLUX Harlem, The BLK Projek, and Community Voices Heard.  Please read on for the full list of fun activities, and keep checking here for new details added daily! BEDFORD-STUYVESANT For My Sweet Gallery (1103 Fulton St.) Renter's Archive workshops with local artist and community partner Adeola Enigbokan (Archiving the City) and The LP's Create Change Fellows. Click here for the flier! To sign up for workshops, please rsvp to TheRente...@gmail.com. Walk-ins also welcome!  Mapping Our Home A New Lease for New York Dream Geographies If These Walls Could Talk Preservation at Home When Objects Speak Fulton Street Laundry  (1618 Fulton St.) Art Workshops ("Bed-Stuy Is..." Neighborhood Totes and Jewelry Making)  Marmy’s Laundromat  (197 Malcolm X Blvd.) Mapping Soulville with Artist-in-Residence Aisha Cousins Meet Stephanie Dinkins, 2007 Artist-in-Residence & current Board member and learn about her 2007 residency Bed-Stuy Community Garden  (94/95 Malcolm X Blvd) Face Painting Collage Workshop with LP Commissioned Artist Aisha Bell HARLEM Lenox Ave / Malcolm X Blvd (116th to 130th St.) The Harlem Story Walk (meet at Astor Row Cafe at 12:00 PM, and follow the drummer!), produced by Art in FLUX Harlem and The LP's Create Change Fellows. Featuring: Local artists telling the diverse stories of Harlem through spoken word, music, video, dance, and sidewalk art Ten local artists producing chalk murals in front of local businesses along Lenox Ave Harlem Postcard Workshop at 116th & Lenox with Harlem-based artist and 2011 Create Change Fellow Sonia Louise Davis Over sixteen local business partners so far...and the list continues to grow!  Clean-Rite Center  (370 Lenox Ave.) The People's Laundromat Theater with Artist-in-Residence Shani Peters The Laundry Room  (143 West 116th St.) Face Painting Art Workshops ("Harlem Is..." Neighborhood Totes)   HUNTS POINT The Point CDC  (940 Garrison Ave.) Neighborhood Murals Walking Tour with Carey Clark, Visual Arts Director of The Point CDC (meet at 1 PM at The Point) A Cultural Feast with the BLK Projek's Mobile Market and Create Change Fellows, featuring: A school bus converted into a fresh produce market! Food games, demos, and recipe sharing Food-themed photobooth Free giveaways! Bronx Auto Glass  (901 Hunts Point Ave.) Stop at our info table for maps and up-to-the-minute information on Hunts Point activities Lucky's Laundromat  (1325 Lafayette Ave) Face Painting Art Workshops: "Hunts Point Is..." Neighborhood Totes, Tape Flowers Listening Stations with 2013 Artist-in-Residence Art Jones   We want to acknowledge the hard work of the Create Change Fellows who took the lead in organizing this event: Nancy Agabian, Raul Ayala, Bridget Bartolini, Claro de los Reyes, Divad Durant, Noelle Ghoussaini, Audrey Hailes, Sukjong Hong, Ladi'Sasha, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, Christopher Lopez, Sydnie Mosley, Kameelah Rasheed, Lisa Sikorski, and Didier Silvain. We also want to thank our 2013 Create Change Artists-in-Residence, Aisha Cousins, Art Jones, and Shani Peters, and our participating Teaching Artists, Alice Mizrachi, Elena Stojanova, and Maia Palileo, as well as participating Create Change Alumni, Aisha Bell, Sonia Louise Davis, and Stephanie Dinkins. Big thanks to all our community sponsors: 361 Laundromat, Artists and Craftsman, Astor Row Cafe, Barawine, Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Garden, Boulevard Bistro, Bronx Auto Glass, Corner Social, Fara (formerly Les Ambassades), For My Sweet, Harlem Arts Festival, Harlem Shake, Julio Shoe Repair, Majora Carter Group, MoCADA, New York Restoration Project, Pa-Paya Seed Frozen Yogurt Cafe, Pioneer Supermarket, The Point CDC, Settepani, Victor's Barber Shop, Virgo Hardware and Lumber. Interested in volunteering for Field Day? Sign up here!  We'll be updating our website with more details leading up to the event, so keep checking back for more information.         Facebook Twitter Flickr LinkedIn The LP Blog   About The Laundromat Project The Laundromat Project brings art, artists, and arts programming into laundromats and other everyday spaces, thus amplifying the creativity that already exists within communities to build community networks, solve problems, and enhance our sense of ownership in the places where we live, work, and grow. Create Change is supported, in part, by A Blade of Grass, The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Community Trust, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Rockefeller NYC Cultural Innovation Fund, the Theo Westenberger Estate, and Fairway Market.   The Laundromat Project has also been made possible through the generosity of the David Rockefeller Fund, EILEEN FISHER, Lambent Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Materials for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, the Union Square Art Awards, and individual supporters like you. Laundromat partners: Clean Rite Centers, Fulton Street Laundry, Marmy Laundromat, Inc., The Laundry Room, Sara's Laundromat.   forward to a friend  @laundromatproj on Twitter | The Laundromat Project on Facebook  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences