REMINDER!
FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD UP:
A CITYWIDE FORUM ON CULTURE AND COMMUNITY
If you haven't already, REGISTER HERE!
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Thursday, May 30
El Museo del Barrio and El Barrio community sites
11:00am - 7:00pm
NOCD-NY invites you to join us for a citywide forum to develop a vision for NYC that is grounded in the cultural vitality and social networks that make our communities strong. This vision will become the foundation for a shared policy platform to inform our city's leadership transition in the upcoming year.
The forum will draw on two key ideas. First, it will honor that, as Wendell Berry wrote, “What we need is here.” Every neighborhood has powerful assets to contribute to a resilient and thriving New York City. Second, it will recognize our interdependence, bringing us together to develop collaborative strategies to engage our City's opportunities and inequities.
UPDATED SCHEDULE (in progress)
with art by...
Downtown Art, The Laundromat Project, Sandy Storyline, Tyquan Carter, Tattfoo Tan, Urban Bush Women and more
11:00am-12:30pm
Community Lunches
Limited Capacity! Join artists, activists and community leaders for an lunch hosted by one of El Barrio's network of community sites: Art for Change, Community Voices Heard, Hip Hop Theater Festival (in partnership with Social Justice Artists' Collaborative), Manhattan Neighborhood Network Firehouse, and Media Noche. To participate in one of these intimate lunches (around 20 people), please indicate your attendance on the registration page. We will follow up this week to inquire about community site preferences, dietary restrictions and a $15 lunch payment.
1:00pm-6:00pm
NOCD-NY Welcome and Roundtable Discussion
at El Museo del Barrio
Full group discussion co-moderated by Mitty Owens (consultant in development, management and philanthropy) and Esther Robinson (founder of ArtHome), featuring Rosalba Rolón (Pregones Theater), Prerana Reddy (Director of Public Events at Queens Museum of Art), Milly Hawk Daniel (Vice President of Communication at PolicyLink) and others.
Small Group Discussions:
Art Sustains. Community Health and Wellness
With a focus on how arts and culture are vital yet under-tapped tools for strengthening the overall well-being of communities, this session will explore creative examples from a cross-section of the city. We will consider how locally-relevant artistic and cultural practices are powerful and practical sources of solutions for neighborhoods grappling with issues of holistic community health and wellness.
Spacing Out: Creative Uses of Urban Space
Building on NOCD-NY's yearlong exploration of innovative uses of space (especially underutilized) for cultural purposes, this working session will generate specific recommendations for the City, as well as collaborative actions the arts community can take to facilitate cultural uses of urban spaces. We will bring a specific focus to the gap in what is and is not permitted to identify areas for creative potential.
After the Storm: Creative Responses, Cultural Resilience and a Just Rebuilding
This working session will focus on the role of arts, culture, and media as part of community resilience and renewal, as well as long-term efforts for equitable change. We will consider how we can strengthen neighborhood cultural infrastructure, social networks, and citywide relationships with colleagues working towards a just rebuilding.
For Whom? Arts & Culture Working Towards Equitable Development
This session will highlight current, real world examples in Manhattan's Chinatown and Corona, Queens, exploring how arts and culture can inform and benefit from direct participation in planning and implementation. The goal of the working session is to expand awareness of the tools, strategies and relationships needed to achieve more integrated solutions that benefit both new and existing community members.
Response and Priorities
6:00pm-7:00pm
Closing Party!
hosted by La Casa Azul Bookstore
REGISTER!
To help us organize to meet a high response, we ask that you to sign up now.
The Naturally Occurring Cultural District New York Working Group (NOCD-NY) brings together a unique alliance of artists, activists, creative manufacturers and policymakers who are committed to revitalizing the city from the neighborhood up. The alliance is represented in the Bronx (Bronx Council on the Arts and THE POINT CDC), East Harlem (El Museo del Barrio), Fort Greene (Urban Bush Women) the Lower East Side (Fourth Arts Block and New York Chinatown History Project), North Brooklyn (El Puente and Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center), Corona, Queens (Queens Museum of Art), Staten Island (Staten Island Arts) and includes citywide organizations (Arts & Democracy and The Laundromat Project) and at-large contributors. NOCD-NY is supported by the The New York Community Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund. Questions? Contact us at noc...@gmail.com.
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