Promoting sustainable living in our Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Next Sustainable Flatbush monthly meeting: Monday January 7th, 7pm 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester) Our regular meetings on the first Monday of every month are for newcomers and committee members alike. We will report on projects in progress and plan for future activities. […]
NYC Rooftop Sustainable Flatbush was officially launched in 2007, and it was a very productive year (recap coming soon)… plans for 2008 are quickly taking shape!
For those of us who conduct many of our activities (shopping, errands, visiting friends, etc.) by bicycle, sharing the road safely with motor vehicles is a daily concern. Thanks to Bed Stuy Blog for putting this neighborhood interest topic on the radar: Cycling is great […]
Are you expecting a new iPod or DVD player or computer from Santa? Don’t throw the old one in the garbage — save it for Sustainable Flatbush’s Post-Holiday E-Waste Recycling event! If the stars align correctly, we will make some local pickups with a cargo […]
Marlborough and Newkirk, artist’s storefront
Okay, you know you’re a Bad Blogger when other blogs write about your projects before YOU do. A few weeks ago I set up an online group called Flatbush Arts, and promptly notified a few local blogs. Brooklyn Junction jumped on this piece of local news and posted about it the next day (he’s a Good Blogger!); I, on the other hand, am finally doing so now.
Initially I was unsure of whether this blog was an appropriate place for me to promote a completely separate endeavor; however, I am now over this. After all, life without art is arguably not sustainable, or perhaps not worth sustaining! It is also clear to anyone who lives or spends time in Flatbush that there are MANY creative people here with no place to meet and work together in the neighborhood; in this respect the goals of Flatbush Arts are very similar to those of Sustainable Flatbush: doing good stuff right here where we live.
So, though this is old news by blogging standards, I am writing to let you know about the Flatbush Arts online community. The purpose is to create a place to develop and nurture an ongoing locally-based arts scene. As for what is meant by local, since the boundaries of Flatbush seem to be a difficult thing to pinpoint these days (as recently discussed here and here and here and here and here), let’s just say we’re talking about south of Prospect Park, and see how that goes! When this community of artists is so large that we feel the need to splinter off into Flatbush – East Flatbush – Junction – Midwood – Kensington – Prospect Lefferts Gardens… well, then we will have succeeded, right?
And as for what is meant by Arts, we are talking about:
music… dance… painting… sculpture… poetry… film.. theater… design… multimedia… graphics… photography… crafts… fashion… video… literature… (if I’ve missed anything let me know!)
Anyone with a Google ID is welcome to join in the discussion. Let’s see what we can get going.
Tonight is the second of four community visioning meetings for Imagine Flatbush 2030, to be held at Brooklyn College’s new Conference Center. Everyone is invited. Local blog Brooklyn Junction provides the perfect summary of why this process is so important: Come out to the meeting […]
Back in May I wrote my first post about the unsustainability of bottled water, and it has been gratifying to see the growing attention being focused on this issue over the last few months. Today the Bottled Water Story continues, with this very informative article […]
In case the print is too small to read, I’ll repeat it here:
Come and participate in a special dialogue about the future of Flatbush. The Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) and the Municipal Art Society (MAS) are inviting you to take part in Imagine Flatbush 2030 — a community visioning and dialogue process — designed to get you together with other Flatbush community members to collectively create a more sustainable neighborhood. If you care about the environment, community health, protecting diversity, ensuring affordable housing and a whole host of other community issues, this is the meeting for you!
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Sideya Sherman, at the MAS Planning Center, at 212/935-3960 or via email at ssherman[at]mas.org.
Please be advised that there will be a supervised homework room provided for school aged children. If you need to bring a child, please contact us in advance.
Refreshments will be served.
Next Sustainable Flatbush monthly meeting: Monday December 3rd, 7pm 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester) Committees will report on their activities and plans, including: R3 Committee Post-Holiday Electronics Recycling Event January 5 and 6, 2008 Livable Streets Committee Central Brooklyn Transportation Conference to be […]
