Sunday is Game Day!

Posted: April 22nd, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: games, money, neighborhood, to do | No Comments »

Cooperative Economic Exchange: Game Day

On Sunday, April 28th join The Brooklyn Torch and TimeBanksNYC at NURTUREart Gallery for an afternoon of play exploring cooperative exchange. The Brooklyn Torch Project invites David Morgan, a co-creator of new board game ‘Co-opoly’ made by Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) to demonstrate and support gameplay.

In Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, players collaborate to found and run a democratic business. This is an exciting game of skill and solidarity, where everyone wins – or everybody loses.

Jessie Reilly of TimeBanksNYC will also facilitate a variety collaborative games, including a new twist on surrealist drawing and storytelling exercises which explore themes raised by participant’s relationships to time and money. As part of the Brooklyn Torch Economic Kindling Package, everyone who joins and completes a game with gallery visitors and neighbors, will be rewarded for their play-training session in Brooklyn Torches, North Brooklyn’s local currency. Brooklyn Torches are good for a wide range of local services and goods on our registry and in our Trade Stores.


Holding The Brooklyn Torch Trade Store

Posted: April 4th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood | No Comments »

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Every first Saturday of every month in 2013, I plan to hold a Brooklyn Torch Trade Store at my studio in Greenpoint. If you’re around, you should come:
50 Dobbin Street (between Berry and Norman)
Brooklyn, NY 11222


Laundromat Project Creative Conversations, Mary Jeys with Sinema White

Posted: December 19th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: aspirations, neighborhood | No Comments »

Mary: What is your favorite thing about your neighborhood?

Sinema: I love that there are many places, such as churches, parks and community centers, for the youth to hang out after school.

My conversation with Sinema White, a resident in this year’s Laundromat Project Create Change Residency has just been posted. Read the full conversation.


3rd Annual Public Art Potluck, Laundromat Project

Posted: September 27th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood, to do, Updates | No Comments »

credit: Laundromat Project

Third Annual Public Art Potluck
Engage our Create Change artists in conversations about their projects and creative ideas set in communities across New York City and Philadelphia. You’ll hear about socially-engaged art projects ranging from yoga-based printmaking in Jackson Heights to envisioning a new waterfront for the South Bronx to a multimedia installation highlighting the history of garment workers in Sunset Park.

What Do We Bring? Yummy Food and Public Art!
What Do You Bring? An Open Mind and Creative Ideas!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 7:00pm – 9:30p
Doors open at 6:30pm
University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Dinner will be prepared by Organic Soul Chef Madea Allen.
Get Tickets


Brooklyn Torch Impossible Photo Project

Posted: August 2nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood, Updates | No Comments »

In 2011, Macktez granted me a Summer Stipend to document my monetary exchanges in North Brooklyn. The project was a piece of the overarching Brooklyn Torch Project, but was specifically designed to use special film and to follow my own spending habits. Thank you to Macktez, you can see the photos here.


Do You Belong On The Brooklyn Torch?

Posted: September 20th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: games, money, neighborhood | No Comments »

Cristina
The Last Supper Festival
Opening: September 25, 2009
3rd Ward in Bushwick until October 3, 2009


The Brooklyn Torch Project

Posted: July 13th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: money, neighborhood | No Comments »

The Brooklyn Torch Project is a local currency initiative and art project for North Brooklyn.


FEAST Brooklyn Winner!

Posted: May 9th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: aspirations, money, neighborhood | No Comments »


Awarded $400 FEAST grant