Rego Park Green Alliance Music & Arts Festival

We have painted murals, held music concerts, installed gardens, and more. This year we will be trying our hand at a Music & Arts festival. For two weeks in either June or July we will have a series of events that promotes community spirit, music, art, and environmental sustainability in our community at venues in our community. Imagine learning salsa and having a salsa concert, cleaning up a mural & sharing pizza with friends, Classical Chinese music in an open space. This is our vision and we need help.

Here is what we have and what we need.

Music program manager: Adam
Fundraiser: Yvonne & position open
Marketing & Publicity: Position Open
Artwork: Richard & Open Position
Program Manager: Position Open
Permits Manager: Position Open
Music & Arts General Festival Manager: Yvonne & Open position

If you can help with any of the above please let us know.

Yvonne
917 597 3089

BambooMoves On The Green Wall Series

The Green Wall was beneficial to our community in many ways.The Green Wall acted as our "coffee table" for a conversation starter. When students come to the studio for the first time, they feel intimidated to meet or talk with others. However, through the green wall, I feel people felt more at ease because they would notice the wall and instantly chat about the beautiful design Suzuyo, the artist, created for the wall. Then they would talk about what was on the wall, creating a sense of family as one person would rub the leaves of the herb, smell their fingers, and without thinking have the stranger next to them smell their fingers to get a second opinion. Through this exchange, they would giggle and then and say together, OREGANO!

I watched this interaction take place many times while working at the front desk. This is also where the idea of a cook book came from. Many people who cut off the herbs, wanted to know how other people use the herbs. Or some of our students, do not cook because they do not know what to cook, but because the wall was there conversations would start between veteran chefs and the newbie, want-to-be chefs on how to make simple, fast, and healthy meals.

Thus, we are now collecting recipes from the students at Bamboomoves for a cookbook; vegan, vegetarian and some meat recipes. It will be a cookbook for all; for families with carnivores,  herbivores, or for people who are transitioning from eating meat to a vegetarian diet.

The Green Wall, also created the sense of how people can grow their own herbs in their apartments, through getting a Green Wall or by starting their own plants in their apartments. We have many students who belong to the CSA. The conversations, would start with the Green Wall but would grow into how the CSA operates and how to belong and how important it is to buy organic, local foods to help minimize our carbon food print as well as feeding the body with health foods.

Even at the end of our 3 months with the wall, it started to become more of a brown wall as our studio had dry heat but people would give ideas and suggestions to help it grow, still keeping it a way for the Bamboomoves Family to come together in conversation and sharing knowledge of sustainable development.  We will miss the wall and hope through the cookbook, we will keep that idea of sustainable, locally grown food going.

Thank you, Rego Park Alliance for such a wonderful opportunity. We wish you much luck with this endeavor as it benefits the community in so many ways.



In Peace,
Kaity, Kristen, and Suzanne & the Bamboomoves Team

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TD Bank Recognizes Rego Park Green Alliance With Contribution

Thank You TD for contributing to our Alliance. We are a small community group that works with volunteers in our community. It is always great to be given additional funding for our community related activities. In the past we have worked with P.S. 139, P.S. 174, I.S. 190, Yale University, Columbia University, YMCA, and a variety of other schools, businesses, & non profits. We believe in working across groups to bring meaningful change to our community and we have a proven track record.

TD' s contribution will help fund our Rego Park Summer Festival and Our Green Wall initiative.

Rego Park Green Team

Rego Park Green Alliance Update

We have some great news. TD Bank will be presenting us with a small check to continue our great efforts in the community. TD Bank will also be hosting a grand opening event in our neighborhood Saturday, February 13. If you are available please stop by for their grand opening at 62nd and Queens Boulevard. There will be games, dance, & food.


Green Wall
We will be looking to start work on our second green wall in the community this month. We have also started building a relationship with the Shield Institute, a non profit that works with developmentally disabled youth/adults. It is our hope to add them to the list of groups that grows herbs/flowers for our wall. As many of you know for our first green wall launch we worked with P.S. 139, P.S. 174, and Yale University to grow edible herbs for the community. If you can help grow marigolds or other flowers please let us know. Remember, at the end of the day our project is judged as being a success not by how many flowers are standing but by how many people were involved in the effort.

P.S. 139 schoolyard design, garden, and mural
Our Co-Founder, Yvonne Shortt, secured a 5,000 grant to continue beautifying and energizing the schoolyard at P.S. 139. It is our hope that they will put a lovely mural and garden at the school entrance to make it look more warm and inviting when the students enter the school, It also out hope to see a lovel stenciled playground. Go P.S. 139!

Real Good Mural Cleanup
In April/May we are also hoping to cleanup the Real Good mural. Our cleanup will include cleaning under the overpass and touching up the mural as well as replanting in the containers.

Green For Queens Earth Day Fair (April 25th, 1-4)
In April we will also be involved with the Green For Queens Earth Day Fair. We will have a table illustrating Sustainable Art and Green Walls. If you would like to help at the event please email us. The event will take place at the Central Queens Y (67-09 108th Street).

Our Saviour Garden Project.
We will keep you updated on when Phase 2 will start.

Thank you all for your help making our organization a success. It is because of all of your volunteer efforts that we are making a difference in our community.


Thanks
Rego Park Green Alliance Team

Edible Queens Green Wall Update

The Rego Park Green Alliance will be picking up one of our green walls being hosted by BambooMoves. The green wall will be replenished with edible plants over the next three to four weeks and put back into circulation. We will let you know where it will be going in the next three weeks.

We are also happy to announce that we will be consulting with the Field Institute, a group that works with mentally disabled adults and children, on our next green wall installation.

We will also be working with Shana and Eve to put a creative design on our next green wall that we will be putting into circulation.

The Rego Park Green Alliance Team

Edible Queens Green Wall

With the help of a grant, the green wall pilot program is being extended. We will continue to work with schools, artists, universities, the community, and local businesses to create more green walls.

If you would like to help us continue this program by hosting a wall for a couple of months or making a donation please don't hesitate to contact Yvonne Shortt.

Thank You,
RPGA Team