Hi Taeyoon and fellow TnT'ers!
Session 3: Urban Foraging Group Film Screening | Thursday, August 26, 8:00pm at 177 Livingston
The Urban Foraging Group invites you to attend a special screening of The Gleaners and I:
The Gleaners and I (video)
From Wikipedia:
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a French documentary by Agnès Varda that features the practice of gleaning. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
The film tracks a series of gleaners as they hunt for food, knicknacks, and personal connection. Varda travels French countryside and city to find and film not only field gleaners, but also urban gleaners and those connected to gleaners, including a wealthy restaurant owner whose ancestors were gleaners. The film spends time capturing the many aspects of gleaning and the many people who glean to survive. One such person is the teacher named Alain, an urban gleaner with a master's degree who teaches French to immigrants. Varda's other subjects include artists who incorporate recycled materials into their work, symbols she discovers during her filming (including a clock without hands and a heart-shaped potato), and the French law regarding gleaning. Varda also spends time with Louis Pons, who explains how junk is a "cluster of possibilities".
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PAST SESSION INFORMATION
Session 1: Urban Foraging with Ava Chin | Sunday, June 20 at 1:00pm (already happened)
The Urban Foraging Group will meet on Sunday, June 20 at 1:00pm at 177 Livingston. This introductory session will be facilitated by Ava Chin and will include a foraging walk through Fort Greene Park and neighboring Clinton Hill (be prepared to walk). We will learn about collecting and identifying wild edible weeds and fruits in the city.
Please bring the following:
plastic ziploc bags (regular grocery bags are okay, too)
bottled water
a cutter/small paring knife
bug spray
sunscreen
also, we recommend that you wear comfortable walking shoes/sneakers
Ava Chin is the “Urban Forager” columnist for the New York Times’ City Room—a bi-weekly column about wild edibles. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Local, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Post, SPIN, VIBE, and Martha Stewart online. She is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island-CUNY where she teaches Creative Nonfiction and Journalism.
She recently appeared on WNYC’s “All Things Considered” with Amy Eddings. You can listen to her discussion about mulberries growing throughout the city here.
To prepare for this class, please read this note: http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/note/2558
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Session 2: Urban Foraging Brunch with Ava Chin | Saturday, July 3 (already happened)
The Urban Foraging Group will meet on Saturday, July 3 for an optional morning forage at 9:00am at Prospect Park then we will head to 177 Livingston for an 11:00am brunch. Please see Callahan’s comment below for more information.
This just in! Listen to Ava Chin on WNYC's “All Things Considered” with Amy Eddings as she talks about saving 30,000 bees
Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop | Session 2: Mimi Zeiger/loud paper
Sunday, August 22 at 1:00pm at Fort Greene Park | Meet at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (150ft fluted column at the top of the hill)
In order to prepare for this session, please read the following:
Hi Taeyoon and fellow TnT'ers!
Hi everyone,
Due to unfriendly skies (i.e. Delta's flight cancellations), we will have to reschedule this class for sometime in September.
We apologize sincerely to those of you who had already made plans to attend tonight. Please stay tuned for updates on when the class will be held.
Matt & Tal
more..The Urban Foraging Group invites you to attend the screening of The Gleaners and I on Thursday, August 26 at 8:00pm at 177 Livingston in Brooklyn.
The Gleaners and I (video)
From Wikipedia:
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a French documentary by Agnès Varda that features the practice of gleaning. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
more..Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop | Session 2: Mimi Zeiger/loud paper
Sunday, August 22 at 1:00pm at Fort Greene Park | Meet at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (150ft fluted column at the top of the hill)
In order to prepare for this session, please read the following:
more..There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...Day 3: Site Observation
Exiting the Wall Street subway station, I am caught in the flow of tourists on foot that includes a Boy Scout troop in snake-like formation. Men in suits weave in and out. A young woman with an armful of folders and spiral notebooks clickety-clacks by me. It’s the latter part of rush hour so these are just stragglers heading home or heading out for a Friday night.
Turning onto Exchange Place, I notice a raised barrier in the center of the street; it is a small dark ramp with blinking lights. Passersby walk about paying no attention to the strategically placed obstructions determining their path.
more..From “About the Word Design” by Vilém Flusser
more..Thanks for the great discussion tonight! Here are the other articles on design that I wanted to share: Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?: Does our desire to help do more harm than good? By Bruce Nussbaum http://www.fastcodesign.com/1661859/is-humanitarian-design-the-new-imperialism
This line from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War keeps resonating in my mind:
3. Each body is affected by its form-of-life as if by a clinamen, a penchant, a leaning, an attraction, a taste. What a body leans toward also leans toward it. This goes for each and every situation. All inclinations are reciprocal.
Here’s a beautiful paragraph regarding the clinamen from “Soul on Strike”, the preface by Jason E. Smith in Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy.
more..The Urban Foraging Group would like to screen The Gleaners and I on either Saturday, August 21 at 6:30pm or Thursday, August 26 at 8:00/8:30pm. All who are interested in attending, please indicate (in the comments section) which date works for you. (Ava Chin can join us on Thursday evening so please consider that date. For newcomers, we’d love to have you meet her in person.)
If you’re interested in joining us, please sign up on the class page by clicking on “+I’m interested”.
The following is a description of the film:
The Gleaners and I (video)
From Wikipedia:
more..I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm cubbyhole, I can slip. http://vimeo.com/203779
There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...v2 (New York)
Please join us as we respond to the Public School’s 13-day seminar "There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing..." which took place in Berlin on July 4–18, 2010.
We invite you to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries at select sites in New York City for the next 6.5 days.
Day 1 | Fleeing
Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 6:30pm at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn
Facilitators: Stephen Squibb and Paris Ionesscu
Introduction to Civil War [Excerpts]
Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War
(In addition, we highly recommend reading pp. 115–224)
Supplemental readings:
more..Perhaps this was very precisely what being an emigrant meant: to see a sword where the sculptor, in all good faith, had thought he was putting a torch....
For me it is the very place of exile, that is the place of the absence of place, the place of dispersal. In this sense, it concerns me, it fascinates me, it involves me, it questions me, as if the search for my own identity went via the appropriation of this depository where harassed functionaries baptized Americans by the boatload, as if it were inscribed somewhere in a life-story that might have been mine, formed part of a probable autobiography, a potential memory. What is to be found there is certainly not roots or traces, but the opposite: something without shape, at the limits of the sayable, that I might call a closing-off, a scission, or a break, and which for me is very intimately and confusedly linked to the actual fact of being a Jew.
more..Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 by Martín Espada from Alabanza: New & Selected Poems http://www.martinespada.net/alabanza.htm
There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...
Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
more..Inspired by urban foragers like “Wildman” Steve Brill and Ava Chin, this group will rediscover our city’s rich food system while learning how to rebuild and maintain it for future generations. Schedule TBD by the group.
Related information:
“Wildman” Steve Brill http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
Ava Chin http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/urban-forager-to-a-wild-rose-hip/
forageSF http://foragesf.com/
Fallen Fruit maps http://fallenfruit.org/maps.html
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Session 1: Urban Foraging with Ava Chin | Sunday, June 20 at 1:00pm (already happened)
The Urban Foraging Group will meet on Sunday, June 20 at 1:00pm at 177 Livingston. This introductory session will be facilitated by Ava Chin and will include a foraging walk through Fort Greene Park and neighboring Clinton Hill (be prepared to walk). We will learn about collecting and identifying wild edible weeds and fruits in the city.
Please bring the following:
plastic ziploc bags (regular grocery bags are okay, too)
bottled water
a cutter/small paring knife
bug spray
sunscreen
also, we recommend that you wear comfortable walking shoes/sneakers
Ava Chin is the “Urban Forager” columnist for the New York Times’ City Room—a bi-weekly column about wild edibles. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Local, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Post, SPIN, VIBE, and Martha Stewart online. She is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island-CUNY where she teaches Creative Nonfiction and Journalism.
She recently appeared on WNYC’s “All Things Considered” with Amy Eddings. You can listen to her discussion about mulberries growing throughout the city here.
To prepare for this class, please read this note: http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/note/2558
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Session 2: Urban Foraging Brunch with Ava Chin | Saturday, July 3
The Urban Foraging Group will meet on Saturday, July 3 for an optional morning forage at 9:00am at Prospect Park then we will head to 177 Livingston for an 11:00am brunch. Please see Callahan’s comment below for more information.
This just in! Listen to Ava Chin on WNYC's “All Things Considered” with Amy Eddings as she talks about saving 30,000 bees
A belated thanks to everyone who foraged, cooked and brunched! I can’t stop thinking of the omelettes w/ sauteed lambsquarters, Wineberry + Asiatic dayflower salad, and mulberry jam. Special thanks to Ava, Anne, Summer, Rachel and Gabi for making the brunch possible.
Thanks to all who came to the screening last night! It was nice to see new faces. Thanks also to Ava for bringing the bread and yummy jam. We look forward to mushroom hunting with you in the Fall.
10 Aug 2010 11:47AM