Link to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FreeYourVoiceGroup
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Free Your Voice
"Free Your Voice is a human rights committee of the United Workers. We are a group of students in Curtis Bay and Brooklyn joining together to advance Fair Development that puts community needs first. We are currently working to stop the nations’ largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile away from our school. Please share this video to spread the word and join us on December 10th at 3 pm for our action to Stop the Incinerator" by BHST Free Your Voice and other project videos.
Link to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FreeYourVoiceGroup
Link to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FreeYourVoiceGroup
Saturday, February 22, 2014
OUR GREEN RECYCLE 's DAY
After reading two blog from American Studies Student ( Bonnie Bowen, and Chris Byars) , I have come to define my understanding of Filbert Street Fundraising Event in term of the four important goals:
1. Raising $10.000 for the management of Filbert St. Community Garden (only temporary)
2. Bring back the Health and the Beauty of this community in 10 years at least
3. Create strongly Education Space for students and people in the community.
4. Working to stop the largest trash burning incinerator from being built in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community.
It will be pointless to research, work hard to find the best way to improve the community by the same time ALL these company, industries are strongly growing, building on the top of the most historic Baltimore city. Are we talking about young children, college students, senior citizen have to leave their own "HOME" to go somewhere else…etc.
However, We might not fix anything, BUT learning from Jason Reed today through the Filbert Garden field trip, I feel that all of us (Baltimore Community Fellowship and other volunteers )will transform this community into a vibrant green space joy of life.
I am now writing, designing and planing several ideas of "Our Green Recycle". This is just a name in a second.!!
_ We will create a Day to pick up all the trash around the community garden and school.
_ Keep all the recycle trash to build up a path, or place to held the plant.
_Planting vegetable such as Cilantro, Chinese coriander, coriander, Mint…etc http://vietherbs.com ( really easy to grow, to plant without taking care them)_ We will share to all the community including with the instruction how to plant these herbs
(most of this vegetable-herbs are easy to grow and heathy. Vietnamese people ate this during World War to keep them healthy, and stay stronger during the Agent Orange _ Herbicide Orange. Because the agent Orange was strong toxic, and cause cancer, birth defects, which is similar with the smell from the industry)
COMMUNITY MURALS
I have been painted a lot canvas 4x4, or 5 x 10 feet long, and murals like 7 to 8 feet tall back my country (Vietnam). When I came to USA in 2007 to continue my education, i also did another mural "We the People" designed by Dr. Robert Hieronimus last summer 2013. And I know that my natural impulse is to paint, draw and design something….But, I always have been asked myself question " is it because i can not do anything else than painting, drawing that is why i am good at it? Why do I like painting Mural? Public Mural projects - How murals benefit the community?.." And the answer is only one :" Murals can bring Positive Things into a Place, and Murals tell The Stories- Messages".
I may paint for no other reason than to understand the whole world around them. I am curious, nervous, but also excited to Touch, to Feel to Paint the Spirit and the Peace sign in the mural. A while ago, I used to assume that murals were unique artwork for the public park, culture pride, or neighborhood pride. But the more I learn, the more i understand that Mural is our Message, our Hope.
This is a reason why i am so graceful, extremely excited to do the next Brooklyn Library 's Mural with IRC Fellows, AMST, BHST, and people in community. And I am strongly believe that this mural will improve the Health and well being of people in community, will bring back the beauty of Filbert Street and Fairfield before. I Believe it!!
p/s: the short video shows the mural in industrial Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community. Others are some of Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural. (I took pic of them when I went back my country last two months)
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Thought….
The social responsibility project "Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore" has the potential to learn, understand , engage, communicate and heal in some ways of health, environmental, education and social of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay. Using The Arts and our aspects of the program's activities, all fellows, professors and faculty has the power and responsibility to create positive change for the community. This project implies that all media artwork used for the developing of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay will bring a great benefit to the recipients, and create a unique experiential pedagogy for Benjamin Franklin High School and teachers.
We seek to IRC program by inspiring, educating and interesting through the art that can provoke social awareness ad responsibility. For example, after learning and discussion about an installation titled "Revival Field: Project and Procedure" by Sculptor Mel Chin, the divisions were guided us to create and helping Brooklyn-Curtis Bay's environment, health and seek collaboration with academic departments and the community. We also learn, and invite artists and other volunteer to IRC Program as inspiration for creative new initiatives, and gain a basic understanding of multicultural arts performances, exhibition such as Mark Dion, Jason Reed. We are continuing learn more about recoiling plays a role in Mark Dion's environmental politics and his art.On the other hand, each fellows creates different ideas how to contribute to the Fundraising project on May 11th, 2014, which has the potential to promote the Filbert Street Garden Fundraising event on December 10th, 2014. My ideas and excitement about this project are planning a tour-UMBC bus for high school students to visit, share their story, their thought-question, artwork to the elder-retirement of the community; preparing, set up the headline timing for BFHS student, fellows for the next Fundraising event on December 10th; create a simple, clean Web about Fundraising Event December, 2014 INCLUDING: show the money from fundraising from the past-present-continue in Summer, event times, things going on, shop, Food & beverage selling for Fundraising, location-office to donate or buy ticket, or register online/FB, enabling online showing bidding on AUCTION ITEMS, instruction for how to donate online, office (check, cash, debit..);Create a stage Live music/ performance on stage from fellows, volunteers, BFHS student, teachers, professors; create a exhibition by BFHS- using cheap material, or the “packaging ” materials to create a costume, mask about environment, health. I also want to create a Fashion show from the Filbert St, Garden Community (fashion show's example ideas http://www.inamaterialworld.com/news.html)..etc
To achieve our goals for two fundraising event, we need to focus and CREATE more ideas, CHANGE on the education, health, nature and environment, which is also build up the relationship, the TRUST between IRC fellows, faculty and the community, even though we might not resolve the society issues and economy.
We seek to IRC program by inspiring, educating and interesting through the art that can provoke social awareness ad responsibility. For example, after learning and discussion about an installation titled "Revival Field: Project and Procedure" by Sculptor Mel Chin, the divisions were guided us to create and helping Brooklyn-Curtis Bay's environment, health and seek collaboration with academic departments and the community. We also learn, and invite artists and other volunteer to IRC Program as inspiration for creative new initiatives, and gain a basic understanding of multicultural arts performances, exhibition such as Mark Dion, Jason Reed. We are continuing learn more about recoiling plays a role in Mark Dion's environmental politics and his art.On the other hand, each fellows creates different ideas how to contribute to the Fundraising project on May 11th, 2014, which has the potential to promote the Filbert Street Garden Fundraising event on December 10th, 2014. My ideas and excitement about this project are planning a tour-UMBC bus for high school students to visit, share their story, their thought-question, artwork to the elder-retirement of the community; preparing, set up the headline timing for BFHS student, fellows for the next Fundraising event on December 10th; create a simple, clean Web about Fundraising Event December, 2014 INCLUDING: show the money from fundraising from the past-present-continue in Summer, event times, things going on, shop, Food & beverage selling for Fundraising, location-office to donate or buy ticket, or register online/FB, enabling online showing bidding on AUCTION ITEMS, instruction for how to donate online, office (check, cash, debit..);Create a stage Live music/ performance on stage from fellows, volunteers, BFHS student, teachers, professors; create a exhibition by BFHS- using cheap material, or the “packaging ” materials to create a costume, mask about environment, health. I also want to create a Fashion show from the Filbert St, Garden Community (fashion show's example ideas http://www.inamaterialworld.com/news.html)..etc
To achieve our goals for two fundraising event, we need to focus and CREATE more ideas, CHANGE on the education, health, nature and environment, which is also build up the relationship, the TRUST between IRC fellows, faculty and the community, even though we might not resolve the society issues and economy.
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