Time
Thursday, September 30
6 – 8pm EDT
Location
This event’s address is private.
https://www.mobilize.us/landerfornyc/event/408284/
About this event
Join Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for New York City Comptroller and other community leaders for an in-person listening session, focused on the issues and priorities of Harlem.
Brad is excited to use the position of NYC Comptroller to best serve New Yorkers by making sure that city government is working for the people effectively and efficiently, and that city government is held accountable to its promises. To do this, we want to hear from you! Join us to speak directly to Brad, let us know what you want to see from city government, and what changes you would like to see in the coming years.
Event Partners and Co-hosts:
- Representative Adriano Espaillat
- Al Taylor, NYS Assemblyman
- Diana Ayala, City Councilmember District 8
Brad has represented the 39th District in Brooklyn as a member of the New York City Council for over ten years, building a track record of defending workers rights, protecting tenants, and fighting to align the budget with progressive values. Brad serves as the Council’s Deputy Leader for Policy and co-founded the Council’s Progressive Caucus, helping to bring participatory budgeting to NYC.
Through his roles as Council member, community advocate, and long time New York City resident, Brad is eager to learn more about Harlem and connect with this community.
Exact location to be provided upon RSVP. Face mask required for entry.
And Up the Acropolis
If you haven’t taken the time to head to Marcus Garvey Park and see Susan Stair’s work, Ascending the Mountain, 2021, take the time.
The public artwork is installed in three distinct sections along the staircase that leads up to the Harlem Fire Watchtower in Marcus Garvey Park. The first section is at the base of the stairs near the basketball courts which is also the best place to start and follow the story that the artwork tells. Image captions below share more information about how an urban forest that self seeded and grew up the mountain of Manhattan Schist in Harlem
Created with mosaic tiles and clay impressions of bark, leaves and small branches from nearby trees.
Head to the staircase leading up from the basketball courts to view the work.
Also, in Marcus Garvey Park
Colleagues and Friends,
I invite you to the last presentation of Counting Tales, a video projection series where my work is featured by the collective ArtFormsUs in conjunction with Marcus Garvey Park; they will present a series of 7 original short videos whose general theme is “counting.”
Wednesday, September 29th
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Marcus Garvey Park Richard Rodgers Amphitheater
18 Mt Morris PW | Harlem NYC
The resounding theme appears in myriad forms: from the sounds of whales echoing the belching sounds of a bus, the artist’s movements reflect the sounds of the city; Ripples in street puddles are chanting numbers of family members. The middle passages losses are given new echoes in our current times; Consumption is demonstrated by the artist, hooded in plastic, roaming the city as she knits an endless train of plastic bags; Jazz, trees, and breathing underscore a sympathy for humanity; Counting leaves symbolizes the litany of counting deaths by Covid; the surreal slapstick of 3 disparate artists converges into bonding, and a ritual examines two of the foundational objects that brought Latinos and African Americans to the “New World.”
The roster of ArtFormsUs video artists include Capucine Bourcart, Dominique de Cock, Noreen Dean Dresser, Undine Groeger, Salem Krieger, Leah Poller, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Xavier Roux and Allicette Torres. The members are multi-national, multi-disciplinary artists residing in Harlem.
For further information, visit: www.ArtFormsUs.com
ArtFormsUs thanks its sponsors Marcus Garvey Park, El Barrio Artspace, LMCC, WCA, Parlour 153, Red Seeds Art Studio, NYC Cultural Affairs, 77th Parallel Productions, Marcus Garvey Public Art and Wind Support.