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Love fleas? Creative? Build Gowanus Holiday Flea and Do Good
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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14 people are interested
Love flea markets, promoting new artisans and entrepreneurs? Are you into saving the environment and oceans and kids, too? Then help us build and advertise our 2nd annual Gowanus Holiday Flea!
Seeds in the Middle's mission is to empower kids to create healthier environments where there are few options to live well. We believe that we are sustainable if we also promote the wonderful businesses and creators and supporters who support us. So, we plan events that boost everyone. A win-win for all.
Join us!
For 3 Saturdays and possibly 3 Sundays in December, we're transforming the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse into a vibrant go-to Flea/Artisan/Food/Healthy Market! All proceeds will benefit Seeds in the Middle, empowering underserved Brooklyn kids to make healthy environments and the Dredgers, who are saving the canal and, thereby, our oceans! We're dog-friendly, too!
The Boathouse is three blocks from the F/G train at 2nd Street, right on the canal, and a walk along the canal from the Carroll Street bridge. See the map here at bit.ly/gowanusfleamap
Tables start at $75 so it is affordable to all.
We need help now to:
- Design flyers and advertise
- Post the events on social media and calendars
- Create a website promoting our small vendors
- Help us spread the word
We need help on Saturdays, Dec. 7, 14, 21 and Sundays, Dec. 8, 15, 22 to:
- Set-up and breakdown
- Manning welcome booth
- Running children's activities (like art bar)
- Dog-friendly activity (maybe free dog training ... )
- Interact with vendors
- Hand out flyers - draw folks
We want vendors!
It can be anything from home-based crafts, small business, fitness, stuff for kids or elders, to specially-made Brooklyn food and drink. You name it, we want you!
Please spread the word and join us.
You can simply donate to help us make this happen, also. Just go to seedsinthemiddle.org and hit donate.
Vendors: Sign up here: bit.ly/gowanusflea2019
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About Seeds in the Middle
Location:
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Seeds in the Middle partners with students, educators, parents & their communities to access all opportunities, beginning with improving health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with among the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, market, cook, access and prepare fresh food, how to exercise & engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our volunteers come from all walks of life. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
Description
Seeds in the Middle offers joyful, healthy interventions that nurture the whole child and address the multiple obstacles blocking low-income children and families from getting healthy. We teach how to grow edible gardens, run a student-led Hip2B Healthy Market, bring chefs into schools, started soccer, running and fitness programs at school and in the community and music and arts in the schools. We integrate professional development for teachers so that a healthy lifestyle and environmental stewardship becomes organic and sustainable in the school community. To build community, we created Soccer for Harmony tournaments and the Crown Heights Farmers Market. In two years, we have engaged more than 1,000 families, and students and teachers report changing their habits to include more fruits and vegetables, and fitness. This is a pilot for any school and Seeds in the Middle plans to replicate.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Gowanus Dredgers165 2nd PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11231
DATE POSTED
November 26, 2019
SKILLS
- Advertising
- Food & Beverage Services
- Event Planning / Management
- Public Relations
- Visual Arts
- Administrative Support
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Min. 4 hours at anytime,
- Be reliable, enthusiastic, care about kids and environment