MORE GARDENS FUND
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Location
79 CLINTON ST APT 17 NEW YORK, NY 10002
United States
Active Opportunities (4)
Flexible Schedule
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New York, NY 10009
Experience in previous events planning is a must. Please send your resume and website to us when applying. Also kindly let us know as to why you are wanting to volunteer with us. Details: Chaharshanbe Suri Festival of Fire at an open and accessible NYC location such as Battery Park. Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 More Gardens! has celebrated Chaharshanbe Suri fire festival at the onset of Spring Equinox at community gardens of NYC since 1998 as we defended the wholesale destruction of the community gardens during the Giuliani administration. Over the past two decades of our fire festival being held at NYC community gardens, we’ve together brought hundreds of Iranians and members of the Persian diaspora joined by community gardeners and the public. This traditional Persian Spring celebration highlights joyful and inclusive Middle Eastern American culture with traditional music, food, and dance, bringing New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds together in a spirit of cultural celebration. This is a wonderful opportunity for the Middle Eastern American community to celebrate and welcome all others into the joys of Persian culture.
Date Posted: 2024-02-14
Flexible Schedule
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New York, NY 10002
ESSENTIAL to getting a response, please include, in the Comment section, 1- why you chose us, 2- your work website and resume link. Big thanks! More Gardens is looking for an accomplished video maker to put together short 1-minute and 3-minute long videos of: Free Environmental Summer Camp Living willow harvesting and installation Fire jumping festival Our Free Environmental Family Nature programming images are taken South Bronx and Lower East Side. One video will be for inviting new campers, and the other to invite donations from supporters. We have both in-person and remote options. Remote: We have uploaded all the relevant videos and pictures online so you can safely make these short videos from your base location. Any additional interviews or testimonials can be creatively done with online recording apps such as Zoom or Skype. In-person: There are ongoing environmental art projects that need in-person documentation and editing. Living willow harvesting (March - April) and installations (May - August) Summer Solstice Celebration, June 21st Sprouting Justice Open Street on Sundays July through October. Nature Programs throughout Summer Harvest events and art creation Helpful Description of our Free Environmental Summer Camp from the South Bronx: The campers and their families will learn hard skills from adaptive rock climbing, hiking, and camping. They will also gain valuable skills such as communication, discernment, critical thinking, and foresight to help them thrive in the challenging environment of the South Bronx. Our program helps the campers to take this shared sacred state in the outdoors back to NYC to empower our urban communities.
Date Posted: 2024-02-14
Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
To take a WordPress website " Chaharshanbesuri.nyc " improve it and either integrated it in an existing Square Space website "MoreGardens.org" or create a new Square Space website. Details: More Gardens! has celebrated Chaharshanbe Suri fire festival at the onset of Spring Equinox at community gardens of NYC since 1998 as we defended the wholesale destruction of the community gardens during the Giuliani administration. Over the past two decades of our fire festival being held at NYC community gardens, we’ve together brought hundreds of Iranians and members of the Persian diaspora joined by community gardeners and the public. This traditional Persian Spring celebration highlights joyful and inclusive Middle Eastern American culture with traditional music, food, and dance, bringing New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds together in a spirit of cultural celebration. This is a wonderful opportunity for the Middle Eastern American community to celebrate and welcome all others into the joys of Persian culture.
Date Posted: 2024-02-15
Flexible Schedule
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New York, NY 10002
Please send your resume and website to us when applying. Also, please let us know why and how you are wanting to volunteer with us. There are a lot of wonderful applicants and we'd like to know you right away. Working on an outdoor arborsculpture project and an egg-shaped structure in a community garden. Creating living willow structures. Skills: Carpentry, sculpting, (welding) creative improvising, research, collaboration, love of nature and the outdoors. Deatails: Volunteer opportunity description Assisting in and creating environmental outdoor art projects such as in community garden. Check out More Gardens website link: https://www.moregardens.org/art-of-nature-1 Research and design of environmental and educational artwork (this part is mostly remote during the colder months of Jan & Feb) Overnight Trip/s upstate to harvest living willows (optional). Requirements Please respond as to why and how you are wanting to volunteer with us and a link to your creative world. There are a lot of wonderful applicants and we'd like to know you right away. Passionate about More Gardens mission and programs Desire to create artivism and an understanding of environmental art Understanding of social and environmental justice Ability to be outdoors when weather permits. Enjoy working with diverse communities, including children. Works well in collaboration and can also work independently with minimal supervision. Ability to improvise and change in a dynamic environment Reliable and consistent
Date Posted: 2024-02-14
Organization Information
Mission Statement
Rooted in arts and education we are community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists. We promote the enhancement and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in New York City.
Description
The More Gardens! Coalition is a group of community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists, rooted in arts, promoting the development and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in New York City. We share information about community gardens with the public in order to raise awareness and engage people in both actual gardening and political activism.
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