Prelude in the Parks 2024 Festival
Community Poetry and Tea
Tea, Arts & Culture
Interactive Ceremony, Poetry
Saturday, June 8, 2024
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2pm
Eastside Outside Community Garden, Manhattan
Meet at 415 East 11th Street.
Eastside Outside Community Garden, Manhattan
Presented by Mov!ng Culture Projects and The Segal Center in collaboration with
Presented by Mov!ng Culture Projects and The Segal Center
* This ceremony is 2pm - 4pm
Through the Odes to Common Things, we will share tea and explore poetry from Pablo Neruda and Keorapetse Kgositsile, uncovering our deep bond with nature and the interconnectedness between ourselves. Tuning into nature’s myriad stories could offer us profound insights into navigating our collective journey on our shared planet.
Tea, Arts & Culture
Tea, Arts & Culture began as a gathering of friends and tea lovers to enjoy nature and tea in the park starting in 2019. Compelled to respond to the rapidly shifting world during the start of the pandemic, they are committed to using tea arts and culture to nurture community and belonging in the face of isolation and to cultivate mindfulness and inspiration in the face of our daily challenges by establishing themselves as a non-profit organization. They believe that they can support communities in need through fostering an appreciation of tea, arts, nature, oneself, and one another.
Location
Meet at 415 East 11th Street.
Eastside Outside Community Garden, Manhattan
East Side Outside Community Garden (EO) was established as a GreenThumb community garden in 2016. The name of the garden was determined by the students at ESCHS which is next to the garden
Before EO became a GreenThumb community garden, from about 2010, the garden was mainly used by ESCHS with other organizations and volunteers, including Earth Matter NY which did composting projects with the high school students (with coordination of the biology/science teachers). The composting projects were not only a general teaching component for the whole class, but also some of the students used the project as part of their PBAT (Performance Based Assessment Tasks)—students at this high school uses the PBAT, at the conclusion of which they would do a powerpoint presentation in front of teacher and guest judges, instead of having to take the Regents Exams.
From about 2014, a composting operation called Reclaimed Organics, a program of Common Ground Compost, began collecting and composting food waste at the garden. They use cargo bikes, instead of motor vehicles, to pick up food waste from various locations. Eventually, the garden became an official public drop-off site, through DSNY (Sanitation), for the community to bring their food scraps, 24-7, for composting.
Before becoming the East Side Outside Community Garden, the garden was also known as LES Park (Lower East Side Park).