Garden Dance Performance: by Sabine Heubusch

December 12, 2007
Time: Afternoon,

What: Garden Dance Performance: by Sabine Heubusch

Please let us know if you will bring your students to enjoy:

- Brief Seasonal Hand’s on Tour of Garden
- Special GARDEN DANCE performance
- Quick Dance/Movement Workshop Exploration

The dancer brings the audience to different places in the garden. The audience has the freedom to place themselves around the performer. The slow pace of the dance provides space for the audience to take in the complexity and details of the garden. Participants connect to Nature’s richness – to its smells, colors, shapes, sounds, and its peacefulness.

RSVP!!!!!!
Depending on the response we will have one or two performances in the afternoon of the 12th.

Please email with your name, school, grade, cell phone and number of students by November 30th.
Heavy rain, and or super frigid weather cancels. Snow is fine!

About the performer:
Dancer Sabine Heubusch received her BA in Music and Movement from the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. After winning a dance scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Education, she moved to New York. Sabine has performed in various New York City venues, including Dixon Place, Soho Joyce, Pentacle, and Limelight.
In 2001, she began to focus on site-specific outdoor performances, and in 2005, she founded RASA Dance. Currently she is performing her new piece in Brooklyn Bridge Park. A certified teacher of Alexander Technique, Yoga, and Pilates Mat, Sabine teaches adults, children, and children with special needs in New York and throughout Europe. See: http://www.spinelight.com for more information.

All Things Parks and Environmental


If you are in NYC, please attend….

You can ask/tell the Bronx parks Commissioner as a Friend of Brook Park!

*Move forward with the community design for Brook Park, with the underground
brook, labyrinth, fruit trees and outdoor classroom

*Move forward the south bronx waterfront park on the Harlem River

(Thank Helen Foster for helping to stop the randall’s island waterpark)

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You are invited to an evening of. All Things Parks and Environmental

Weds, Nov. 14th 6 – 9 PM

Vladeck Hall of historic Amalgamated Housing Cooperative

74 Van Cortlandt Park South, Hillman Avenue Entrance

Appetizers, Finger Food, and Refreshments will be served

Three prominent Bronx Environmentalists as our Guest Speakers :

a.. Bronx Parks Commissioner Hector M. Aponte
a.. Council Member Helen D. Foster, 16 CD (Parks Chair)
a.. Assemblyman Jeffrey M. Dinowitz, 81 AD
Co-sponsored with the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park
For more information, directions or to RSVP, please e-mail:
Karen.Argenti@bceq.org or Christina@vancortlandt.org or call (718)
601-1460

Paddle with CSX and Waste Management


What a wonderful day it was to take out with our canoe fleet representatives from neighboring CSX and Waste Management companies. We wanted to show them even more the exciting Harlem River Park site we have been working on to create public access. We discussed safety and ecological issues and how we can work together to achieving greater access to the waterfront for our commmunities. With the current we paddled south and through the Bronx Kill between the South Bronx and Randall’s Island. Te leaves were coming in Autumn splendor and we shared a splendid lunch in the neighborhood afterwards.

Mule in Garden & Autumn Invitation


Happy Autumn!

We at Friends of Brook Park want to invite you to join us at Brook Park between 140th and 141st Street and Brook Avenue entering through 141st Street. Thanks to our expanding community we are making great, green things happen in our neighborhood. As you know, more gardens and parks and trees improve our health and quality of life. Where else nearby can we experience such peaceful Nature?

The summer is over, and with the new school year, we have a great series of activities for students, youth and even adults. Did you get to see the mule in the park yesterweek? Or the presentation by Ed Wiley, form West Virginia, about the dangers of coal Mountain Top Removal?

Parents are welcomed to get involved to have a safe, creative space for imagination, and for teachers to bring the youth out. Some of you have hosted parties and celebrations already. Our only rules? Clean up before and after, no drugs and no alcohol. Of course.

We are providing educational experience with our “No Child Left Inside” program, growing food on 140th for the Farmer’s Market on 138th Street across from St’ Luke’s, offering volunteer and training opportunities in landscaping, and getting ready to tear up the asphalt on 141st to expand the greenspace.

In addition, we have been progressing on our waterfront projects, with support for a Harlem River Park in the South Bronx growing. Some of you have gone canoeing with us and fishing, right here in our neighborhood. We are working to reduce the pollution in the area and to protect our interests in Randall’s Island.

Please join us in Brook Park. Here is a sample of our upcoming events:

Ø September 22, Autumn Equinox Volunteer Day 10 Am – 1PM and throughout the day.
Also celebrating El Grito de Lares, commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt.

Ø October 13th and October 20th from 12-2PM join Wave Hill and the NYC Department of Parks and
Recreation as we plant fall bulbs that will blossom into beautiful flowers in Spring! Groups and classes welcomed!

And towards the Day of the Dead we will be hosting a celebration of Mexican culture, and highlighting the people of the Mexican State of Oaxaca.

As you can see, we have lots going on. And with your involvement, we can do even more. Get involved, join us at an event, or volunteer. We have a bulletin board on the corner of 141st and Brook, and we can be reached at (646) 206-5288. All of this information, and plenty more, you can see and share at:
www.friendsofbrookpark.org. There you can read more, see pics and even some YouTube videos!

Make sure to check our Calendar periodically. And volunteer and Intern opportunities abound! Even from home, you can help us with online communications.

You are Friends of Brook Park, so come and visit your garden. Try to commit to two hours in the garden a week. After school, 3-5 PM on weekdays will be helpful, and anytime on the weekends.

Please consider a monetary contribution today:

Friends of Brook Park
PO Box 801
The Bronx, NY 10454

Sincerely,

Harry J. Bubbins, for Friends of Brook Park

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¡Feliz Otoño!

Nosotros en Amigos del Brook Park queremos invitarle unirnos en Brook Park (Avenida de Brook entra las calles 140 y 141). Gracias a nuestra comunidad expansiva nosotros hacemos gran y las cosas verdes suceder en nuestro vecindario. Como usted sabe, más jardines y los parques y los árboles mejoran nuestra salud y la calidad de nuestra vida. ¿Dónde más cerca de podemos experimentamos tal naturaleza pacífica?

El verano ha terminado, y con el nuevo año escolar, nosotros tenemos una gran serie de actividades para estudiantes, la juventud e adultos. Los padres están bienvenido a adeudarnos hacer un espacio seguro y creador para la imaginación, y para maestros poder traer sus estudiantes. Algunos de ustedes nos han hecho partidos y celebraciones ya. ¿Nuestras únicas reglas? Limpie antes y después, ningunas drogas y ningún alcohol. Por supuesto.

Proporcionamos una experiencia educativa con nuestro “Ningún Niño Dejado Adentro” el programa, creciendo alimento en la calle 140 para el Mercado de Granjero en la Calle 138 enfrente de St. Lukes, ofreciendo instrucción sobre voluntar e ajardinar, y estamos preparando a despedazar el asfalto en la calle 141 para ensanchar el greenspace.

Además, estamos progresando con nuestros proyectos en las orillas de la agua, con apoyo para un Parque del Río de Harlem en el Sur del Bronx. Algunos de ustedes han hecho piragüismo con nosotros y siguen pescando, aquí mismo en nuestro vecindario. Trabajamos para reducir la contaminación en el área y para proteger nuestros intereses en la Isla de Randalls (Randalls Island).

Únenos por favor en Parque de Brook. Aquí está una muestra de nuestros acontecimientos próximos:

Septiembre 22, Día de Voluntario de Equinoccio de otoño 10 AM – 1 PM, y a través del día. También celebramos El Grito de Lares, conmemorado el nacimiento de la nación puertorriqueña, cuando lost puertorriqueños subieron contra la regla colonial española en una rebelión.

¡13 de octubre y 20 de octubre de 12-2 PM unen Onda la Colina y el Departamento de NYC de Parques y Recreación como nosotros plantamos bombillas de caída que florecerán en flores hermosas en la Primavera!

Y hacia el Día del Muerto estaremos recibiendo una celebración de la cultura mexicana, y de destacar a las personas del Estado mexicano de Oaxaca.

Como usted puede ver, tenemos muchos eventos en el calendario. Y con su participación, podemos hacer aún más. Métase, únanos en un acontecimiento, o voluntar. Tenemos un cartel en el rincón de la calle 141 y la Avenida Brook, y puedes llamarnos al (646) 206-5288, en español (646) 641-5788. Toda esta información, y la abundancia más, usted puede ver y compartir en: www.friendsofbrookpark.org. ¡Allí usted puede leer más, ver fotos e algunos videos de YouTube!

¡Usted son los Amigos del Parque de Brook, así que vengan y visitan su jardín!

Cordialmente,

Harry J. Bubbins, Friends of Brook Park