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While the gardens are beautiful when looked at one by one, their specialness also comes from the unlikely heroic story to which they stand as witness. They are a vibrant example of how a neighborhood that was burning down was saved by community gardeners amongst others, and how in turn, the neighborhood saved the gardens when they became endangered. The gardens are one of the treasures of the Lower East Side. They were also one of the main reasons that the Lower East Side revived in the 1970s and 1980s. Due to the practical support of Green Guerillas and other organizations, once dangerous empty lots became the neighborhood’s parkland under the aegis of the city's GreenThumb program. In the 1990s, punishing success, the Guiliani administration refused to renew the GreenThumb leases, transferred many of the properties to Housing rather than Parks, and began to auction gardens off. These actions were fought by protesters and were accompanied by intense grassroots lobbying of politicians in order to convince them that neighborhoods needed both community gardens and affordable housing. Eventually the battles were fought in the courts. Each garden that survived did so because of the intervention of a larger network of individuals who came together to lobby for that particular location, usually as part of what became the Garden Preservation Coalition. This helped further spur the unique identification of certain gardens with cultural programs such as music or theater, or with certain types of gardening, or with interethnic community building. The gardens were particularly important to the Lower East Side not only because of how they had turned the neighborhood around but because in doing so, they reinforced the importance of creating a model of neighborhood ethnic diversity. Here is the walking tour for these gardens:
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For 25 years Sixth Street Community Center has been committed to empowering the Lower East Side/Loisaida, East Village community and celebrating its extraordinary diversity. We offer programs which build a fulfilling sense of community around basic needs for food, health and education. Our current goals are to (1) further the education of our young people in sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health, (2) expand community supported agriculture in our neighborhood by reaching out to more low income households, and (3) strengthen food safety laws through our campaign against genetic engineering.
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I LOVE this garden.I would like to know who I can contact to ask questions about Albert's Garden. I walked by it the other day when looking for places to take photos for my wedding at the Bowery Hotel. Currently there is a huge drawing of a bird on the wall behind all the greens and that would be perfect. Is there a way that we can find out when it is open? When I walked by last, it was locked. Can someone please let me know who to contact? My email address is Sasha.noel@gmail.com
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Sasha
The Creative little garden has turned into my oasis in the city! My sister recently just moved to the big apple and we went to the little ice cream shop 1/2 block away and then stumbled upon this little garden! I feel in love instantly with the weeping willow! Its reason enough to visit the city! ... then again you can give me any excuse to come to New York and I'll be there in a heart beat! THis city is full of little treasures!
Please join us at Le Petit Versailles May 1.
All day celebration highlighting the range of arts
that LPV garden will present throughout its 2010 May - October season
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street (Avenues B & C )
212 529 8815 http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com
petitversailles@earthlink.net
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
FREE/ Voluntary Donation. rain or shine.
May 1 Opening Events
2pm.
International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 2010
On May 1, guerrilla gardeners around the world sow sunflowers all over the place.
It's a way to bring beauty, bumble bees and bundles of fun to your neighborhood.
6:30 pm
"Pistol" Pete Sturman - local singer/songwriter.
7:30pm.
Ongoing screening of House of the Gentle by Lili White.
&
Installation of the luminous painting Versailles in the Sky by Sabine Mohr
detailing an aerial view plan of the real Versailles of France.
About the Artists
"Pistol" Pete Sturman is a local singer/songwriter.
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Lili White / House of The Gentle interprets eight hexagrams from the classic text oracle of the I Ching, or Chinese Book of Changes, thru gestural performances set in Nature, Chaco Canyon, and Shofuso, the Japanese House & Garden in Philadelphia.
Lili White performs in Nature’s stage set; her form suggests a bodily connection to a dream logic—that is no logic—no answers posited to --?--— What was the question?
The form derived from authentic movement, a technique of improvisational movement practice that allows its participants a type of free association of the body, started by Mary Starks Whitehouse in the 1950s as "movement in depth". Perception was the ultimate theme…
Regarding the East’s treatment of landscape:
“…Nature as a reflection of consciousness: eschewing traditional Western schemes of landscape as monumental & eternal…the East’s (view is) the notion of landscape as ephemeral form and infinite process, like Chinese landscapes (that) achieve a dynamism to suggest something numinous and wonderous beyond eternal form.”
– taken from a museum comment card
The I Ching is a "reflection of the universe in miniature." Its hexagrams represent descriptions of certain states or processes, using the essences found in Nature as the basis for its descriptions. There are a total of sixty-four different yet archetypal forms of energy described. The “gentle” refers to wood or the wind, both are gentle yet penetrating powers.
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Versailles in the Sky by Sabine Mohr is a luminous painting of an aerial plan of Versailles, the palace estate of Louis the Fourteenth. When flashed with a light source the painting will glow in the dark. Created originally for the show LAST CALL last October at Le Petit Versailles and now finally to be exhibited this year.
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Le Petit Versailles, created in 1996 by community neighbors is a GreenThumb garden and a project of Allied Productions, Inc. a non profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workshops..
LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;
NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education
Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency
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