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• 596 Acres First Visioning Session

  Thursday, August 11, 2011 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Community-Based Strategic Planning: Visioning Session Part 2

  Thursday, September 8, 2011 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Collaboration with INSERT____HERE

  Thursday, September 15, 2011 through Saturday, September 17, 2011

• Maker Faire

  Saturday, September 17, 2011 through Sunday, September 18, 2011

• Vacant Public Land Visioning Session at Occupy Wall Street Holiday Bazaar

  Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 1 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal presents 596 Acres at Storefront for Art & Architecture

  Monday, December 19, 2011 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• F.E.A.S.T. #12 - 596 Acres "You Can't Hold Back Spring" Project Funded!

  Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• 596 Acres January General Meeting -- the first of many!

  Sunday, January 22, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres at SVA Interaction Design MFA Studio Class

  Tuesday, January 24, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal speaking on panel - Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Redux

  Saturday, February 4, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to noon

• Workshop with the Youth Food Council

  Saturday, February 4, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres February General Meeting

  Sunday, February 12, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal speaking about 596 Acres & #whOWNSpace at Parsons School of Design Strategies "In the Urban Crisis" Series

  Thursday, February 23, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Just Food Conference Expo!

  Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal speaking at Hunter College Geography class about 596 Acres and other Public Spaces

  Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Making Brooklyn Bloom Expo & Workshop: "Where's the land?"

  Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• 596 Acres Testifies at City Council Hearing on Parks Department Budget in Support of NYC Funding for GreenThumb

  Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

• A Small Green Patch/Feedback Farms on Bergen Street First Volunteer Workday

  Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• 596 Acres March General Meeting

  Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• 596 Acres & Myrtle Village Green at Occupy Town Square

  Sunday, March 25, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• GreenThumb Grow Together

  Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Java Street Garden Collaborative First Volunteer Workday!

  Sunday, April 1, 2012 from noon to 4 p.m.

• Wheatpaste Workday

  Sunday, April 8, 2012 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Lot labelling day!

  Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Presentation at F.E.A.S.T. #13

  Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Transforming Vacant Lots Workshop with 596 Acres & El Puente CHE Institute

  Friday, April 20, 2012 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• 596 Acres at the 6th Annual Spring HERITAGE SEED CELEBRATION

  Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• 462 Halsey Grand Opening and Earth Day Festival

  Sunday, April 22, 2012 from noon to 4 p.m.

• 596 Acres April General Meeting

  Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• 596 Acres at Launchpad Skillshare

  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Participatory Urban Planning: Crafting Democratic Cities in the Digital Age

  Wednesday, May 9, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Brooklyn Food Conference - Stop by the 596 Acres Table at the EXPO on the 7th Floor

  Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Brooklyn Food Conference Panel Hosted by 596 Acres: Vacancy!

  Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

• FY 2013 Executive Budget Hearing - Come out to support Green Thumb

  Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from noon to 1 p.m.

• Focus Group for Accessed Acres

  Thursday, May 31, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• 596 Acres Unconference Workshop: Take on the (Vacant) Lot in Your Life

  Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

• Compost for Brooklyn Block Party

  Sunday, June 3, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• 596 Acres Volunteer Day For Sign Making at BIG!Gowanus

  Wednesday, June 13, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• Conversation & Data presentation: What about Manhattan?!?!

  Saturday, June 16, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• 596 Acres Volunteer Day For Sign Making at BIG!Gowanus

  Wednesday, June 20, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

• Workshop: Reclaiming Vacant Land for Community Use (In Queens!)

  Wednesday, June 20, 2012 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• 596 Acres Volunteer Day For Sign Making at BIG!Gowanus

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• The Critical and Activist Practice, Hosted by DSGN AGNC at the Austrian Cultural Forum

  Monday, July 2, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• Lot Labeling Walk in Harlem

  Saturday, July 7, 2012 from 10 a.m. to noon

• 596 Acres General Meeting & Discussion of Steps Involved in Creating a Food Production Space

  Saturday, July 7, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• Weeksville/Brownsville/Crown Heights Lot-Labeling Walk with Herbalist Timothy McKeon

  Wednesday, July 11, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres Volunteer Day For Sign Making at BIG!Gowanus

  Wednesday, July 18, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• 596 Acres Volunteer Day For Sign Making at BIG!Gowanus

  Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

• Myrtle Village Green First Steering Committee Meeting on the Site

  Sunday, July 29, 2012 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

• Initial Meeting at 175 Buffalo, Weeksville

  Sunday, July 29, 2012 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

• Lot Labeling and Ecology Walk with Urban Ecologist Gabriel Willow and 596 Acres

  Wednesday, August 8, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• First Meeting at a New Bed Stuy Site!

  Sunday, August 12, 2012 from 11 a.m. to noon

• 596 Acres at the Toronto Urban Agriculture Summit

  Thursday, August 16, 2012 from 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

• Attorney & Stanton Garden Possibilities Block Party

  Sunday, August 19, 2012 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Sign Making Workday - Beachside! Volunteers Needed!

  Tuesday, August 21, 2012 from 10 a.m. to noon

• Rockaway Lot Labeling and Ecology Walk with Biologist Gabriel Willow and 596 Acres

  Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

• Vacancy! Beachside! Edgemere, Queens - 596 Acres Presentation at the Marina 59 Boatel

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• Bronx Release & Research Planning Meeting

  Saturday, August 25, 2012 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Venice Architecture Biennale Opens

  Monday, August 27, 2012

• Lot-labeling Excursion - Leave from Beach 96th Concessions

  Wednesday, August 29, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• Lot Labeling Excursion - Leave from Beach 96th Concessions

  Thursday, August 30, 2012 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• 596 Acres Talk at Beach 96th Street Concessions Family Meal

  Thursday, August 30, 2012 from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• Lot Labeling Excursion - Leave from Marina 59

  Friday, August 31, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres Rockaway Residency with Rockaway Resource Recovery - August 20 to Sept 6, 2012

  Thursday, September 6, 2012

• 596 Acres at Growning Power National-International Urban & Small Farm Conference: Food for the People: Tactics to Claim Land and Increase Food Sovereignty in Urban and Rural Communities of Color

  Saturday, September 8, 2012 from 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

• Beyond Zuccotti: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space Book Launch

  Monday, September 10, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Street Law for Urban Tacticians

  Wednesday, September 12, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• Myrtle Village Green Opening Celebration & BBQ

  Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Screening of "My Brooklyn"

  Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• MOVIE NIGHT - People's Land, Other Cities - "Rerooting the Motor City: Notes on a City in Transformation" (Detroit) & "Edible City" (Bay Area, CA)

  Thursday, September 27, 2012 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres Harvest Benefit PEOPLE WORKING OUR LAND TOGETHER

  Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• 596 Acres at Art in Odd Places Info Session

  Thursday, October 11, 2012 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• 596 Acres Workshops & Organizing Session at Pa'lante Juntos!, this year's El Puente Green Light District Summit: Vacancy on Southside!

  Saturday, October 13, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• 596 Acres & Siempre Verde Community Garden present a short history of organizing for community space on the Lower East Side and throughout the city

  Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal speaking as panelist in "Democracy, Equity and the Design of Public Space"

  Wednesday, October 17, 2012 from 10 a.m. to noon

• It's Time To Make More Signs! Volunteer Day at Build It Green! in Gowanus

  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• FarmHack Brooklyn

  Saturday, November 10, 2012 through Sunday, November 11, 2012

• 596 Acres FarmHack Brooklyn Presentation

  Sunday, November 11, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

• Volunteers Needed: East Harlem 596 Acres Watchers & Organizers Phone Bank

  Monday, November 12, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• On Purpose: Art & Design in Brooklyn

  Thursday, November 15, 2012 through Friday, December 21, 2012

• On Purpose: Art & Design in Brooklyn OPENING RECEPTION

  Friday, November 16, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Strategizing around lots on Williamsburg's Southside!

  Monday, November 19, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• BRIC Arts Panel: Space To Create

  Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

• Bed Stuy Vacant Lot Strategy Meeting

  Wednesday, December 5, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• 596 Acres Rockaway Community Meeting

  Sunday, December 9, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

• Volunteers Needed: 596 Acres builds out a space at the Silent Barn Stewdios

  Thursday, January 3, 2013 through Friday, January 4, 2013

• First Myrtle Village Green Steering Committee Meeting of 2013

  Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Paula Z. Segal at the Brooklyn Museum: "In Conversation: Gentrification and Globalization"

  Thursday, January 10, 2013 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• I'm So Lucky You Found Me

  Friday, January 11, 2013 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.

• 596 Acres & Julia Samuels in New Prints 2013/Winter at International Print Center New York, Opening!

  Thursday, January 17, 2013 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• 596 Acres' Spring 2013 Brooklyn General Meeting

  Sunday, March 10, 2013 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Seed Pick Up

  Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• 596 Acres Panel at GreenThumb Grow Together Conference

  Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Just Food Conference

  Friday, March 29, 2013 through Saturday, March 30, 2013

• 596 Acres & the Philadelphia Garden Justice Legal Initiative Workshop at the Just Food Conference: FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE: TACTICS TO CLAIM LAND AND INCREASE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

  Saturday, March 30, 2013 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

• 596 Acres, Garden Maps & Farming Concrete at the Just Food Conference: GRASSROOTS DATA PROJECTS

  Saturday, March 30, 2013 from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

• "Soul Food Junkies" Screening in Far Rockaway

  Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• 596 Acres' Spring 2013 Manhattan General Meeting

  Sunday, April 14, 2013 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• New York City Community Garden Coalition hosts a Mayoral Forum

  Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• 596 Acres at Brooklyn Skillshare!

  Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Sign Making Day at Build It Green!

  Sunday, April 28, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• 596 Acres at Block Party to End Street Violence

  Saturday, May 18, 2013 from noon to 5 p.m.

• May General Meeting - The Bronx!

  Sunday, May 19, 2013 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.