596 Acres, Mohen & Segal (mohensegal.com), the Silent Barn present

“I’m So Lucky You Found Me”
a book launch & welcome to our new office
Friday, January 11, 2013
7pm reception
8pm music

Celestial Band (yoruban based gospel sounds, from a 596 Acres organizing community)
Zeke Healy & Karen Waltuch (guitar & viola, all dressed up)
G Lucas Crane v. Non Horse (on tapes)
CONSUMATA (cumbia sabanera groove train)

11 Stanwix Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn

This is a private party. RSVP here or by emailing 596acres@gmail.com.

This will be the opening of Anthony Mohen & Paula Z. Segal’s Bushwick-based law practice (http://mohensegal.com/), where environmental justice, sustainable economies and civil rights come together and the release of a book that 596 Acres has been working on with Daniel Eizirik, a Brasilian artist who has spent the last six weeks documenting the experience of transforming Brooklyn’s acres through drawings.

Welcome to 2013. We have arrived.

596 ACRES JOINS THE SILENT BARN AS STUDIO RESIDENT, RELEASES ARTIST’S BOOK ON PUBLIC LAND INSIDE THE CITY: “I’M SO LUCKY YOU FOUND ME”

January 07, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

596 Acres, a young Brooklyn-based project that is making a big impact on New York City by providing tools for communities to unlock vacant public land, has found its first permanent home at the new Silent Barn as a studio. In the last year, working out of out pockets, our kitchens, coffee shops and donated spaces around Brooklyn, 596 Acres has played a key role in the creation of eight community controlled spaces that used to just be lots behind fences – these are new gardens, parks and playgrounds that are run by neighbors all over the city! Four more spaces are poised to open this Spring. With a new permanent home at the Silent Barn, the impact on community can only deepen.

Since the start, 596 Acres has been grounded in print production – 596 Acres broadsheets and graphics show up on fences around the city, in galleries around the country and even in the Venice Biennale.

596 Acres now expands its Print Archive in 2013 by publishing a artist book with Brasilian artist Daniel Eizirik: “I’m So Lucky You Found Me: Public Land Inside the City.” The book is a drawn documentation of vacant land in the city, created on location at Brooklyn’s vacant lots with the collaboration of neighbors and vacant lot transformers. It will be available for sale ($10!) at the Book Launch at the Silent Barn on Friday, January 11, 2013, and through 596acres.org.

596 Acres Print Archive

Contact: Paula Z. Segal, Founder & Director, 596 Acres, paula@596acres.org

Event Details:

596 Acres, The Law Office of Mohen & Segal & The Silent Barn present
I’m So Lucky You Found Me Book Launch & Studio Warming Party
Friday, January 11, 2013
7 p.m. at 11 Stanwix Street, Brooklyn NY 11206
Music starts at 8 p.m.:
Celestial Band (yoruban based gospel sounds, from a 596 Acres organizing community)
Zeke Healy & Karen Waltuch (guitar & viola, all dressed up)
G Lucas Crane v. Non Horse (on tapes)
CONSUMATA (cumbia sabanera groove train)
This is a private party. RSVP by emailing 596acres@gmail.com.