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21
Oct
Long Island City, NY 11101 United States
Smiling Hogshead Ranch once was just abandoned train tracks… Strategize about how to transform vacant lots and buildings in your life into thriving community spaces with 596 Acres! We’ll have a booth at Smiling Hogshead Ranch’s 2nd Annual Harvest Festival. Come by to talk about what happens when NYers steward community places in our city, how to protect the ones we have, and how to make more. The festival is from noon to 7pm, with afterparty!
21
Oct
Brooklyn, NY 11215 United States
Our studio is open! Come visit us. Get some cool things, like Community Governance Cards and information we made useful from the city’s databases about the vacant land and buildings in your life. We will brainstorm with you about how to transform these into lasting community places. More information about Gowanus Open Studios on the Arts Gowanus website here and facebook here.
18
Oct
Sarasota, FL 34234 United States
596 Acres’ book I’m So Lucky You Found Me by Daniel Eizirik and collaborators, plus our box set of all our printed materials from 2011-2016, will be on view in Sarasota this fall as part of Freedom of the Presses! Freedom of the Presses is a collaborative exhibition co-curated by Marshall Weber of Booklyn, Inc. and members of the Ringling College of Art and Design community. It focuses on the creative and democratic processes of 21st Century independent artist’s publishing and offers models of empowering and educational art…
01
Oct
São Paulo, Brazil
596 Acres is on display in the Observatory at the 11th São Paulo Architectural Biennial! See photographs from the dynamic life of NYC’s community land access advocacy organization, images of our print materials that help NYers make their neighborhoods, and demonstrations of how our Living Lots NYC webtool supports local organizing for community land access.
16
Sep
Brooklyn, NY 11217 United States
Visit 596 Acres’ table at GreenThumb’s Harvest Fair! Here’s what we have in store: Find out about the vacant lots in your life and how to transform them into the vibrant community places you want and need, like GreenThumb gardens! Plug into local campaigns to transform vacant lots into growing places, and find out about pathways for community land access. Learn strategies for sharing the work of running community gardens with your neighbors with our Community Governance Cards (download a PDF here or buy them online here). Get…
16
Sep
New York, NY 10002 United States
See real estate differently through a discussion with Mara Kravitz of 596 Acres and the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative, Nat Roe of Flux Factory and Dahkil Hausif of Ecovillagers Cooperative! This panel is organized by Fei Liu as part of the IdeasCity Festival at the New Museum.
09
Sep
Brooklyn, NY 11216 United States
Visit 596 Acres’ table at Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Bed-Stuy’s Back to School Event! Find out about the vacant lots in your life and how to transform them into the vibrant community places you want and need! Plug into local campaigns to transform vacant lots into community places, and find out about pathways for community land access. Learn strategies for sharing the work of running community spaces/projects with your neighbors with our Community Governance Cards (download a PDF here or buy them online here). Get connected with our network of…
18
Aug
New York, NY 10027 United States
GreenThumb is having an event for garden groups in uptown Manhattan to mingle and learn about resources available to community gardeners! Here are the resources you can find out about and access at the 596 Acres table: Vacant city-owned land! Over a thousand acres of public land long abandoned by NYC can be turned into new community green spaces when neighbors organize together for access. Get plugged into organizing for community access to the vacant lot in your life, a strategy long…
08
Aug
Beacon, NY 12508 United States
596 Acres will join Scenic Hudson and its established network of land banks and land trusts to share strategies for facilitating community land access in the urban areas along the Hudson River, north of NYC! We will share our origin and success stories, followed by a workshop about how advocates upstate can put data about land, and how to transform it, into the hands of those best poised to lead and sustain its ongoing stewardship: that is, those who live nearby. We…
25
Jul
Brooklyn, United States
The NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (NYCREIC) is a group of over 400 New Yorkers pooling money and power to invest in real estate that preserves, restores and enhances local spaces for cultural, commercial and charitable uses in NYC. Consistent with the principles and spirit of the cooperative movement, we seek long-term, stabilizing and transformative investments for the mutual benefit of our member-investors and our communities. 596 Acres will bring community land access history to light! These success stories will…
