Way to go, Lake Neighbors! Her's the the first of many great median and neighborhood improvement projects brought to you by The Brooklyn Neighborhood Beautification Project - our local non-profit dedicated to improving our public spaces! Okay, so THIS was a beautiful weekend!
To support this amazing project - please read about ways to volunteer below or offer financial support by sending your check to: Brooklyn Beautification Project C/O Steve Kopff 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606. We need everyone's support here!
To support this amazing project - please read about ways to volunteer below or offer financial support by sending your check to: Brooklyn Beautification Project C/O Steve Kopff 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606. We need everyone's support here!
a note from sasha and some pix from the kickoff project this weekend!
We went over and caught part of the beautification event that went on today thanks to Steve Kopff's organizing with his neighborhood non-profit "Oakland's Brooklyn Neighborhood Beautification Project." All that showed up vastly improved a median over on 20th St/12th Ave...and a strip over on 19th. Get involved with this!!! We can do this all over and around where we live here by the lake. : )
Not only is it fun -- REALLY FUN -- to work together and meet people in this way, but you feel connected and great and so much more comes from it exponentially. Get to as many of these events as you can to support all they do and make more happen. Pick areas you want to see developed and beautified and let Steve K. know and lets get everyone behind it.
Seeing this today -- seeing how highly organized, knowledgeable and skilled they were at transforming spaces just made me want to motivate us all to get this whole place cleaned up and perked up. They had a library box (that was to be honest, a work of art) that maybe you saw in an earlier email and it would be great to see those in several spots. While we were working I saw a girl and her dad walk up and get a book.
Good to make one over by E. 18th and 3rd someplace that also has a place to put up flyers and info for us neighbors to share...a message board and library box. ?
We also talked about potlucks, chickens, gardens, bees (lots of blocks are doing this -- if you want help making it happen on yours write me). We are also planning another outdoor movie @ Regen (with a swap/give-away beforehand) after Javier has done his Parkway projections.
We also talked about potlucks, chickens, gardens, bees (lots of blocks are doing this -- if you want help making it happen on yours write me). We are also planning another outdoor movie @ Regen (with a swap/give-away beforehand) after Javier has done his Parkway projections.
We plan to have a neighborhood artist's show in October with SO many immensely talented people living here so people can take that in and also purchase gifts for loved ones before the holidays. If you are a neighbor and would like to be a part of that...get in touch with me. More about that in a little while.
Write with your ideas and what you want to make happen -- and/or get tied into what we have coming up.
We are planning on having a Mother's Day Outdoor Street Party coming soon -- likely on the "dogleg" block of E. 17th because it is like a giant sidewalk (between 3rd & 4th Aves)...write me if you want to help with that one.
FYI, here is a narrative by Steve K if you want to get signed on with them directly...
FYI, here is a narrative by Steve K if you want to get signed on with them directly...
"...I'd like to start talking up the next phase of our beautifications happening this summer. We would like to focus on a block or two at a time and landscape the sidewalk strips of everyone on a block interested in participating. We will use plants that are drought tolerant to ensure that what we put in survives and looks good...SO shoot me an email atskopff@sbcglobal.net or give me a call at 510 479-3660 so we can get this going for your block." Steven J. Kopff, CPA (1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606 510 479-3660 Fax 415 651-8565
Happy Spring Everybody. See you a lot.
Sasha
For such a diverse neighborhood it's telling that there doesn't seem to be more than one person of color in your group.
ReplyDeletei live by the 20th / 12th median. i find your project NOT beautifying. i personally prefer green growing things. even the dandilions that the asian people around here dig up for dinner. the color of the sand you laid down reminds me of something one finds in ones diaper. and the little succulents you put in that desert look terribly out of place. did you ask the people who live near thisd median if they wanted you to do this? i was not asked.
ReplyDeleteI notice on another forum you have taken credit for installing the micro library on that same median. You most decidedly DID NOT have anything to do with that. That was installed by neighbors who have lived across the street from that median for 8 years. and are in opposition to your pushy ways. please cease to petend that you are the lord of the neighborhood. you just arrived less than a year ago and have only succeeded in turning your neighbors against you, undermining any commonality in vision.
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