Gaia: New York City pod - VOLUNTEER in NY

Re: Volunteering with a child?

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:26:47 GMT

This is a great idea! Thank you. I actually used to do this with my grandmother when I was a child. We would bake biscuits and bring them to the nursing home every week and visit people there. I live in Bay Ridge and there seems to be a lot of nursing homes out here too. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear those too! Thanks!

Re: Volunteering with a child?

http://selfexpression.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:15:49 GMT

Erika;
I suggest you to go visit a nursing home with your daughter. The love, smiles and joy you will bring to the people will be so healing to all with the presence of you and your daughter. A friend of mine has been doing this with her daughter at 4 and is now 12 and once had cancer at age 3 with this love vibration helping all involved. Enjoy, ask permission and perhaps this venue will be an experience you and child will learn and love as well sharing stories.

Namaste;
Janet

Volunteering with a child?

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:29:52 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew of any volunteering opportunities in NYC (preferably Brooklyn) that I could do with my 4 year old daughter?

The Station Project

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:10:23 GMT

I am working with a group of artists to convert an old auto repair station into sculptor studios here in New York. Although there are fairly affordable artist studios in various places around the outer boroughs, there are very few light manufacturing spaces for heavy sculpting (welding, metalworking, woodworking, etc.). The site we are looking at is in a manufacturing zone and is a brownfield, since it used to function as a gas station (the pumps are gone, and the underground tanks are said to be sealed to New York City regulations). We imagine the workspace having about five separate studios, an office and a common area for shared machine tools, welding equipment, a slop sink and other amenities. The old parking lot would be transformed (eventually) into a semi-public green space that would also function as a sculpture exhibition space. We are planning to establish a nonprofit organization (as an independent corporation, or possibly working more informally with another nonprofit), which would be dedicated to purchasing and maintaining the space, exhibiting work, and providing apprenticeships to aspiring sculptors, craftsmen and tradesmen. We are hoping to find people interested in helping with this project (regardless of the amount of time you can devote) who have expertise in the following fields:

Commercial/Industrial Real Estate
Brownfield Development
Apprenticeship Programs
Establishing Nonprofit Organizations and Fundraising
Grant Researching and Writing Some grants we may be eligible for could come from: - Arts Funds - Brownfield Development Funds (Green space Funds) - Community Development Funds - Economic Development Funds (Industry Training and Retention) - Education Funds (Apprenticeships) - Private Funding

If you know of any other projects similar to this, please let us know. Thanks!

do some good

http://jacqui.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:36:26 GMT

DO
Volunteer
What: Before going out, throw on a hairnet and spend a few hours heating up the stove top.
Why: Some people can’t get out of the cold.
When: They need help every night, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Where: Grand Central Food Program. More info at volunteernyc.org.

RAISING EYEBROWS TO RAISE AWARENESS

http://alexandra.gaia.com — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:54:04 GMT

RAISING EYEBROWS TO RAISE AWARENESS
Announcing Vagina Festival: a visual and performance art experience, celebrating women and raising awareness about the pervasiveness of violence against women.

Raised eyebrows are often the response when artist-activist, Alexandra Jacoby describes her work. For the last six years, she’s been working on a book of vagina portraits, documentary photographs for women, so we can see ourselves for ourselves. According to Jacoby, “Most women have not seen their own, much less others.”

The raised eyebrows only last a few seconds, as Jacoby passionately relates the wide-ranging conversations that arise from presenting this still-taboo, and surprisingly unfamiliar body part shared by half the world’s population. From playful to informative to poignant and moving…the conversations spiral outward – and draw you in.

This February, you’re invited to put your 2-cents in, view the v-portraits and more at Vagina Festival – a visual and performance art experience, celebrating women and raising awareness about a painful and all-too-pervasive part of the vagina-conversations: violence against women. The festival is part of V-Day's Worldwide Campaign 2007.

Vagina Festival will take place the weekend of Feb. 16-18, 2007 at Agni Gallery, 170 East 2nd Street, Manhattan. “We’re going to line the gallery walls with visual art and throughout the Festival present performance art, song, dance, as well as two performances of The Vagina Monologues.

Vagina Festival is a space where people can come together and women's stories can be told, celebrating women, peace, creativity and collaboration.

We look forward to a fun, moving thought-provoking event, stimulating conversation that continues beyond the weekend experience!”

Proceeds will be donated to V-Day to support its efforts to end violence against women worldwide. While Vagina Festival is for and about women, it warmly welcomes men.

Would you like to participate?

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to be part of creating a spectacular event, please go to http://www.vaginafestival.com/participate.html and fill out a participation form.

We're seeking:
•    information/inspiration goody-bag crew
•    a street team to post flyers and hand out invites
•    a set-up and take-down crew
•    a team to keep things running smoothly during the festival, including ticket-takers
•    conversation-starters during the festival
•    help with spreading the word online about the festival
•    production crew for performances of The Vagina Monologues
•    help with lining up sponsors and affiliate organizations, artists, speakers and performers
•    and more! Got an idea? We'd love to hear it.

ABOUT ALEXANDRA JACOBY –
Alexandra Jacoby is an artist-activist, living in NYC. Since Sept. 2000, her primary focus has been making vagina portraits. Jacoby has made 64 v-portraits so far and plans to publish them in a book, vagina vérité™ - an unabashed exploration of the plain, ordinary, mysterious matter of vaginas. To learn more about vagina vérité™ , please go to http://www.vaginaverite.com. To download Jacoby’s CV: http://www.vaginaverite.com/art/AlexandraJacoby-CV-0610.pdf

ABOUT V-DAY –
V-Day is a global movement that supports anti-violence organizations throughout the world, helping them to continue and expand their work, while drawing public attention to the larger fight to stop worldwide violence (including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual slavery) against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $40 million and educated millions about the issues of violence against women and girls. V-Day was established by Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues”. For more on V-Day, please go to http://www.vday.org.

VOLUNTEER TO PLAY WITH MY SPECIAL CHILD

http://samorafree.gaia.com — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:54:17 GMT

Volunteer to be part of our exciting and energetic, in-home program for our special child. This effective approach combines a nonjudgmental attitude with an intense effort to engage and motivate our son to reach his full potential. We are looking for volunteers who: •Have Energy, Excitement and Enthusiasm. •Want to make a difference in the life of a very special child. •Welcome the opportunity to enrich his/her life. Hours are flexible as the program runs daily, evenings and weekends. No experience is necessary; we will provide training and ongoing feedback. This is a life changing, life affirming experience. We already have a great team started and are looking for a few more members. If you are interested in hearing more about this exciting volunteer opportunity, please reply to this posting.

Tibet House U.S. Library Help!

http://toonmonk.gaia.com — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:01:17 GMT

Tibet House is dedicated to the proposition that the wisdom and arts of all human civilizations vitally enrich the emerging global culture. Within this, we focus on a special concern for Tibet, its people, its spectacular highlands, and its civilization of extraordinary wisdom and beauty. Tibet's vast high plateau is the size of the United States west of the Mississippi. Its mountain snows give rise to Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining the lives of 40% of humanity. The hidden heart of Asia, it has served during the last thousand years of invasion as the treasury of Asia's most sophisticated spiritual arts and sciences. Yet its precious Buddhist civilization of wisdom, compassion, peace, and harmony is under a real threat of imminent extinction. By presenting Tibetan civilization, its profound wisdom and special art of freedom, to the people of the world, we hope to inspire them to join the effort to save it. Tibet House New York is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of the earth.

The Work of Tibet House US Is:

To present to the West Tibet's ancient traditions of art and culture by means of creating a permanent Cultural Center, with Gallery, Library, and Archives, and developing traveling exhibitions, print publications and media productions;
To preserve and restore Tibet's unique cultural and spiritual heritage, by means of developing a Repatriation Collection for future repatriation of outstanding examples of Tibetan art, creating an archive of rare photographs, opening a research library, making a Web site on the Internet for the wide distribution of information, and providing support to conservation activities both inside and outside of Tibet;
To share with the world Tibet's practical systems of spiritual philosophy and mind sciences, and its arts of human development, intercultural dialogues, nonviolence, and peacemaking, by means of innovative programs in cooperation with educational and other cultural institutions.

We are looking for Weekday help at our Cultural Arts Center located at 22 West 15th, New York, New York.

Please contact Justin Stone-Diaz Bookstore & Library Cooridinator via email ONLY
jstonediaz@tibethouse.org

Re: VOLUNTEER in NY

http://jacqui.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:06:50 GMT

Volunteer in NY with One Brick.

One Brick provides support to local non-profit and community organizations by creating a unique, social and flexible volunteer environment for those interested in making a concrete difference in the community. We enable people to get involved, have an impact and have fun, without the requirements of individual long-term commitments.

Re: VOLUNTEER in NY

http://littledree.gaia.com — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:30:41 GMT

RED HOOK COMMUNITY FARM NEEDS VOLUNTEERS!!!

It's a great place to be! I've done cooking demo's there as a vegan chef with produce that the kids picked right out of their Red Hook garden - lots of fun! Dree

From their e-mail message to me;

Come out to the Red Hook Community Farm tomorrow, Saturday July 8th, to
celebrate the opening of our Farmers' Market!  

The farm is bountiful and green, and there will be plenty of fruits and
vegetables!  We'll also have music, games and face-painting, baked goods from
the Lower East Side Girls Club, and lots of farming to help with.

Want to volunteer?
We're looking for some good folks to help us set up for the big day, starting at
8:00 AM tomorrow.  Early risers, come join us!

Additionally, we need some help today (Friday) picking up sound equipment. If
you are free this afternoon and have a driver's license, call Ian at (718)
855-5531.

* As always, directions and information are available at www.added-value.org

See you tomorrow!

VOLUNTEER in NY

http://littledree.gaia.com — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:24:27 GMT

If you need them, post here.

If you want to be one, find out where you are needed here.