MAYDAY!

MAYDAY!MAYDAY!

Residents And Urban Gardeners

Resist Gentrification

Press Conference And Celebration

THURSDAY MAY 1. 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon

LE PETIT VERSAILLES GARDEN 346 EAST HOUSTON ST.@ AVE.C

COME TO SHOW THAT YOU ARE NOT A COG IN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE 

Find out how you can resist being priced out of your home and community

Be a part of an active  force!

Raising the banner at Le Petit Versailles April 27, 2014

A call to action AND a cause to celebrate! 

This is NOT your typical demo! The event will be an expression of how commercial development has affected the vicinity around the southeast corner of 2nd Street at Avenue C. Speakers will reflect on outcome for the surrounding vicinity, the city at large and around the world.

Confirmed Speakers:

(others to be announced)

Carlina Rivera

 Director of Programming & Services

Good Old Lower East Side – GOLES

Democratic District Leader 74A Coalition for a District Alternative (C.O.D.A.)

Shafaq Islam

Senior Staff Attorney Urban Justice Center

Phyllissima Abe

Artist and Neighborhood Tenants Representative (141 Ridge Street)

Peter Cramer

Artist and Co-Director, Le Petit Versailles

Member of 245 east 2nd Street Tenants association

David Orama

Community Youth Councilor and Lifelong LES Resident

Member of 245 east 2nd Street Tenants association

Kembra Pfahler

 Artist and musician

Member of 245 east 2nd Street Tenants Association

Cuchifritos Gallery And Project Space

AND

Le Petit Versailles

At 12:00 Noon the press rally will be followed by MAY POLE DECORATING AND DANCE!

Members of the Le Petit Versailles and Radical Faerie community will gather to celebrate the beginning of Spring with their annual Beltane ceremony, in which friends of the garden raise the traditional Maypole, signaling the end of the old year, and the hope of a new year that ensures Le Petit Versailles’s continuing mission to provide arts and community to the Lower East Side.

GROUP STATEMENT:

Despite what has been written recently about a dying urban culture, we present a positive outlook for our communities – We are united, strong, and thriving! We have been here a long time and we intend to stay! We are not opposed to positive change and as always we welcome new members to our neighborhood. Change foments vibrancy, and that is what the LES has ALWAYS been about, it has been the attraction and we have NO INTENTION that change and difference be eradicated from our culture. Above all we intend to maintain affordable housing so that we retain the great diversity of our neighborhoods. Just as we intend to retain our libraries and settlement houses we intend to keep our outdoor public social gathering spaces such as gardens, parks, and plazas green and open so that we can continue to meet and mix surviving and , and thriving in our strong individuality as the unique social body for which the Lower East Side has become and will remain a continued attraction. Social spaces and affordable housing are not conflicting interests — they are common goals.

Pan of LPV with 245, and 247 East Second Street under construction on 4/27/2014

Links:

245 e 2nd street tenants speak out on T Time

Know Wave Radio

https://m.soundcloud.com/know-wave/t-time-april-7-2014?post_id=597619080_10152138837054081

LPV Awards and Citations

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_lTFNwXhfg_UTRLVl9QQi1qUGs&usp=sharing

LPV PRESS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alliedproductions/sets/72157626264829713/

The Real Estate Show Redux publicity

http://cfitzgibbon.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/return-of-the-colab-real-estate-show-in-4-venues/

Real Estate Show JAMES FUENTES GALLERY

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/arts/design/the-real-estate-show-was-then-1980.html?_r=0

Real Estate Show ABC NO RIO

http://www.leshistorymonth.org/ai1ec_event/resx-the-real-estate-show-extended/

THE LODGE

http://www.thelodgegallery.com/

ABC NO RIO DINERO (History of the gallery and neighborhood)

http://98bowery.com/return-to-the-bowery/abcnorio-the-book.php