Gardens Rising is a Superstorm Sandy inspired, HUD-funded grant through New York State for flood control green infrastructure in our community gardens. Gardens Rising is moving forward but needs a great logo. So we are having a contest with $500 awarded for the winning design.
Rules
1. The deadline for submission is Friday November 27, 2015.
2. All submissions must include, “Gardens Rising” in the design.
3. All entries must be accompanied by your name and contact information.
4. By submitting an entry, you agree to be bound by the competition rules and transfer all rights of the design without limitation to Gardens Rising to use, display, make copies, publish in any media, alter, etc. Entries will become the sole and exclusive property of the Gardens Rising.
5. Submit original artwork or comprehensive layouts. The work must be original. Consideration should be given to simple reproduction capabilities to a number of media processes. Artwork must be reproduced in not more than four-match colors. Gardens Rising reserves the right to adjust reproduction art for optimum reproducibility to a variety of visual processes.
6. The logo should be easily displayed and usable in both color and black-and-white environment.
7. A short paragraph, explaining the concept of the design, is required.
8. If all entries are deemed unsuitable or unqualified, Gardens Rising will have the right to determine whether to extend the dateline, reject all submissions and declare the competition ended without awarding a winner or hold another competition in the sole and absolute discretion of Gardens Rising.
9. Gardens Rising reserves the rights to modify the competition rules and regulations at any time.
10. All entries must adhere to the entry specifications outlined below.
Eligibility
1. Competition is open to anyone in New York City.
2. Participants must submit only two final product (s) to this email
Entry Specifications
1. All entries must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi or be in vector format.
2. All entries must be no smaller than 1200 x 1200 pixels and no larger than 2400 x 2400 pixels.
3. All entries must be submitted electronically in either PDF (.pdf), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), Portable Network Graphic (.png), Encapsulated Post Script (.eps) or Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format.
4. Entries must be multicolor.
5. Only two entries per person will be accepted.
Awards
Winner will receive $500 from Gardens Rising award for their design.
A FREE Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Workshop and Community Breakout Session
Sat., Nov. 21 from 2-4 p.m., 66 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and The Bowery
As New York City arts organizations are losing space in a city with an ever-expanding real estate market, La MaMa is hoping tom move against the current. The Downstairs, La MaMa's newest venue, will explore how audiences and artists of the next generation interact and engage with art. A 6,500-square-foot multi-purpose facility with a classroom, exhibition area, and large interdisciplinary space, The Downstairs is the epicenter of all our artistic, community, and education programs and a platform to address our community's needs through art.
To understand what a creative community space could look like, La MaMa invites community leaders and artists to East Village Stories, a creative workshop facilitated by Theatre of the Oppressed. Inspired by Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire's work, worshop activities will involve interactive, physical, and playful exercises that will help us articulate our collective and individualized needs as a community.
The East Village and Lower East Side have a rich history of diverse residents, artists, and activists fighting for their right to live, work, and create. You are a part of this tradition. Tell your East Village story! Let's begin the conversation.
All East Village/LES community members welcome, ages 10-100. No theater experience necessary.
One of the rare surviving and significantly intact large Manhattan townhouses of the Federal period, 4 St. Mark’s Place is over 10,000 square feet and offers four, free market apartments and 5,668 square feet of retail space on the first floor and lower level. Since 1975, the retail space has been occupied by the legendary vintage clothing retailer Trash & Vaudeville, which is relocating to a new site.
“The vacant retail space on the first floor and lower level will offer a new owner significant future upside on a vibrant East Village street that attracts a tremendous amount of foot traffic,” said Ron Solarz, executive managing director and principal of Eastern Consolidated. “Over 53,600 students attend major colleges and universities in the area including Cooper Union and the Manhattan Campus of St. John’s University, which are half a block from the property, and New York University, which is a few blocks away, making the area highly desirable for use as student housing.”
The St. John’s University campus is located in a newly constructed 400,000-square-foot mixed-use office and retail development at 51 Astor Place, which is anchored by TAMI and financial services tenants including IBM. In addition, Cooper Union has completed construction on its state-of-the art engineering building, which includes a prominent retail space at the northeast corner of East 6th Street, and a new 17-story dormitory built on the east side of Third Avenue between St. Mark’s Place and Stuyvesant Street.
The neighborhood also includes a wide array of hip restaurants and retail shops, and is conveniently located within blocks of the 6 train at Astor Place, the R and N trains at 8th Street, and the L at 3rd Avenue and 14th Street.
Also known as the Hamilton-Holly House, 4 St. Mark’s Place was built in 1831 and designated a New York City landmark in 2004. Col. Alexander Hamilton bought the townhouse in 1833 and shared it with his wife, Eliza, his widowed mother, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, her daughter Eliza Hamilton Holly, and son-in-law Sidney.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of cutting-edge performance art venues were located in the building including the Bridge Theater, which hosted the likes of Yoko Ono, The Fugs, and the Bread and Puppet Theater.
