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Blues, Brews + BBQ: Fun Wednesday, 4/24, in the River Arts District
Posted in Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged 15th Anniversary, Arts For Life, Mail Management Services on April 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking Ground: Combating Classism with Innovation
Posted in Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know on August 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
YOU’RE INVITED: WEDNESDAY (August 8) W.C. REID CENTER 3-4 p.m.
This is worth leaving early from work!
Green Opportunities is an Asheville-founded non-profit that is creating nationally recognized models for job training and hiring practices. They, along with the Asheville Housing Authority, and other community partners are renovating the historical W.C. Reid Center into a green jobs training and education center. The center will provide people from the surrounding neighborhoods access to education, job training, support services and other resources that help people achieve greater self-sufficiency and empowerment.
Support community development. Engage with each other. Attend this great groundbreaking of an historic building and new method of development. Directions.
Like Murals? The Block Kickstarter is ALMOST there!!
Posted in Community Development, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, This is Cool, tagged Asheville Design Center, Just Folks, Kickstarer, Molly Must, mural, The Block on June 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From mural artist Molly Must
The concept of creating a mural in Triangle Park has been the basis of a new partnership between Just Folks, an organization dedicated to preserving local African-American culture & activity downtown, and the Asheville Design Center (ADC), a local non-profit dedicated to community-driven design. Painter and community-arts organizer Molly Must is project coordinator.
Triangle Park is located on South Market Street in the heart of “The Block,” Asheville’s historic black business district. Though situated just 100 feet behind the dense boutiques and storefronts of Biltmore Avenue, the park, and the Block itself, remain relatively unknown to many Asheville residents and visitors despite the area’s geographic significance.
From the late 1800s until the 1980s, the Block served as the economic center of Western North Carolina’s black community, housing hundreds of black-owned businesses. Yet today the Block holds little evidence of this past vitality.
Help get it there through their Kickstarter Campaign! Make sure you watch the video–it’s wonderful!
Greenway Video Unveiled at Festival THIS Weekend
Posted in Community Development, Pollinate Collaborations Project, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, This is Cool, tagged Buncombe County, Connect Buncombe, greenways, Mountain Sports Festival, Please Video on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Van Burnette with the Hop ‘n Blueberry Farm in Black Mountain is part of the Greenways, Please video
Greenways, Please video is a collaborative effort of Buncombe County and its municipalities and partners, as well as local businesses and organizations to provide information about the benefits of greenways in a fun format for viewing across the county. Connect Buncombe is seeking partners to share this 5 minute public service video at theatres, events, and on websites. Please get in touch to become a Greenways, Please video screening partner.
See it for the first time this Saturday night at the Mountain Sports Festival at Carrier Park around 7:30 p.m. (weather pending).
Sponsors:
Asheville Track Club, Hands of Sean Perry Co., Kostelec Planning, WSM Craft, Mother Earth Produce, Equinox Environmental, Montford Walk-In Bakery, Sound Mind Creative, Pollinate Collaborations, Liberty Bikes, Asheville On Bikes, Buncombe County
Green Opportunities Weatherizes Home #100
Posted in Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, Whole Community: Diversity, tagged City of Asheville, Community Action Opportunities, Green Opportunities, social justice, WATT, Weatherization on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is from GO–this organization is an absolute pioneer in socially just job training and creation.
On the last day of January, Green Opportunities (GO) crew members Giovanni McKnight, Ed Holloman, and Matthew Martinez finished up home weatherization measures for a home on Carroll Avenue, marking the hundredth Asheville residence weatherized through GO’s free home weatherization program.
Since September 2009, GO has partnered with the City of Asheville, the Western North Carolina Green Building Council, and Community Action Opportunities to provide free home weatherization measures for Asheville residents who earn under 200% of the federal poverty scale. With financing from federal stimulus money and a city of Asheville Community Development Block Grant, GO has been able to employ over a dozen people over the past two and a half years, offering the opportunity for members to gain skills and experience in a growing field while providing up to $6,000 worth of work on each home for free.
Green Opportunities is an Asheville-based nonprofit dedicated to improving lives, communities and the health of the planet through innovative green collar job training and placement programs. The GO Weatherization Assistance Training Team (WATT) is a paid apprenticeship program designed to prepare GO Training Team graduates for clean energy careers while improving the efficiency of houses in low-wealth neighborhoods. Ed Holloman, after his term on the GO Training Team, became the first state-registered WATT apprentice. He’s been gaining weatherization experience in the field as part of the WATT crew, but will soon move on to an apprenticeship with GO’s Home Energy Rating System rater, where his experience on the crew will assist in his mastery of home energy auditing.
Jessie Mae Jones, a recent recipient of GO’s free home weatherization measures, has expressed as much enthusiasm for GO’s dedication to training local residents with barriers to employment as she has for the improvements done to her house. “Everybody that came to help me did a beautiful job; I have no complaints,” she recently testified. “Most of all I’m so thankful that you all are training all races of young [people] today, because we need this.”
Pollinator: Sow True Seed
Posted in Community Development, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged ASAP, Asheville, gardening, giving back, Haw Creek Elementary School, Sow True Seed Company on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes pollinators actually, literally…pollinate, in the gardening sense of the word! Sow True Seed is Asheville’s open-pollinated/non-hybrid vegetable, herb and flower seed company specializing in heirloom, certified organic, and traditional Southern Appalachia varieties. Sow True Seed promotes community sustainability by helping to preserve our shared botanical heritage and seed a new era of sustainable culture and ecological wisdom.
Going local in the gardening community means from seed to harvest — so in 2011, Sow True Seed partnered with ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) to unite farmers, market growers, and home gardeners a their local seed source. Our first initiative with ASAP was their Growing Minds School Program, which seeks to give kids a positive experience with healthy, homegrown food by connecting kids to farms and by creating school gardens so kids can literally watch their seed sprout, grow, and produce. Sow True Seed provides the seeds for these gardens, as well as offers a percentage of their sales to ASAP when customers submit the code ASAP2011 with their order.
Sow True Seed is a proponent of protecting rare Appalachian heirloom seeds by getting them into the hands of our agriculture community — and in WNC, this means ASAP and their incredible school garden program — to promote diverse and safe (non-GMO) food sources. Way to grow!
Pollinator: Adrienne Crowther, Shine On Brightly
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged Blue Spiral 1, Cremation Urns, Memorial Art Objects, Shine On Brightly, Unique cremation objects on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Adrienne Crowther is the reason I was able to move to Asheville. She hired me at an arts non-profit in 2006, allowing me to move to Asheville and build an amazing network of friends, knowledge of the arts community, and eventually branching out to create my business, Pollinate Collaborations. Needless to say, I am grateful to Adrienne and she is now a great friend, but that’s not why I’m writing about her.
Adrienne has created an amazing, beautiful business that educates, gives back and serves an amazing, spiritual purpose. Shine On Brightly (SHOB) is an online gallery for memorial art, including cremation urns, memorial jewelry, memorial glass, hand-bound guest register books, and memorial portraits. She is also a mom of two amazing women, a dedicated yoga practitioner, runner, cook, music lover and dancer, the most wonderful party guest you could have ask for, and the wife of Hugh Crowther who unexpectedly passed away shortly after she started her business in memorial art.
SHOB has partnered with the respected Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC, to present a gallery exhibit of creative containers for cremation remains, “Remains To Be Seen: An Out of the Box Look at Modern Cremation Containers.”
The show opens on August 5, 2011, in conjunction with a scheduled Asheville Downtown Gallery Association Art Walk. It will run through September 10, 2011. The juried exhibit features approximately 40 works of 20 artists who create vessels for cremation remains, and includes works in ceramics, wood, glass, metal, and mixed media.
Pollinator: Ginger Huebner
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinate Collaborations Project, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged Ginger Huebner, Roots + Wings School of Art, Verve Magazine on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ginger Huebner is a friend and a client, a mom, a wife, an artist, an educator, a business owner, and does amazing things for Asheville. Thank you for all you do Ginger!! I love being on your team!
She’s featured in this month’s Verve Magazine.
This is Community: ClaySpace Co-Op
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged Asheville, Ceramic, ClaySpace Co-Op, Josh Copus, River Arts District on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Community Arts Panel at UNC-A This Wednesday
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, Pollinators: Neighbors to Know, tagged Arts2People, Asheville Area Arts Council, Children First Family Resource Center, Green Opportunities, Interweave Asheville, Just HOme in the Mountains, Pisgah View Community Garden on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nice line up here folks. I’m looking forward to this.
image from panachemag.com
Community, Arts & Development in Asheville
A panel presentation and gathering of local community leaders open to the campus and broader Asheville communities
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 3–5:15 PM
UNC Asheville Laurel Forum (Karpen Hall)DeWayne (aka BLove) Barton Co-founder of GO! Green Opportunities, Burton Street Community Resident & Organizer, Sculptor, Poet
Jen Bowen Cultural Arts Administrator for Asheville Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts , Community Organizer, Photographer
Norma Brown Latino Outreach Coordinator for Children First Family Resource Center at EMMA, Poet
Wayne Burgess Director of Channel of Grace and community liaison for Just Home in the Mountains
Gary Gaines & Carol Anders Performers from Always Expect Miracles the Just Home in the Mountains Community Performance Project, sponsored by Homeward Bound of Asheville
Graham Hackett Program Director, Asheville Area Arts Council, Artistic Director of Catalyst Productions and POETIX
Kitty Love Director of Arts2People (Lexington Ave Arts Festival and Asheville Mural Project), Tattoo Artist
Polly Medlicott, & Mark Medlin Co-Founders, Interweave Asheville (an inclusive arts organization for people of all abilities)
Robert & Lucia White and other members of Pisgah View Community Garden Founders & Supporters
Sponsored by the Arts & Ideas Program & the Key Center for Service-Learning
