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FGA General Meeting Agenda 4-20-09
General Membership Meeting- Open to All
The BAM Cultural District:
Arts and Jobs – Take advantage of the opportunity
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 85 So. Oxford Street
Monday, April
20th, 2009 – 7:00 P.M.
7:00 Video Exclusive Sneak Peak
at Open Book – Grab a slice, chat with your neighbors
featuring the some of the literary talent of Fort Greene - Ina Howard-Parker
Open Book is a new
national weekly half-hour TV show about books, focusing on a single spot on the
planet in each episode to introduce you to the writers and other storytellers
whose work reminds us that we are all interconnected through the stories we
have to tell and the communities we inhabit. The premiere episode explores Fort Greene,
one of the most vibrant cultural neighborhoods anywhere, a diverse historical
district that has been home generations of great artists.
Included in the first program are Fort
Greene residents including:
· Jeffrey Wright, star of stage and
screen reading Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" from
the
Walt Whitman Houses
· Ishmael Beah,
a former child soldier from Sierra Leone whose global bestselling memoir
brought
the
plight of child soldiers to a global audience, from Madiba
· award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan
talking about her oral history project at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
· legendary jazz musician Bill Lee
from his home on Ft. Greene Park
· Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine
Ford at Bittersweet and Fort Greene Park
· Multitalented renaissance man Carl
Hancock Rux reading from Richard Wright at MoCADA
· Def Jam spoken word poet Suheir Hammad at the Masonic
Temple
· and singer and performer Nucomme playing at Abistro
In a future episode, other Fort. Greene-based literary stars
including Nelson George, Amitav Ghosh,
Karan Mahajan, Susan Choi,
Graham Parker, Colson Whitehead will be featured as
well. What a neighborhood!-
More information on airtimes can be found on the FGA Website
7:30 Welcome - Paul Palazzo
7:35 Fort Greene Farmers Market -
Jessica Douglas, Regional Coordinator, Greenmarket
- Program updates
for the coming season
7:40 Stop BHOD – Jamie Evans-Butler, Stop BHOD
- A
briefing and update on Downtown Brooklyn’s fight to stop the expansion of the
Brooklyn House of Detention. For more
information visit www.StopBHOD.org
7:45 Arts and Jobs – Take
advantage of the opportunity
ARTS: Fort Greene is home to one of the
most vibrant Arts scenes in the nation and abounds with cultural and economic
offerings; take advantage of the opportunity.
7:45 BAM Next – Physical and Cultural changes coming
to the Neighborhood
- Hugh Hardy, principal of H3 Hardy
Collaboration Architecture, in a discussion about BAM’s
renovation the former home of the Salvation Army at 321 Ashland Place into a
unique 263-seat theatre and community-use facility. The building, to be named for visionary BAM
supporter Richard B. Fisher, will provide low-cost community and artist use for
approximately half of each calendar year.
For more information on this project www.BAMNextStage.org.
8:00 BAM Cultural District – just a sampling of the offerings
available to all
BAM – Suzanne
Youngerman, Tamara McCaw, www.BAM.org, tmccaw@BAM.org
Mark Morris Dance Group - Christy
Bolingbroke, www.MMDG.org, christy@mmdg.org
Irondale Center – Blake Wilson, www.Irondale.org, mblakewilson@yahoo.com
651 Arts - Rebecca Sheahan, 651arts.org, www.Art-NewYork.org,
rsheahan@651arts.org
The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York – Stephanie Bok, www.ART-NewYork.org, sbok@art-newyork.org
8:30 JOBS- Arts and Jobs go hand in hand; here
are some opportunities.
Brooklyn Workforce Initiative [BWI] - Tracy Anderson, www.BWINY.org
, TAnderson@bwiny.org
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Tracy Anderson, Director of Program Development, Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
[BWI] will speak about many of their opportunities including their Film
Production Assistant Training Program which allows motivated New Yorkers who
want to start a career in TV and film production to get into the business.
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The “Made in NY” PA Training Program is a collaboration
between BWI and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and
Broadcasting with a mission to give unemployed and low-income New Yorkers the
chance to work on New York sets and build careers in this dynamic field.
Office of Senator Velmanette Montgomery – Oscar Jonas, ojonas@senate.state.ny.us
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Oscar Jonas from the office of Senator Velmanette
Montgomery will talk about the opportunities in the NYS 2009 Summer Youth
Employment Program.
8:50 Rats – What can we do to curtail this a
chronic problem?
NYC Department of Health - Caroline Bragdon, Research Scientist.
- Caroline Bragdon,
NYCDOHMH, introduces the Rat Information Portal, the latest tool for enabling
communities to get up-to-date rodent control information, and to better manage
their rodent problems.
9:00 Community Forum Open Mic
The floor is yours for two minutes.
Use it to announce an upcoming event or raise an issue.
Speaking slots are limited, sign up at the door.
9:15 Final Announcements and
Adjournment
Next FGA General Meeting, Wednesday, June
10th, 2009,
The Future of Health Care
FGA General Meeting Agenda 2-23-09
General Membership Meeting
CHART YOUR COURSE
Navigate the waters of Insurance and Public Schools
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 – 7:30 P.M.
7:30 Welcome - Paul Palazzo
- FGA Bulletin
Board
- Green FG/CH - Jed Marcus
- Communications – Contact any FGA Board Member by
firstname@HistoricFortGreene.org
- FGA Retail – FGA Schools
- FGA and Community Leaders meet with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
7:45 Insurance - What you should know about property
insurance but were afraid to ask.
Patricia Batih
- MacKoul Associates pbatih@mackoul.com
Joanne Cipriano - MacKoul
Associates jcipriano@makoul.com
Patricia has over 20
years experience in property casualty insurance. Her career began as a personal
insurance underwriter, but changed her career path to marketing and sales. She
joined Mackoul & Associates in 2000 and has built
her client base specializing in the insurances for the real estate industry.
She is an active member of several professional organizations, such as New York
Association of Real Estate Managers and the Association of Real Estate Women.
Moira
Gettens - National Trust Insurance Services [NTIS]
NTIS was created to fill a substantial need within the preservation community.
As you know, historic properties can be difficult to insure, especially the
ones placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
NTIS specializes in insurance programs working with individual historic
properties, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. We are excited
about our programs and are constantly working within the insurance industry to
improve coverage terms. www.nationaltrust-insurance.org
Christopher
Lehman – Brownstone Agency, Inc. cllehman@brownstoneagency.com
8:30 Schools –What it means to be a parent in the
NYC school system, and the benefits and challenges of living in District 13.
Joyce Szuflita - NYC School Help joyce@nycschoolhelp.com
NYC School Help consults with parents to navigate the school search, nursery
school through high school, public and private. She has been quoted in the NY
Times, Time Out NY Kids, NY Family/Brooklyn Magazine, and she blogs regularly
for www.achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com
and www.mysidewalkchalk.blogspot.com
9:00 Community Forum Open Mic
The floor is yours for two minutes.
Use it to announce an upcoming event or raise an issue.
Speaking slots are limited, sign up at the door.
9:15 Final Announcements and
Adjournment
Next FGA General Meeting, Monday, April 20th,
2009,