Showing posts with label 2nd Annual Mott Haven H.E.ARTS Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2nd Annual Mott Haven H.E.ARTS Festival. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

2nd Annual Mott Haven H.E.ARTS Festival


MAIN STAGE: Hip Hop Legends: Grand Wizard Theodore 
(Inventor of Scratching!), DJ Phase, T Ski Valley, Voice 
of Harlem, Happy Original Pioneer | M.A.K.U. 
Soundsystem | Mazarte Dance Company | 
UpBeat NYC Latin Jazz Big Band
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The 2nd Annual Mott Haven H.E.ARTS Festival will bring 
together a wide array of local South Bronx residents, artists, 
musicians, grassroots organizations and businesses to 
celebrate Mott Haven as a uniquely vibrant and diverse 
community. The event's focus will be on the conversion 
of the former Lincoln Detox Center into a center for health, 
education and the arts that will serve as an anchor for our 
families and local organizations who are fighting systemic 
injustice and displacement (including the unveiling of our 
recently completed feasibility report!)

Participating Organizations: Birthing Project | Boogie Down 
Books | Bronx Filmmakers Collective | BxArts Factory | 
Community Connections for Youth | ID Studio Theater | 
MLK SUNY ATTAIN | Mott Haven-Port Morris Community 
Land Stewards | National Acupuncture Detoxification 
Association | NY Dept of Youth and Community Development 
| Radical Health | South Bronx Unite |Taller Experimental 
del Arte | UpBeat NYC

FOOD
Traditional cuisine for sale from local families and vendors

ARTS, FILMMAKERS, CRAFTS & APPAREL
Local artisans, filmmakers and vendors will offer their 
goods for sale

ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS
Arts projects, children's books, face painting and bouncy house 

HEALTH & EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
Meet and greet education and health professionals with 
discussions/services related to community building, 
alternatives to incarceration, acupuncture, pregnancy, 
birthing and much more 

FEASIBILITY REPORT UNVEILING
H.E.ARTS Center design and feasibility report and model 
unveiling, as well as information about our local community 
land trust, the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land 
Stewards

More about the H.E.ARTS Community Center-
Following multiple community envisioning sessions and 
several large-scale events and festivals, the Mott Haven-
Port Morris Community Land Stewards (community land 
trust) aims to acquire and renovate the city-owned, vacant, 
28,000 square foot former Lincoln Detox Center into a home 
for more than a dozen health, education and arts 
organizations in the Mott Haven-Port Morris community.
Other Actions/Events Taking Place