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Aug '14

Bonnie Ora Sherk Interviewed For New Video About A Living Library

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Bonnie Ora Sherk was interviewed in the OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park Lower Garden on August 8, 2014, by Starr Sutherland, who is shooting and editing a new video on A Living Library, for Producer, Patricia Watts, Founder & WestCoast Curator for ecoartspace. This video will be shown on the ecoartspace website as a companion piece for a prior video interview with Bonnie Ora, in which she discusses her earlier art works, linked here.

Stay tuned to see the new video ! See pics below of Starr and colleague Matt, getting ready for the video shoot:

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Aug '14

A.L.L. Green Futures Stewards Practice Sustainable Business And Sell Bountiful Produce To Neighbors !

This summer our A.L.L. Green Futures Student Stewards learned about Sustainable Business, the Triple Bottom Line, and how best to present to the public, by preparing their abundant fruit and vegetable produce, making floral bouquets, packaging seeds with colorful labels, and then selling their bounty their Farmstand at the neighborhood BART Station. All proceeds from their efforts will go back into supporting their Afterschool and Summer Program. For their efforts, they earned $126 dollars, learned math, and had fun ! Have a look at their adventure !

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Aug '14

Chinatown Living Living Library Students Make Ice Cream & Learn Math !

Children in the Chinatown Branch Living Library had a real treat with A.L.L. Teachers Briggin and Danielle ! They made delicious ice cream, adding fresh fruits from their gardens, and using rock salt and ice to freeze the flavored cream. The children also learned math through measuring all the ingredients. Have a look at these adorable pics !

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Jul '14

Two New Exciting Art Exhibitions Feature A Living Library & Bonnie Ora Sherk – In Italy and NYC !

FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action, curated by Amy Lipton at Smack Mellon Gallery in adorable Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, from June 7-July 27, features Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library. The exhibit focuses on New York artists who work with food and agriculture. This exhibition features A Living Library, and specifically showcases an installation on the Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park. View more information about the exhibit on the Smack Mellon Website and ecoartspace blog. Also read the FOODshed Press Release.

Below are views of the installation on A Living Library at Smack Mellon Gallery in NYC:

Another exciting exhibition that features Bonnie Ora Sherk's work with A Living Library and her earlier Life Frame, Crossroads Community (the farm), is in Turin, Italy, at Parco Arte Vivente (PAV). The international exhibition, which opened on May 30 through November 2, is Vegetation As A Political Agent, curated by Marco Scotini and Andris Brinkman. The Museum has invited Bonnie Ora Sherk to visit Turin this fall, and explore with the Museum and local community, the opportunity to create a Turin Branch Living Library & Think Park.

Please see press release, website, and installation views below:

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Jul '14

Roosevelt Island Branch Living Library & Think Park: Preparation & Planting On Roosevelt Island Day – June 21

Elementary School Students from Roosevelt Island learned science, math, and literacy, and about gardens and plants while preparing the garden beds of the Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park for the Annual Living Library Planting on Roosevelt Island Day, this year, held on June 21.

Students love to dig in the soil and find earthworms and other creatures !!

And they wrote about their experiences in their A.L.L. Journals... .and then continued to dig in the earth !

And, then came the planting on Roosevelt Island Day - June 21 by the community led by Bonnie Ora Sherk ! A great time was had by all and another beautiful Living Library Garden was created by the Roosevelt Island community !!!