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Dear ALL !
Below are links to photos and published articles of our Earth Day Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Cisterns / Gardens / Mural Event on April 22 at Gordon Lau Elementary School in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Enjoy !
Chinatown Living Library Unveiled Photos: April 22, 2011
(photos by Sophia Antipas)
NEWS ADVISORY (Release No. 03-11)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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April 22, 2011 |
Contact: Tyrone Jue (415) 554-3247 |
City Celebrates Earth Day with Public Unveiling of New Chinatown Living Library & Think Park
Public school demonstration project promotes hands-on, interdisciplinary learning about sustainable water, native plants, growing food, with new gardens and eco-art
WHAT: S.F. Board of Supervisors President Supervisor David Chiu, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), Life Frames, Inc., students and community leaders celebrate Earth Day with the public unveiling of the new Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns/Gardens/Mural at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School.
The new features in the Chinatown Living Library & Think Park include two elaborate demonstrations of rainwater harvesting with 11 cisterns and other rainwater conservation methods, Native California Riparian and Native Drought Tolerant Gardens, a Fruit, Flower & Vegetable Garden, as well as a mural that describes the installation in three languages: Chinese, English, and Spanish.
Speakers will also announce a sister demonstration project in New York City’s Chinatown.
WHO: David Chiu, President, S.F. Board of Supervisors
Michael Carlin, Deputy General Manager, SFPUC
Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder, Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library
Jill Wynns, San Francisco Board of Education
WHEN: Friday, April 22, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Gordon Lau Elementary School at 950 Clay Street, San Francisco
Lower Yard, Entrance at Washington Street side (between Stockton & Powell)
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You Are Invited !
You are cordially invited to join us in San Francisco and participate in the public unveiling of the Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns / Gardens / Mural in celebration of Earth Day !
WHEN: April 22 - Earth Day, 11:00:-11:30 am
WHERE: Gordon Lau Elementary School in the heart of SF Chinatown, Lower Yard, Washington Street, between Stockton & Powell.
WHO:
- Life Frames, Inc., non-profit sponsor of A Living Library & Think Parks in diverse San Francisco and New York City communities is proud to announce and invite you to the public unveiling of its recently installed Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns / Gardens / Mural at Gordon Lau Elementary School, funded by the SF Public Utiliities Commission with support from the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, California Department of Forestry, and others. (complete list of credits available.)
- SF Supervisor's Board President, David Chiu; other dignitaries; children and staff from Gordon Lau and Commodore Stockton Child Development Center; PUC Commissioners and staff; Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc. / A Living Library, and chief designer of Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns/Gardens/Mural; and other Project Team Members will participate together in the public unveiling and celebration of this new Eco-Art attraction in Chinatown on Earth Day.
- YOU are also invited ! Your presence is important and requested
WHAT:
- The Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns / Gardens / Mural features 2 elaborate Demonstrations of rainwater harvesting with 11 cisterns and other rainwater conservation methods, and includes Native California Riparian and Drought Tolerant Gardens, an Organic Fruit, Flower & Vegetable Garden plus a beautiful Mural as Label that describes the installation in three languages: Chinese, English, Spanish.
- Demonstration 1, with its 11 cisterns, collects 2,410 gallons of water with each heavy rain event from the topmost roof of Gordon Lau and brings it down to the Middle Yard into 2 cisterns, and then into the 9 cisterns in the Lower Yard, covered by a new redwood bench. Water then is used to irrigate 2 Native Drought Tolerant Gardens and 1 Organic Fruit, Vegetable, Flower Garden.
- Demonstration 2 collects rainwater that sheets across the sloped Middle Yard and enters a perforated pipe in a grated trench to water a Native Riparian Garden and then down multiple, Stair Gardens.
- The Mural as Label describes in poetic prose in Chinese, English, Spanish - both Rainwater Harvesting Demonstrations, so that it becomes an ongoing learning opportunity for children, youth, and adults, in science, conservation, physics, math, literacy, multiple cultures, and visual art.
- Students from Gordon Lau and Commodore Stockton participate year-round, with the Chinatown Living Library & Think Park Program, sponsored by Life Frames, Inc., in hands-on, interdisciplinary, standards-based learning that creates and maintains the new gardens and eco-art environments at their school, funded by Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families
- Life Frames is also pleased to announce its emerging NYC Chinatown Branch Living Library & Think Park. A goal is to link students and communities from the two Branch Chinatown Living Library & Think Parks: San Francisco and New York City, so they can share commonalities and diversities.
Thank you for your support and we hope to see you on April 22nd !
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Hello Everyone!
This is an auspicious moment! I am so happy to be finally able to write to you, talk with you, and share with you all of the wonderful experiences with A Living Library, or A.L.L., for short.
We are Cultivating the Human & Ecological Garden by digging up much asphalt and concrete and creating beautiful, healthy, healing, expressive landscapes with many children, youth, and adults. We have several Branch Living Library & Think Parks underway in San Francisco and New York City. Each Branch is unique because each place is unique; A.L.L., for short, incorporates the local resources: human, ecological, economic, historic, technological, and aesthetic seen through the lens of time - past, present, future.
One of our goals is to develop place-based Branch Living Library & Think Parks in diverse locales - locally and globally - to be linked through Green Powered Digital Gateways.
We are just beginning and we want you to work with us and help us GROW!!!!
Many Thanks!!
Muchas Gracias!!
Xie Xie!!
Bonnie Ora Sherk
Founder & Director
Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library
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