Roving Garden Party to Save Children’s Magical Garden

June 16, 2007 · Posted in History, history-stub · Comment 

Tompkins Square Park

One Park Ecology, Two Parts Mardi Gras!
Rambunctious fun for all!

Come dance down the streets to celebrate community, our public space, and the gardens! We’ll visit some gardens, throw some seeds, unleash some surprises, partake in a ritual, stand up against some slimy developers, and end with an after-party/ rally at Children’s Magical Garden.

We all need places to play, to dream, to connect with each other and the world. For NYC, community gardens are some of those places. So are the streets. Unfortunately, the public commons are under attack. Let’s revel in the places that are still untamed with people who are still untamed.

Bring drums and instruments! Bring the kids! Dress as the garden creature of your dreams!

Special Guests:
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
The Stop Shopping Choir
Bike Lane Liberation Clowns
Jugglers, Puppets & Tap Dancers
More Gardens! Coalition
You & Your Crew
Supporters of Children’s Magical Garden http://www.kidsmagicgarden.net/

The parade will finish with a rally and press conference at Children’s Magical Garden, corner of Norfolk & Stanton Street in the Lower East Side.

For more information on the struggle to save the garden see
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_182/stantonstkids.html

www.times-up.org

Queens Pride Parade

June 3, 2007 · Posted in History, history-stub · Comment 

Jackson Heights, Queens

Pride Begins with Queens!

The Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee cordially invites you to our 15th annual Pride Parade
and Festival on Sunday, June 3, 2007. Our theme this year is “United for Equality – which is also the international theme for 2007. Please come and show support for equal rights for everyone!

Festival:
11am
37th Road from 73-77th Streets.

Parade:
NOON
37th Avenue and 89th Street, Jackson Heights

The Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee is proud to announce our 2007 Grand Marshals. Leading this year’s parade is NYC Council Member John Liu, a great friend to the LGBT communities of Queens and an advocate for marriage equality, NYS Democratic Committee Vice Chairperson Emily Giske and Andy Humm, a longtime LGBT rights advocate, television host, reporter and leader of the LGBT communities, nationally.

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