CALL CONNECTS - October 2023
Please Join Us for a Bronx Community Gathering!
Thursday, October 26th, 3:00 – 7:00 PM
at the Alumni Room, O'Malley Library, Manhattan College
Come celebrate the opening of the Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry, connect with the community, share your thoughts, and envision the next steps of the Rescuing Tibbetts Brook Initiative
Rescuing Tibbetts Brook is a constellation of artist and designer-led initiatives in the Bronx conducted by CALL//City as Living Laboratory to call attention to the benefits of daylighting and other related environmental challenges. CALL has worked with community members since 2016 to complement the efforts of local activists to address pressing environmental challenges and opportunities. Key among them – the benefits of daylighting Tibbetts Brook.
Join us to share refreshments and hear from artists, community members, experts, and activists.
The Buried Brook App Launch
Sunday, October 29th
Walk Section One: 11:00 AM
Walk Section Two: 1:30 PM
followed by refreshments at Tortoise & Hare at 3:00 PM
The Buried Brook is a free, interactive augmented reality sound walk by composer Kamala Sankaram. It traces the sonic geography of the buried Tibbetts Brook, which once flowed from Yonkers through the Bronx to the Harlem River. Follow the brook's former route to activate field recordings, songs, and instrumental solos. Where you start and stop, and how fast you walk creates a sonic experience unique to you!
Please join us and artist Kamala Sankaram as we walk along the historic path and listen to the sounds of The Buried Brook.
CALL WALK - Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown's Public Realm
Saturday, November 18th
Walk Section One: 1:00 PM
Walk Section Two: 2:30 PM
Followed by refreshments
PLEASE JOIN CALL AND ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, MYLES ZHANG AND STEPHAN FAN ON A WALK TO EXPERIENCE THE OPENING OF PEDESTRIAN OBSERVATIONS: MAPPING MANHATTAN CHINATOWN'S PUBLIC REALM.
By highlighting the many relationships between public and private spaces in Chinatown, illustrated in the Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown's Public Realm map, we hope to stimulate conversations that foster a healthy symbiosis between these spaces and uses: how the public realm can be better used, designed, managed, and reimagined to shape a more resilient and inclusive public realm.
More information to follow soon!
CALL Celebrates Successful WaterMarks Immersion Tour
CALL has just returned from Milwaukee where we held a WaterMarks Immersion Tour from September 29 through October 1st. Over twenty visitors traveled from across the country, including CALL board members, artists and art world leaders, urban planners, and designers, and spent two days meeting and interacting with our key partners. The tour celebrated WaterMarks’ evolving progress and introduced our accomplishments to a broad audience.
Highlights of the tour included a cocktail reception held at Rockwell Automation Clock Tower–offering panoramic views of the city– a tour of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Treatment Facility at Jones Island and visits to marker sites along the Kinnickinnic River and at Greentech Station. At each marker site, tour participants met community members and representatives of partner organizations who have been deeply involved throughout the project. On Saturday afternoon, the participants also enjoyed a boat trip along the Milwaukee River.
Tour participants were particularly struck by the visit to Pulaski Park, which they felt brought together many of the issues discussed during the tour. They also noted the breadth of communities involved in the project.
CALL will be hosting a report-back event in late November to share participants’ experiences. Look out for more information closer to the event.
Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry at OSS Project's Harvest
The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry, created by Bronx community members and artists Ana de la Cueva and Matthew López-Jensen, made g a guest appearance at the Marble Hill Houses' Garden for the OSS Project Annual Harvest on October 7th. At the heartwarming gathering, Marble Hill Houses' OSS Gardeners used crops from this season's harvest to create a mouthwatering potluck.
Mary Miss Featured in the New York Times!
Please follow the link below to read a wonderful article by Deborah Solomon on the exhibition 'Groundswell,' at the Nasher Museum of Art in Dallas, which includes Mary's work.
