President Street Forum (Monthly Potluck/Art Salon)

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visit www.presidentstreetforum.com for more info! Next gathering:

FORUM 4 - Thursday, April 16th 7-10pm

There will be a screening of a video, as well as photos and mappings from experiments in building homes in unoccupied or forgotten spaces.

Adriana Young
Adriana was born in Manhattan, grew up in the suburb of Chappaqua. She went to Brown, where she studied Latin American history and Slavic Studies. While at Brown, she founded and directed English for Action, a non-profit organization teaching English in the context of civic rights and community leadership for Latino immigrant families. For a little while, she studied fashion in Barcelona and conflict and negotiation tactics in Israel and Palestine. At some point, she earned a Master’s in International Affairs from The New School.

Adriana is now a lifestyle researcher. She studies shopping, shopping malls and gated communities in the context of the Global War on Terror. She has researched exclusive lifestyle communities in New York, Bangkok, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Hong Kong. As part of the collective Trummerkind, she lived and set up a secret luxury apartment inside the Providence Place Mall.

She currently teaches a class called “New York City: The Greatest Suburb on Earth?” at the Parsons School of Design, and is a researcher for the Global Exchange Laboratory – an interdisciplinary collaborative of architects, anthropologists and media designers. She is also the research director for CAPITAL B – an arts-based economic revitalization plan for the neighborhood of Bushwick.

Her website is betterthanliving.com.

Caroline Woolard
Can the commons be site for optimism and generosity?

Caroline Woolard says yes. Caroline Woolard is a project-based, interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her current projects include: a barter network (www.OurGoods.org ), a project with Artist As Citizen, and user testing with dancer Linda Austin at Watermill.

Woolard received her BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and is a recipient of The Field's Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists, a MacDowell Colony Residency, an Environmental Health Clinic Fellowship, a Brecht Forum Residency, a Pilchuck Scholarship, the Leon Levy Foundation Grant, and The Elliot Lash Award for Excellence in Sculpture.

Her interventions (like those blue public seats attached to stop sign posts) are presented publicly in the urban environment. At times, these projects become affiliated with psychogeographic events like Conflux in NY, Cryptic Providence in RI, and Unoccupied Spaces in Montreal, but more often they move independently.

In the Spring of 2010, a Lord Of The Flies harvest event with Paula Hunter Performances and Wheeler High School soccer players will occupy the Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI.

What to bring for potluck:
Spring cornucopia to fill the belly, something to whet the appetite!