Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Giraffes take over the garden


Saturday, June 5, 10 AM-3PM, Hike the Heights from RING Garden to Highbridge Park
This activity is more about community and (re)discovering our neighborhood. Yes We Can Inwood will once again participate in the 6th annual Hike the Heights event whose goal is to invigorate public spaces by bringing more visitors to northern Manhattan parks and to inspire young and old people to be more physically active.

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e will gather at the RING Garden (Dyckman Street b/w Broadway & Seaman Avenue) at 10:00 a.m. The hike will start promptly at 10:30am when we will walk east on Dyckman towards 10th Avenue where we will enter Highbridge Park and then hike up through the park to the water tower. Hikers will be coming from 5 different starting points in northern Manhattan. All hikes will converge at the Highbridge Recreation Center on 173rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue. A hugecommunity celebration at Highbridge Park will follow with food, games, activities and performances. To watch a clip of last year's event and learn more about the event, visit: www.thegiraffenyc.org . There are also some great photos of last year's event on our website.

The event is organized by The CLIMB project (City Life Is Moving Bodies), part of the Center for Youth Violence Prevention at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Hope to see you in the park!

Skraptacular will be participating at this event! We'll be collaborating on another Skraptacular giraffe and I mean SKRAPTACULAR. I plan to bring some puppet-makers and sculptors to inspire and guide us with their expertise. Below is my first day at making the giraffes. Thanks Amy D. for helping me today and also for encouraging Skraptacular to take part in this fabulous and meaningful project! Once the giraffe is built, students at Muscota New School will decorate her with words and images relating to health, sustainability and global warming.

Legs are still looking too short. The more length and muscle the giraffe gets, the shorter my cutain becomes. This giraffe deserves long legs and healthy muscles.
Ooh the plastic bottle hooves are looking good!
I'm having trouble believing this box will end up looking like a giraffe, But I trust you, Amy.



Polystyrene is the WORST but at least we're saving it from going in the landfill. We will paper mache over the polystyrene so the students are not compelled to pick away at it like they do with their polystyrene lunch treys that, by the way, every single NYC public school uses, amounting to 850,000 treys per day! A tangent I couldn't ignore, back to the giraffes....


Yes, there she is...... I see her! Next, she needs reeeally long eyelashes-made from plastic bottles, of course.

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