Skraptacular Eco Fest

Last Friday on October 7th 2011 we were blessed with a beautiful day for our Skraptacular Earth celebration. It was a day of marching, chanting, singing and raising environmental awareness in Northern Manhattan where residents recycle the least in all of Manhattan.

An enormous heart felt thanks goes out to Camille Wallin, Muscota New School principal and Dede Budd, the principal of PS 178 and all the staff, volunteers and students for supporting this urgent community effort.

Don't cut trees. Eat your peas! - Enrique, Muscota New School

1...2...3...4 Come let's reduce some more! 5...6...7...8 open that reusing gate!

- Ella, Muscota New School

Muscota elders leading the way to the land of no away

Thomas and Tara from Allstar Adventures welcome the marchers.

Enter under the golden arch with an E for Earth over your heart.

#1 cheerleader! Muscota music teacher, Megan Benay

Old friends reunited for a worthy cause

Troy leads the sing-along with Noelina and Jasmin's classes from Ps 178

I loved their creative design for Earth hats!

A Big thanks to all the community volunteers who lead the Earth Fest workshops.
Sarah from Solar 1 came all the way up town to host the Eco Jeopardy Game!
Pamela Peeters worked with students on The Sustainable Planet Eco Hero Project.
Jazmin from The New York Restoration Project gave 2nd and 3rd graders a lesson in planting
Natalie from the Lower East Side Ecology Center giving 3rd graders the dirt on dirt.
Thor from City Science taught Muscota 5th graders how to understand suspension and compression by feeling it.

Poet, Jane Lecroy taught young writers to use nature as inspiration.

Julia Attaway from Friends of Fort Tryon Trust explored our "back yard" to discover nature mysteries.
Ermin from Grow NYC Engaged young people in the Grow NYC Recycle Game. Don't forget, if it doesn't have a neck it doesn't get recycled!
Wilson Martinez from Unwaste NY introduced students to simple and innovative ways to reduce energy use.

Wow! Leisia's class from Muscota made REALLY beautiful signs! Thanks for rallying guys and gals!

A special thanks to all the parents who joined us with Earth loving energy to help keep our kids safe.

Editor's choice blue ribbon for this year's Maker Faire....yea!

The interns preparing well in advance for the Maker Faire Skraptacular Parade

skraptacular!

Creating something GREAT from nothing!

For Immediate Release

Contact Michelle Del Guercio (917) 699 8136

www.skraptacular.org

NEW YORK, September 17th & 18th – SKRAPTACULAR! a grassroots recycling organization which works with New York City schoolchildren to creatively reduce and reuse waste materials, will have a larger-than- life presence at the second annual World Maker Faire at the N.Y. Hall of Science in Flushing Meadow Queens.

September 17^th and 18th.

SKRAPTACULAR! will be on hand educating Fair goers to rethink what they do with their waste. Northern Manhattan SKRAPTACULAR! crafty kids will take to the fairgrounds, encouraging and enticing World Maker Faire attendees how they can to do their part to make less garbage. A carnival of visual and performance arts, poetry and song will remind New Yorkers how to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink how to save our environment and reduce waste while having fun.

SKRAPTACULAR! Performers will take the NPR "Rock-it-Science Stage", followed by a SKRAPTACULAR! Parade at 4pm on Saturday September 17th, open to all.

Visit our SKRAPTACULAR! booth to learn more about what we do.

Dear Skraptacular supporters,
I hope your summers are going along swimmingly, despite Irene's rude interruption. I want to give you all the heads-up about a Skraptacular event DURING SCHOOL HOURS! The more kids, teachers and parents we have involved the better! Whether you could help by adding your child’s class or grade or school to the event… no contribution of participants is too big or too small. Spread the word! If you want your school to be involved, please arrange it with your school principal and child's teacher to confirm your reservation. If you know any eco-educators that might want to get involved, please have them call me. The beloved Miss Ufer, the PS 178 music teacher, is no longer there. Can anyone think of someone to lead the sing-a-long? I'm trying to contact Johnny and Troy, anyone have their e-mail? The event is just beginning to take shape. Camille has confirmed the date and is on board. Dede from PS178 is on board but has not confirmed the date as of yet.

The general idea is....

The First Annual Skraptacular Harvest Eco-Fest

Friday, October 7th from 9:30- 2:00

9:30-11:30- Parade and musical assembly

Students from Muscota, possibly PS 178 and a few classes from PS 187 will parade (with police escort) to Anne Loftus Playground at the northern tip of Fort Tryon. Assembly sing-along and then "Bash The Trash " musical instrument demonstration.

11:30-12:30 - Waste-free LUNCH on "Fruity Friday" along with a composting demonstration

12:30-2:30 - Eco-workshops that classes sign-up for in advance

Programs such as park walk with EPA educator, park clean-up, tree planting and ceremony, tree guard building, tree guard Skraptaculating, eco-theater workshop, the Dan and Ann Eco- Game show, the Farm Truck( hoping) and much more....

Michelle

www.skraptacular.org

cell # 917 699 8136

(include your best # & email)

World Savvy Global Youth Media and Arts Festival

On Thursday we went to NYU to represent Skraptacular. World Savvy was helping students reuse reduce and recycle. We came with the project of Linking a Community through Sustainability which is a project that unites people by getting together and making links with bottle caps. Our goal is to connect as many communities as possible.On our way to the event we proudly paraded through the streets holding our chain of progress. We were definitely an attention grabber! cool downtown skateboarders took a video of us and while we were in a pizza shop, one of the links broke and scattered all over the tiled floor so that also got a lot of attention. At the end of the day we had doubled our chain. It was a feat to reach the chain across the gallery. Each link was made up of more or less 100 bottle caps. Everyone was asked to write their name,date and their community on a tag ( a re-purposed cereal box) that would be attached to the link that they made. Many people were joined together by the activity. We do feel that we succeeded in linking our community by inspiring consciousness