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

World Savvy Global Youth Media and Arts Festival

Time

Thursday, May 26 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Location

34 Stuyvesant St (b/w 2nd and 3rd, E 9th and 10th) NYU Commons Gallery

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Skraptacular is working in collaboration with World Savvy designing the installations and we'll be at the opening with our Skraptaculinks. Local and Global Sustainability, and the state of the planet through the eyes of NYC youth.

Skraptacular had the honored of being asked to take part in the 2nd annual Urban Wildlife Appreciation Day. What an incredibly high quality, well organized, engaging, and extremely educational event and not to mention, A LOT of fun from all perspectives. Every attendee was given a passport when they entered the event. Each station taught about a different urban wildlife animal. The attendees would travel from table to table observing and learning about each urban animal. After a visit to each table the attendee would receive a stamp and once the stamps were completed the passport was turned in for a prize. - a great way to engage and educate. The live urban wildlife visitors were an inspiration for making urban wildlife sculptures from trash. The Skraptacular mantra for the day was , observe and create. Thanks to Emilio Banda and family, Skraptacular now has a mascot, Skraapy the Squirel inspired by the Day. If you would like to get up close and personal with Skrappy, she's on view at The One Hundred Overlook Towers. Lobby Gallery. Big shout out to Jennifer Hoppa and to all my interns-thanks for making this another Skraptacular event!

Come play with Skraptacular and the owl mamas

Urban Wildlife Appreciation Day

This Saturday, May 7th

in stunning Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights

(A train to 190th St)

We hope to see you there!

Save the Date for the Second Annual Urban Wildlife Appreciation Day in Fort Tryon Park, Cloister Lawn, Manhattan: May 7th, 2011, 12 PM - 3:00 PM

David Weinstone and "Music for Aardvarks" will be performing!

Join us for an opportunity to get up close and personal with NYC's wild residents. Learn about squirrels, raccoons, coyotes, skunks, eagles and more. Find out the best places in NYC and NYS to watch wildlife. Educational speakers, live animals, kids activities, puppet shows, interactive animal art projects with Skraptacular, food and musical performances by Music for Aardvarks! Everyone welcome!

Sponsored by the Urban Park Rangers and the Fort Tryon Park Trust.

http://www.forttryonparktrust.org/

Skraptaculinks across Northern Manhattan

Skraptaculinks, linking a community through sustainability! You too can be a part of it- just start collecting.

Thank you Mid-Orange County Correctional Facility for individually hammering holes in 10,000 bottle caps, we wouldn't be able to do it with out your help. Our Skraptaculinks project is officially underway at PS 178, Muscota New School, PS 187.

Green Party Ideas

Here's an idea that involves your friends and family in the fine art of trash collecting. When you're hosting a party always have clear signage that's fun to look at and helps the environment. It's all about being organized and neatly sorting your trash. These wrappers are yummier than the chocolates. I intend to use them on next year's Easter Bonnet.

Happy Earth Day

Dear Earth Lovers,

Happy Earth Day from Skraptacular! This year we're postponing our Earth Day celebration for a month or so.

Come play with Skraptacular on May 7th in stunning Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights. (A train to 190th St)

We hope to see you there!

Save the Date for the Second Annual Urban Wildlife Appreciation Day in Fort Tryon Park, Cloister Lawn, Manhattan: May 7th, 2011, 12 PM - 3:00 PM

David Weinstone and "Music for Aardvarks" will be performing!

Join us for an opportunity to get up close and personal with NYC's wild residents. Learn about squirrels, raccoons, coyotes, skunks, eagles and more. Find out the best places in NYC and NYS to watch wildlife. Educational speakers, live animals, kids activities, puppet shows, interactive animal art projects with Skraptacular, food and musical performances by Music for Aardvarks! Everyone welcome!

Sponsored by the Urban Park Rangers and the Fort Tryon Park Trust.

http://www.forttryonparktrust.org/