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THIS WEEKEND! Citysol 2009

Dina — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:44:58 +0000

On July 10-12, 2009, Citysol, a celebration of urban sustainability and creativity in a mini music and arts festival, returns to Solar One. And what a time we shall have!

At Citysol 2009, acts will perform under a solar tent by Eco-Pioneer, who will also be providing site design with solar tents, a tiki lounge and bar and bike area. Installation art and exhibits will be created in a Habitat for Artists, a temporary, recycled-and-recyclable shed as art studio where Habitat creator Simon Draper (and other artists of his choosing) will create pieces to display during the festival. The Habitats are personal/public spaces that can make art more approachable and at the same time encourage more community awareness of and involvement in the creative process. Watching old artworks and other discarded scraps transformed into a free space for ideas to manifest in a city where space is so controlled is exactly the kind of experience Citysol seeks to offer its audience.

FRIDAY JULY 10 at 6 PM: Citysol Party for a Solar-Powered NY
6:30 PM— “Mr. Lower East Side” Moonshine Shorey- Beautiful human being and spoken word god brings his band Jen & the Moon to the party.
7:00 PM — The Alien Comic- Legendary downtown one-man recycling circus.
8:00 PM — DJs from Home Base Collective- Dance dance dance.
PLUS Solar Racecar Design Competition. Join the I Heart PV campaign and get a drink on us!

SATURDAY JULY 11 at 12 PM: Live Music Day Co-Curated by Digiwaxx
12:45 PM — Lower East Side alterna-duo Schwervon!
1:45 PM — Electronica dreamscapers Love Like Deloreans
2:45 PM — Hip-hop/soul artiste Outasight
3:45 PM — Repeat offender/harmonium virtuoso Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
4:45 PM — Brooklyn punk brothers So So Glos
5:15 PM — The Fabulous Ihsan
5:30PM— Turntable prodigy DJ Spinna
6:00PM— Hip-hop activists Dead Prez
6:30 PM— Underground hero Saigon
6:45PM— Fashion, dance and rap triple threat O’Neal McKnight
7:15 PM — Experimental sextet Hi Red Center
8:15 PM — Teen instrumental sensation Fiasco

SUNDAY JULY 12 at 11AM : Kids of All Ages Day
11:30 PM — Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
12:30 PM — Just Food- Learn the ancient art of fruit canning!
1:30 PM — Solar One- Check out the Solar One bike blender project, buy a bike-blended smoothie and learn about bike mechanics!
2:30 PM — The Madagascar Institute- Make your own generator; you have the power!
3:30 PM — Band of Bicycles- Bicycle-powered spin art for kids of all ages.

4:30 PM — Wide Open Eco-Pet Fashion Show- Dress up your pet in an eco-extravagant costume to die for! Use found, reclaimed, reused and recycled materials to show off your creativity and your pet’s fabulousness! Win a Big Blue Ribbon! Hosted by performance elf Reverend Jen!

For more information/links to participant’s sites, visit www.citysol.org/2009/index.html.

Visit our sponsors and partners: Brooklyn Brewery, Rabbit Mafia, Digiwaxx, EcoArtspace

Last but not least:
Bring your own cup and get a discount on beer.
Reuse the cup we give you and get a (smaller) discount on beer.
Because sustainable should never mean thirsty.

Citysol Kids of All Ages Day

Jamie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:37:33 +0000

July 12, 2009
11:00 am	to	6:00 pm

Lots of stuff for kids to do, plus workshops and panel discussions for the grownups. Make crafts, check out the BioBus, a solar-and-wind powered laboratory on wheels, build a hand-crank alternator and learn about how electricity works, and many more! Plus hang out under Eco-Pioneers Solar Tent and chill at the Tiki Bar!

Bring your own cup and get beers for $2 off the regular price! Reuse the cup we give you, and it’s $1 off!

Write a letter for our I Heart PV campaign to increase solar energy generation in New York State and have a beer on us. Check out http://iheartpv.org for more info.

Citysol Opening Night Party

Jamie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:15:09 +0000

July 10, 2009
6:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

This evening of performance art, spoken word and dancing will culminate in the I Heart PV campaign’s Party for a Solar-Powered NY. Talk to a solar installer, write a letter to your legislator asking for stronger solar energy policy, design, and enter a solar racecar in our design competition and win a Big Blue Ribbon!

Bring your own cup and get beers for $2 off the regular price! Reuse the cup we give you, and it’s $1 off!

Write a letter for our I Heart PV campaign to increase solar energy generation in New York State and have a beer on us. Check out http://iheartpv.org for more info.

Solar Pavilion 3 Featured In Interior Design

Jamie — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:36:40 +0000

The centerpiece of Solar One’s Citysol festival this past June, Solar Pavilion 3 continues to receive accolades. The temporary structure, designed and constructed by Brooklyn-based Situ Studio, is featured in the Centerfold section of Interior Design magazine’s September issue. Assembled from slotted strips of plywood, the pavilion provided multiple uses during the course of the festival as a lecture/presentation space, bar, and shade/rest area for festival-goers. Like Situ’s previous pavilions for Citysol, this year’s incorporated organic, flowing forms that harmonized with the curvilinear pathways of Stuyvesant Cove Park and captured the general spirit of sustainability that is at the festival’s core. As always, all materials used to make Solar Pavilion 3 were reused or recycled.

Congratulations to our partners at Situ Studio for this deserved recognition. We can’t wait to see what they come up with next year…

Futurefarmers + Solar One Collaboration Mentioned in NY Metro

SolarOne — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:28:15 +0000

Modern Victory Gardens may ease urban hunger

by amy zimmer / metro new york

FEB 12, 2008

UNION SQUARE. To Amy Franceschini, the empty space in front of the Gandhi statue here could be an urban garden. The windows on buildings could have boxes for herbs and tomatoes. The roofs could have raised beds.

Franceschini, founder of the San Francisco-based design collective Futurefarmers, has convinced her city to plant crops in front of its City Hall as part of a pilot program to turn yards, balconies and unused land into food production areas. [...]

Franceschini plans to document their gardens online and help other cities adopt the program. She’s been contacted by several New York groups, she said, including Grow Greenpoint.com, the Conflux festival and Solar One.

“We want our audience to think about the potential for change through participation, but also about the messy politics of implementation”… full article

Citysol was cool. We have proof.

Dina — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:54:27 +0000

Watch the brand new Citysol 2007 video.