Reminder: Practice Group meeting
Open Space will meet this month,
on Tuesday, APRIL 20th
at 6:00pm
in the NORTHWEST BUFFALO COMMUNITY CENTER.
155 LAWN AVENUE which runs off MILITARY ROAD north of HERTEL AVENUE.
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Reminder: Practice Group meeting (new location!)
Reminder that Tuesday evening, February 16, 2010 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the POLONIA HALL.
Address: 385 Paderewski Dr. Buffalo, NY 14212
These meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month
As part of our effort to meet “in the community”, at 6:00pm, on February 16th, we will convene at the POLONIA HALL (at the circle, Memorial and Paderewski Drive, near the Central Terminal).
The Plawecki Post Bar and Buffalo Co-op FCU will also be open that evening (i.e. if you wish to purchase food and/or beverage).
1. If you need more detailed directions, please
e-mail Yuri (Yuri.Hreshchyshyn@erie.gov).
2. If you have a suggestion for a community location, please email the information
to Marilyn Gallivan mnmg11d@roadrunner.com
Thank you!
RIT DESIGN PRESENTATION
This is a Public presentation of the results of the RIT Design studio on the Broadway Market!
One of the first open space meetings was conducted on the Broadway Market at the Matt Urban Center.
Date/Time/Location:
Broadway Market
999 Broadway
Buffalo, New York
February 17, 2010
3:00 pm
RSVP:
http://tinyurl.com/broadwaymarket2010
Questions
broadwaymarketstudio@gmail.com
Reminder: Practice Group meeting
Reminder that Tuesday evening, January 19, 2010 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost.
These meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
Reminder: Practice Group meeting
Reminder that Tuesday evening, December 15, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost.
These meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
Reminder: Practice Group monthly meeting
Reminder that Tuesday evening, November 17, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
Invite to a Buffalo deconstruction brainstorm — for Extreme Makeover - Home Edition
Dear Colleagues:
I thought you or people in your networks might have thoughts to share. I encourage you to contribute and/or to forward to those you think might be interested.
Thanks
——————
Oct 23
Mayor Byron W. Brown announced today that the TV show Extrememe Makeover - Home Edition has chosen a home to rebuild in Buffalo NY in early November.
Lots of blighted and abandoned houses are demolished each year in Buffalo. To pilot an approach on this house that could be scaled up potentially city wide, join us in brainstorming how some of that material might instead be feasibly reused and represent local economic value rather than a fiscal cost…
For my Flickr photo account, go to this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brian_reilly/sets/
You’ll find topically-grouped sets of pictures of typical parts of a house—the components that are now cost the city money to send to landfills. Share your reuse experience with any type of material pictured by finding and clicking on a photo of the material and post your comments below it of how you could reuse it.
We’re seeking ideas from everyone—salvage and scrappers, artists, builders, retailers, wholesalers, and innovative people.
Would you reuse as the item as it was originally designed–a door as a door? Or “upcycle” the door into higher value fine furniture? Or “downcycle” it as stylish wall coverings or repeating fence components? or downcycle still as ground up wood fuel pellets?, etc
Tell use, theoretically speaking, how many might someone be able to use with this application–one 2×4 or a pallet-full of them? How much new value might your processing add? What might someone be able to sell it for to end customer?
We’re eager to know how much of a typical house people have re-use ideas for and how much local economic value that might represent.
We’re inviting experience nationally and seeking real potential partners locally.
Thanks for participating in this virtual brainstorm! Feel free to forward this invitation to others you think might be interested.
-Brian Reilly, Buffalo NY
ABOUT USING FLICKR
To benefit from the full Flickr experience (comments, notes, tags, participate in groups, etc.), you will need to sign in with your Yahoo ID and Password . If you don’t have one, take a minute to create it, click on the Sign Up link or click on this direct link: http://www.flickr.com/
Once you are logged into Flickr, you want to add me as a contact (that way every time I upload new pictures or there are new comments, you will see them in your home page or contacts page). To do that, go to the navigation menu right under Brian Reilly’s Photostream, and click on the option furthest to your right: add as a contact.
Now we are all set and can start working!
Notice that in my pictures you can:
• make comments
• add tags you consider appropriate
• add notes right on the picture (like a sticky note, only that it’s transparent and let’s you pinpoint exactly a detail in the picture you want to talk about)
You are also invited to join a Deconstruction and Reuse in Buffalo group, where you can post your own pictures of reused materials and participate in discussions and pools about the subject: http://www.flickr.com/groups/deconstructionbuffalo/
Practice Group monthly meeting
Reminder that Monday evening*, October 19, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
*Note the October meeting moved to Monday rather than Tuesday!
Reminder: East Buffalo meeting 10/3 - 9 am to 4 pm
You are invited to help connect places in…
Broadway-Fillmore, Broadway Market Village, Historic Polonia, The Terminal District.
Do you want to turn this area around?
However you define it, this area is one of Buffalo-Niagara’s more challenged neighborhoods
from a residential perspective, but also one if its most attractive, culturally.
If you care about the opportunity to strengthen this area by making connections among its cultural
and business resources, please come to this meeting!
If you have a PASSION for this neighborhood, come join us in a public meeting convened by
Broadway Market, Corpus Christi, Dave Franczyk, City of Buffalo, Central Terminal
Restoration Corporation, St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church, Lower East Side Weed & Seed, Adam Mickiewicz Library, Broadway FIllmore NHS, Broadway Fillmore Alive, Dyngus Day Buffalo, Forgotten Buffalo, East Buffalo GNPA, and Lombard - Clark Block Club.
Lunch is available by calling 851-4296.
Saturday, October 3, 2009. 9:00am to 4:00 pm. at Central Terminal.
Practice Group Monthly meeting
Reminder that tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
Practice Group gets SUPPLIES!!
Marilyn Gallivan presents Brian Reilly with Tibetan chimes!
Need stuff for your facilitation? Thanks to generous donations from Marilyn Gallivan and Laura Fitzgerald, the Open Space team now has supplies including colored markers, post-its, painter’s tape, sharpies, sign-in sheets, paper, Tibetan chimes, and a rubbermaid case to carry them!
Other items may be loaned from city hall including easels, easel pads, etc.
We have these supplies available for sign-out at the Commissioner’s office 324 city hall.
Anyone else that wishes to supplement these items is welcome to comment to this post and/or drop-off supplies to city hall.
In addition to this, let’s post an itemized list and keep a tally of what we have/what is needed (including poster templates “4 principles, law of 2 feet, etc.”).
Thank you!
Practice Group monthly meeting
Reminder that tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Thank you!
Locations List (In progress - other sites may be listed via comments below)
Do you have an Inviting Meeting Space? Would you be willing to host Inviting Buffalo community meetings?
The first need is for Spaces where the Department of Economic Development can host meetings in neighborhoods throughout the city. Downstream, community leaders will want to convene their own follow-ups to those meetings and will need spaces to do that.
Contact Inviting Buffalo to learn more about how you can help support Inviting Meetings to address the issues and opportunities that are most important to your organization and neighborhood.
Current Locations and Address listed. Cost (if any) and Max Capacity of each location will be added.
| Southside Elementary School 430 Southside Parkway South Buffalo, NY 14210 |
Common Council Chambers 65 Niagara Square Buffalo, NY 14202 |
Peral Street Grill & Brewery, Pan American Room 2nd Floor 76 Pearl St., Buffalo, NY 14202 |
| Layfayette Tap Room 391 Washington Street Buffalo, NY 14203 |
McKinley High School cafeteria 1500 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14207 |
Belmont Shelter Corporation 1195 Main St Buffalo, NY 14209 Phone: 716.884.7799 Reservation deadline: 2 weeks before meeting recommended Costs: appx. $200 for security, fees might be waived if meeting aligns with the mission of the organization |
| Matt Urban Center 1081 Broadway Buffalo, NY 14212 |
Torn Space Theater 612 Fillmore Ave Buffalo, NY 14212 |
Practice Group monthly meeting
Reminder that tomorrow night, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 6 PM, the next monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month
We have been invited to share Open Space Technology at the First Annual Citizen Empowerment Conference on August 1 at 1 PM. For more information see:
and
http://www.buffalorising.com/2009/07/first-annual-citizen-empowerment-conference.html
Practice Group monthly meeting
Reminder that tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6 PM, the first monthly Practice Group meeting will be held at the Lafayette Tap Room (in the Meeting Room).
Address: 391 Washington Street
Free Parking/Food available at your cost
These meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month