Friday, January 23, 2009

Art in the Neighborhood

Desmond and Ashley, two young Harambee artists, were among those featured in Harambee's first ever Gallery Night event held on January 16. The storefront in King Commons 2 at the corner of Hadley and King came alive as over 100 people viewed posters made by students, saw works by professional artists Cynthia Henry, Reynaldo Hernandez and Kelvin Haydon, and participated in a community art project.

This event, put on by the Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative's Committee on Arts and Culture (CAC) in conjunction with Artworks for Milwaukee, is hoped to be the first of many art openings and Gallery Nights on King Drive. The CAC is planning a full range of arts and cultural activities for 2009. Lots of creative minds and helping hands are needed. If you'd like to get involved, contact irembert@uwm.edu.

Market Basket and Growing Power on King Drive

The Market Basket Program consists of weekly deliveries of safe, healthy and affordable produce to neighborhoods throughout Milwaukee. Customers may also purchase pasture-raised meats, farm fresh eggs, fruit baskets and Urban Clover Honey when in season.

Will Allen, Executive Director of Growing Power (GP) will introduce this program and discuss other GP activities at:

2:00 PM on Friday, January 30, 2009
2775 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
(Southwest corner of King Drive and Hadley Street)

Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust that works to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food, by offering hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

Market Basket on King Drive is a joint venture of Growing Power and Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation.
For more details call 414-264-5000. We hope to see you on January 30.