Arts meeting on Williamsburg rezoning
Posted March 14, 2005 by in Events
This Thursday evening, the good people at Williamsburg's The Change You Want To See gallery space are hosting an emergency arts meeting to plan creative organizing against the city's proposed rezoning of the Williamsburg & Greenpoint waterfront.
They've been working with a bunch of arts organizations, as well as community-based groups like the North Brooklyn Alliance and the Williamsburg Warriors and doing strong, door-to-door outreach to gain community support for a Community Plan that would contain the height of new buildings, create low-income housing, preserve small businesses & light industry, and otherwise respect the neighborhood and its residents.
There will also be a hands-on art-making workshop this Sunday (March 20) at the gallery from 12-5. They're working on some pretty rad visual ideas, from props for demonstrations to street stuff...
Whether you live in the neighborhood or not --- I don't --- rezoning, eminent domain, and overzealous development will affect all Brooklyn residents (and Manhattan residents --- and Port Chester residents, New London residents, etc.) in the years to come. Drop us a line at visual.resistance [at] gmail.com if you're interested in getting involved. For mor background on Williamsburg/Greenpoint rezoning, check out the North Brooklyn Alliance website.
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