One of my fellow editors at Our Blocks, Joseph Porcelli of NeighborsforNeighbors, just launched Neighborhood Chalk:
It’s summer time and one the pleasures of summer is making sidewalk chalk. So today, NeighborsForNeighbors.org is launching Neighbor Chalk and we’re inviting you to join us and help spread the word. Neighbor Chalk is an international public art project that encourages people to create sidewalk chalk art in front of their homes and around their neighborhood to create a welcoming environment for their neighbors and passers by.
Here's how to join in:
- Create an event at www.meetup.com/neighborchalk
- Invite your neighbors to join you or create their own event
- Create sidewalk chalk art, have fun and meet your neighbors
- Take pictures and upload them our facebook page to flickr and tag them with “NeighborChalk”
- Tweet about your event using the hastag #NeighborChalk
- Follow @NeighborChalk
- “Like” us on Facebook
- Interested in becoming a Partner? Please fill out our Partner Inquiry Form
Ready, set, chalk!
Image credits: NeighborsforNeighbors
Comments
Neal Gorenflo wrote on 06.17.10, 12:39pm:
Sarah, cool idea. I was just thinking about it outside my house. Bringing chalk to a park creates even more opportunity for connection.
Neal
francesca wrote on 06.17.10, 2:57pm:
hey any friend of Marilyn Cooper is a friend of mine.
lets be friends
What an awesome idea! I bring sidewalk chalk to the playground all the time (I live in Jersey City) to share with the local kids. It's great, it really teaches my daughter about sharing, because she learns how just the simple act of bringing the chalk to share, creates an instant "art party" where everyone has fun and expresses excitement about what she brought. The art will stay for days, and each time she goes to the playground she sees it there and gets to tell the other kids that she helped create the work of art!
I'll have to do this! Yeah!
"This city transcends not only borders and nations, but space and time. When I walk through its streets, I experience all my life—past, present, future—at once in my mind. Memories overlap and become real."
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