Garden Movement
By Danielle Bagley
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"Garden Movement" is a song focused on being part of a community and realizing the importance of unity.
It's focused on paying attention to our surroundings and our planet. "Garden Movement" focuses on gardening in Harlem and being a part of a movement that can help motivate the younger generation to get involved with gardening. |
Accessibility and Aesthetics
By Beatrice Genfi
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The main focus for this theme was to digitally capture the aesthetics and many accessible ways to gardens in the Harlem community. The goal was to distinguish each garden from one another, since they each offered something different. She also captured photos of people who were affiliated with most of the gardens as they gave exquisite details about their gardens. Each portrait consists of flowers, plots and herbs that were made out of love, patience and kindness by people in the Harlem community.
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No Standing or Loitering At Any Time
By Kia Thomas
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"No Standing or Loitering At Any Time" compares the aesthetics between two community gardens in Harlem and Harlem itself. Showcasing Maggie's Garden and Mo' Pals Garden, this video highlights the serenity and unique personality of each garden and juxtaposes it with the bleak, dilapidated, and occasionally beautiful environment that surrounds them.
"No Standing or Loitering At Any Time" raises the question: do the gardens in the film represent a community’s futile attempts to save a doomed neighborhood, or are they symbols of hope for a better and brighter future? |
Stages of Life in Juxtaposition
By Ambroisine Agbelor
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This is a stop motion film exploring the similarities between all stages of life for both humans and vegetation. From womb to tomb; seed to compost, all stages of life are needed in order to produce a full story of a particular person or garden. When one stage is missing, the story is not complete. As with all cycles of life, communities express their fullness through reflecting the wealth of its people. Whether new-born or elderly, every member gives something unique to the cycle, to the whole. Similarly, without the seeds as well as the compost, a garden will lose its potential, its fullness, and therefore cannot be considered a true "Community Garden."
The gardens included in this film are Frank White Garden, People's Garden, Children's Play Garden, and Riverbank State Park. |
Not Just A Garden
by Yanni Young
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The title of my project is, “Not Just a Garden.” With this project I’m trying to convey that gardens play a specific role role in the community that they’re in, and have different ways of providing for the people and the environment. Focusing on one garden in particular, Frank White, I highlight possibilities for community space embodied by this garden. This garden is not only inviting to all ages, it also provides fresh produce for people in the community. I hope to inspire people to get more involved in the local community gardens. There’s so much you can do with a garden that’ll not only benefit you and the people, but the environment.
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Green Screen Project Map
by Meilyn Delgado
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My project is an animated map that represents the 13 gardens of district community board 9--Manhattanville, Hamilton Heights and Morningside Heights, canvassed by the Green Screen team. Using the animation program, Blender, I worked with animation specialist Femi Ige to visualize an overview of the geographic area, only focusing on the streets and gardens covered in our project; we also included historic places well known to Harlem like the Apollo Theater.
The gardens included on this map are: People’s Garden; Play Garden; Riverside Valley Garden; Riverbank Community Garden; Hope Stevens Garden; Frank White Memorial Garden; Serenity Garden; Mo’ Pals Garden; Maggie’s Garden; Freindship Garden; William A. Harris Garden; Convent Garden and Sugarhill Park Garden. |
Green Screen Website
By Melissa Hernandez
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The Green Screen Website was a project formed to exhibit the works and information gathered throughout the internship as a sort of database. This database would then be available to the community and the entire world for anyone to access and see the efforts and success of this year's Waves of Change program. You can navigate through the different gardens in Community Board 9 and gather some information on each and also get a short glimpse at it. The videos, images and compilations created are all available to see through the website.
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