Solar One Partner Organizations
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Solar One's 2009 fundraising gala will be a cocktail reception and awards ceremony on the banks of the East River. More details to follow- stay tuned!
TONIGHT! Reaching for the Sun: Achieving Our Solar Potential in NYC
Join Andrea Watson, Solar Coordinator for CUNY's Center for Sustainable Energy at Bronx Community College, and Solar One Outreach & Advocacy Coordinator Chris Neidl at this evening lecture, discussing what concrete actions we can take personally and politically to help make New York a model Solar City.
Friday March 20 at 7:30pm
At the NY Open Center
83 Spring Street between Crosby St & Broadway
$8 members/$10 non-members
The Green Renter: Navigating NYC's Recycling Landscape
with Christina Salvi, Office of Recycling Education and Outreach
Recycling: it's good for the city, benefits the planet and is required by law, but many find the reality of recycling challenging. How does your building's program measure up and how can you improve your recycling performance?
Monday March 23 at 7pm at Solar One
Please RSVP to greenrenter.solar1.org or call 212-505-6050 as space may be limited.
So Percussion Premiers 16 Words at Music at Macdougal
For last summer's Citysol Festival, Solar One was able to commission a new composition by acclaimed experimental/modern classical group So Percussion, thanks to a very generous grant from the Greenwall Foundation. Unfortunately, due to very bad weather the day of the show, the performance had to be cancelled. Now So Percussion will be performing 16 Words in its entirety at Music at Macdougal at the Player's Theater on Thursday March 25 at 8pm.
For more info on 16 Words, please scroll down!
The Player's Theater
115 Macdougal Street
Stuyvesant Cove Park Volunteer Day
Join us in preparing the park for the coming growing season. We will be cutting back perennial grasses and flowers, pulling up any cool season weeds, tending to our compost bin, and fixing up our fencing. The day will start on Sat March 28 at 8:45 with coffee donated by Starbucks and work will begin at about 9:00am. We will work till 12:00pm when we will clean up and head back to Solar 1 for lunch, which will be provided by Stuyvesant Cove Park Association.
RSVP to melissa@solar1.org. Please specify if you will be staying for lunch.
Call for Emerging Choreographers- 2009 Solar-Powered Dance Series
If you or someone you know is an emerging choreographer, we invite you to submit your work for our 2009 Solar-Powered Dance Series. Deadline is April 1, electronic submissions preferred, details here or below!
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| TONIGHT! Reaching for the Sun: Achieving Our Solar Potential in NYC
| | With Andrea Watson, Solar Coordinator for the Center for Sustainable Energy, and Chris Neidl, Outreach & Advocacy Coordinator for Solar One
This is a time when our dependence on fossil fuels threatens our economy, public health, and en-vironment, but it is also an exciting period in which profound change is finally possible, if we all get involved. One of the most practical, positive steps we can take is to help our city shift to clean energy sources, especially solar power, which has enormous potential to create green jobs, clean our air and cut our carbon footprint, but hasn't yet been widely deployed here in New York. What can we do to contribute to building a solar-based energy revolution right here in the Big Apple? Join two leading solar activists to find out what concrete actions we can take personally and politi-cally to help make New York a model Solar City.
Andrea Watson is the Solar Coordinator at CUNY's Center for Sustainable Energy at Bronx Community College, and coordinates the efforts of New York City Solar Cities, a partnership with the Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative.
Chris Neidl is the advocacy coordinator for Solar One, a green en-ergy, arts and education center serving the five borough area since 2003. In the spring of 2008, Chris launched the I Heart PV advo-cacy campaign, a grassroots effort to drive citizen feedback to local legislators in support of pro-solar policies for New York State.
AN EVENING LECTURE WITH ANDREA WATSON & CHRIS NEIDL
Friday, March 20, 7:30pm
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Members: $8 / Nonmembers: $10
NY Open Center
83 Prince Street between Crosby Street & Broadway
| The Green Renter: Navigating NYC's Recycling Landscape
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with Christina Salvi, Office of Recycling Outreach & Education (OROE)
Recycling: it's good for the city, benefits the planet and is required by law, but many find the reality of recycling challenging. How does your building's program measure up and how can you improve your recycling performance?
Residential building managers, superintendents, board members and others will benefit from this presentation by Christina Salvi, Outreach Coordinator for the city's Office of Recycling Outreach and Education (OROE). Hear about new recycling laws and old misconceptions. Find out how to avoid fines, improve your recycling program and get your tenants to recycle. Learn about other ways to reduce waste, recycle more and help make NYC a little greener.
(OROE is a program of the Council on the Environment of New York City.)
Monday March 23, 2009 at 7pm
at Solar One
Space/seating is limited, so please RSVP to greenrenter@solar1.org or call 212-505-6050.
| So Percussion Premieres 16 Words at Music at Macdougal
| | In 2007, Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added sixteen new words to the English language. "16 Words" will dissect the patterns, sounds and pacings found in these words to build a four-part work for So Percussion with two electric guitars. These words vary from medical terms like avian influenza and gastric bypass to colloquial terms like labelmate and unibrow. Reading through this list of words is at once invigorating and staggering. It offers a strange look at the year in review while also providing an intriguing commentary on the state of mind of the English-speaking world. "16 Words" promises to stay fresh in future performances by incorporating new words each year as they are codified by Merriam-Webster. In this way, the work will grow and morph with the English language.
The sixteen words are: agritourism, aquascape, avian influenza, big-box, biodiesel, gastric bypass, labelmate, manga, mouse potato, polyamory, qigong, ringtone, sandwich generation, spyware, unibrow, and wave pool.
Since coming together at the Yale School of Music in 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. Realizing that percussion instruments can communicate all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility, it has not been an easy music to define. Called "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard Magazine, "brilliant" by the New York Times, the Brooklyn based quartet's innovative work with today's most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career.
Come join us for the long-awaited premiere of "16 Words" at Music at Macdougal!
Thursday March 25 at 8pm
Music at Macdougal
The Player's Theater
115 Macdougal Street
| Call for Emerging Choreographers- 2009 Solar-Powered Dance Series
| | Solar One is currently accepting submissions for its Fifth Annual Solar Powered Dance Series to take place over two weekends this summer, as part of the 2009 Green Energy Arts Festival. Emerging artists are strongly encouraged to submit materials for consideration by the festival selection panel.
DEADLINE: April 1, 2009
After last year's successful season, Solar One is pleased to announce its fifth annual Solar Powered Dance Series. Over the course of our 2008 series, hundreds of visitors and artists appreciated and enjoyed the richness of the arts experience at our unique solar-powered venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park, located on Manhattan's East River waterfront. This year, we will again provide a much-needed new venue for dance and produce an exciting line up of performances by emerging choreographers.
Solar One's 2009 Solar Powered Dance Series will be held over two weekends in Summer 2009 and will be divided into two three-day programs (Program A: July 23-25, Raindate July 26; Program B: July 30-August 1, Raindate August 2).
Performances will take place in the evening on our 20-foot by 24-foot outdoor eco-stage, made from recycled materials and overlooking the East River. (Please note that the stage design does not include curtains, wings or lighting equipment.) As with our 2008 festival, the sound system for the Solar Powered Dance Series will be powered entirely by energy collected by the solar-paneled roof of the Solar 1 building. Each soloist or group will perform three evenings and is expected to contribute pieces ranging anywhere from 6 to 10 minutes in length. Performances should be accessible to a general audience and appropriate for all age groups. Ten hours of free rehearsal time on stage will be allotted to each individual or group, and each choreographer will receive an honorarium.
In accordance with our energy philosophy, we would prefer that you send us electronic materials only, to the extent possible. Please provide a link to a video segment of your work, preferably the work you intend to present in the series, along with contact information and a brief bio. If a new work is being created especially for the series, please provide links to a completed work and to the work in progress and/or notes. Text may be attached as MS Word documents, and all electronic materials may be submitted online to tamar@solar1.org no later than April 1, 2009.
Those unable to provide electronic submissions should send in a complete piece of work, cued to a five-minute segment, on DVD or video, according to the guidelines above. Please refrain from sending extra materials, including publicity materials and extraneous packaging. Submissions may be delivered to Solar 1, located at East 23rd Street and the East River in Manhattan (10am - 5pm, Monday - Friday) by April 1, 2009. Submission materials, postmarked no later than March 28, 2009, may also be mailed to:
Solar One
2009 Solar Powered Dance Series
24-20 FDR Drive, Service Road East
New York, NY 10010
If you would like your materials returned to you, please include a self-addressed stamped mailer with submission. (Materials may also be picked up at Solar One during the second week of April.)
For additional information regarding this year's Solar Powered Dance Series and Solar One's summer arts programs, please visit our website at www.solar1.org or contact Artistic Director Tamar Rogoff at (212) 533-8589 or tamar@solar1.org.
Solar 1 is New York's only stand-alone, solar powered learning center. Through unique green energy, education and arts programming, Solar One has dedicated itself to inspiring New Yorkers to embrace energy-conscious and environmentally responsible lifestyles.
| Bring the I Heart PV Campaign to Your School or Neighborhood!
| |  In January of 2008, Solar One inaugurated the I Heart PV campaign, aimed at encouraging lawmakers to create easier and more cost-effective ways to implement solar power in New York State. Since then, we've done over 20 presentations around the city, and we'd love to come to your neighborhood, too.
Awareness and interest in solar power is growing every day, and now is the perfect time to pass new incentives and increase public awareness about the benefits that increased solar energy production could bring to our state.
To arrange a presentation at your local school, church or community center, call us at 212-505-6050.
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