Park(ing) Day post

Here's what I posted to the Park(ing) Day website and Google map: http://parkingday.org/

Flyway Rest Stop (Valencia 19th & 20th)

A wonderful team of Homo sapiens (human beings) present a park for Arthropods (bugs). Join us in our efforts to bring bug habitat to San Francisco.
On hand will be bug habitat sculptures and foraged natural materials for building your own bug habitat (Urban Hedgerow), native plants that provide nectar and pollen for bugs (Bay Natives), and sidewalk garden sketches for bees, birds, and butterflies (Mission Greenbelt). See you at the Flyway Rest Stop!

SOEX Grant Proposal

Are we interested in applying for this, or should we focus our energies elsewhere?

GRANT OPPORTUNITY

Southern Exposure is now accepting applications for Alternative Exposure 2010, Round IV, which offers up to $3,500 grants to visual arts projects in San Francisco and Alameda Counties that provide frameworks of support for artists to create and continue their work. DEADLINE TO APPLY: September 15, 2010

Projects can include an exhibition or exhibition series, a public art project, a one time event or performance, the ongoing work of a venue or collective, the publication of writing directly related to the visual arts, an online project or publication, a series of screenings, and more. Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure grant program seeks to fuel the energy of the Bay Area visual arts community by supporting the vibrant artistic activity that occurs on the ground level - artists or unincorporated groups making and presenting work in a committed but informal way.

Learn More and Apply: Find out more about Alternative Exposure and download the guidelines & application at: www.soex.org/alternativeexposure.

Upcoming Information Session Time and Location:
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 6:30 - 8:00 pm: Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street, San Francisco

NOTE: Sign up to attend at alternativeexposure@soex.org or call 415.863.2141. RSVP's are optional. Attendance at an information session is NOT required to apply for the Alternative Exposure grant.

theme

Hi
i like flyway rest stop.. every time i say providing rest stops for birds or bugs.. people light up! plus some fun kinda of funky trucking/ midway kind of feeling could come from that?

Previous Park(ing) Days

Hi!

FYI, video and photos from 2008 & 2009 Park(ing) Days - http://art-eco.org/mgp/parkingday.html

Lisa and I talked about celebrating the weedy wild component of the city's naturalized weeds - fennel, pellitory, gnaphalium etc...- the new tule - as beautiful salvaged materials as our habitat building materials.

I like themes relating to flyway.

I can bring 2 copies of Margolin's Ohlone Way to Park(ing) Day.

Theme for PARK(ing) Day

"Bug Parking" was the theme I floated yesterday at lunch for 9/17/2010 PARK(ing) day.

Other ideas:

Salvage the Wild
Metered Habitat
Savage Salvage
Honeycomb the City
Build for Buzz
Buzz Building
Tinker Bugs
Be a Bug Tinkerer
Improvise Wild
Make Habitat
Take Habitat Home
Curbside Wilderness
Curbside Wild
Junkyard Bug
Bring Bugs Home
Salvage Nest
Next Nest
Flyway Offramp
Flyway Rest Stop
Forage Salvage
The Urban Hedgerow (the space itself, while temporary, could still be seen as part of the urban hedgerow...)

-Perhaps something relating to that very spot's history -- 19th/Valencia was on the edge of Laguna de Manantial or at least Arroyo de los Dolores http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Category:Mission (Imagine Rodeo Lagoon in the Marin Headlands but in the Mission. Tules! These maps are notoriously vague, BTW, so impressionistic/imaginative geography suffices.)

Tules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenoplectus_acutus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21357970@N00/272037667/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanvernon/4802472748/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38341929@N05/3542797831/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9258769@N03/715761895/

Off-topic:
-We might do well to read (at some point) Malcolm Margolin's classic, The Ohlone Way, about indigenous lifeways in the Bay Area. I have one on my shelf but haven't read it. It might inform the idea of 10,000 years of negotiating with other species & managing "nature" in this particular place.

welcome

Hey Everybody,
Since we have a lot of us and a lot of information an ideas swimming around..... I wanted to start this work session blog for us to post important ideas, themes, dates, possibilities etc. that way we can all look at, keep track of, and share stuff.
I will post notes, previous inspiration pages and try to make sections for our ideas.. the website is up and running too!
www.urbanhedgerow.com