Made in Lower East Side - Mobile Stage

Website

http://madeinles.org

Twitter handle

: @madeinles

Overview of Idea

MiLES is an initiative that facilitates the transformation of vacant lots and storefronts in the Lower East Side, by listening, co-creating, and prototyping with its residents. The mobile stage will travel around in vacant lots and stores to promote art making in the community of LES, support us!

The Specifics: What will the $5,000 fund?

The $5,000 fund will be used to prototype a mobile unit. The mobile unit is a place for different cultural programs to take place by the community for the community.

212 lots and stores are vacant in the Lower East Side of New York awaiting gentrification, the dominate form of development that stifles the cultural richness of this neighborhood. The mobile unit of Made in Lower East Side engages the residents and multiple stakeholders through their usage patterns to extract innovative ways to occupy vacant sites. In essence, communities can book a vacant site by the hour to conduct activities open to their imagination. In the process, this incubates cultural production, artistic activities and provides economic opportunities for all.

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