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Freegan Events in New York

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Monday, May 7 • FREEGAN MEETING, 101 AND TRASH TOUR
Join us for an organizational meeting on activities and policies. Meetings are for active freegan.info members and those interested in getting involved. At 9pm, we will end our business meeting and have a brief, newcomer-friendly discussion about freeganism. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. We give advice on how to salvage these goods and comment on the reasons for such waste.
When & Where? Meeting at 7:30 p.m; 101 at 9pm; dive about 9:30pm. Highline Park. Enter on 16th Street at 10th Avenue by stairs or elevator. Meeting spot is above 15th Street, opposite ‘The Porch” café.

Saturday, May 12 • NYU “DORM DIVE”
Join us for our annual “dorm dive”, where we attempt to salvage a fraction of the useable and valuable items that are thrown out by NYU students at the end of the year.
When & Where? 11 a.m. at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 12th Street.

Saturday, May 19 • SEWING BRUNCH
A free, mostly vegan meal and community building event where we trade skills in clothing repair. We will not have a sewing machine but will share skills in hand repair.
When & Where? Noon. Call Janet at 347-724-6954 for the location.

Tuesday, May 22 • FREEGAN MEETING AND TRASH TOUR
Join us for an organizational meeting on activities and policies. Meetings are for active freegan.info members and those interested in getting involved. At 9pm, we will end our business meeting and have a brief, newcomer-friendly discussion about freeganism. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. We give advice on how to salvage these goods and comment on the reasons for such waste.
When & Where? Meeting at 7:30 p.m; 101 at 9pm; dive about 9:30pm. Seating area of the Whole Foods at 270 Greenwich Street in the Financial District

Wednesday, May 23 • FREEGAN FEAST
A FREE and mostly vegan community meal made with love from the discards of our wasteful society. We share meal planning, cooking, and other food prep skills, tell stories and jokes, meet new people and reconnect with old friends, and generally unplug from the current world order as we build community.
When & Where? Meet at 5:30pm to help cook; we eat at 8pm. Location to be announced to those who RSVP.

Ongoing Sustainable & Freegan Events

*FIXERS COLLECTIVE* Thursday, May 17th
A social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending. Bring your broken thing and place it on the fixing table for collective consideration. The assembled group will share ideas and techniques for repairing, mending, enhancing or repurposing the objects before us. A $5 donation per object is requested. Check www.fixerscollective.org to confirm!
When & Where? 7 to 9pm, Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union St at Nevins St, Brooklyn.

* FOOD NOT BOMBS *
Food Not Bombs chapters in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island & Long Island offer vegetarian meal shares and groceries using donated and dumpstered food.

* COMPOSTING *
Lower East Side Ecology Center accepts organic material for composting (fruit and vegetable peelings, cut flowers and similar organic material). LESEC has drop-off bins at the Union Square Greenmarket (Mon, Wed, Fri, & Sat.. 8am-5pm), or drop off at E. 7th St. between Aves. B & C on Sundays, 8am – 5pm.
The W. 181st St. Beautification Project has compost drop-off at 880 W. 181st St. in Washington Heights.
The W. 124th St. Community Garden has compost drop-off on W. 124th St. between 5th and Lenox in Harlem.
6/15 Green is a public compost site where the general public is invited and encouraged to add compostables during open hours: Tues. 3-5pm, Thurs. 6-8pm, Sat. 10am-2pm, Sun. 4-8pm, or whenever the gate is open. At the Green Community Garden at 6th Ave & 15th St in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Compost for Brooklyn has compost drop-off at E 8th St & Newkirk in Kensington/Flatbush.

* GRUB COMMUNITY BUILDING MEAL *
1st & 3rd Sunday every month. A mostly freegan dinner for strangers and co-conspirators in a relaxed environment. There is no charge but donations are requested. Doors at 6:30 PM; dinner at 7. Usually at 136 Lawrence St. on the 2nd floor, between Fulton & Willoughby in Brooklyn, but location may change soon. Check on Facebook for latest info.

* WILD FOOD FORAGING *
“Wildman” Steve Brill holds frequent tours where you can learn to find and harvest wild growing plants for food and medicine. Suggested donation is $20 ($10 for children under 12), sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Nine events in NYC in May– see http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/

* TEXTILE REPAIR & RECYCLING *
The best thing to do with clothes and other textiles is to reuse them! BUT, if you have scraps that can’t be used even one more time, there is textile recycling (see www.cenyc.org/clothing for more info).

* WEEKLY BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOPS *
Times Up! bike repair workshops in two locations! Manhattan workshops are at ABC No Rio, at 156 Rivington St. in the Lower East Side. Brooklyn workshops are at the Brooklyn space at 99 South 6th St, off Bedford.

* COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS RECYCLING *
Per Scholas is a recycling facility in Hunts Point that allows individuals to drop off residential computer & electronic equipment from Mon. to Fri. 9am-4pm at 1575 Bronx River Ave. in the Bronx.
Lower East Side Ecology Center now has an ewaste recycling warehouse at 469 President Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm except Wednesday, noon-7pm.