Events
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09.21 - 11.09.10 SpringBoard Business Planning Course 6 - 9 PM at CreateHere
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10.05.10 Benwood Speaker Series: Malcolm Gladwell 7 PM Sharp at Roland Hayes Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, UTC campus
In 2007 and 2008 the Benwood Foundation partnered with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Community Research Council (now the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies) to host a public lecture series focused on issues affecting the Chattanooga community.
Benwood’s goal is to promote and broaden understanding of critical community issues in order to stimulate creative and innovative efforts to build and strengthen the Chattanooga community. The George T. Hunter Lecture Series brings nationally renowned experts in each of Benwood’s four focus areas to the city to disseminate information and leverage positive change within the community.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. He is the author of four books, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference” (2000), “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” (2005), and “Outliers: The Story of Success” (2008) all of which were number-one New York Times bestsellers. His latest book, “What the Dog Saw” (2009) is a compilation of stories published in The New Yorker. In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
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09.03.10 PARK(ing) Day Planning Meeting 9 - 10 AM at CreateHere
PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that inspires city dwellers everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good.
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09.17.10 PARK(ing) Day 2010 All Day at CreateHere and other Downtown Parking Spaces
Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at at time.
PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Since 2005, PARK(ing) Day has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals (operating independently of Rebar but following an established set of guidelines) creating new forms of temporary public space in urban contexts around the world.
The mission of PARK(ing) Day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat … at least until the meter runs out!