Please join us on Thursday, June 25th for GOLES's
ANNUAL CELEBRATION
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Tenants Demand a Rent Freeze!!
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For information about The Program, our monthly workshops on tenant's legal rights, please download the brochure or a schedule.

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GOLES, Place Matters, and the Pratt Center for Community Development presents the
SPURA Matters public program series
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Interactive Tour of Seward Park Area
Ongoing - from Sat., Oct. 11, 2008
A self-guided, interactive tour of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) by Field Play, Inc. Discover an info-tag outside a historic site. Send a secret code to an unknown number and receive a text message about the neighborhood's history. Send in your own story to bring the SPURA chronicles up to date. For more information, please visit www.kickingoverthetraces.com. Map of the sites also available at the Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway & Jefferson St.

Four Public Discussion & Visioning Sessions
Wed., Oct. 22, University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St. (6:30-9pm)
Sat., Nov. 1, St. Mary's Church, 440 Grand St. (2-4:30pm)
Wed., Nov. 12, Grand St. Settlement, 80 Pitt St. (6:30-9pm)
Sat., Nov. 22, 227 E. 3rd St., Community Room (2-4:30pm)
Join Pratt Center for Community Development to re-envision the future of SPURA. Tour the past with planning historian Hilary Botein, Baruch College. Sessions are free and open to the public. Translation provided. Wheelchair accessible except St. Mary's. RSVP to register@goles.org or 212-533-2541.

Visualizing SPURA
Rescheduled! New date/time to be announced soon.
Roundtable discussion at the opening of a new exhibition about SPURA by students of the Eugene Lang/New School City Studio and Prof. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani. Location to be announced.

Get Interviewed! The Seward Park Oral History Project
Ongoing - August 2008 to January 2009
Are you a long-term resident of the LES? Get your voice heard. We'll ask about your memories of the neighborhood, about neighborhood change, and about the place where you live. Contact our lead interviewer: Kara Becker at karabecker@gmail.com or 908-883-0556.

SPURA Matters is funded in part by the New York Council for the Humanities to support public programs about SPURA, and by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Altman Foundation