Lower East Side Art + Activism Edit-a-Thon
Help the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), Interference Archive, Tompkins Square Library and Wikimedia NYC expand Wikipedia’s coverage of the Lower East Side at the Museum’s Fourth virtual Wikipedia edit-a-thon!
In keeping with our mission to preserve the history of grassroots activism & promote community-based urban ecologies, we will expand Wikipedia’s coverage of the community gardens, community centers, grassroots movements, galleries, clubs, squats and homesteads that have contributed to our neighborhood’s oversized cultural impact. No experience needed; we’ll help you create a Wikipedia account and teach you how to edit content. The edit-a-thon runs from 4-6 pm, but you can stay for as long (or as short) as you like.
This month, in honor of May Day, we turn our focus to labor movements and organizing in the Lower East Side: think the original 1874 Tompkins Square Park riot, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the 1990 Squatter May Day Riot, University Settlement, and much much more.
Click the link or image below to register on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/148073474749
Here are some examples from our previous Edit-a-Thons:
- Esperanza Garden
- Real Great Society (precursor to University of the Streets and CHARAS)
- Le Petit Versailles
- The Shadow
- Umbrella House
- Expanded list of Community Gardens in NYC
- and more !
Wikimedia NYC is a volunteer run non-profit that connects the peoples and institutions of New York with Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and the larger free culture movement. It is affiliated with, but separate from the Wikimedia Foundation. Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements The Tompkins Square Branch of The New York Public Library has been serving residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1904. Opening in 1887 as the Fifth Street Branch of the Aguilar Free Library, the branch relocated three times before moving to its present site facing Tompkins Square Park MoRUS is a collectively-run history museum located in NYC's Lower East Side. The Museum chronicles--and continues--the East Village community’s history of grassroots action that transformed abandoned spaces and vacant lots into vibrant community spaces and gardens. As an institution that documents struggles for physical property rights and knowledge production, MoRUS is dedicated to supporting the FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) principles exemplified by Wikipedia.