Project CARE, a coalition of diverse community leaders, is has announced its 2nd annual One Crown Heights Festival, to take place on Sunday, July 9th, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The day’s events are organized under the rubric of “One Crown Heights” and are free to the public.
The One Crown Heights Festival will take place in Brower Park, adjacent to Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM), at the corner of Park Place and Kingston Avenue, at the Shirley Chisholm Circle. The Museum will be open and free to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on that day.
The One Crown Heights neighborhood festival will feature performers such as Dr. Laz and the CURE, Harmony Music Makers youth steel pan orchestra and Brooklyn United Drum Line. In addition to these performances, the New York City Parks Department will provide its mobile recreation vans, BCM educators will bring the Museum’s signature cultural programming to the park, and partner organizations such as Repair the World, Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and Friends of Brower Park will offer family oriented activities.
Through “One Crown Heights,” Project CARE seeks to honor the complex diversity of Crown Heights to continue the legacy of open dialogue, communication and partnership throughout the community.
For more than twenty years, Project CARE, a coalition of local leaders and professionals has worked together to strengthen community partnerships, precipitate cross cultural communication, and set a positive agenda for the neighborhood’s future. Project CARE has created multiple opportunities for community cooperation, inclusion and celebration, such as the 10th Anniversary, 20th Anniversary (Summer of Celebration) and 25th Anniversary commemorations.
WE MUST HAVE A JEWISH DJ AT THIS EVENT. The last event at Lefferts park had only nonJewish music blasting. That is not fair as our community is not being represented. Let them hear Jewish Hip Hop music – play some Nissim and Gad Elbaz. And please lets bring a lot of Noahide cards and even put up Noahide flyers!!!!!
Goyim AND yidden
it would be fantastic if there was a big turnout from the community. The comments about the food and music are absurd. I’m sure the organizers who went out of their way to provide kosher food are feeling quite unappreciated. Frankly we don’t deserve to live in this diverse community if we don’t respect our neighbors. Don’t call them goyim if you don’t want them to call you Jews. We are all people as the rebbe said.
There is going to be Kosher food and non kosher food, I am sure they are not going to have it together, they just want everyone to get along with each other, since you both live in the same community
I can’t believe the comments here. You are all so holy? You think you are better than other people? What’s makes you better? You are too good to meet your neighbors?
I guarantee that all of the complainers take their families to Liberty Science Center or the Bronx Zoo and don’t think twice about it. Governor’s Island also has Kosher food trucks.
There is nothing objectionable to an event like this as long as you are going as a family.
At least that’s my opinion.
You want to foster good will then let a few adults meet and talk. No need to shlep and force your children to get exposed to some goyshe ideas.
If you worried about the goyshe kids than make a educational program for them and let some adults present it. No need to expose kids to this.
In other words a goyish festival with almost exclusively goyish music. How diverse (sarcasm intended).
On the Sunday of Visiting Day – who’s going to be there?
Theoretically I 💯 support this. We need to get together as a community. But there has to be some other way. I won’t take my kids to an event with either unkosher music or food or coed. What about rides with kosher food (as everyone can eat kosher food but we can’t eat non kosher food.). However use Kosher carribean cuisine and kosher stereotypical Jewish cuisine. Skip the music. And have separate boy time and girl time. Maybe some arcade games with emoji prizes.