Art festival for children and families

Please save the date, May 19th, for an art-themed block party in Crown Heights for children and families on Kingston Avenue between Bergen and Dean Streets. There will be live music and food, plus several different arts and crafts opportunities for kids. The event will take place on Kingston Avenue between Bergen and Dean streets, from 1-5pm. Rain date is June 7th, on Park Place outside Brower Park.

The block party is part of Arts to End Violence festival week, an initiative of Save Our Streets Crown Heights.  Arts to End Violence is a festival and contest that brings together some of the many artistic expressions of peace in Crown Heights and beyond in order to spread the message of nonviolence. Over 40 pieces of art, submitted by young and old, professional and novice, explore topics including the cyclical nature of violence, media and stereotyping, gang culture, and ultimately a shared vision and hope for peace in our streets. The result is a collection of art that works to unravel the dangerous web that produces and perpetuates gun violence in our neighborhood.  During the Arts to End Violence festival week, and throughout the summer, this art will be displayed publicly in Crown Heights in order to stimulate conversations about nonviolence and community building and to demonstrate the creativity and the beauty that thrives in Crown Heights.  

For more info on S.O.S. and Arts to End Violence, please call our office at 718-773-6886 or see our websites at www.soscrownheights.org or artstoendviolence.tumblr.com. 
Thank you!