SEQ Clean Up & Local Entrepreneurs Support Garden Of Resilience

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SEQ Clean Up lead a volunteer effort at The Garden Of Resilience on Saturday, October 3, 2020 in Springfield Gardens. The clean up initiative assisted the garden in finishing an art project and cleaning the surrounding area. The art  project is supported by Cultural Immigrant Initiative.  The New York Police Explorers came out in force and volunteered in the garden. Dawn Kelly of The Nourish Spot served as a sponsor and provided a special “cold pressed apple ginger natural juice blend”  beverage, “a nutritious salad chock full of anti-oxidant  organic veggies,” compost for the garden and introduced the emerging catering business “of Sebastian Roseway called” Bash Eats. Bash Eats provided a healthy hot food for all of the volunteers.

Community residents painted wooden pallets that will be converted into a gallery wall for the community garden.
Bash Eats & The Nourish Spot provided a sponsored lunch to volunteers

SEQ Clean Up will be hosting a Garden & Tool Drive at The Laurelton LIRR station on October 12, 2020.

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Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.