Bowmanville Community Organization

May 18, 2011

Corrections and Additions to Email sent yesterday:

Corrected Times: the start time for the garden workday day is 9:30 am (Sat. May 21, 2011 and goes to 3:30 pm) at the Gateway Gardens on Ravenswood Avenue, and stop by the Spring Plant Sale at the Gateway gardens on Ravenswood Avenue DURING the May 21 garden workday. Drop off a snack to feed our volunteers and pick up some plants while you are there!  Proceeds benefit the community gardens.

Berwyn Mural workdays: For upcoming work dates and shifts as the project progresses, check this link: www.mysignup.com/berwynmural  Sign up to help out! The next workdays for the mosaic installation are this weekend, Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22.

May 17, 2011

There is much going on right now in Bowmanville – don’t miss out on these events this coming weekend:

Sat. May 21, 2011 9am-3pm. Spring clean-up at the Gateway Gardens on Ravenswood Avenue, and stop by the Spring Plant Sale at the Gateway gardens on Ravenswood Avenue Sat., May 21.  Pick up some plants!  Proceeds benefit the community gardens.

Sun. May 22, 2011 Bowmanville discount day at Griffin Theatre:  Sun. Call the box office (773-975-8150) and use discount code “Bowmanville” to get $20 tickets for the 3pm matinee show of “No More Dead Dogs”.  www.griffintheatre.com

May 21, 2011 – Deadline to get in the street sale in June. The Bowmanville Street Sale is Saturday June 4, 2011  Details and online Registration info here  

Bowmanville’s neighboring community, Edgewater, boasts its own community chorus, The Edgewater Singers.

• On Sat., May 21, at 7:30 PM, the chorus is  offering  a  free  spring concert: Endings and Beginnings at Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church 1244 W. Thorndale Ave. The program will offer something for everyone, including pop tunes, show tunes, 16th century madrigals and a compliment of short poetry readings to enhance the performance.

 Start snapping photos of garden themes in Bowmanville to enter into the amateur photo contest at this year’s July 9^th Garden Walk.  There is much beauty to behold now!

Applications to show gardens and enter photos now available.

Read about this and more in the Spring edition of the Bowmanville Bee:

The Spring 2011 edition of Bowmanville Bee publication is now online – click here!  

It is coming to your front door in the coming week.  Many thanks to editor Peggy Cassidy, and a big welcome to new volunteers Paula Palmentera (ad coordinator) and Joey Chiappetta (layout support).

Join the BCO on Facebook for up to the minute information & a dialogue with 180 of your neighbors:  www.facebook.com/bcochicago.  And check out our website www.bcochicago.org.

Have you walked through the pedestrian foot tunnel at Berwyn & Ravenswood lately?  The BCO and WANT have an amazing mural being developed by local artists and and volunteers.

Click here to download a 2 page document with pictures and a description of the Berwyn Mural project that is currently underway at Berwyn & Ravenswood in Chicago.

This truly is one of the most amazing projects.  Peek at the pictures.  Come by and take a look.  Or better yet…..

There are still two easy ways to help us out:

1- Give $$! Can you support this inspirational public art project that is going on in your neighborhood?  We are looking for businesses and individuals to make contributions to cover the remaining $1000 still required to enable completion of the project.  No amount is too small!  Make contributions out to Bowmanville Community Org (BCO).

2-      Lend us your hands! We need volunteers to help with the mosaic installation any day from Oct 25 through Nov. 2^nd.  Sign up for a shift at www.mysignup.com/berwynmural.  We will be out in full force on Saturday – stop by to say hello and thank the volunteers or bring snacks even if you can’t signup to help.  Have some fun with us!

Please contact either Claire Shingler (president@bcochicago.org) or Sarah Laing (publicart@bcochicago.org)

Or call 1-866-837-1006 (BCO hotline).

Many thanks for any support you can give.