The Wyman Dell event was certainly a successful project with two young children. Bella and her brother decided to repurpose the dots from the event and make them into kites. Look at her take off. What a clever way to reuse the paper!

Children truly have the best ideas. Their imaginations have the ability to take something as simple as a piece of paper and to run wild with their concept. There is a wonderful article written about imagination and kids by Jamie L. Hebert. View here.

Like Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project, Bella reaches outside her boundaries and opens her eyes to what she can do with simple material. In her own way, she has changed the world.

12-4pm at the Berry Festival

Come see all 185 K-12 Banners and Recreation and Parks Labyrinth.

Join us as we celebrate the annual Berry Festival at Herring Run Park. Spend the day amongst the trees and enjoy activities for the whole family. Pick up a tree during their annual give away and experience Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project’s last park event.

K-12 students who participated should report to the Orange Tilt Tent from 2pm-2:30 for a photoshoot.

K-12 School Participation:
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland
Margaret Brent Elementary
Mt. Washington Elementary
The Green School of Baltimore
Baltimore Lab School
The Park School
Roland Park Elementary/Middle School
Roland Park Country School

Sponsors:

12-4pm right after Tour Dem Parks

Food from Chipotle and a special arts and crafts sale featuring the Charm City Craft Mafia.
Participate and draw on one of the 8 commmunity leaves that will be up for auction.
154’ of leafs on the hillside to walk through. First chance to purchase a signature bag. First come, first serve

Fastspot presents, Find your leaf:

The local Baltimore interactive agency, Fastspot created an intuitive and interactive tool for drawing a leaf as their submission for Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project. The program enabled the ability to reach out and receive designs from all over the city and be able to experience Baltimore through the eyes of the community. Walk through our banner installation, put your mark on one of our leaves, or journey throughout the park to explore the rest of the designs. Enjoy the designs that the community created in Carroll Park!

» View Fastspot’s Drawing Tool

Like leaves, we are all unique and individual as people. What are your values and personality like? Are you family oriented? Perhaps you are eco-friendly? Find the leaf that best represents you and make your mark on it!

Join us in our venture to design one of 8 community leafs. Come to Carroll Park on June 8th and find that leaf that best suits your personality traits. Put your mark on it and meet someone new in the community who is similar to you!

Live Music by KB Drive
Scott Wilburn – Vocals
Sean Wilburn – Bass
Mike Trail – Guitar
Pete Ilenda – Guitar
Brent Wiedal – Drums

Sponsors:

Growing performance sculpture in Charles Village Parade—
finishing at Festival in Wyman Park Dell on Saturday, May 31, Noon to 4 pm

Trees are the ultimate living art installation— now’s your chance to become apart of our growing tree canopy in Baltimore!

Join us in Wyman Park Dell as part of the Charles Village Festival and literally be apart of the sculpture. 200 people/tree ambassadors receive 2 shades of large green dots bearing tree-related words. Beginning before, during the Parade and at the Festival, the dots will be handed out. We will ask pedestrians to pledge to preserve Baltimore’s trees and to live more sustainably. At 4 pm, we will convene in The Dell for a 5 minute Tree Ceremony. With the dots, we will recreate the Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project logo (shown above). Watch the sculpture grow as more people join us and see our canopy take over the lower lawn of the Dell!

Call for Participants

The Urban Forest Project is seeking 200+ participants on Saturday, May 31. Meet up at 9 am at the start of the Charles Village Parade to walk with the dots and hand out through out the route. Throughout the day participants will collect names of people that are pledging to live more sustainably. We are asking that each dot have at least 5 names— showing a 1,000 people that have pledged. At 4 pm we will convene in the lower lawn of The Dell and have the Tree Ceremony; positioning the dots around the brown branch structure. This will create the larger tree canopy. The dots will remain in place until 6 pm and then will be available for take away by the community.

Dot = tree canopy
Brown = tree structure

Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project at ECOFEST Druid Hill K-12 banners and Labrynth

Location: Druid Hill Park by the Reservoir
Date: Saturday, April 26th (raindate – Sunday April 27th)
Time: 11am – 5pm

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Celebrate Sustainable Living with Food, Music, Information and Fun for the Family and Everyone!

Baltimore Green Week kicks off with an EcoFestival, April 26th, 2008, as a celebration of our regional environment. Attendees will find fun family events and resources that promote sustainable living. Held in Druid Hill Park, near the Woodberry light rail stop, bus lines and Jones Falls trail, the EcoFestival will include workshops, demonstrations, vendors with sustainable products, healthy food, music and art.

Most of all, serve as Baltimore’s Premier Green Event –fun and educational!

Stop by Tilt Studio Foundation’s Booth and learn more about the Urban Forest Project and take the Create Change Challenge.

Holy Man! Jess here! I cannot believe all the amazing submissions that we had for banners. Danny has been mailing everyone in our office sneak peaks of all the designs. I must say… I think I need to buy a bag! I know. I know. I am already a bag lady but these are one of a kind pieces of art that relate to an amazing cause and the designs are just so cool.

I also need to thank all the wonderful teachers out there that took the challenge to bring the Urban Forest Project into their classrooms. We received a whooping 240 banner designs from K-12 students! You all Rock!

Ethan Pronovost from Park School created this awesome tree for his banner! Look for these banners on display throughout the exhibition in Druid Hill Park!