GuttenGreen Festival

Guttenberg Arts

Guttengreen Fest is a Free to the Public Block Party & Fundraiser celebrating Creativity, Urban Gardening, Art, Environmentalism & Community

Join us for Sustainability, Art and Gardening Demonstrations, Food Trucks, Artist and Green Business Vendors and Live Music! GuttenGreen Festival takes place on Sunday, June 26th from 11am to 5pm, Jackson Street between 68th and 70th streets in Guttenberg NJ.The demos set up in front of Guttenberg Arts include; composting, transplanting seedlings, drumming, ceramics, monotype, silkscreen, upscaling used garments and face painting. A mix of artist vendors and local eco-friendly businesses and organizations comprise our curated Green Market. Local food trucks show off the cuisines of local restaurants with Vegan, Spanish fusion and Japanese cooking.In the studio, visitors can take in a Pot Sale where one of a kind ceramic planters will be displayed as well as an exhibition by the Rimay Raiz collective inside the gallery. The backyard garden will be showcasing readings and music by acclaimed local acts, writers and poets.Leading to GuttenGreen Festival, Guttenberg Arts is hosting “Roots, Rhythms and Branches”, a 4 week musical workshop that is an introduction to drum circles and Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba. This class is taught by musician Christopher Rodriguez and will conclude with a drum circle performance during the GuttenGreen Festival.“Wheat Paste and Relief Print” is a 12 week public art workshop that teaches students ages 14-18 to produce wood and linoleum carvings, use carving towols and print multiples of the images they carve. During GuttenGreen Festival participating students will paste their prints onto mobile planters as a public art performance and beautify the neighborhood with their art. For more information on how to participate in the classes please visit www.guttenbergarts.org/workshopsAll money raised on June 26th will go directly towards four camp scholarships to Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp, grabbers for volunteer clean ups for Hudson County, and the creation of new mobile planters that will be decorated by the prints of our local young artists. The goal of the GuttenGreen Festival is to raise $7500 for the local Hudson County Rutgers 4-H to provide four camp scholarships to the Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp, providing supplies to clean the Hudson County streets, and expansion of Guttenberg Arts’ Güttengarden Programming. Get more details about how to sponsor, volunteer or take part in the Green Market or Food Truck Row by visiting <a href="http://www.guttenbergarts.org/green" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.guttenbergarts.org/green</a>. Guttenberg Arts programming is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural &amp; Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. Degise, Hudson County Executive &amp; the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

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