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october 2, 2008
Lenapeeps Art Gallery Inc. to open with "POSSESSION @ BERGEN HILL"In conjunction with the weekend long JC Studio Artist Tour, POSSESSION opens at lenapeeps by scratching
the delicate surface of who possesses or is possessed as a result of the revitalization of the bridge-and-tunnel community
of Jersey City’s Bergen Hill section.
Michael Lindwasser’s photographs of an urbanized and tourist-dependent
Mexican city together with oil and mixed-media pieces by local artists explore the ever-changing urban landscape (first and
third world) that, as per Justin Davidson, “toys with our sense of comfortable familiarity.”
This first
in a four part series begins the conversation about finding sustainable means, through artistic activism and good design,
to mitigate urban revitalization’s impact on the have-nots. Exhibit opens October 5, 2008 (5-8 p.m.). On view
through January 5, 2009. FOR LATEST UPDATES ON GALLERY PROJECTS, VISIT WWW.ARTEPARA.WORDPRESS.COM. A short video piece by Ian Hinonangan will be launched at the gallery opening, which pays tribute,
in part to the tree-filled and green hill which sits atop the intersection of Summit Avenue and Cornelison Street and raise
questions about the limitations of gentrification. Likewise, lenapeeps supports the JC Landmark Conservancy's efforts
to save the Victorian -Gothic style St. John's Episcopal Church on Bergen Hill.For more information, click on the link
to JCLC below.
december 8, 2007
Lenapeeps will be a mini art gallery for progressive-minded young artists and a mini showroom of specialty
wooden antique furniture from the Philippines.
Lenapeeps
must and will be an island of empowerment in the ever rising Gold
Coast Republic of Jersey City. Towards this end, we hope to initiate and implement our Youth Employment Readiness Program,
with the intention of providing concrete assistance to local youths by:
(1) granting outstanding students with paid summer
internships in the area of law and customer services;
(2) holding an annual art and esasy
writing contests to insinuate creativity among the youth (3) providing arts-resources
for arts-centric students
8 dec 07 @ 3:10 pm
july 2, 2007
LENAPEEPS @ BERGEN HILL; LIBRARY HALL LOFTS, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEYWelcome to Lenapeeps.com!
Lenapeeps at historic Bergen Hill of Jersey City
will rise in commercial unit #2 of Library Hall Loft building.
Lenapeeps will share space with Hinonangan Law Office, which is founded on its motto of: "Actualizing your human
and capital needs throught the legalization of undocumenteds and home ownership by immigrants."
What's in a name---Lenapeeps?
"Lena" comes from Lenapes, which means "the People". Lenapes were the first
natives in the East Coast United States to come in contact with the Dutch and English in the early 1600s. (Source:
Official homepage of the displaced Delaware Tribe of Indians-Lenni Lenape, in Oklahoma)
Meanwhile, "peeps" is the modern day
urban shortform of people. So to be a lenapeep means to be one with (or in tune with) the many indigenous peoples'
emphasis on responsibility to each other and our community.
2 jul 07 @ 9:31 am
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| The back of the Possession flyer. |
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| Lenapeeps opens with this first in a four part series! |
Below is one of the products Lenapeeps will showcase. For more
information & updates, email me.
| Balayong dining table (Philippines) w/ steel base |
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| A sample of items for sale @ Lenapes' of Bergen Hill |
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| Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy |
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| We are a proud supporter of this local organization. |
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| 17th Century rendering of Jersey City |
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| Image is from the City of Jersey City website. Please click on the image to read History. |
It was in the water coast of Jersey City that westward expanse into the
vast continent began. (Source: online City of Jersey City History) In the process, treaties (old-school contracts), tribes, clans, families, settlers, slaves, generations
of traders, merchants, immigrants and their respective lives and histories intersected. Today, we come face to face with
our modern days crossings and intersections and Lenapeeps hopes to be a small anchor in that negotiation.
Where is Bergen Hill in Jersey City?
Bergen
Hill was "one of Jersey City's first suburbs: the area along the beginning of the Palisades just north of Grand Street.
Here, ditch farms gave way in the mid-19th century to extraordinary set-back mansions." (Source: the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy). Today, in the 21st century, with old and emerging new lenapeeps and
landscapes, we write a new history, ourstory, at Bergen Hill.
The completion of the Library Hall Lofts building is expected in early 2008. Keep
an eye out as you drive past "the Junction", the cross streets of Grand St., Summit Avenue and Garfield Avenue,
where Library Hall Lofts sits, proudly like a triangle.
-Ian
Fernando & Julius Ramon (December 7, 2007)
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