"If you want to build a better world, start in your own community." Unknown
 
Here is your opportunity to do something special for one of our community’s most treasured landmark! The Fort Greene Park Conservancy is looking for volunteers to help with its membership & awareness promotions, and free summer events in the park. They are looking for help in the following areas:

• Promoting awareness and membership at the Brooklyn Flea and the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket. Volunteers are need for 1 ½ hours slots
• Coordinators to schedule and work events
• Program and event managers to organize and promote events
• Designers for Web site and printed materials
• Writers for newsletters, interviews, and to facilitate social media (facebook, twitter)
• Performing administrative tasks

Some of the exciting summer events that you will be able to volunteer for include:

• Music in the Grove: Eight children’s concerts Wednesday mornings at 10am, mid-June through mid-August.
• Greene Music on the Main Stage: Headline artists on the Myrtle Lawn that attract individuals of varied ages and interests. First Tuesday evening of the month, From June through September from 6.30pm to 9.30pm
• A Series of free lectures related to art installations. The artist, or other, will write the program and The Conservancy programming volunteers will oversee the product.
• Fort Greene LitFest: The Fort Greene Park Literary Festival will celebrate the end of a free 6-week summer-long series of creative writing workshops held in the park for thirty 7-12 year olds and teenagers.
• The Walt Whitman Poet’s Corner will present four Whitman Poetic Tours through the Park.
• Bat Tours: These intriguing and sometimes spooky tours will be at dusk on the third Monday of the month, May through August.
• Learn about roses and other flora in the Park from Alexandra Leighton. The garden historian and landscape designer will sponsor two talks.

To find out how you can volunteer, please call 347.559.5142 or email info@fortgeenepark.org. You can also learn more by connecting with the Conservancy on Facebook.