Special Projects

Ignite Greensboro WEEK — Has ended!

View our list of the week’s events below.

The Ignite Greensboro Project is the first student-led, student-run and student-built project of its kind. It is a citywide effort to get college students involved outside of their respective institutions. Recently, we helped host The Let’s Raise a Million Project on MLK Day, installing free energy saving light bulbs in a low-income community. We saved that neighborhood over $60,000 in energy costs. Come out to each event if you can, as they guarantee you the opportunity to learn more about what happens in Greensboro!

Tuesday, April 6 :

City-Wide Voter Registration: 11-2 on the campuses of Guilford College, UNCG, and NCAT

Ignite Greensboro goes to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum- 4:00 pm

Voter Registration for the upcoming primaries on May 4, 2010. We are partnering with Voter Advocacy Now, Project Haiti of A&T and C.H.A.N.G.E. of Guilford College.

Come out and help register people to vote or get registered yourself!

Contacts for each College/University:

Solomun Jones- Scolvin-jones@ignitegreensboro.org -UNCG

Cherrell Brown- cbrown@ignitegreensboro.org -NCAT

Jasmine Wood- woodjh@guilford.edu -Guilford

Later in the day we will be visiting the International Civil Rights Museum!

Have you ever wanted to visit the museum?

Now, here is your chance

Bring $5 and an open mind!

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is an archival center, collecting museum and teaching facility devoted to the international struggle for civil and human rights. The Museum celebrates the nonviolent protests of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, which served as a catalyst in the civil rights movement. The Museum complex includes 30,000 square feet of exhibit space and is located in the historic 1929 F.W. Woolworth building in Greensboro, N.C. We will meet DOWNTOWN at the museum– 134 S. Elm Street

Wednesday, April 7 at 6 pm

Ignite Greensboro Presents: 9500 Liberty, the documentary

Petty 136, UNCG Campus

A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY.

Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question anyone they have “probable cause” to suspect is an undocumented immigrant.

9500 Liberty reveals the startling vulnerability of a local government, targeted by national anti-immigration networks using the Internet to frighten and intimidate lawmakers and citizens. Alarmed by a climate of fear and racial division, residents form a resistance using YouTube videos and virtual townhalls, setting up a real-life showdown in the seat of county government.

If you want to learn about how such a law was implemented in PW County and be inspired by the people who fought back, this is a must-attend event for you!!

FOOD WILL BE SERVED.

Thursday, April 8 at 11 am:

Photography in the City: The Black Marker Project- 11am-2 pm

Do you have a camera?

Are you photogenic?

Would you like to meet new people?

The Black Marker Project is a visually expressive project where participants will be asked to answer one of the following questions:

1) What does ownership mean to you?

2) What does knowledge mean to you?

They will then take the dry erase board and the black marker provided and in two words or less, write what their chosen question means to them. We will have two locations for this project. Please meet at one of these locations:.

1.NCAT Memorial Union [in front]; Contact: Rachel Propst (rpropst@ignitegreensboro.org)

2.Center City Park near the Amphitheater; Contact: Cherrell Brown (cbrown@ignitegreensboro.org)

Friday, April 9 at 4 pm:

Ignite Greensboro Multi-Issue Flash Mob!

A flash mob is a fun social experiment that raises awareness about a particular issue. It can also be completely random.

We will be freezing, (and moving) to raise awareness about issues such as: The White Street Landfill, Student Loan Reform and Racial Profiling.

Come out and participate in what promises to be an AMAZING experience! We will take the four corners of a downtown intersection and assign an issue to each corner.

Props needed: Caps and Gowns, trash bags, gym clothes and

laboratory gloves and masks.

We will meet at the intersection of Elm Street and Friendly Avenue, Downtown Greensboro.

Bring a friend!

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