REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS 2012
Every first Tuesday of the month, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, starting after our summer break on September 6th.
Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street
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February 7th
Aaron Birk and Andrea Ferich – Pollinators
Aaron Birk, artist and writer, recently completed "The Pollinator's Corridor," a graphic novel about a group who attempt to convince wild bees and butterflies to cross the industrial wasteland by planting corridors of native flora throughout the South Bronx. By harnessing the power of bees and butterflies to connect fragmented ecosystems, our heroes are able to restore biodiversity to the blighted ghetto while awakening local communities to the soil beneath their feet. The project has been featured in The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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http://www.aaronbirk.com
Andrea Ferich, who runs the Center for Environmental Transformation in Camden New Jersey, will present her work in Camden, New Jersey, where Andrea operates a greenhouse, 3 acre farm and a 24 bed retreat center at the heart of one of the nation's poorest regions. Camden is a city of 74,000 yet only has one grocery store. Andrea is also pioneering a green-mapping project. Her work exemplifies the cutting edge of education, urban agriculture, and environmental justice that is also quite central to my work and vision.
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March 6th
Beekeeping in Kenya
New York Times photographer Andrew Sullivan and Cecilia Lee, along with NYCBA's Norm and Andrew Coté, will present a Power Point presentation and discussion on their January 2012 beekeeping trip to Africa, where they worked with different tribal beekeepers within the Rift Valley, and a stingless bee along the coast during this Bees Without Borders trip.
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April 3rd
Fun with Urban Swarms
A swarm prevention workshop and a Power Point that will entertain and inform. Drawing from the many news stories in 2011 and 2010 regarding urban swarms, the reasons behind swarming will be dissected, preventative measures explained, and many swarms including on mailboxes, traffic signals, and trees will be shared, as both warnings and entertainment.
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May 1st
Frederique Keller, Apitherapy
The New York City Beekeepers Association is proud to present our latest speaker for our monthly meeting, Frederique Keller, President of the American Apitherapy Society. Frederique will give a presentation on Rx for Health on honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom. She is a beekeeper on Long Island and also a licensed acupuncturist who has been practicing bee venom therapy for more than two decades.
APITHERAPY, or "bee therapy" (api is from the Latin apis meaning bee and therapy from the Greek word meaning "caring service") is the medicinal use of products made by honeybees. This therapy includes Bee Sting Therapy, also known as Bee Venom Therapy.
If you would like to know more about the American Apitherapy Society, visit their website. www.apitherapy.org
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June 5th TBA
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July 3rd
Rose-Lynn Fischer – Bee Photography
Rose-Lynn Fisher's fine-art photography explores biological, cultural, and metaphorical thresholds, ranging from the microscopic realm of bees and bones to the liminal spaces of Morocco.
She exhibits widely in galleries and museums across the U.S. and abroad, including a mid-career survey at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, OK in 2007. She is the author of BEE, a photographic exploration of honeybees viewed through a scanning electron microscope (2010, Princeton Architectural Press, NY). The bee series was twice a winner in the International Photography Awards (IPA) .
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August – no monthly meeting scheduled!