BROOKLYN TORCH TRADE STORE hosts: HACKING COUTURE’s Punk Your Way Hack using Punk’s Code and get paid for it. Hacking Couture will open a pop-up atelier during the Brooklyn Torch Trade Store. Come in and hack your fashion while collectively indexing and using Punk’s Code and getting paid in Brooklyn Torches How It Works: 1)…
We had a lot of fun at NURTUREart this past weekend. We built a childcare coop and worked together a whole year to build a new coop. Although we didn’t manage to guess the final word game, we did reward every player their game salary in Brooklyn Torches. Thank you to everyone who participated- you’re…
Cooperative Economic Exchange: Game Day On Sunday, April 28th at 3pm join The Brooklyn Torch and TimeBanksNYC at NURTUREart Gallery for an afternoon of play exploring cooperative exchange. The Brooklyn Torch Project invites David Morgan, a co-creator of new board game ‘Co-opoly’ made by Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) to demonstrate and support…
Found an interesting map created by a a theoretical physicist in my morning emails today. Thought it might be interesting to post here since we think a lot about how bills can move to support economies. It’s interesting to think about how tracking dollar bills in circulation can actually expose economies as well. Here’s one…
Here they are! All printed and ready for exchanging. We had so much fun on March 2nd, if you weren’t able to come by, don’t worry. We are hosting another exchange on April 6th at Dobbin Project Space (50 Dobbin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn) and have other irons in the fire for future exchange…
Here we go! We are on the presses with the amazing local printing artists. We are on our way to distributing these amazing looking bills at our Brooklyn Torch Trade Store this Saturday!
March 2nd is your first chance to handle the freshly minted Brooklyn Torch bills and you are invited! We will be holding our next 2013 Pawn and Trade event at Dobbin Project Space, a new workspace and project venue for social engagement arts experimentation in Greenpoint. Mark your calendars for upcoming events: March 2 April 6…
You are invited! We will be holding our first 2013 Pawn and Trade event at Dobbin Project Space, a new workspace and project venue for social engagement arts experimentation in Greenpoint. Mark your calendars: February 2 March 2 April 6 from 2pm to 6pm we invite you to come by and try out using a local…
I am pleased to announce that we have won an Art Matters grant to pursue this project in 2013. You can expect to see more from us in the coming weeks and months. Please sign up for our mailing list to stay updated! Happy 2013!
