POSTPONED: FMFM Earth Day Broadcast

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Hello and happy Earth Day.

We’re so sorry to announce that today’s Earth Day Broadcast will be POSTPONED. We’re experiencing some technical difficulties with our transmitter which won’t be resolved by our original broadcast time tonight. Feel free to still bring your picnic blankets to Brower Park today and gather in community. A few of us will be there beginning around 5PM near the Shirley Chisholm Circle at the top of the park but we won’t have any formal activities.

For those who purchased radios, we are happy to distribute those to you in the coming weeks, save them for pickup at the inaugural broadcast event (new date TBD), or offer a refund. Feel free to email us at projects@fieldmeridians.org to coordinate.

For everyone, we’ll send an email in the coming week with a new proposed date for the launch of FMFM.

Enjoy the gorgeous day today, give thanks for Mother Earth and her stewards. There’s still time to join today’s Prospect Park volunteer cleanup hours, check out Poster House’s Environmental Crisis posters exhibition later this week, or show solidarity with the BDS efforts for Palestine by supporting any of the student groups throughout the city (Columbia, New School, NYU) that have set up encampments.

ABOUT FACILITATOR

Bryant Wells is a designer and educator working independently and in collaboration with artists, writers, musicians, and institutions on websites, publications, identities and objects.

Guarionex Jr. is a Dominican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. His work explores the ways in which diasporic unity and niche musical movements have served in the creation of community and identity in the recent past and present. Simultaneously, he experiments with analog techniques to bring elements of abstraction to his figurative images. This manual practice heightens the intimacy of his work while additionally asking himself and the viewer to consider the ways in which we influence and are influenced by our surroundings.

gurl.jpg Gabriella Lewis is the supervising producer of creative development at Eater and teaches a documentary food-focused undergraduate course at The New School. Between those, she also moonlights as a pastry chef DJ in New York City. Gabriella is also behind one of The New York Times Cooking’s most viral recipes, Limonada.

Ryan Clarke is a tonal geologist from the Northern Gulf Coast, Ryan Christopher Clarke notices the passage of time as both a trained sedimentologist and artist-researcher as co-editor at dweller electronics, a group dedicated towards providing black counterpoint within an otherwise eurologically dominant music industry.

Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.

OBJECTIVE

Celebrate the launch of FMFM, the Field Meridians pirate radio station and mobile transmitter sculpture, with our inaugural broadcast. We’ll be hosting a community picnic and broadcast celebration in honor of Earth Day.

If you’re within our broadcast radius of 1 mile, be sure to tune in at 5PM!

5PM – FMFM Launch – Broadcasting Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979)

6PM – Guarionex Jr. (LIVE)

7PM – gurl.jpg, The Lot

8PM – Ryan Clarke, Dweller

WHAT PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING

• Radio (optional) — if you don’t have one already, we’ll have some for sale!
• Picnic Blanket
• Snacks
• Friends