4th Annual Holiday FEED-Raiser and Market

Last Updated on Friday, 16 December 2011 04:07 Written by Moira Monday, 12 December 2011 01:02

4th Annual FEED-Raiser and Market

Please join Urban Zen Foundation and the FEED Foundation for a Holiday cocktail and market of sustainable, fair-trade, and giveback goods.

Each year the FEED Foundation hosts a holiday FEED-Raiser & Market. This event raises money to provide essential school meals for children around the world and will also support Urban Zen’s three initiatives: well-being, empowering children, and preservation of culture. The FEED-Raiser provides guests with the opportunity to shop for holiday gifts from a wide selection of artisan goods that have been specially selected for their far-reaching philanthropic and humanitarian capacities.

GENERAL TICKET: $100
VIP TICKET: $250

Tickets will be available at the door.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CLICK HERE

In collaboration with:

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

Vanity Fair

New York Times

Goldman Sachs

Disney

Judith Leiber

Equinox

Godiva

The Children of Urban Zen

Last Updated on Friday, 19 August 2011 03:28 Written by Urban Zen Friday, 19 August 2011 03:28

On July 10th, we invited our community to join us on Facebook for an online campaign celebrating the children in our lives. It is exciting to share these photos submitted by our community. It is our children who provide us with the truest joy of love and through their sadness we understand our own compassion. Urban Zen’s mission is to care for our children’s wellbeing in mind, body, and spirit by giving them tools to face obstacles and opportunities with love, compassion, and strength. Thank you for participating!

URBAN ZEN SUPPORTS RIGHT TO PLAY

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2011 05:32 Written by Moira Monday, 8 August 2011 06:18

Right To Play is teaming up with Urban Zen to raise awareness for Right To Play. Make sure to come and learn more about how the power of play can transform young lives struggling with perilous conditions. The Urban Zen reception will include kid-friendly activities brought to us by Bent on Learning, as well as Right To Play field photos, available at auction. Help us reach our goal of helping one million children a week by placing a bid on one of the amazing photos.

Please join Urban Zen as we connect, collaborate, and create change with Right to Play and Bent on Learning while enjoying an afternoon of family-fun.

Background Information:

Right To Play is the leading international humanitarian and development organization using the transformative power of sport and play to build essential skills in children and thereby drive social change in communities affected by war, poverty and disease. Right To Play creates a safe place for children to learn and fosters the hope that is essential for children to envision and realize a better future. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child guides our work. Right To Play programs target the most marginalized individuals including girls, persons living with disability, children affected by HIV and AIDS, street children, former child combatants and refugees. Right To Play has been a pioneer in innovation for social change and has a track record for creating programs that are both sustainable and replicable.

Bent On Learning is the largest nonprofit organization in New York City mobilizing the yoga community around a social good.   With the help of some of the city’s most accomplished and passionate yoga instructors, we provide instruction in yoga and mindfulness to NYC public school students in grades pre-K through 12.  Our mission is to teach kids to be
more focused, healthier and happier in learning and in life.
To RSVP please call: 1.212.206.3999

For more information about our partners please visit:

Right To Play

Bent on Learning

Thank you to our sponsor: Hint [LINK TO: http://www.drinkhint.com/]

“TRASHION” WEEKEND: KIDS HELPING KIDS

Last Updated on Monday, 15 August 2011 09:01 Written by Moira Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:56

Kids are in the fashion spotlight at Urban Zen Sag Harbor with our “Trashion Weekend”

Please stop by and see wearable art made from recycled materials created by our future fashion designers from Art Farm. Also on display and for sale will be other artwork the Art Farm kids have created. Every dollar earned from these aspiring artists/philanthropists will be donated to Mari’s Children* and UZ’s campaign, Hope, Help & Rebuild Haiti (HHRH).

While enjoying the “Trashion” exhibit, all visiting parents and their kids can also experience the act of giving through our Million Hearts for Haiti project. Handcrafted stone hearts are available for purchase for all visiting children to design, paint and then display at Urban Zen. Shoppers will have an opportunity to buy these one-of-a-kind hearts with all proceeds donated to HHRH.

To offer children a non-competitive environment coupled with a farm experience through a very special and magical camp environment. Art Farm offers a wide variety of activities, so that campers can try something new every day.

* Art Farm’s belief in “giving back” and the participation of the entire camp throughout the summer, in their charity organization, Mari’s Children, makes Art Farm unique as it instills in each child the value of helping children around the world.

This event is open to the public! All families and children are welcome!

TO RSVP PLEASE CALL: 631.725.6176




For more information please visit www.theartfarm.org

FEED-Raiser: Conscious Holiday Shopping at Urban Zen

Last Updated on Friday, 17 December 2010 05:12 Written by Urban Zen Friday, 17 December 2010 05:11

On Tuesday night, the Urban Zen Foundation collaborated with Lauren Bush, FEED Projects and Gilt City to produce the annual Holiday FEED-Raiser and Market. The seasonal event was a celebratory evening enjoyed by a festive crowd excited to explore the sustainable, philanthropic vendors while ensuring that more of the world’s children receive nourishing meals.

The evening’s guests included many notable journalists and bloggers who wrote fantastic pieces detailing the event.

Here, a selection of the highlights:

Model and philanthropic niece to former President George W., Lauren Bush hosted her third annual FEED-Raiser at Urban Zen in the West Village [Tuesday] night with Gilt City. Tickets to the eco-friendly holiday market benefited the same cause as her product line FEED Projects: Providing food to kids around the world.
Click here to see the entire article on TheFeast.com

Partygoers…included Mark Seliger, Cynthia Rowley, Donna Karan, Zani Gugelmann and Amanda Hearst. Patrick Robinson and Sam Talbot chatted in the glow cast by an enormous, light-spangled Christmas tree. Elsewhere, vibrantly colored sarongs, sundresses and beachy jewelry taunted heavily bundled guests, who had stepped inside from the decidedly colder climes of the West Village streets only to be confronted with large-scale photographs of Haitian children on the beach. Marc Baptiste, the lensman behind the works, was also on hand. The party-cum-market, co-sponsored by Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation and Gilt City, offered everything from much-needed woolen accessories to jellies, jams and jewelry. The whole fete had the endearing air of a neighborhood Christmas market, though perhaps with more sequined-strewn shoppers than one might expect in other zip codes.
Click here to see the entire article on WWD.com

And, if you’re interested in seeing some fantastic photos from the evening, check out the galleries on GuestOfAGuest.com and PatrickMcMullan.com

Please note that there is still time to partake in some of the beauty of the evening as Marc Baptiste’s expertly curated photography exhibit will be on display until January 21, 2011. We invite you to stop by the Urban Zen Center and experience the compelling images in person.