Caffeine Tour Documentary

Special thanks to Carmen Rodriguez for providing us with this excellent short documentary on Emerge and local activism.

Emerge Miami from Carmen Rodriguez on Vimeo.

Emerge Miami Presents: Boardgame Night- Holiday Edition!

Emerge Miami invites you to our December Boardgame Night! Maximize your Scrabble skills with witty and good-naturedly competitive friends! This month’s event will feature the always popular word games, some vibrant and obscure Apples to Apples arguments, and a special opportunity to beta-test a brand new game! Games start at 8 PM! RSVP on Facebook!

Emerge Weekly Update (October 13th, 2011)

October 15th – Occupy Miami Protest & 3rd General Assembly

The #OccupyMiami movement is growing rapidly!  This Saturday, October 15th, there is going to be a protest at the Torch of Friendship downtown from 1:30-3:30pm followed by a General Assembly from 3:30-6:00pm.  Come and see how you can get involved!  Ride your bike there!

October 18th – Board Game Night

Play board games with us at Sweat Records October 18th at 8pm.  We’ll be playing all the classics including Jenga, Boggle, Scrabble, Chess, Apples to Apples and more.  This event is free, fun and family-friendly!

October 19th – The Corporation Screening

Emerge Miami teams up with the Coral Gables Rotaract Club and O Cinema to kick off our collaborative film series with an innovative “social media interactive screening” of The Corporation. Bring your WiFi-enabled laptops and social media savvy tools to O Cinema on Wednesday, October 19, to join in the discussion regarding corporate influences on all of our lives! The film starts at 7 PM, with an O Cinema Happy Hour leading up to it. Jump into the discussion at #CorpMiami! Check out the trailer, learn more about the event, and find out how to order tix in advance. O Cinema is located at 90 NW 29th Street, 33127 in Wynwood.

October 22nd – Rescheduled Cemetery Bike Tour

Thank you to all of the brave folks who actually attended this ride!  The ride was mostly rained out.  Not to fear!  This ride is rescheduled for Saturday, October 22nd at 10 am.  Meet at the Adrienne Arsht Metromover Station.  Find out who is buried in Miami…learn some local history!

Stickers

Emerge stickers are here!  They will be distributed at Emerge meetings and events with a suggested donation of $1.

October 22nd – Ice Cream and Comic Books

What could be better than comic books and ice cream together?  Saturday October 22nd from 6-9 pm at Wall’s Ice Cream to benefit ComicEd.  See www.comiced.org for more information.  Wall’s is located at 8075 SW 67th Ave, Miami FL 33173.

October 23rd – Gables Bike Day

Please join us on October 23rd when Miracle Mile (South side) and Ponce de Leon blvd to Ponce Circle Park will be closed to cars for CORAL GABLES BIKE DAY!!

This is a Free, Family event for cyclists, walkers, skaters to enjoy the downtown Gables streets. Music, children’s area, food, bike polo, scavenger hunt, bike tours and more. Gables Bike Day is 10am to 4pm with a rally at 10:30am at Ponce Circle Park. Come show your support for cycling in South Florida!  Miracle Mile is going to be redone in the near future.  Let’s show our support for bike lanes on Miracle Mile!

October 23rd – Sketchy Pink Party

November 1st – Whisk Gourmet benefit for Tropical Audubon Society

Whisk Gourmet (open on Tues. until 10 p.m.) will donate 10% of their dinner checks to Tropical Audubon Society on Tuesday of November, 1st from 6-10 p.m. Head on over to the South Miami area and have dinner after the Emerge meeting. It would be much appreciated! Please forward this to any environmentalists, green thumb folks, and those who would like to dine for a cause.

Open Letter to Mayor Regarding Injured Bike Police

All of us at Emerge were horrified to hear about the car-on-bike collision that injured Officers Diaz, Mercado and Baudry. As cyclists, we can empathize with the physical and emotional trauma that comes with this type of accident.  As active and invested members of the community, we are saddened to see just how dangerous the roads are for cyclists in Miami.

It is terrifying to think of our own odds, if even a large group of marked police officers cannot get care and consideration from motorists.  Our warmest regards go out to the injured Officers.  We will continue to work hard for bike safety and awareness.  We welcome anyone from your force to join us in our continued efforts.

Best,

Your Friends at Emerge Miami

#OccupyMiami Ignites The Torch of Friendship

Miami: now’s your chance to join the movement! New York protestors kicked off American Summer and currently #OccupyWallStreet- the public’s response to their dissatisfaction with the current economic and political inequities which are shaking our system to its foundations. Cities around the country- around the planet!- are embracing the new solidarity and adding their support. Miami is no different.

Introducing #OccupyMiami – Nearly 200 activists, artists, and organizers made clear their intentions last Saturday, at the first #OccupyMiami organizational meeting. The new collaboration assembled to discuss problems facing the community at a local and national level- and subsequently global level- democratically deciding how to address such issues through direct action. The event was the first official meeting, after many of its members spent the previous days conceptualizing how to bring Miami into the effort in conversations that spanned ad-hoc video conferences, Facebook chats, and IRC.

Nerdgasm: Board Game Night with Emerge Miami

Board games are not just for kids and senior citizens. Boardgames are the epitome of low-cost, brain-flexing fun for all. Nobody knows the social and cultural value of a good Scrabbling or Boggling more than your card-shuffling, dice-rolling friends at Emerge.

That’s why every third Tuesday of the month, Emerge gets together at Sweat Records at 8 pm to throw down. All are welcome to this free and festive community event.

Emerge Weekly Update (September 16th, 2011)

Greetings Emergent Friends! As the fall season approaches, we’ve got a great lineup of events to check out:

September 17th – Comics & Ice Cream
ComicED is returning to Wall’s Ice Cream September 17th from 7pm-9pm. Enjoy 10% off any Ice Cream Purchase when you support ComicED by purchasing a .10 cent comic book. All proceeds of comic sale fund letters for comics, a program that allows kids across Miami, FL access to a free comic.

September 17th – Coastal Cleanup Day
Also this Saturday is the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup Day- Emerge and the Coral Gables Roteract Club will be helping out at Matheson Hammock Park. Maxwell and Adam are coordinating this- look for the cool guys digging in the mangroves for trash! This is Saturday from 9 am -12 at Mattheson Hammock. If you go to the guard house at the entrance road, they will let you in for free if you tell them you are doing the beach cleanup. This event fills up quickly, so try to arrive around 8:30!