con*sil"i*ence, n: from the latin, consilere, formed from con,"with," and "salire," to leap; an interlocking of explanations of cause and effect between disciplines. An act of concurrence; coherence; jumping together.

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"Consilience Awareness Concert Series"

This ongoing series continues our "Live Jazz for Social Change" message and features a set of music followed by a panel discussion and/or presentation by a Social Change organization. Our goal has been to increase civic engagement by partnering with the VoxPop Cafe in Brooklyn, NY, in a festive afternoon that's both fun and informative!

November 2009

Consilience Awareness Concert Series:  Hip-Hop Meets Physics!

The first installment of this series was entitled “Mentorship: Hip-Hop meets Physics!” Following the quartet's performance, Sam Hillmer, community organizer and founder of music production company, Representing NYC! compared and contrasted mentorship models with New York City public school physics teacher, Weldon MacDonald, who mentors a Robotics club at his school. The event concluded with a hip-hop concert by three of Sam’s kids from the rap group, Nine 11 Thesaurus.


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January 2010

Consilience Awareness Concert Series: SolarOne

The second installment featured a presentation by Chris Neidl, advocacy coordinator from Solar1.org - a New York City solar and alternative energy advocacy non-profit. Chris discussed Solar One's mission of bringing a more sustainable, solar-powered, future to residents of New York City through directed activism and individual energy conservation. He attended the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and spoke about the repercussions from that major world event!

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February 2010

Consilience Awareness Concert Series: The $10 Club

Our third installment was focused on the fantastic 501(3)(c) from Washington, D.C., called The $10 Club. Run single-handily by Adam Roberts, this organization is funded by over 350 "club" members, each donating $10 a month to help those less fortunate around the world. The money is pooled with all the other contributors' money, and 100% is used to fund a poverty alleviation project in a developing country. Roberts administers the club, but does not draw any remuneration. For the first two-and-a-half years, all costs associated with running the organization came out of his pocket. Now, foundation grants and additional member contributions help underwrite operational expenses. "The mission of the $10 Club is to lift people out of poverty wherever we can across the globe."

Adam's "little" club has donated over $250,000 in over 60 countries since 2002! To learn more about The $10 Club and start contributing, visit his site now.

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March 2010

Consilience Awareness Concert Series: Sustainable Flatbush

Immediately following the quartet's performance in Part IV of our series, we introduced Anne Pope, founder and executive director of Sustainable Flatbush, who spoke to the audience about the fantastic local Brooklyn organization she runs. Committed to mobilizing, educating, and advocating for sustainable living in Brooklyn and beyond, Sustainable Flatbush has been spearheading environmental awareness in Ditmas Park for almost five years now. Many at VoxPop had participated in past events sponsored by the group, and it was wonderful to have Anne speak to us about all the opportunities to get involved in future grass roots events in the neighborhood.

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May 2010

Consilience Awareness Concert Series: Common Cause

Immediately following the quartet's performance, Theo Moore, Communications and Outreach Coordinator with Common Cause, New York, gave a presentation detailing how Common Cause fulfills its mission of "Holding Power Accountable." Specifically, Theo spoke about the new methods by which we can track the Federal stimulus money being dispersed across New York State, and also prison-based gerrymandering.

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June 2010

Consilience Awareness Concert Series: Citizen Action

Immediately following the quartet's performance, Jonathan Grindell, community organizer with Citizen Action of New York & CampaignMoney.org, spoke about the recent Supreme Court ruling - "Citizen United" - which was the landmark ruling that found that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment. Specifically, he spoke about the movement across the country towards Clean Elections-style public financing.

Video coming soon!
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