We are so excited to offer Digi Booth at this years Dinner on the River. Digi Booth is a great way to capture your own fun images from Dinner on the River! Enjoy props, and personalized photos with your friends, expressing yourself and enjoying our event.
Be sure to tag us in your photos @greentopia_roc and share them with the hashtag #dinnerontheriver to show us your fun!
Thank you so much to Digi Booth for offering their one of a kind photo booth for our event, for more information on Digi Booth click the button below to check out their website!
Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) has named the Green Visions program as one of its Level Up Champions. This award is in recognition of our fair compensation of $15 per hour for program participants.
Green Visions is dedicated to providing our participants the tools and skills needed for them to gain financial independence. Our stipends alleviates some financial burden for program participants allowing them to fully benefit from everything Green Visions has to offer.
We are so honored to receive this distinction from RMAPI. Thank you so much to all of our supporters, for helping us continue to grow healthy futures in the heart of Rochester.
For more information on RMAPI’s Level Up Champions and how your organization can become one click here!
On October 17th Green Visions celebrated the completion of our 10th year! We were joined by neighbors, former participants, funders, friends, and even Mayor Malik Evans.
The occasion also marked the groundbreaking of the remodel of 188 Whitney to create the Green Visions Training and Education Center. This remodel will allow Green Visions to expand in many ways. First, we will have a home base in the heart of JOSANA, dedicated to workforce development training and assistance to the community, along with environmental education.
Second, this new space will allow Green Visions to expand its programming into the winter months. This new program will allow us to double the youths we serve each year.
Our final cause to celebrate was the installation of a new sculpture on the 188 Green Visions Campus. The “Symbol”, created from metal by Gareth Fitzgerald Barry, is intended to be an onsite representation of the Green Visions Workforce Development Program. The sculpture is an iconic manifestation composed of 22 parts, unified as a single, undulating but unbroken line flowing through space, finally forming the Green Visions logo. The 22 sections of the sculpture represent each week of the program for every participant, while the unification of these sections to form ‘The Symbol’ represents the successful completion of the program and the many stops along every person’s individual journey with Green Visions.
Being an outdoor sculpture, ‘The Symbol’ stands 10 feet tall and will be subject to the elements. It will patina and age with distinction. Its shadow will further serve to showcase the Green Visions logo on the very land on which program participants work and grow, providing an interactive sundial.
‘The Symbol’ will stand out among the surrounding foliage without overshadowing adjacent program amenities, such as the Green Visions House and Outdoor Classroom. Positioned towards the corner of the lot, ‘The Symbol’ will become incorporated into the landscape and skyline of the program site.
More of Gareth Fitzgerald Barry’s work can be found on his Instagram @garethfitzgeraldbarry.
We’re excited to host our dinner in person this year with guidelines in place for a safe, comfortable evening for all. Dinner on the Bridge is the summer’s most elegant event, complete with a three-course farm-to-table dinner prepared by The Cub Room, cocktails, music, silent auction, a fashion show featuring local shops carrying sustainable fashions — plus fireworks, and dessert to end the evening.
Dinner on the Bridge supports Greentopia’s Green Visions — our workforce development program for youth located in the City of Rochester’s JOSANA and Joseph Ave neighborhoods. By joining us for dinner, you’re helping to build a greener Rochester and combat urban blight, crime, youth unemployment, and poverty. Your support enables local youth the opportunity to create green spaces throughout our community with training and knowledge on how to run a small business. Green Visions has been strengthening Rochester neighborhoods for close to a decade.
What do I wear? Guests are encouraged to wear summer cocktail attire, or the best green/environmental fashion attire to align with the theme.
Where do I park? Please map your vehicle to Platt Street. You will pull up the valet service (Lakeview Valet) and they will be parking your vehicle on your behalf in a secured nearby parking garage. Please follow the signage to the registration table.
When will I know if the event is rained out? We will make an announcement 24 hours ahead on August 18th. We will notify all registered attendees via email if the event is postponed due to incremental weather. The rain date will be on Tuesday, August 24th.
Must I be vaccinated? Yes! we will be taking temperatures upon guest check-in. All guests must be vaccinated with proof of vaccination with an excelsior pass or vaccination card, with no exceptions.
For more information on this event, please contact Lisa@greentopia.org
With funding and guidance from the City of Rochester and ROC the Riverway, Hunt Engineering is close to completing the study of the Hydro Station’s structural integrity. Drones were used to glimpse inside. Repellers jumped off the edge to look at the outside. A boat was launched to look underneath.
Sensors were placed to measure vibration on top. Data is being compiled, and will be presented to the newly formed High Falls Overlook Advisory Committee that will meet before the end of the year. Community members on the Advisory Committee will be helping to inform next steps to take in the development of the building.
Representatives on the committee include the Genesee Brewery, Greentopia, Genesee River Alliance, Pike Company, RG&E, Visit Rochester, Ibero American Development Corporation, and the High Falls Business Improvement District.
Please take a moment to read this update and support our Annual Campaign. Every dollar counts towards helping Greentopia continue its exciting work and brings us closer to a more vibrant, sustainable and equitable community.
