Dine, Support and Mingle. Please join us for cocktails and passed hors d'oeuvres at Maggie Brown, LuLu & Po and Putnam's Pub & Cooker, meet our producers and donate to two local agricultural programs: City Growers & P.S.20 Farms.
Click here for more information and to purchase a ticket!
Between 10am and 5pm on the day of the ride, get your official "passport" stamped at the branches you visit, and then enjoy Central Library's Finish Line Celebration from 5pm to 7pm at Grand Army Plaza. You can sign up to ride (or walk or run!) as an individual or with friends, family or co-workers, and ask your community to pledge their support by sponsoring your ride.
Choose your route, visit the BPL branches and explore the borough in a new way!
Click here to register today!
The Wallabout walk will begin at 12:00 at the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument in Fort Greene Park and end in front of 99 Ryerson Street. No registration is required.
The walk will explore the Wallabout neighborhood, located in northern Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and discuss its 380+ year history as a community. The walk will lead past neighborhood landmarks and explore how these places, and the famous residents associated with them, represent the community’s social development over the centuries. The stories will discuss the area’s first European settlers, its role in the Revolutionary War, the area’s 19th century industrialization, famous residents such as Walt Whitman, and the neighborhood's decline and how these past events and people have defined the revitalized neighborhood we see today.
Find more info on The Municipal Art Society’s website.
The adventures of Prince Achmed is a film by Lotte Reiniger, inspired by tales from "One Thousand and One Nights." Prince Achmed is the oldest surviving animated feature film (1926). Filmmaker Lotte Reiniger invented a silhouette animation technique similar to shadow puppets. PS20 parent Ursel Schlicht creates an improvised soundscape using objects on the inside of the piano, inspired by both the cardboard techniques Reiniger used for the film and the magical surreal scenes of the movie.
P.S. 20 is located at 225 Adelphi Street, just off of Willoughby.
100 MFA candidates will exhibit artwork in various forms, including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, new forms, video, performance, installation.
There are two addresses where studios are located. Off-campus at 248 Flushing Avenue (loading dock between Ryerson Avenue and Hall Street), elevator to 3rd Floor, and on-campus at 200 Willoughby Avenue. All campus security booths will also have Open Studio maps and general information.
Visit the Pratt MFA Open Studios website for a preview of participating artists. Pratt MFA Open Studios website.
This event is hosted by the Pratt Artists' League and Pratt's Fine Art Department.
$20 (or $25 at the door) includes performance, buffet dinner, dessert, soft drinks, coffee and tea. Appetizers: hummus, babaghanouj, tabouleh, fatoush; Entree: chicken kabob, veggie kabob, falafel, kafta kabob, rice; Dessert: baklava, lady fingers and basbousa.
Please come out for an evening of good food and good fun.
For advance tickets, please call: 347.533.6226.
Zaytoons is located at 472 Myrtle Avenue between Washington Avenue and Hall Street.
Event it sponsored by Councilmember Tish James and is in conjunction with NYC DOT, NYC Parks & Recreation and Transportation Alternatives.
Purchase tickets through SmartTix by clicking here.
Here's more about A History of Launching Ships from the website:
"A History of Launching Ships is the first-ever theatrical production at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This site-specific production will lead audiences through the three-floor museum over the course of the performance, stopping to watch scenes among BLDG 92's exhibits. The Yard’s spirit and elements of its history act as seeds for the play’s mysterious story of four women isolated together inside the gates of a Naval Commandant’s home on the banks of an unnamed bay. Playwright Avi Glickstein has used the story of real-life Revolutionary heroine Elizabeth Burgin and archival materials from BLDG 92’s collection, as well as the gothic New York tales of Washington Irving, as a jumping-off point to create a uniquely American, ghostly tale of his own that echoes the Yard’s history as a center of innovation, reinvention, and sacrifice in service of a larger purpose."
In the winter of 1779, a woman named Elizabeth Burgin defied New York City’s British occupiers by helping hundreds of patriots escape from prison ships anchored offshore of what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With a bounty on her head, she fled the city. A History of Launching Ships, a new play by Avi Glickstein, joins Burgin during her flight from the British and places her in the middle of a fantastical tale that echoes the gothic stories of Washington Irving. The play, commissioned by Polybe + Seats and written for the unique environment of The Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, tells the story of the three women who take Burgin in and hide her. Each woman seeks an escape from her own reality, and, together, they realize that the only way to freedom might be on a ship they build themselves.
The one and a half hour performance will involve some walking and standing on the part of the audience; ramps and elevators will be available.
Show your program and get 10% off post-performance dinner and/or drinks at Putnam's Pub & Cooker at 419 Myrtle Avenue (at Clinton Avenue).
photo credit: Stephen Yang
Nine printmakers, representing a diversity of experiences, but all with Brooklyn on the brain and in the heart, have their work on display at St. Joseph's Alumni Room Gallery at Tuohy Hall.
Artist and South of the Navy Yard Arttists (SONYA) co-founder, Kathleen Hayek, said of her work in a recent Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Local interview, "they are all simple creations, done with utter spontaneity, joy and natural forms and color harmonies."
Artists reception and talk is this Saturday, March 16th.
Brooklyn Prints
March 12 – May 1, 2013
Artist Reception & Talk - Saturday, March 16, 12 - 3 pm
St. Joseph College
Alumni Room Gallery, Tuohy Hall
245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Hours: Wed. 5 - 7 pm and Sat. 12 - 3 pm
Featured Artists: Jessica Baker, Alfonse Borysewicz, Kathleen Hayek, Sheila Goloborotko, Tommy Kwak, Marie Lorenz, Cheryl Paswater, Rob Swainston, James Waller
Curated by Maribeth Flynn
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