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#farm2nabe -- meals like this!

Mmmmmm, Notice how the sun is peeking through the window just so, acting as a spotlight to show off the many farm fresh ingredients in this delectable meal from Putnam's Pub & Cooker? Those farm fresh eggs, plump tomatoes, that crisp arugula, succulent avocado, fresh ground pepper and freshly baked bread, yesss. And look closer, what's that to the right you ask? Why that is our brand new #farm2nabe card, announcing the June #farm2nabe event series, three Tuesdays in June - June 4, June 11 and June 18.

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!

Bike the Branches, Saturday, May 11th

On Saturday, May 11th, the Brooklyn Public Library invites you to Bike the Branches! This fun and rewarding one-day bike ride gives you a chance to choose your own route to experience Brooklyn's diversity ('Along the Waterfront', 'Brooklyn in the Movies', 'Architectural History', 'Brooklyn Eats' and 'Literary Brooklyn')--and the BPL's network of 60 branches--all while helping to raise critical funds for the Brooklyn Public Library.

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!

Join Us For a Free Jane’s Walk in Wallabout this Saturday!

Enjoy the neighborhood this weekend by participating in a Jane’s Walk through the historic Wallabout neighborhood! Jane’s Walk, founded on the principles of urbanist and author Jane Jacobs, offers an opportunity for locals to get together to meet, share, learn about and appreciate their neighborhood. The Wallabout walk will be one of more than 100 offered around the city on the weekend of May 4-5.

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.

Family fun at P.S. 20 tonight, Friday, 4/26 at 6:30pm!

P.S. 20 offers family fun tonight! The $3 admissions gets you popcorn, pizza, soft drinks, a historic 1926 animated film and a parent's creativity! Stop in the check out Prince Achmed, a silent film with live piano music by Ursel Schlicht tonight, Friday, April 26th, starting at 6:30pm.

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.

Pratt MFA Open Studios, today (4/12) and tomorrow (4/13)!

Pratt Institute's MFA program will open its studio and gallery doors to the general public today, Friday, April 12, 2013 from 5:00-9:00pm and tomorrow, Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 12:00-6:00pm. Live performances and a reception will take place on Friday night, starting at 8pm at the Flushing Ave Studios. A performance schedule is available here.

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.

Maurice Brown Jazz Concert at Farragut Houses, Sat., 4/13!

MoCADA presents Maurice Brown in concert. Jazz musician Maurice Brown will perform at Farragut Houses this Saturday, April 13th at 2pm. Stop in to listen to the great sounds of Maurice! Concert will take place at the Farragut Houses Basketball Courts (Navy & York Streets).

'Magic of Belly Dance' Dinner and Performance at Zaytoons Restaurant, Sun., 4/28

"Spring into the Magic of Belly Dance" at Zaytoons restaurant on Sunday, April 28th from 4p-7p. The evening will include a delicious 3-course Middle Eastern dinner from 4pm-5pm, followed by a belly dance performance from 5:30pm-7pm.

$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.

Free Bike Helmets -- stay safer on wheels!

Stop by the bike helmet fitting event on Sunday, April 21st from 12p to 4p at Commodore Barry Park. Get fitted and receive a free bike helmet -- stay safer on wheels!

Event it sponsored by Councilmember Tish James and is in conjunction with NYC DOT, NYC Parks & Recreation and Transportation Alternatives.

4 Encore Performances: A History of Launching Ships RETURNS, 3/14 thru 3/17 !

Beginning tonight, A History of Launching Ships returns to the Brooklyn Navy Yard's BLDG 92 for four encore performances. Performance dates are March 14-17 at 8pm, including a Q&A with the playwright and director + artists whose work is currently on display in BLDG 92's current "Reflections on Rosie" exhibit after the March 15th performance.

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

'Brooklyn Prints' Exhibit at St. Joseph's College -- thru 5/1. reception: 3/16.

Check out the Brooklyn Prints exhibit at St. Joseph's College! Put it on your calendars: now thru May 1st.

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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