Events for August 9, 2018
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Shakespeare Camp
Shakespeare camp is a raucous mixture of games, art projects, rehearsals, and history lessons. Each camp session revolves around one of the Bard’s plays, culminating with a performance design, built, and acted by the campers! Our first session is a two-week camp for 5th through 8th graders. This camp is designed for novices and Shakespeare … Continue reading Shakespeare Camp Find out more »
Grimanesa Amorós: HEDERA
A monumental light installation by Grimanesa Amorós, seeks to intensify the relationship between public space and community through the conversation it generates. Amorós researches the locations, histories, and communities of her installation sites. and creates her work through an organic and instinctive process. This intuitive relationship to technology is a distinctive feature of Amorós’ practice. Rather than interrupt … Continue reading Grimanesa Amorós: HEDERA Find out more »
The Fence
The exhibition features a diverse roster of 41 photographers hailing from around the globe. They share stories across seven thematic categories – Streets, People, Home, Play, Nature, Food, Creatures. Find out more »
8:00 am
Pondlife
A multimedia exhibition by scientist and filmmaker Sally Warring, combines art and biology in an exploration of the microbial communities in the ponds and waterways at the Garden. Microbes live in every environment on Earth, from the Artic to the Amazon to your local park’s duck pond. They produce around half the world’s oxygen, degrade waste, … Continue reading Pondlife Find out more »
Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco brings the world of Crown Heights’ Empire Roller Skating Center to life, exploring its role as a national icon and a focal point of the African-American community in Brooklyn. Empire was a landmark in Brooklyn from the time it opened its floors in 1941 to its closing day in … Continue reading Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco Find out more »
Alchemy
Featuring the work of seven artists reconceiving non-conventional materials in a reflection on the ancient concept of alchemy—the transformation of matter (June 28 – August 12). Employing diverse media, these artists create visually layered statements about the body, gender, race, and the environment. Their work, which includes large-scale installations and work commissioned by BRIC, also … Continue reading Alchemy Find out more »
Volunteers Needed at Norwegian Christian Home & Health Center
facility is actively seeking volunteers for many of our departments to assist in caring for our ever- increasing resident population. Volunteers needed in various department Find out more »
8:30 am
Different Things Around the World
Land Gallery is pleased to present Christine Lewis’s first solo exhibition in New York City, Different Things Around the World. Different Things Around the World is a collection of drawings that depict architecture both real and imagined in foreign and domestic locales. Lewis sources photographs that inspire her, using them as a launching point for her ideas. These … Continue reading Different Things Around the World Find out more »
10:00 am
Bringing Back the City: Mass Transit Responds to Crises
A new exhibit offering a unique perspective on the vital, often unseen, work of New York’s transit employees. Using the events of 9/11, the 2003 Northeast Blackout, Hurricane Sandy and other severe weather events as examples, the exhibition reveals the critical role that mass transit personnel play in preparing for and responding to natural and … Continue reading Bringing Back the City: Mass Transit Responds to Crises Find out more »
Tatiana Arocha: Night Mountains
Inspired by her childhood journeys into Colombia’s rainforests with her anthropologist father, Tatiana Arocha’s multidisciplinary work stems from a desire to celebrate the landscape’s astounding biodiversity. Her immersive murals surround the viewer with nature rendered in monochromatic tones, a color palette that references historic naturalist engravings and warns of a future in which the rainforest exists … Continue reading Tatiana Arocha: Night Mountains Find out more »
Ocean Wonders: Sharks!
Explore the coral reef, wander through a shipwreck, and peer over the Hudson Canyon. See more than 115 species (in nine galleries) including sand tiger sharks, sandbar sharks, and loggerhead sea turtles in this three-story, 57, 500-square-foot new state-of-the-art exhibit.Monday – Thursday : 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Friday-Sunday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Find out more »
Kayaking
Glide along the water while kayaking with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse at the Pier 2 floating dock! Children under 18 must have an adult guardian present. All levels are welcome and no experience is necessary. Additional Rules for Kayaking: – Singles are for adults, or any kayaker with a parent/guardian present that is at … Continue reading Kayaking Find out more »
$850
Teen Summer Glassblowing Program
In the Hot Shop, students would learn the basic techniques and material capabilities such as gathering, blowing, and tool handling. On the last day of working in the hot shop, students will learn about furnace charging, followed by cold working techniques to complete their pieces created in the previous days. Ages 13-18 10:00am to 3:00pm … Continue reading Teen Summer Glassblowing Program Find out more »
Theresa Chromati: Power Source
Guyanese American multimedia artist Theresa Chromati will create an immersive, surreal world brought to life by videos, sound, sculpture, and a mural. In this installation, Chromati focuses on black women’s energy a source of power that is often consumed without their consent and as a source that is often stretched until exhausted. Chromati molds bodacious legs as the soft … Continue reading Theresa Chromati: Power Source Find out more »
Practice: in Progress
Featuring works by: Keren Anavy, Danielle Ash, Kate Bae, Niamul Bari, Julia Elsas, Nadine Mahoney, Ioana Manolache, Caitlyn McLaughlin, Trina Merry, Samantha Morris, Naomi Nakazato, Gustavo Prado, Dayana Romero, Andrew Schwartz, Homer Shew, Liza Sokolovskaya, Elena Soterakis, Tanya Steinberg, Brian Stinemetz, Brendan Sullivan, Yi Xin Tong and Flora Wilds Curated by Elisa Gutierrez Eriksen The artists, … Continue reading Practice: in Progress Find out more »
10:45 am
36/class & discount packages are available
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Ages 2 to 6 years Hands-on drumming with Parents As Primary Teachers, Inc.! Play folkloric rhythms from Cuba and West Africa! Build literacy skills while enjoying folktales! Apply math, science and visual arts concepts to make your own musical instruments! SPARK offers registered semester-long classes featuring art, language, music, and movement for children ages 9 … Continue reading Shake, Rattle & Roll Find out more »
11:00 am
Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu
For millennia, ancient peoples of the Andes created quipus—complex record-keeping devices, made of knotted cords, that served as an essential medium for reading and writing, registering and remembering. New York–based Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña has devoted a significant part of her artistic practice to studying, interpreting, and reactivating the quipus, which were banned by the … Continue reading Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu Find out more »
Selections from the Collage/Mixed Media Class
Instructor,: Susan Newmark Fleminger. Work on view by; Amy Adam;,Eileen Blank;Margie Bonfils;Van Brody;Helene Ebenstein;Nell Mermin;Wilbur Miller; Robert Rothstein; Alex Rowan-Hazlerigg ,and Ronnie Wolfe Find out more »
Free
Block Party
Jenkins Johnson Projects presents Block Party, a group exhibition featuring works by Kenturah Davis, Kearra Gopee, Kahlil Robert Irving, Alex Jackson, Devin N. Morris, Kenny Rivero, Shikeith and Vaughn Spann, curated by Project Space Director, Tess Sol Schwab. Taking inspiration from the numerous block parties that enliven our neighborhood in the summer, the exhibition takes a more critical look at the importance of these community … Continue reading Block Party Find out more »
Position MAtters
CURATED BY SAUL OSTROW PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Noël Dolla, Don Dudley, Michelle Grabner, Ivelisse Jiménez Russell Maltz, Raul Mourão + Marcos Chaves/RM+MC Richard Nonas, Gustavo Prado, Sreshta Rit Premnath Jeanne Silverthorne, Adam Simon, Robert Yasuda Find out more »
William Trost Richards: Experiments in Watercolor
Inspired by a trip to London in 1855 and a landmark exhibition of British oil paintings and watercolors that traveled to Philadelphia in 1858, Richards began working in watercolor in the late 1850s, producing outdoor studies of landscapes and still lifes grounded in careful observation of nature. He took up watercolor again in earnest in … Continue reading William Trost Richards: Experiments in Watercolor Find out more »
12:00 pm
free
BAM R&B Festival
Afternoons of jazz, soul, R&B, and some tap dancing. Now in its 24th year, the festival continues to feature music legends alongside groundbreaking emerging artists. Jun 7 Bernard Purdie’s All-Star Shuffle with guests Bobbi Humphrey and Quiana Lynell Jun 14 Savion Glover featuring Marcus Gilmore Jun 21 PJ Morton Jun 28 Vivian Green Jul 5 … Continue reading BAM R&B Festival Find out more »
The Business of Brooklyn: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
an exhibition exploring the past 100 years of business in the borough. The story spans booming factories, family shops, iconic innovation, and labor struggles. The exhibition showcases images and objects from companies large and small that thrived in Brooklyn, including Domino Sugar, Squibb Pharmaceuticals, Schaefer Beer, Drake Bakeries, Abraham & Straus, Gage & Tollner, and … Continue reading The Business of Brooklyn: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Find out more »
Coney Art Walls
The outdoor museum of street art curated by Joseph Sitt and Jeffrey Deitch. Coney Art Walls features works from renowned artists including Crash, Daze, Lee Quinones, Ron English and Miss Van, as well as Aiko, Alexis Diaz, Buff Monster, Chris Stain, D*Face, Eine, eL Seed, Ganzeer, Haze, How & Nosm, Icy & Sot, IRAK, Jim … Continue reading Coney Art Walls Find out more »
Laugh Back
Curated by Lindsey O’Connor Farah Al Qasimi , Natalie Baxter, Deborah Castillo, Kristina Davis, Dynasty Handbag, Jesse Harrod, Jen Liu, Rachel Mason, Jan Mun, Luis Mejico Madhini Nirmal, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Andréa Stanislav, INNER COURSE (Rya Kleinpeter + Tora López) , Lady Parts Justice League’s Vagical Mystery Tour Find out more »
Dialectics of Entanglement: do we exist together?
Dialectics of Entanglement: do we exist together? Judith Baca, Beverly Buchanan, Janet Olivia Henry, Senga Nengudi, Lydia Okumura, Howardena Pindell, Selena (Whitefeather) Persico, and Zarina.Aruna D’Souza, Regina José Galindo, Che Gosse Find out more »
Erika Ranee: Inside/Outside
Erika Ranee will exhibit a series of large and smaller-scale abstract paintings and works on paper featuring complex, layered compositions that evoke the complex, interrelated territories of the interior self and the urban environment. Her diverse and often unconventional media include brightly colored pigments, metallic paint, tape, leaves, shellac, and plastic – materials that act as … Continue reading Erika Ranee: Inside/Outside Find out more »
Brooklyn: A New Home, a New Life
As they watched the Trump administration’s Muslim ban and subsequent restraining orders move closer to the Supreme Court, outgoing Teen Council Members identified immigration as the timely and broad topic for 2018. In responding to their mandate, 2018 Council Members analyzed how concepts of “us” and “them” lead to stereotypes of immigrants and considered how … Continue reading Brooklyn: A New Home, a New Life Find out more »
Decadent Illusions d’Ann de Simone, Kristen Franyutti and Elyse Gambino
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Decadent Illusions: an exhibition of collage and drawings from a trio of Michigan-based artists, d’Ann de Simone, Kristen Franyutti and Elyse Gambino. The works reflect the deceptively lush and placid surface of contemporary consumer culture, while showing that just below surface lies an abyss of turmoil and decay. Find out more »
(Our Love Is) Unbroken by Bars
(Our Love Is) Unbroken by Bars is an ongoing art and storytelling project curated by Katie Fuller with prints and a mural by Jess X Snow. This iteration will be held In collaboration with A.I.R. gallery. Unbroken by Bars addresses the systemic neglect of women, who are the fastest growing prison population. Find out more »
The future has no presence
The works in this exhibition variably describe new edges to dance upon: a private chat with a lover, inside jokes, a respite from coarseness, the gift of sensuality, a paean for making, a dialogue with materials, cryptic narratives, asylum from and for the “haters and losers.” The artists in this exhibition trust themselves. And they … Continue reading The future has no presence Find out more »
Free Carousel Rides
Join Prospect Park Alliance every Thursday in August for free carousel rides in Prospect Park, at the Park’s historic Carousel, funded by NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Find out more »
We Are Like Air
An exhibition and public art project by Xyza Cruz Bacani. For appointments, please call: 315-382-7398 or 646-279-3969 Find out more »
Quieter Places
Marshall LaCount’s Quieter Places paintings are a collective approach to places quieter than the city; quieter than a mind treading in traumas; quieter than political despondency. These Quieter Places are beyond certain borders. They are elsewhere, for they are not places, they are images. In this case, they are images constructed by aching hands and … Continue reading Quieter Places Find out more »
1:00 pm
Dream Sequence
During her residency at FiveMyles, Charmaine Bee will work on an installation that will culminate in an exhibition entitled “Dream Sequence”. On August 19, the artist will discuss her work during a public event with artist and philosopher A.V. Ryan. Find out more »
Between Black & White from Here to There
An aspect of Carl E. Hazlewood’s intriguing, on-going project UNSAYABLE. While many of the things he makes are ephemeral, they tend to respond to the light, space and surfaces where they are installed. Beside the painted/constructed environments he creates on occasion, Hazlewood makes discrete/specific ‘things’. Most transmute into defined formal objects; shape, scale, light, color, materials, … Continue reading Between Black & White from Here to There Find out more »
1:30 pm
3:00 pm
Ed Center Open Hours
Get to know Brooklyn Bridge Park with our 250 gallon aquarium filled with critters from the East River, a 10’ scale model of Brooklyn Bridge Park, crafts, a reading corner, and much more Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 – 5 pm; Saturdays and Sundays from 1 – 5 pm Find out more »
4:00 pm
Free
Beer Freak Show / Randall Night
Come through for something NEW and INFUSED! Every week a new, mad, reckless experiment in beer science will be conducted in the taproom as we infuse one of the taproom’s styles with a new ingredient. Think Merman NY IPA blasted through two chambers of whole cone Mosaic hops, or perhaps Mermaid Pilsner infused with lemon … Continue reading Beer Freak Show / Randall Night Find out more »
The Drunk Yoga Experience
Wine brings us together, yoga brings you to yourself. Join us every Thursday on the rooftop of Our Wicked Lady on Morgan Ave! A 30-minute happy hour will kick off your party. We’ll uncork the wine, play some music and let your guests mingle. Your Drunk Yoga teacher will then bring everyone to their mats … Continue reading The Drunk Yoga Experience Find out more »
6:00 pm
Live at the Archway
Live at the Archway 2018 Series Programming JUNE 14 LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND With opening set by FogoAzul NYC in the Pearl Street Triangle Ljova and the Kontraband brings together influences from classical, klezmer, tango, jazz and Gypsy music, and features Moscow-born composer, arranger and violist Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, together with his close collaborators on accordion, bass … Continue reading Live at the Archway Find out more »
Movies with a View
The theme for this year is “She Directs!” and will highlight the work of female directors across genres. Date Event Name Jul 12 Desperately Seeking Susan Jul 19 Kung Fu Panda 2 Jul 26 Paris Is Burning Aug 2 Bend It Like Beckham Aug 9 Wayne’s World Aug 16 Love & Basketball Aug 23 Wonder … Continue reading Movies with a View Find out more »
The Wingate Concert Series
The Wingate Concert Series will kick off with “R&B Fest” on Wednesday, August 8th, as Radio 103.9 New York WNBM-FM on-air personalities La Loco and Chubb Rock lead the night with live performances from Johnny Gill, After 7, and Vivian Green. On Thursday, August 9th, 107.5 WBLS-FM will co-present “Afro-Caribbean/Reggae Night,” hosted by on-air personality … Continue reading The Wingate Concert Series Find out more »
6:30 pm
Beyond Bagels: Jewish Food and Jewish Eating in the United States
What does “eating Jewish” look like in the United States today? The spectrum of Jewish food laws and dietary guidelines is vast and followed to many varying degrees. Some rabbis eat lobster; some Jews eat treyf during the year, but strictly adhere to Passover. What if you’re not Jewish but like a good kosher deli? … Continue reading Beyond Bagels: Jewish Food and Jewish Eating in the United States Find out more »
$45 in advance
A Midsummer’s Night Steam
cityWell Brooklyn presents a unique evening of music and scenes from Shakespeare, performed in the boutique spa’s urban oasis. Fairies and mixed-up lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream will provide entertainment while the audience soaks up the restorative vibes of cityWell’s amenities, including steam room, rain showers, hydrotherapy pool, cedar sauna, firepit, and tranquil lounging … Continue reading A Midsummer’s Night Steam Find out more »
7:00 pm
Yoga in the Park
Get moving in the Park this summer! Join Prospect Park Alliance, Bend + Bloom Yogaand lululemon Brooklyn for free, community yoga classes in the beautiful Long Meadow. RSVP today. Find out more »
Wine Your Waist: Caribbean Movement Workshop
Stop by caribBEING House Thursday evening and learn how to juk, wuk-up, and wine in this high-energy Caribbean movement workshop. Find out more »
Book Release: She Begat This
Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Lauryn Hill’s groundbreaking debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), with the release of author Joan Morgan’s new book She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which examines the artist’s musical and cultural legacy. Come early, at 6 pm, for a book-signing with Morgan and … Continue reading Book Release: She Begat This Find out more »
#Adulting
Michelle & Jordan welcome guests to break down the what, the how, the where and the why #ADULTING is the puberty you opt into. Lineup TBD! Find out more »
7:30 pm
BRIC! Celebrate Brooklyn
Tuesday, June 5, 8:00pm BET Opening Night Concert! COMMON Free Sunday, June 10, 3:00pm Family Concert LOS LOBOS Free Wednesday, June 13, 7:00pm THE DECEMBERISTS Ticketed BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Benefit Concert $45 (General Admission – Standing) Tickets can be purchased by visiting BRICArtsMedia.org or Ticketfly.com. Thursday, June 14, 7:30pm VANCE JOY | ALICE MERTON Ticketed … Continue reading BRIC! Celebrate Brooklyn Find out more »
Georgia Clark: The Bucket List
w/ Anneke Long, Isabelle Raphael & Dan Fox Find out more »
$16
Afrodance by Nado
This energetic class takes you on a journey across African dance floors! Let Nado introduce you to the most popular Afro club music hits and dances from the Ivory Coast, Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Angola. Come experience this lively blend of beats alongside traditional and contemporary movement Find out more »