Saturday November 4th. 8 p.m. at BARBES: Ninth Street near Sixth Avenue.

ANDY STATMAN. A truly extraordinary artist, Andy Statman began his career in the 70’s as a virtuoso Mandolinist who studied and performed with David Grisman, went on to study clarinet with the legendary Dave Tarras and became one of the main architect of a Klezmer revival which started out 30 years ago and has since informed and influenced folk, Jazz and improvised music forms. Andy draws equally from hassidic melodies, folk tunes from new and old worlds alike and Albert Ayler-influenced free-improv. The result reads like a very personal search for the sacred based both on traditions and introspection. He will be joined by Greg Burrows on percussion. $8

He’s a great, great actor. And I’m dying to see him in Scorcece’s "The Departed." But did you know Leo DiCaprio has a foundation dedicated to environmental issues. Two five-minute primers about the environment that he
co-created and narrates, are on his Web site leonardodicaprio.org, called the eco-site to distinguish it from his movie site, leonardodicaprio.com.

Established in 1998, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has actively
fostered awareness of environmental issues through participation with
such organizations as Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green,
USA, the International Fund For Animal Welfare, and National Geographic
Kids, to name a few.

In order to reach,
inform, and entertain a wider global audience about these issues, the
environmental website www.leonardodicaprio.org was created.

The
Foundation places particular emphasis on the issues of global warming,
alternative and renewable energy sources, and the preservation of the
planet’s amazing biodiversity.

To this end,
it supported the efforts made by the Dian Fossey Foundation, Reef
Check, Oceana, Santa Monica’s Heal The Bay, and the U’wa Defense
Project.

TreePeople and the Foundation, along
with Tree Muskateers joined forces to promote the incorporation of
trees into urban neighborhoods and also to help reforest the decimated
Southern California mountains.

Environment Now honored the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation with its prestigious Martin Litton Environmental Warrior Award in 2001.

Continue reading LEONARDO DICAPRIO: WHO KNEW? →

Oct
        31, 6:30pm Park Slope Civic Council’s Halloween Parade.
        Join the Headless Horsewoman and other Halloween friends on Tuesday, October
        31 at the Civic Council’s Halloween Parade. The parade, for children of
        all ages, starts at 6:30 pm at 7th Avenue and 12th Street and proceeds
        to Union Street. Participants may join the parade at any point along the
        route. Our usual Parade bands – Paprika and The Eternal Buzz Brass Band
        – will be on hand.

Pre-Halloween Parade
        Party, 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
        The Prospect Park YMCA is once again hosting a party prior to the
        Parade. This event, including pumpkin decorating, dancing and candy treats,
        is free for all children ages 3 through 11. The YMCA is located on 9th
        Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

This weekend is the 10th Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour. The Tour, which
began in 1997 includes 120 artists will open their studios near the Gowanus Canal; between Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill,
and Boerum Hill. The Tour is free and open to the public.

Saturday, October 21 and Sunday, October 22, 1pm-6pm
Free

For a map, names of artists and more informtation: :  Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour

Footprints: Portraits of a Brooklyn Neighborhood. Artists respond to the Atlantic Yards controversy. The show opens today at Grand Space in Prospect Heights. 778 Bergen St. (top buzzer), between Washington Ave. and Grand Ave. (on the corner of Grand). The building is a 3-story warehouse, painted yellow on the front, with fun drawings of flowers, birds, and fishes at street level. 

In the midst of the stormy debate over the "Atlantic Yards" and Brooklyn’s future, the Footprints group, a group of local artists, has joined together to move beyond the sound bites and take a closer look at the neighborhood in question, its community, and issues surrounding redevelopment. Their work will be exhibited at Grand Space from October 7 thru November 3, W-F 5-8 pm, S-S 11am – 4pm, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 12, from 6 to 9pm.

BROOKLYN INDIE MARKET POP UP EVENT: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21. 10-5 p.m.

(rain date Oct. 28^th) in the Cobble Hill Park (Congress and
Clinton Streets).

The outdoor, one day only market offers the public
chic selections from the next crop of on the rise designers in apparel,
handbags, jewelry, children’s apparel, menswear, home goods and more.

The brainchild of Kathy Malone (pictured left), the Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of fashion and product designers created to provide a connection between emerging designers and consumers.

Johanna Resnikoff of Daisyhead says, “The Brooklyn Indie Market is
the perfect showcase to highlight the diverse talents of upcoming
designers and I am thrilled to be a part of it.”

The designer line up includes:

• Daisyhead Designs unique, fun, and happy tiny tees for tots and cool old people www.daisyhead-designs.com
• Pixie petals jewelry that echoes the colors and forms of the natural world

www.k-b-e.net/pixie

• Nattytoma unique, one-of-a-kind, hand painted glassware www.nattytoma.com
   

Brooklyn Indie Market will be hosting many such “pop up
events” throughout the year in surprising locations. For additional
information on Brooklyn Indie Market events or on indie designers
contact Kathy Malone 347-407-1187 or check out www.brooklynindiemarket.com.

Calendar Editor: Oct. 21^st/raindate Oct. 28^th Entry

Brooklyn Indie Market Pop Up Event

Subway F/G to Bergen St. and 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall. Free.

Fame Becomes Me Star Capathia Jenkins and Award-winning composer Louis Rosen celebrate the launch of their new CD, South Side Stories at Joe’s Pub on October 29, November 5, and November 12.

Tickets for CAPATHIA JENKINS AND LOUIS ROSEN: SOUTH SIDE STORIES,
are priced at $20 with a two-drink minimum, may be reserved by calling
(212) 239-6200. For more information, please visit www.joespub.com.

We knew her when. Just last winter, Capathia and Louis delivered a knock-out performance at the Old Stone House. Now’s she’s a show-stopping Broadway star in "Fame Becomes Me" with Martin Short.

Even more importantly, she and Louis are performing Southside Stories at Joe’s Pub (they did excerpts from this song cycle at the Old Stone House). Better get tickets. It’s going to be a GREAT SHOW (I know because I know a bunch of the songs and they are fabulous). Here’s the press release:

Broadway great Capathia Jenkins, who received rave reviews for her show-stopping performance in the new Broadway hit Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, and award-winning composer/performer Louis Rosen celebrate the launch of their debut CD, CAPATHIA JENKINS AND LOUIS ROSEN: SOUTH SIDE STORIES, with three Sunday evening concerts at Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street), October 29, November 5, and November 12 at 7 p.m. Inspired by Rosen’s experiences growing up on the south side of Chicago, SOUTH SIDE STORIES is a moving collection of songs about youth, coming-of-age, and experience.

The concerts, which mark the popular duo’s highly-anticipated return to Joe’s Pub, will also include selections from their acclaimed show Twelve Songs on Poems by Maya Angelou, which debuted at Joe’s Pub last year in two sold-out concerts; and a preview of Rosen’s newest work for Jenkins, Giovanni Songs, featuring words by poet Nikki Giovanni. Pianist David Loud, bassist Dave Phillips, and Mike Freeman, vibraphone and percussion, will join Jenkins and Rosen for their Joe’s Pub engagement.

CAPATHIA JENKINS AND LOUIS ROSEN: SOUTH SIDE STORIES received critical acclaim during its world premiere at the Steppenwolf Theater in December 2005. Hedy Weiss of The Chicago Sun-Times declared it "magical…(a) nostalgic, romantic, emotionally charged song cycle." Kerry Reid of the Chicago Tribune called the performance "a fine and sometimes somber portrait of heartbreak and survival, joy and its absence, and love that endures even when the objects of that love are long vanished."

SOUTH SIDE STORIES marks Jenkins and Rosen’s third project together, and it also marks their recording debut. They launched their collaboration in March 2005 with sold-out engagements of Twelve Songs on Poems by Maya Angelou at Joe’s Pub. The success of their debut led to engagements at celebrated venues in New York and throughout the country, including Birdland and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, the legendary Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, and the Great Hall of Cooper Union.

Capathia Jenkins is currently wowing audiences in the new Broadway hit Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, and has also starred in Broadway productions of Caroline, Or Change, The Civil War, and Bacharach and David’s The Look of Love. She has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including the recent revival of Godspell. Her national and European tours include Dreamgirls, Bubblin’ Brown Sugar, Sophisticated Rhythms, and Uptown Saturday Night, and her television credits include The Practice, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and The Sopranos.

Louis Rosen’s songs and theater music have been performed in concert halls, cabarets, and theaters in New York and around the country. His scores include the music theater pieces Book of the Night, A Child’s Garden, and the forthcoming adaptation of Steinbeck’s The Pearl; the song cycle Dream Suite, words by Langston Hughes (also composed for Ms. Jenkins), and many others. The author of The South Side: The Racial Transformaiton of an American Neighborhood, Rosen was recently awarded a 2005-2006 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Music Composition.

The Maple Street School Presents: Super Me, Super Reader, Saves The Day!
A Free Literacy through Storytelling Event for Pre-school & Young School-age Children

On Saturday, October 21, 2006 pre-school and young school age children and their care-givers are invited to the Maple Street School for Super Me, Super Reader, Saves The Day!  to make their own fabulous capes, hear super stories, and unlock their inner super-heroes and heroines and their own super storytellers.

Super Me, Super Reader, Saves The Day! is the first in a 4-part series of FREE public Literacy through Music and Storytelling events presented by The Maple Street School with support from the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

This event is free and open to the public. All are invited to attend. An RSVP to 718-282-4345 is encouraged.

Directions

The Maple Street School is located at 21 Lincoln Road , Brooklyn , NY 11225
Subway: S or Q to Prospect Park station ( Lincoln Road exit).

Bus:     B43 and B48 to Lincoln Road
For more information call the Maple Street School at 718-282-4345

SUNDAY OCTOBER, 8 at BARBES: 

BARBES CLASSICAL. Once a month, Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present a classical music concert featuring some of the best new talent in the classical world.

This month: SVET STOYANOV:

Bulgarian percussionist Svet Stoyanov was recently praised by the New York Times for his “understated but unmistakable virtuosity” along with a “winning combination of gentleness and fluidity". He has performed at venues such as Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, has appeared with top orchestras around the country and given world premiere performances of works by Phillip Glass and Steve Reich.

At the Sonnabend Gallery, 536 West 22nd Street, photos of Lubavitcher Jews around the globe. Large scale images of Jews in faraway place incluing Brazil and Australia. Through October 21.

This from New York 1:

More than 15,000 people are expected to run Sunday in the fifth annual Tunnel to Towers Run in honor of a Staten Island firefighter who died in the September 11th attacks.

The run kicks off in Brooklyn, then proceeds through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the World Trade Center site.

The three-mile route traces the path of firefighter Stephen Siller, who ran though the tunnel with his gear when he found he wasn’t allowed to drive through.

Participants, who come from all over the country, say the race is chance to remember the many lives lost.

“Anybody can make the walk,” said five-time participant Randy Payne. “You can run it, whatever you want to do. But when you pass through the tunnel and there are all of those faces on the banners of everyone who passed away that day, it is very, very emotional and it really hits you what happened that day."

Registration is still open for the run, which begins at 10 a.m. For more information, visit www.TunnelToTowersRun.org.

The work of photographer and photo blogger RANJIT  will be on display in the Atlantic Avenue subway station. Check out his work at his Flickr site.

This show is called BROOKLYN IN COLOR and it looks like it’s worth a sightseeing trip to the Atlantic Avenue station. It will be up for a year.

Some very exciting events coming up at Union Hall in Park Slope on Union Street just off Fifth Avenue.

TONIGHT:
A last minute show with TIM FITE (last seen opening for New
Pornographers and has an excellent record out on V2) and SEAN HAYES!,
$6, 8pm

Thursday, September 21: The very legendary FREEDY JOHNSTON plays
new songs from his ’07 release and old gems like "Bad Reputation" (we
hope!) with CHRIS MILLS, $12, 8pm

Friday, September 22: The
Tripwire welcomes THE ISLES and BON SAVANTS, two very deserving of any
hype buzz bands, the former from NYC, the latter from Boston.  $8, 8pm

Saturday, September 23: Dreamy and loud SNOWDEN trek up from
Atlanta to support their recent "Anti" on Jade Tree Records, and
favorite locals DAYLIGHTS FOR THE BIRDS (ex On Air Library) open.  $8,
8pm.

Sunday, September 24: Our neighbor, EUGENE MIRMAN, will very likely make you laugh.  $7, 8pm.

Wednesday, September 27: The Onion presents the HOLD STEADY record release party.  FREE, 7pm

Friday,
September 29: It’s Leah from Flavorpill’s birthday with the fabulous
GOLD STREETS and THE ATTORNEYS.  $7 if you don’t know Leah, 8pm

Saturday, September 30: The revenge of Elephant 6 as ELF POWER
supports their new album on Ryko, Back To The Web.  M COAST and GREAT
LAKES support.  $12, 8pm

Sunday, October 1: A night of eclectic
and different music starrting THE ANDREW THOMPSON SHOW, GRAHAM SMITH of
KLEENEX GIRL WONDER, and JULIANNA BARWICK.  $6, 8pm

Coming up… Evangelicals, Jason Trachtenburg’s Proverbial
Fourth Wall, Envelopes, Math & Physics Club, Novillero, The Secret
Shine (Sarah Records UK band!), Vienna Teng, Koester, South, Les Sans
Culottes, The Circulatory System, Charlotte Martin, and our CMJ lineup!

Today. ther’e’s a march and rally near the UN:  
STAND UP TO BUSH RALLY AT 11 am to 12 noon at Dag Hammarskjold PlazaStand Up to Bush at the UN at

On
Tuesday, Sept. 19th, President George Bush is scheduled to address the
General Assembly at the United Nations — and we will be on the streets
of NYC to greet him! United for Peace and Justice is organizing a march
and rally on the morning of Sept. 19th. We want to send a strong and
clear message to Bush and to the representatives of the worlds’
governments: The war in Iraq must end now, all U.S troops must be
brought home now!

 

In a stunning turn of events, the NYC Police Department has reversed
its previous decision to deny us a permit to march near the United
Nations on Sept. 19th.
 

When the NYPD told us there would be no marches in the vicinity of the
UN that day, we announced that we would march anyway, even if it meant
we went to jail. We have just learned that we are being given a permit
for a march and rally that morning to call for an end to the war in
Iraq.
 

Assemble: 9 am at 6th Avenue and 37th Street
 

March: Begins at 9:30 am

We will march north on 6th Avenue to 47th Street, then east on 47th
Street to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza between 2nd and 1st Avenues (across
the street from the UN). Bring your signs and banners, your chants and
songs. Let’s be visible and loud! Please note: We have agreed to march
on the sidewalks for this demonstration.
 

Rally: 11 am to 12 noon at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
 

Let’s make this a large and loud call for an immediate end to the war
and occupation in Iraq — all the troops must be brought home, and
brought home now!
 

Call Nia at 212-868-5545 to volunteer and help make this the largest
possible outpouring of opposition to Bush and his war in Iraq.

Location:
Assemble at 37th Street and 6th Avenue  New York NY 

Contact:
Nia
nia@unitedforpeace.org
212-868-5545

Sponsored By:
United for Peace and Justice http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3386

Here Was New York : Twin Towers in Memorial Images at the Brooklyn Historical Society

September 7 through 30
Exhibit Opening Thursday September 7, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

To mark the fifth anniversary of September 11th , BHS joins Brooklyn Arts Council to present the photography exhibition Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images to be held simultaneously in galleries across Brooklyn from September 7- September 30, including 5+5 Gallery, Safe-t-Gallery, and Gloria Kennedy Gallery, all in DUMBO, Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights, and City Reliquary in Williamsburg. Here Was New York will show photos that document the Twin Towers as they appeared throughout the New York Metropolitan region in exterior and interior vernacular expressions such as wall murals, homemade shrines, fridge or mantle displays, custom painting on trucks, logos, graffiti, tattoos, merchandise display, window stickers, T-shirts, and so on. The exhibition will include the photographs of Martha Cooper. Curated by BAC folklorist Kay Turner, the impetus for the exhibit stems from a wish to acknowledge local forms of remembrance that keep the Twin Towers visible to us as we go about our daily post- 9/11 lives.

Fresh from my inbox: A press release from the Brooklyn Museum about an ANNIE LEIBOVITZ show at the Museum. Cool:

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life,
1990-2005, an exhibition of more than 100
photographs, will debut at the Brooklyn Museum,
where it will be on view from October 20, 2006
through January 21, 2007, prior to an international
tour.  Among the other venues to which it will
travel are the San Diego Museum of Art, the High
Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the De Young
Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in
Paris, and London’s National Portrait Gallery, with
additional venues to be announced.
       

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

PUBLIC HEARING FOR "ATLANTIC YARDS" DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23RD – COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ESSENTIAL!
New York City Technical College, Klitgord Auditorium, 285 Jay Street (@ MetroTech, between Tillary & Johnson. On Wednesday, August 23rd, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) will hold a Public Hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Forest City Ratner’s proposed "Atlantic Yards" project.

We urge you to do everything you can to attend this critical hearing. The ESDC has provided just five weeks for the public to review the 2,000-page DEIS and 1,000-page General Project Plan prior to the public hearing, and has required the submission of all written comment by September 22nd, a total comment period of just 66 days. By comparison, NYC allowed nearly four months for public comment on the new Yankee Stadium project, and a three-month review of the proposed Hudson Yards redevelopment.

This narrow window for public comment on the "Atlantic Yards" DEIS is symptomatic of a process that has severely limited the community’s input and scrutiny from the outset. By scheduling the hearing in late August, the ESDC appears to be trying to minimize public criticism of the DEIS, so it’s crucial that we don’t let them get away with it. Please prepare as well as you can: the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (see below), www.atlanticyardsreport.com and the Brooklyn Papers (http://dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=134) have some great info to get you started; arrive at the DEIS hearing as early as possible, and sign up to speak; and let the ESDC know what you think.

This hearing is the only opportunity our community will have to speak out publicly about the DEIS. Please be there!

When: Wednesday, August 23rd, 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (BUT COME EARLY TO ENSURE YOU GET IN!)

Where: New York City Technical College, Klitgord Auditorium, 285 Jay Street (@ MetroTech, between Tillary & Johnson)

Mass Transit Access: A/C/F to Jay Street, M/N/R to Lawrence Street, 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall.

This Week at the  Old Stone House!

August 17-20

The Irish Wake, an original two act play in three parts by Elizabeth Dembrowsky, which will be performed Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 pm, Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday at 2 pm.   Tickets: $15 at the door.

August 19

Battle Week opening ceremonies:

10 am  Commemorative Ceremony: Michael A. Rawley Post, 193 9th Street, followed by a march to OSH.

11:00 am – 4 pm  American and British soldiers host demonstrations for children of all ages — daily life, musket drills, and Revolutionary war uniforms.

August 25

6 pm  Meet at Grand Army Plaza Arch for a neighborhood walking tour with Bill Parry to see sites related to the Battle of Brooklyn.  $12.  Reservations suggested.  718-768-3195, or via e-mail: oldstonehouse@verizon.net

7:30 pm  Pinataland.   Vaudevillian chamber-rock. Old world leaning into Tom Waits and David Byrne with songs about everything from Ota Benga to Robert Moses. See them now before they embark on their tour in October!

It seems like this is the summer for outdoor movies. Just heard about an outdoor movie series presented by Added Value, the community organic farm in Red Hook.

Dear Friends

This Saturday Night July 29th Added Value will kick off the nine week-long Red Hook Movies In the Parks Series.

JOIN US FOR DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY: An unforgettable and unbelievably hilarious movie about throwing the ultimate block party right here in Brooklyn. Truly, a celebration of music, New York City and our incredible borough.

Plus: Seeds, Hope and Concrete: a short documentary about urban
agriculture featuring Added Value and Red Hook Community Farm and a short film by local teenagers from The Red Hook Productions.

Films begin at 8:15
The Farm opens at 7pm

Bring a blanket to sit on or saddle up to a hay bale. Feel free to
bring a blanket, a picnic dinner or purchase some local fruit from Wilklow family farm or a pint of IceCream from RonnyBrook Dairy. All proceeds from the sale of food will go to support our youth empowerment programs.

These events are sponored by the City Parks Foundation and are free and opento the public and made possible by the hard work of our partner organizations, SuperProjects, The Brooklyn Greenway, The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Partnership For Parks and The Red Hook Community Justice Center,  These events are are alcohol and smoke free. For a full schedule check out http://www.redhookmovies.org.

Other Films on the Farm include
August 19th @ Red Hook Community Farm
THE FUTURE OF FOOD: an in-depth investigation into the controversy over
Genetically Modified Food

September 9 @ Red Hook Community Farm
WALLACE AND GROMMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (G)
plus short: The True Cost of Food: an educational and entertaining
animated film about sustainable food. www.truecostoffood.org/

PLEASE NOTE

We are looking for 4 volunteers who would like to help with set up and breakdown. Please contact cloomis@added-value.org or call the office at
718-855-5531 if you’d like to help out.

And as always feel free to join us at our Farmers’ Market. This week
will feature some fantastic Peachers and Plums, our first cherry tomatoes, and of course your favorite flavors of locally produced ice cream.

On Tuesday July 18 at 8:30 pm, the big movie screen will be back in JJ Byrne Park (Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets).

Bring a lawn chair, blanket, picnic, friends and family. Food by Stone Park Cafe: ribs, franks, brownies, lemonade, and popcorn.

First up: DUCK AMUCK by Chuck Jones (it may be the best cartoon ever created.)

Followed by: MOONSTRUCK that Brooklyn classic with Cher.

This series made possible with the support of Greg’s Rubbish Removal, Scharf Weissberg, Showman Fabricators, and New York Methodist Hospital.

Brave New World Repertory Company presents THE GREAT WHITE HOPE at Celebrate Brooklyn this Thursday night.  Their acclaimed production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD performed on the tree-lined streets of Ditmas Park before an overflow crowd of one thousand people last summer is the stuff of legend now. I would expect a big crowd for this show. When I was a kid, The Great White Hope played on Broadway with James Earl Jones. I’ve always wanted to see it.

Brave New World Repertory Theatre draws from Brooklyn’s rich artistic community to create dynamic and engaging theatre on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. Founded by a group of local theatre professionals, the company produces classical and neglected works, as well as new works by its members. Brave New World Repertory Theatre provides its actors, directors, designers, playwrights and stage managers the opportunity to work in and for their own community.

Gowanus Lounge was kind enough to publish a list of Brooklyn pools. Check out his list.

It’s hot as hell. So, for what it’s worth, here’s a guide to the
location of city pools in Brooklyn. While the Astoria Pool in Queens in
probably the Gold Standard New York City pool, several of the Brooklyn
pools, including the one in Red Hook and the one in Sunset Park are absolutely huge.
MORE AT GOWANUS LOUNGE.

C’est Incredible: And it’s all on Saturday July 15th in front of Barbes. The festivities start at 2 p.m. On Ninth Street off of Sixth Avenue. Barbes new neighbor Patisserie Colson is part of the fun, too. Photo of Barbes by Joseph Holmes

TAKE IT TO THE STREET! AN OUTDOOR AFTERNOON BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATION
A street festival celebrating the French uprising and ensuing revolution
In association with our good neighbors Patisserie Colson, who be providing the cakes.
With music, screening and special guests

2:00pm –
LES CHAUDS LAPINS, Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt cover Charles Trenet songs and other jewels from the French 30’s and 40’s musical traditions accompanying themselves on banjo-ukes.

3:30pm
STEPHANE WREMBEL’S HOT CLUB OF NY. French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) and has perfected his own take on Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Swing.

6:00pm –
POLKA FREAK OUT – Mexican conjunto music meets Eastern European Polka and Gypsy music – featuring Brave Combo’s Bubba Hernandez on bass, and Polka accordionist Alex Meixner.

9:00pm
POLKA FREAKOUT. More Polka – indoors this time.

Ongoing screenings by various video artists including Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons
Barbès and Patisserie Colson will offer a common menu, cementing the long overdue Franco/Belgian friendship and enlightening brooklynites with the correct way to eat waffles in the process.

Patisserie Colson is the New York branch of the renowned Belgian Patisserie of the same name.

Someone from the Fifth Avenue Farmers Market emailed me about this. The Market is on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets on Sundays. Sounds fun.

Just wanted to alert you to a cooking demo at the 5th Avenue farmers’ market this coming Sunday, from 12 – 2 PM. We’ll be cooking up farm-fresh zucchini with pesto as well as some glazed peaches with brown sugar and ginger. The market is located on Fifth Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets. Amanda Elliott, our market manager (also a caterer) will be doing the cooking. We’ll have a great amount of delicious seasonal goodies for the neighborhood to sample! Could you please mention this, and tell your photographer. I’ll be sure to save you some yummy stuff! (I’ll be there as the sous chef!: )

The first concert in the free Seaside Summer Concert Series, organized by my friend Debbie Garcia, is Al Green, Take Me To The River, Let’s Stay Together Reverend and soulman. Whoa. Need I say more? Bring a chair or rent one for ten bucks.

TONIGHT JULY 13 AT 7:30 Seabreeze Avenue at Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, 718-469-1912. brooklynconcerts.com

Check out the whole schedule (click on the pix to the left) and don’t miss the Hippie Fest on August 3rd and the  B-52s on August 10th!

I got this email this morning about the opening (July 11, 6:30 p.m.) of a SoHo art exhibition that showcases artwork devoted to TRASH. It’s in Manhattan (40 Wooster Street, 4th floor). But Brooklynite, Elizabeth Royte, will be reading from her book:

In the words of the director of the Atlantic Gallery, their new show, Talking Trash, “will have the seriousness of Elizabeth Royte’s GARBAGE LAND, the legal knowledge of the NRDC, and the total dramatic commitment of Reverend Billy with the music of 12 Gospel Singers."

THIS TUESDAY JULY 11, 6.30pm at ATLANTIC GALLERY-
against a backdrop of fifty  artists’ work devoted to Trash, three speakers will examine the life of Trash, in reverse:

Elizabeth Royte, will read from her acclaimed book Garbage Land, remark on what’s wrong with landfills, recycling, and  incinerators, offer alternatives like waste prevention and redesign, and remind us that our decisions  about consumption have very real impact.

Eric Goldstein is a senior attorney at the NRDC and codirector of the NY Region Urban Program specializing in waste, water, air-quality, recycling and  sprawl. He will perform a dissection of a typical office waste  basket, examining what is discarded and exploring why.

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will  deliver a sermon on reducing our  impulse to consume in the first place and offer inspiration on how to prevent the encroachment into  our neighborhoods of the giant box stores that are devoted to the creation of Trash.

For information on the panel please visit the following sites:
http://www.booknoise.net/garbageland/
http://www.nrdc.org/cities/living/thennow/thennow5.asp
http://www.revbilly.com/

www.atlanticgallery.org
Atlantic Gallery
40 Wooster Street, 4th FLOOR
New York,  NY  10013 (between Broome and Grand)
212-219-3183
Gallery Hours: 12-6 Tues -Sat

Broken Social Scene and Hidden Cameras, two Canadian bands, will play Celebrate Brooklyn on Thursday night. That’s the good news. The bad news is: Tix are $30. It’s a benefit for Celebrate Brooklyn.

But you can still hear the music from outside the gates. You can hear the music just fine.