My friend, the very accomplished painter and master printer, SHAWN DULANEY, is having a one night showing at Night and Day. Here’s the info.
You are cordially invited to
Night and Day’s July
ARTISTS SALON
and
the opening of an exhibit of
MONOTYPES
by Shawn Dulaney
MONDAY JULY 10
6-8PM
230 FIFTH AVENUE (AT PRESIDENT)
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN, NY 11215
718-399-2161
www.nightanddayrestaurant.com
Just got a note from a friend who is in a band called Cocktail Angst. I haven’t heard them but I have a hunch what they sound like. Love the name. You can hear their music on the web site.
On Wednesday, July 5th, I’m back at M Bar for my monthly song festival with Keith Ganz! Also, this is a little heads up for an upcoming Cocktail Angst gig in Williamsburg on Friday, July 14th from 6-7:30pm. We’ll have all the details for you soon, but it’s at this place that is for kids and adults…you know, you are an adult and you bring a kid and you both have stuff to do. You can also come without a kid and act like a kid! Hopefully, this will be like a little Brooklyn Brewery reunion!!
Here’s the details for Wednesday the 5th
M Bar at the Mansfield Hotel (www.mansfieldhotel.com)
12 West 44th St. (between 5th and 6th avenues)
7pm to 10pm
At Barbes on Monday night, the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series is showing a doc about Hunter S. Thompson. It’s the EAST COAST PREMIERE. Sounds really interesting. 7 p.m.
BROOKLYN INDEPENDENT CINEMA SERIES, Curated by Joe Pacheco.
Every first and third Monday this summer, BICS presents a double feature
* East Coast Premiere *
WHEN I DIE. 60 min • 2005 • US. Hunter S. Thompson stated in a 1978 interview that he wanted a 150 foot obelisk built in his backyard from which his ashes would be shot five hundred feet into the air over his beloved Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colorado. When I Die documents the construction of the good doctor’s Gonzo Monument and the trials, tribulations & triumphs of his elaborate funeral production. directed by Wayne Ewing.
* New York Premiere *
BILLY CHILDISH IS DEAD. 70 min • 2005 • UK. Billy Childish is reputed to have recorded 100 LP’s, painted over 2,000 paintings and written 30 plus volumes of poetry during his 24-year career. Over three years in the making, Billy Childish Is Dead is the first ever in-depth documentary to explore the extraordinary life of the man behind the myth. directed by Graham Bendel.
Today, July 2nd, on Third Street between 6th and 7th, Fofolle is selling her ever-popular skirs for women and girls. Here’s what Kathy Malone, Fofolle herself, has to say about her skirts:
This season’s inspiration has been influenced by
"weather" – pun intended. I like to top stitch, repeatedly, across my
fabrics creating designs that resemble a weather map or gulf stream.
Each one is different. I have been applying this technique to my denim
skirts and my velvet " reinvented" jackets. My obsession with
upholstery fabric remains. I am always scouring off-the-beaten-track
upholstery sources; turning would be curtains, love seats, and divans
into really amazing skirts- a guaranteed statement! In rotation, are my
plush, corduroy skirts with the contrasting Hawaiian-inspired, floral
appliqué, and asymmetrical hemlines. Warm but groovy, these skirts come
in every color under the sun.
Others are selling more traditional stoop sale household "stuff they don’t need anymore," including books, clothing, toys, kitchenware, etc. You know the drill.
Popcorn and lemonade is also being featured at this Third Street Extravaganza.
On the Fouth of July, Rooftop Films presents a fun evening on a Manhattan rooftop.
Political Shorts: Fun with the Founding Fathers
Cheerful American dissidents and adorable cartoons
about war-mongers and genocide.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
***BUY
TICKETS*** | PRESS RELEASE | WATCH a TRAILER!
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
All audience members must be at the venue by 5PM!
+ Live music by The Double and Woodpecker (click for details)
+ + Readings by Patrick Gallagher and Debbie Nathan courtesy of Mr. Bellerís Neighborhood Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
+ Fantastic fireworks view
+ One hour of fun political films
On the East River at Solar One (@ 23rd St), just north of Stuyvesant Cove Park, Manhattan | DIRECTIONS
The show will go on rain or shine, so bring an umbrella.
Food, soft drinks, and beer will be for sale.
Greenpoint’s McGarren Pool is the newest site for outdoor rock concerts. It joins the city’s big summer music spaces like SummerStage in Central Park, Celebrate
Brooklyn in Prospect Park and River to River in the plazas and parks of
Lower Manhattan.
"The pool was opened in 1936 during a monumental summer of public projects in New York. It was the middle of The Great Depression, and the Works Progress Administration opened a series of ten pools throughout the city. They were designed to provide recreation, generate employment, and get people’s minds off the economy.
The brainchild of Robert Moses, who was responsible one way or another for nearly all of the city’s open spaces, the network of pools would supplement the one existing public pool in the city and become an example of civic generosity.
Moses and Mayor LaGuardia opened one pool every week that summer. McCarren Park Pool, at a cost of $1 million, boasted a capacity of 6800 simultaneous swimmers and was the size of three Olympic pools combined. It was one of the largest public pools in the world. It, like its 9 counterparts, was an immediate success with the residents" – Free Willliamsburg.com
MCCARREN PARK POOL 2006 CONCERT SCHEDULE SO FAR
Sun 7/09 – Les Savy Fav, ???, Beans With Holy Fuck, Dragons of Zynth, DJs Finger On The Pulse (free)
Sun 7/16 – TBA (free)
Sun 7/23 – Silversun Pickups & TBA (free)
Sat 7/29 – Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Mew [SOLD OUT]
Sun 7/30 – Of Montreal, Enon (free)
Sun 8/06 – TBA
Fri 8/11 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Blood on the Wall
Sat 8/12 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Awesome Color
Sun 8/13 – Deerhoof, Beirut, Apollo Sunshine, The Harlem Shakes, DJ Questlove (free)
Thu 8/17 – Iron & Wine
Thu 8/24 – Neko Case, Joanna Newsom, Martha Wainwright
Sun 8/27 – The Walkmen, Dr. Dog, Elvis Perkins, Human Television, DJ Mikey Palms (free)
Sun 9/03 – Shy Child, Spank Rock, DJs The Rub (free)
9/09 – Gov’t Mule, Wolfmother & Two Gallants
Brooklyn Artists Gym will start having a long pose session
every Saturday from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Artists can do extended
studies, or can paint from the model. We will have the model
in an environment that has some interesting visuals.
This session will replace our Monday evening sketch session.
Our Wednesday session (6:30-9:30) will continue all summer.
Like the other sessions, the Saturday session is $12, $10 for
members, with discount cards available.
This will all begin July 8. Have a happy and safe 4th of July!
DAN ZANES says: Let’s ring in the summer.
He will be doing a FREE performance in Union Square on Wednesday June 28th at 5 p.m. The event is free, part of the Summer in the Square program. Union Square. That’s Manhattan. 14th – 16th Street.
A nice way to spend the last day of school, eh?
The First Annual Brooklyn Blogfest is TONIGHT: THURSDAY JUNE 22 AT 8 p.m. at the Old Stone House. Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. THIS EVENT, A CELEBRATION OF BLOGGING BROOKLYN STYLE, IS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC! BLOGGERS AND NON-BLOGGERS ALIKE.
There will be both a formal presentation and a more casual/social component to the evening. For most of us (readers and bloggers) this will be the first face-time we’ve ever had. For the non-blogging public, this will be a chance to learn about blogging.
8ish-9ish: FORMAL PRESENTATION: 16 Brooklyn bloggers will speak or present photos, etc. for 2-4
minutes max. There will be a
microphone. If you are interested in speaking there are a small number of spots still available. Let me know.
PHOTO BLOGGERS
are invited to discuss and show their work.
9ish: CASUAL/SOCIAL: There
will be tables set up, sort of like a trade show, for the bloggers. Every
blog will have a spot. Bring your lap top, any handouts, souvenirs,
postcards you’d like to give out, books to sell, anything related to
your blog or you.
GET THE WORD OUT: Blog about it. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, and fellow bloggers
JUNE 22 at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The press is invited. Refreshments and door prizes. Go here: Old Stone House for info and directions to the house. It is located on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. Questions: call Louise Crawford 718-288-4290.
Here’s who’s coming:
OTBKB
Brownstoner
Brooklyn Record
Design*Sponge
Daily Heights
Dope on the Slope
A Brooklyn Life
Calla Lillie
Lex’s Folly
Joe’s NYC
Travis Ruse
Develop Don’t Destroy
No Land Grab
Atlantic Yards Report
Lost and Frowned
Gowanus Lounge
No Words Daily Pix
Left Behind
Creative Times
Smith Street
The Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest. This from the New York Daily News:
Ripped up roses. Uprooted pear trees. Drive-by snoopings. Who said it was easy being green in Brooklyn?
Previous winners of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest said the plot has certainly thickened as more Brooklynites compete for borough-wide, green thumb bragging rights.
"The first year we entered, somebody stole a flowering Callery pear tree," said Mary Schuck of from Bridge Plaza, just north of DUMBO. "I don’t know how they did it."
After a Spring Creek group won first prize last year, Cheryl Daniel said there were lots of visiting admirers.
"Some felt that since the contest was over, they could pluck whatever they wanted," Daniel said. "We had to put up signs."
Over in Boerum Hill, Tim Walther said his neighbors noticed passersby stopping on the way to work to do more than just smell the roses.
"We’ve seen people just bend down and yank something out," said Walther, whose block was named greenest in 1998 and 1999.
More than 250 groups – the highest number ever – entered this year’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition, which is sponsored by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Borough President’s office and the Independence Community Foundation.
The rivalry among competing block associations is described as both fierce and friendly. But gardeners say they do have to protect against spoilers.
So far this season, there’s been only one reported incident of theft, said Brooklyn Botanic Garden contest supervisor Ellen Kirby. "There are problems, but they are very, very minor," Kirby said.
Judging began June 14 and will continue until the winning residential and commercial blocks are announced, sometime in early August.
To keep all things bright and beautiful until the judges call for the final time, some folks skip summer vacations.
"This contest takes a lot of hard work," said Wilma Atwell, who sometimes spends entire days making her Bedford-Stuyvesant garden grow – and snapped up first place in 2003.
Real estate values also can grow on prize-winning blocks, gardeners say. But the best reason for entering the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest is to get to know neighbors better.
"We view this contest as something relaxing and uplifting," said Walther of his Boerum Hill compatriots.
"We try to get every house and apartment building on our block to participate. We have a great time," Walther said. "It’s all good-natured fun."
We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn’s Southside features photographs by Vincent Cianni depicting the lives of a group of young Latino men in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Taken over the course of more than eight years, the photographs follow their stories as they dedicate themselves to becoming virtuoso inline skaters — building impromptu skate parks, honing their skills, and using sport as an alternative to the temptations of drugs and crime. Cianni’s work also provides a compelling portrait of their relationships with friends, girlfriends, and families, told in part through their own words written on the margins of the photographs.
We Skate Hardcore also shows the varied paths the skaters’ lives took: one, Richie Velasquez, turned pro, while another dropped out of school, and eventually joined the Army and was deployed in Iraq. Yet others stayed in the neighborhood, where they are carrying on their lives within the network of family, friends, and community that shaped them.
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. FIFTH AVENUE AND 102nd STREEET. THROUGH AUGUST 6, 2006
A book of the same title is available at the Museum shop, co-published by New York University Press and the Center for Documentary Studies.
As always, interesting projects issue forth from Park Slope/Gowanus Issue Project Room. Make the time to get over there one of these days (or nights). You’ll be glad you did. Here’s what’s going on this week. Photo by Joe Holmes
ISSUE Project Room
400 Carroll Street
(between Bond & Nevins)
on the Gowanus Canal
718-330-0313
info@issueprojectroom.org
www.issueprojectroom.org
every Wednesday & Saturday
Yoga Classes w/ instructor liz kresch
From the bottom up & the inside out, renew & rejuvenate with
Iyengar-based Vinyasa. All levels welcome. Find balance & contentment. Fine tune a pose you’ve been taking for granted. Learn one you’ve never seen. Bring no expectations and surpass the ones you’ve had. Please bring a mat if you have one- email if not so I know how many to bring. Please don’t eat for at least and hour before class. (You’ll be glad
you didn’t!) Please join us for a fun and informative mid-morning and
recharge in the process!
Wednesdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Saturdays, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Suggested Donation, $15. Pay what you can
wednesday, June 21
solstice sinema
"The outer sun hungers for the inner one."
-alchemist Jacob Boehme
An enchanted evening of outdoor films & videos where dreaming faeries bring out the sun, moon & stars…night blooming flowers, luminous monsters and a constellation of chimeras on a dappled screen.
Drink in the first day of summer as the Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema (Bradley Eros & Joel Schlemowitz) throws a magic lantern show for this heliographic celebration!at dusky 8:00 p.m., $10
Thursday, June 22
Polly cotton
The first time merging of music composed by Simon Ho and Shelley
Hirsch, based on their kooky autobiographical stories. Music for voice, keyboards, strings and percussion.
Polly Cotton will perform a suite of songs that are filled with sonic
pictures, little stories, grooves and improvisation
with-
Shelley Hirsch……………………….voice
Simon Ho……………………….keyboards
David Hofstra………………………. bass, tuba
Stephanie Griffin……………………….viola
David Simons……………………….percussion, theremin
Tomas Ulrich……………………….cello
8:00 p.m., $10
Friday, June 23
sonic architectures
w/ jim pugliese and grady gerbracht
Jim Pugliese and Grady Gerbracht will perform an improvised set with the intention of discovering and dialoging with the inner rhythms and frequencies of the architecture itself. Contact microphones will be fixed to the structures at strategic points where the interaction of the performers and the architecture will be amplified.
Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist and composer. In his most
recent work he combines years of experience improvising, playing new and experimental music and world music. 8:00 p.m., $10
Saturday, June 24
seth tobocman + rebecca moore & prevention of blindness
a night of music and visuals
Seth Tobocman
radical comic book artist, will show slides of his work, performing the text, accompanied by musicians: Eric Blitz, Zef Noise and Steve Wishnia Rebecca Moore and Prevention of Blindness, The Band -which is: Dan Kaufman, Danny Tunick , Christy Davis, Pinky Weitzman,
Ursula Wiskoski and RM Accompanied by the video works of John Jesurun.
For more info:
www.bluviolin.com or the sites mentioned above. She asks that anyone
who knows the famous dance in the film "Band of Outsiders" (Godard),
come to this gig.
8:00 p.m., $10
Brooklyn is oh so hip, it’s even the location of a new play that just opened at the Public Theater starring Sandra Oh (of Sideways and Gray’s Anatomy) called "Satellites." Garnering great reviews, the appearance of this new play demonstrates that that Brooklyn is more than just a place but a state of mind or at least the zeitgeist of the moment.
This house will not stay still. Floorboards might as well be skateboards in the old Brooklyn brownstone that is the setting for "Satellites," the tough-minded, softhearted and very likable new play by Diana Son that opened last night at the Public Theater
Thanks to the ingenuity of the set designer Mark Wendland, rooms slide sideways, backward and forward in this study of big-city identity crises from the author of "Stop Kiss." A seemingly solid structure splits again and again into a house divided, as distinctions between outdoors and indoors, between public and private, melt and dissolve. For Nina (Sandra Oh) and Miles (Kevin Carroll), a couple who have just moved from Manhattan with their newborn daughter, home has all the stability of a runaway taxi.
Urban flux indeed. The kinetic set for "Satellites" isn’t just the latest example of a designer strutting his virtuosity. Ms. Son is examining a world in which traditional ethnic, social, economic and sexual boundaries have become so porous that people are never quite sure who or where they are at any given moment. It feels absolutely right that the ground should shift so literally beneath the feet of Ms. Son’s wandering, wondering characters.
Saturday, June 17 – THAT’S TONIGHT AT CELEBRATE BROOKLYN
7:30pm
LAURIE ANDERSON / CHIRGILCHIN
For this rare outdoor hometown appearance LAURIE ANDERSON will perform new, old and improvised music and stories, joined by fellow musicians Skuli Sverrisson and Peter Scherer. Tuvan throat singers of CHIRGILCHIN open.
Photo by Astrovine
Renegade Craft Fair in McCarren Park JUNE 17 and 18, 2006. Go here for info.
The Renegade Craft Fair is a unique DIY event organized by Sue Blatt + Kathleen Habbley.
When this event began in 2003, there was nothing else like it. We took
up crafts as a hobby after college and decided to try selling our stuff
in local fairs. To our surprise, no events were catering to the
burgeoning DIY craft community or even prohibited crafts all together.
So we thought of organizing a fair of our own that tapped into this
movement and provided a laid back, fresh venue for artists and shoppers
alike.The
timing of the Renegade Craft Fair was perfect since it coincided with
the resurgence of crafting as a new generation of people have reclaimed
crafts and put a contemporary spin on them. At the RCF you’ll find all
sorts of cool stuff ranging from comic books to cool craft patterns,
and gigposters to reconstructed clothing.
In its first year, we had
originally hoped for 40-50 local people to join, but when applications
started pouring in from all over the country, we had to jury the first
fair and we ended-up having 75 vendors showcasing the coolest crafts
around. We knew we had filled a void and began brainstorming how we
could make the fair bigger and better. The Renegade Craft Fair now
takes place in Chicago and Brooklyn, NY, each with over 150 vendors,
and we hope to one day add a west coast event to our schedule. We also
plan on opening a storefront within the next year, so keep a look out
for us if you’re in Chicago!
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The Brooklyn Museum presents Graffiti from
June 30 to September 3, 2006, an exhibition of
twenty large-scale works from such influential
artists as Michael Tracy (“Tracy 168”), Melvin
Samuels, Jr. (“NOC 167”), Sandra Fabara (“Lady
Pink”), Chris Ellis (“Daze”), and John Matos
(“Crash”). Graffiti explores how a genre that
began as a form of subversive public communication
has become legitimate—moving away from the street
and into private collections and
Brooklyn’s own Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen, who last graced the stage of the Old Stone House and wowed their Park Slope audience with vocal artistry and compositional pizazz will be performing again. But this time they’re appearing at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan. And as it says in this week’s New Yorker Magazine (listed somewhat misleadingly under Jazz and Standards) but hey that’s alright, it’s in the New Yorker:
The vocalist and actress Capathia Jenkins is joined by the Broadway veteran Darius de Hass. Jenkin’s collaborator, the composer, Louis Rosen, has written new new songs for the evening, based on the works of Langston Hughes.
The Great Hall at Cooper Union. Third Avenue at 7th Street (212) 279-4200. Tickets are $30 ($15 for students with ID) and can be purchased in
advance by contacting Ticket Central at 212 279 4200 from Noon to 8 pm
daily.
THE FIRST ANNUAL BROOKLYN BLOGFEST is on June 22 at 8 p.m.
For blog readers, bloggers, newbies, those who don’t even know what a blog is but want to find out…
A celebration of blogging Brooklyn-style, come see all your faves: Brownstoner, Design*Sponge, A Brooklyn Life, Joe’s NYC, Travis Ruse, Develop Don’t Destroy, Callalillie, Lex’s Folly, Daily Heights, Dope from the Slope, Lost and Frowned, Zeebahtronic, Norm Oser, OTBKB…
The Old Stone House. Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. Contact: 718-288-4290. The event is free and open to all.
Today and tomorrow at BAM — one of the great movies about swinging London in the 1960’s made in the 1960’s. You won’t want to miss: Vanessa Redgrave, Veruschka, Jane Birkin and MORE. at BAM…
Blow-Up (1966) 110min
Mon, June 12 & Tue, June 13 at 4:30, 9:15pm
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Veruschka, Jane Birkin, and Sarah Miles
"The key movie of the 1960s" (Time Out New York), Blow-Up caused a
sensation with its nudity and portrayal of Swinging London. A modish
photographer discovers what may or may not be a murder in one of his
photographs and tries to solve the mystery himself. Though Blow-Up is a
raucous time capsule of 1960s British culture, its examination of
subjectivity and the power of perception seems even more relevant and
complex now than when it was first released. Presented in a new print
(courtesy of Warner Brothers) for its 40th anniversary! In English.
“Blow-Up is the movie of the year. It is to Antonioni what Lola Montès
was to Ophuls, Ugetsu to Mizoguchi, Contempt to Godard, French Cancan
to Renoir, Limelight to Chaplin, Rear Window to Hitchcock, 8 ½ to
Fellini—a statement of the artist, not on life but on art itself as the
consuming passion of an artist’s life.”—Andrew Sarris
Brownstoner’s new blog, Brooklyn Record, had this to report about the concert series this summer at McCarren Park in Williamsburg. If I were gonna be here on August 24th I would be so there for the Neko Case and Martha Wainwright show. But we’ll be off in California. July 30th is Of Montreal – that should be a winner, too. And of course two Yeah Yeah Yeah shows with Sonic Young. Awe-some.
The concert schedule for Greenpoint’s McCarren Pool has been announced, and it’s a solid lineup of crowd-pleasing indie rock:
7/29 – Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Mew
7/30 – Of Montreal
8/11 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Blood on the Wall
8/12 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Awesome Color
8/13 – Deerhoof
8/17 – Iron & Wine
8/24 – Neko Case, Joanna Newsom, Martha Wainwright
The Of Montreal and Deerhoof shows are both free. Paying $32.50 for the Iron & Wine show
seems excessive, but then again, these are Clear Channel events.
There’s been a fair bit of controversy surrounding the future of
McCarren Pool, and these concerts in particular.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens after this summer; the
concerts’ success, or failure, will undoubtedly have a lot to do with
it.
This story from the Daily News about soccer fans watching the big game at Los Pollitos on Fifth Avenue on Sunday. I was in there after the game on Sunday and fans were still screaming and clapping.
There were chickens to roast, salsa to make and customers to serve inside Los Pollitos restaurant on Fifth Ave. in Brooklyn.But for Miguel Tufino, the most important thing was the Mexican soccer team playing its opening game of the World Cup against Iran.
"I was working, but I was watching, too, of course," said Tufino, 23.
Cheers echoed in taquerias and Mexican restaurants across the city as Mexico shook off a slow start to beat Iran 3-1.
"I hope they keep it going," said Tufino, an immigrant from Puebla, Mexico. "We are all behind them."
For Mexicans, the day was just about soccer, pure and simple.
Things were a bit more complicated for Iranians in the city, several dozen of whom gathered in Manhattan to munch on kebabs and watch the game.
They despise the authoritarian Islamic regime in Tehran, but they insist they still support their underdog team 100%.
"Politics don’t matter in soccer," said Reza Khalili. "I’m an Iranian, these guys on the team are Iranian, so I support them."
Iran has made headlines for its nuclear program, its president’s anti-Israel rants and strict Islamic laws that bar women from even watching soccer games with men.
But controversies and politics were set aside for the day as Iranian expatriates concentrated on the basics – enjoying each other and rooting for their team.
"I miss the feeling of being among all my family and other Iranians,"
The V-Spot
156 5th ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Love the name. Has anyone tried the new vegan place on Fifth Avenue below Union. The menu looks good: they call it Italian, South American and American. Looked to me like mock meat dishes. For brunch, try their tofu scramble eggs. Attractive place. Dying to hear from anyone who has eaten there. I have a hunch it’s good: if you like tempeh and I DO.
The Amazing True Adventures of Buckbean Bushytail
written and directed by Greg Paul
with music by Lisa Dove
featuring:
John Egan
Kelli Rae Powell
Hawken Paul
Linc O’Brien
Lisa Dove
Sunday, June 11 at 2pm and 4pm
Neighborhood Playspace at Christ Church
Clinton & Kane Streets (Christ Church), Brooklyn, NY
Tickets $5
Join Buckbean on an adventure filled with pirates, silliness, and song as he sets out out on a perilous quest to save his home. Bring your whole family to see this delightful (and slightly subversive) table top toy-theatre musical production.
Made possible by support from New York State Council of the Arts
www.juggernaut-theatre.org
MEMORIAL BIKE RIDE TO DOT HEADQUARTERS
On the One-Year Anniversary of Elizabeth Padilla’s Death
What: A memorial for Elizabeth Padilla followed by a group ride to DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s office in Manhattan to call for stronger bike safety measures.
Where: In front of 79 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Prospect Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
When: Friday, June 9th, 8:00 am
Who: Members of family, Park Slope Neighbors, Transportation Alternatives, Park Slope Civic Council, Visual Resistance, Councilmembers David Yassky and Bill DeBlasio and Community Board 6 and neighborhood cyclists.
BROOKLYN, NY (June 9, 2006) – On June 9, 2005, 28-year-old pro bono lawyer and Park Slope resident, Elizabeth Kasulis Padilla was hit by a truck and killed on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Prospect Place while riding her bicycle to her new job at the Brooklyn Bar Association.
One year later, Park Slope Neighbors, Transportation Alternatives, the Park Slope Civic Council and Visual Resistance, along with elected officials, local bike commuters and members of Elizabeth’s family will gather to honor her and to announce bicycle safety improvements that the Department of Transportation has agreed to make on Fifth Avenue between Carroll and Dean Streets.
After the brief memorial, cyclists will conduct a group ride to DOT headquarters in Manhattan at 40 Worth Street. There, Commissioner Iris Weinshall will be presented with flowers and a letter calling for stronger street design standards to encourage bicycle commuting by better protecting New York City’s cyclists.
* * * * *
Elizabeth Padilla worked as a pro bono lawyer and legal services coordinator with the Brooklyn Bar Association and was a tireless volunteer with a number of organizations. After graduating from Cornell, Ms. Padilla spurned a six-figure starting salary with a Silicon Valley law firm to do poverty law. She worked at the Family Center in New York, providing pro bono legal services to indigent persons suffering from terminal illnesses, primarily people living with HIV-AIDS. She volunteered for Human Rights Watch, taught English as a second language to immigrant high school students, and worked in a soup kitchen run by New York Cares. A cyclist, swimmer and marathoner, as well as a personal trainer, Ms. Padilla was a member of the Achilles Club, an organization that enables people with all sorts of disabilities to participate in mainstream athletics.
http://www.thepadilla.com/LizkP/Lizindex.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902889.html
http://www.naparstek.com/2005/06/brooklyn-neighborhood-cyclist-killed.php
http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/ghostbikes/memorials/elizabeth-padilla
What’s in a name?
I like her name: Gertler. For personal reasons. And that’s a good enough reason to promote this singer whose name is like my maiden name without the H.
Ghertler/Gertler
GRETA GERTLER & the EXTROVERTS. The australian songwriter plays delicious piano-based pop music. She is up to about anything; she is known to incoporate string quartets, jazz musicians and power popsters. With her new band, she reconciles it all with a Balkan Rhythm section (Matt Moran – drums and Ron Caswell – tuba (both of Slavic Soul Party) Michael Gomez – guitar; Pete Galub on guitar and herself on piano and vocals.
Set the Stage for Summer!
Come to a special fundraiser for our outdoor theater, film and music series in JJ Byrne Park. Meet Piper Theater at OSH artistic director John McEneny, sample featured wines from Hayman & Hill and canapes from our neighboring 5th Avenue restaurateurs — all to live music from Buzz Universe.
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. $40. Reservations: 718-768-3915, or oldstonehouse@verizon.net.
The Old Stone House is located on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets.
PLG Arts Presents Free Performances for Children of All Ages in Prospect Park: Daydream A Short Version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturdays & Sundays in July at 11a.m.
Daydream
PLG Arts
Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground (Ocean Avenue between Lincoln & Parkside.)
Saturdays & Sundays in July at 11a.m.
July 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16
All Performances Free – activities for children precede performances
Visit: www.PLGArts.org or call 646-221-5608 for more information
The Play
Direction: Rohana Elias-Reyes
Production Design: Shevon Gant
With: Sean Elias-Reyes, Laura Frenzer, Lynda Kennedy, Tim Moore, Siobhan O’Neill, Gwynne Watkins
A short version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Daydream is adapted for children of all ages, from pre-school on up. When a group of construction workers come to rehearse a play in the Imagination Playground in Prospect Park – they stumble into a battle between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Magic, puppets, hard hats & safety vests – what more could any New York kid want?
PLG Arts
PLG Arts promotes the arts, supports local artists, and builds community through celebrating the vibrant collective creativity of Prospect Lefferts Gardens and surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Prospect Park Alliance
In partnership with the City of New York and the community, the Prospect Park Alliance restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the enjoyment of all by caring for the natural environment, preserving historic design, and serving the public through facilities and programs.
Directions
Imagination Playground in Prospect Park. Enter the Park from Ocean Avenue between Lincoln and Parkside. Turn left and follow the signs.
Subway: S or Q to Prospect Park station (Lincoln Road exit) or Q to Parkside station.
For more information on Daydream contact Rohana Elias-Reyes 646-221-5608
For more information on Prospect Park events and programs, call the Park Hotline
at (718) 965-8999 or visit www.prospectpark.org
TONIGHT TUESDAY JUNE 6th.
Admission $10.
PS 107
1301 Eighth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets
These funny, smart guys are reading at READINGS ON THE 4th FLOOR, a reading series that raises money for the PS 107 library. Elissa Schappell of Vanity Fair will moderate.
John
Hodgman is, among other things, a correspondent for The Daily
Show, a regular contributor to NPR’s This American Life, a contributing
editor at The New York Times Magazine, the host of Little Gray Book
Lecture Series, and the author of THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE.
Dan Zanes and Brooklyn Friends
Tickets on sale in a mom-n-pop shop near you
Benefit Concert for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
Saturday, June 3, 11AM
Hanson Place United Methodist Church
144 St. Felix
Street at Hanson Place
Brooklyn
(Subways:2/3/4/5/B/Q to Atlantic Avenue, N/R/D to
Pacific).
Tickets on sale at these locations:
Acorn
323 Atlantic Ave., 718-522-3760
Soundtrack Record Store
119 7th Avenue
Boing Boing
204 6th Ave., 718-398-0251
Green Onion
274 Smith St., 718-246-2804
LuLu’s Cuts and Toys
48 Fifth Ave. (between Bergen & Dean), 718-832-3732
Mini Jake
242 Wythe Ave., 718-782-2005
Heights Kids
85 Pineapple Walk, 718-222-4271
READING: PS 107 and Community
Bookstore presents RICK MOODY, author of "THE ICE STORM" AND "PURPLE AMERICA" AND WESLEY STACE, author of "MISFORTUNE" $10. 7:30 pm.
143 Seventh Ave. (718) 783-3075. Part of the Readings on the 4th Floor Reading Series, which is raising money for PS 107’s LIBRARY.
COOL. MAKE THE TIME AND GO.