JJ Byrne Playground Opens!
Come out and play! Our beautiful new playground opens today. Join us for the ribbon cutting today, May 11, at 11 am, and on Saturday, May 12, for our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at 11 am and for a free concert by Princess Katie & Racer Steve at 12:30 pm.
Brooklyn Reading Works – Edgy Moms – Hosted by Two Moon Cafe, 4th Ave. bet. 3rd & 2nd Sts.
Thursday, May 10, 8 pm
$5 suggested donation
We’re setting up for the big playground opening on May 11, so join us for Brooklyn Reading Works‘ annual celebration of edgy moms, taking place around the corner from OSH at Two Moon Cafe, 315 4th Avenue, between 3rd an 2nd Streets.
FREE GIFT BAGS FROM BABELAND PLUS FREE WINE AND REFRESHMENTS!
This year’s line up includes Elizabeth Laura Nelson, Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Nicole Callihan, Karen Ritter, Jezra Kaye and special guests!
Sponsored by Babeland!
Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space – Pining For You
Saturday June, 16, 2012: 5 pm – 7 pm
Tracy Candido will facilitate a collective queer wedding celebration and performance at the Old Stone House, and a pine tree planting ceremony, exploring queer park space, gay utopias, Dutch history and contemporary culture in The Netherlands.
Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space – Interactive Games with Gigantic Mechanic
Saturday, May 19, 2012: 5 pm – 10 pm
Game-designers Gigantic Mechanic will lead two different OSH-specific games: In the Rubber Ball Battle of Brooklyn (played from 5 pm-sundown), players grab a ball and storm the field in a giant game of dodgeball mixed with capture the flag. Shadowplay (beginning at sundown) is a live-action arcade game players play with their shadows. Both games recommended for ages 12 and up.
4th Annual Brooklyn Bike Jumble
Saturday, May 19, 2012: 10 am – 4 pm
Come join us for the 4th annual Spring Brooklyn Bike Jumble at the Old Stone House with vendors selling used bikes, new and used bike accessories and other great events, including the Eminent Domain Bike Tour with Bettina Johae.
This year we will also be celebrating the newly renovated park, as well as the continuing acendancy of bikes in New York City!
Brooklyn Utopias – Parks Space, Play Space: Eminent Domain Bike Tour
Saturday, May 19, 2012 @ Noon
As part of her ongoing Eminent Domain: NYC project, Bettina Johae will lead a bike tour of parks and recreation spaces in Brooklyn that resulted from the use of Eminent Domain. Meet on the patio facing 4th Avenue at the Old Stone House!
Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Place Space – Public Voice/Public Dream Mural Workshop
Saturday, April 28, 2012: 5 pm – 7 pm
What is Your vision for Public Place? In this creative artist/activist workshop, with interdisciplinary artist/activist, Triada Samaras, and CORD, we will brainstorm this question and the possible future uses of “Public Place” for our community. The area once known as Citizens Gas Works, a manufactured gas site, and now commonly called, Public Place, is a highly contaminated plot of land along the equally contaminated Gowanus Canal, bordered by Smith, 5th, and 9th Streets in Carroll Gardens. Designated as a“public recreation space” in 1975, Public Place can still inspire us to dream and to create a better future for our local neighborhoods, including our very own public park and recreational areas for our use and enjoyment in the Carroll Gardens/Gowanus area. We will depict our collective dreams using collaborative mural making. Finished artworks will be displayed on the CORD blog, where Samaras is a co-Founder.
This event is free to the general public, but may fill up fast.Please email Triada Samaras at triadasamaras@gmail.com to pre-register for the event, or to submit ideas for Public Place in advance!
Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space/Play Space – Daydreaming with Kat Schneck
Saturday, April 28, 2012: 5 pm – 7 pm
Kat Schneck will lead passersby in a collective sky-gazing session. People of all ages are invited to bring a blanket and join.
