Events — Prospect Park Opening Day Parade, Flatbush Green Weekend, Quilt Festival & More
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Flatbush Green Weekend At Flatbush Food Co-op
When: Saturday (4/2) and Sunday (4/3)
Where: 1415 Cortelyou Road
What: A program of recycling and giving back to the community.
How Much: Free (except for document shredding)
Saturday (10am to 4pm)
ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING: Drop off your unwanted or broken electronics for environmentally safe disposal.
DOCUMENT SHREDDING: Suggested donation of $5 per bag of documents to be shredded.
Sunday (12pm to 3pm)
CAMBA FOOD DRIVE: Representatives of CAMBA will collect items to support their emergency food pantry, which aids more than 3,400 Brooklyn residents each month.
Q GARDENS CONTAINER RECYCLING: Q Gardens gardeners will be collecting plastic containers with lids suitable for kitchen scrap collection (anything from 5 oz salad greens containers to 10 quart plastic tubs with lids), and 2 or 3 liter bottles with caps for a new vertical garden project!
CARLOS PINTO & THE BROOKLYN RECYCLE PROJECT: Artist Carlos Pinto will present a mosaic-making exhibition- attendees can bring broken ceramics or other small ceramic items for integration into local murals!
Opening Weekend in Prospect Park
When: Saturday (4/2) and Sunday (4/3)
Where: Prospect Park
What: Join the Prospect Park Alliance for Opening Weekend in Prospect Park with food, festivities and family fun.
How Much: Free
Saturday
Opening Day Parade, 10–10:30am, Parade begins at 7th Avenue + 2nd Street
Join the Prospect Park Alliance and the Prospect Park Baseball Association to celebrate the start of the baseball season. Over 1,000 players will parade down 7th Avenue, led by local marching bands and civic leaders, to the Long Meadow Ball Fields, where a ceremonial first pitch will mark the start of the season.
Saturday & Sunday
Nature Exploration, 10am–1 pm, Prospect Park Audubon Center
The Prospect Park Alliance invites you to get inspired by nature with outdoor, nature play activities, bird watching walks and our new Discovery Packs, a ready-to-go kits filled with nature activities for families.
Spring Sprouts, 2–4 pm, Lefferts Historic House, $3 suggested donation
It’s time for spring planting! Join the Prospect Park Alliance at Lefferts Historic House where you help plant our crop of flax and make a small pot out of newspaper, fill it with soil and plant an herb seed to take home.
Sunday Only
Smorgasburg Prospect Park, 11 am -– 6pm, Breeze Hill
Enjoy the first Smorgasburg of the season, with over 100 local and regional vendors offering cuisines from around the world at the outdoor food market.
Brooklyn Quilts!
When:
Where: Grand Ballroom at the Downtown Brooklyn Marriott Hotel, 333 Adams Street.
What: Brooklyn Quilters Guild 2016 Quilt Show. There are several neighborhood residents who are members of this guild and have entries in the show.
How Much: $10 Adults / Teens, and Children under 12 Free
Avenue C Plaza Inaugural Celebration
When: Sunday, April 3rd, 1 to 5pm
Where: Avenue C and McDonald Avenue
What: The Avenue C Plaza’s kick-off event will feature four bands, crafts, an art wall, storytelling, a pop-up library, plant giveaways, dance fitness, and end with a late afternoon (4:30pm) dance party. Starting at 1 pm, The Bond Street Theatre‘s Shinbone Alley Stilt Band will get things going and strut around the plaza, with neighbors and 10-foot tall puppets taking the rear. (The puppets were made by PS 230 students).
The new plaza features a lily-pond floor mural, movable cafe tables and chairs, granite blocks, umbrellas, and planters.
How Much: Free
An Afternoon of Classical Music with Jinah Park and Friends
When: Sunday, April 3rd, 3pm
Where: East Midwood Jewish Center, 1625 Ocean Avenue
What: Schumann & Brahms — German romantic masters. Pianist Jinah Park; Violin, Sarah Geller; Flute, Tony Cimino; Piano, Theresa Rosas; and Cello, Erich Schoen-Rene.
How Much: $25 adult / $20 student / Free for kids 12 and under
National Black Writers Conference
When: Thursday, March 31st to Sunday, April 3rd
Where: Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue
What: The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, announces the 13th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC). This year’s Honorary Chair is former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
The theme of the conference, “Writing Race: Embracing Difference,” places the issues of race and difference at the forefront of the literature produced by Black writers.
Through dynamic and spirited panel discussions, roundtables, readings, films, workshops, and performances, writers, scholars, literary professionals, students and the general public will gather over four days to examine Black literary texts, to discuss the state of Black literature, and to raise questions related to how and whether Black writers “write race,” and the ways in which Black writers embrace difference in aesthetics, thoughts, beliefs, politics, religions, etc.
How much: See website.