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# Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Events: Through Thursday, January 22
- URL: https://bklyner.com/fort-greene-clinton-hill-events-thursday-january-22-fortgreene/
- Published: 2015-01-19T16:00:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-21T17:44:50.000Z
- Author: Heather Chin
- Tags: Good Neighbors of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Ingersoll Community Center, Irondale Center, #API-Imported

![Photo courtesy of Irondale Center.](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/flicfest-2015.jpg)

Photo courtesy of [Irondale Center](http://irondale.org/FLICfest.html?ref=bklyner.com).

Here’s this week’s roundup of neighborhood events taking place through Thursday. We’ll have your weekend schedule guide on Friday and as always, let us know if there’s anything we’re missing by emailing [editor@bklyner.com](mailto:editor@bklyner.com)!

**MONDAY, JANUARY 19**

**[“State of Emergence” student tribute to MLK Jr.](http://www.bam.org/theater/2015/state-of-emergence?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Monday, January 19 at 1:30pm  
**Where:** BAM Fisher Hall, Fishman Space at 321 Ashland Place  
**What:** Participants in BAM Education’s three-month Arts & Justice after-school program present this original interdisciplinary work, the result of a distance-learning exchange with fellow teens in Ferguson, Missouri. An exercise in transforming responses to police brutality and prejudice into a thoughtful, powerful work of music, dance, poetry, and theater.  
**How much:** Free

[**See our full list of MLKDay events here.**](/blog/2015/01/15/mlk-jr-day-celebrations-throughout-brooklyn/)

**TUESDAY, JANUARY 20**

[**Movie At 2: “Robin Williams LIVE on Broadway”**](http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/tuesday-movie-robin-willi-clinton-hill-library-012015?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Tuesday, January 20 from 2-4pm  
**Where:** Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue, at Lafayette Avenue  
**What:** Watch the Broadway musical on film.  
**How much:** Free

**[Hot Dog Tuesdays](https://www.facebook.com/MootBarBK)**  
**When:** Tuesday, January 20 all day (open 1pm-2am)  
**Where:** Moot Bar at 579 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Buy a beer, get a free hot dog.  
**How much:** Cost of a beer

**[Pre-K and Kindergarten Forum](http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/pre-k-kindergarten-forum-ingersoll-community-center/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Tuesday, January 20 at 6:15-8:15pm  
**Where:** Ingersoll Community Center at 177 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Information about the application process and school choices in the neighborhood, including zoned public schools, lottery public schools, charter schools, admissions priorities, the Kindergarten Connect online application, CBO-based UPK programs, how an IEP affects the application process, etc.  
RSVP to Emily Mann, LCSW at emann@universitysettlement.org or by calling 917.709.9595.  
**How much:** Free

**[CEC 13 Meeting: Common Core Part I](http://cec13.org/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Tuesday, January 20 from 6:30-8:30pm  
**Where:** PS 133 at 610 Baltic Street  
**What:** Dr. Linda Kay Patterson, director of the Adelaide Saniford Institute, will speak on what parents need to know about Common Core standards.  
**How much:** Free

**[Greenlight Fiction Book Group: “The Stranger’s Child”](http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/greenlight-fiction-book-group-32?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30pm  
**Where:** Greene Grape Annex at 753 Fulton Street  
**What:** For January, the group discusses*The Stranger’s Child*, a century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a family mystery.  
**How much:** Free; Book is $13.56

**WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21**

**[Family Workshop: Making “The Dance”](http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/fokus-presents-making-dance-family-workshop/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 3-5pm  
**Where:** Ingersoll Community Center at 177 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Join art educators from FOKUS for a youth and family workshop celebrating the acclaimed visual artist and former Fort Greene resident Emilio Cruz. Participants will reinterpret Cruz’s 1962 painting “The Dance” by creating their own abstract art, as well as take a journey through popular social dances of the last 5 decades. Come ready to move! (Part of Black Artstory Month.)  
**How much:** Free

**[UrbanGlass “Material Location” Opening Party](https://www.urbanglass.org/events?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 6-8pm  
**Where:** 647 Fulton Street  
**What:** Local artists exhibit work that helps catalogue the range of glassmaking activities in NYC and explores the state-the conceptual location-of glassmaking and glass thinking at this time.  
**How much:** Free

**[Pioneers! O’Pioneers! A History of Artist Neighborhoods](http://instagram.com/p/x7hWVhPuK5/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 7-9pm  
**Where:** BRIC House stoop at 647 Fulton Street  
**What:** As part of our #BrooklynInTransition series, we’ll be talking about the rise and fall of various artist neighborhoods and the real estate challenges artists are facing today.  
**How much:** Free

**[ShapeUP! Dance Fitness Class](http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/shape-dance-fitness-class-clinton-hill-library-012115?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 7:15-8pm  
**Where:** Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue, at Lafayette Avenue  
**What:** Start off the new year with a fitness class taught by NYC Parks Department community volunteers.  
**How much:** Free

[**Coverage and Care: Insurance, Entitlements and Healthcare Planning**](http://goodneighborsproject.org/content.aspx?page%5Fid=87&club%5Fid=285616&item%5Fid=393711&ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 at 7:30pm  
**Where:** Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church at 85 South Oxford Street  
**What:** The Good Neighbors of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill present its first educational session of 2015! Ginalisa Monterroso, founder of [Medicaid Advisory Group](http://themedicaidexperts.com/?ref=bklyner.com), will address: How to navigate the health care facilities and insurance entitlements to maximize benefits, What happens when you come to the end of your Medicare coverage, What are the routine procedures and expectations in hospitals and rehab and how to stay out of long-term care facilities, Do you know that you can have help paying for care in your home even if you still have assets?  
**How much:** $15/free for GNFGCH members; RSVP recommended.

**[Neighborhood Discussion on Police-Community Relations](https://www.facebook.com/events/923906020952992)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 7:30-10pm  
**Where:** JACK’s Clinton Hill Arts Center at 505 1/2 Waverly Avenue (between Atlantic and Fulton)  
**What:** *JACK* and Prospect Heights Democrats for Reform present: a neighborhood discussion on police/community relations. Part of the “[Forward Ferguson](http://www.jackny.org/forward-ferguson.html?ref=bklyner.com)” series.  
**How much:** Free

**[Trivia Wednesdays](https://www.facebook.com/MootBarBK)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 at 9pm  
**Where:** Moot Bar at 579 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Inaugural trivia night! Five rounds of 10 questions each on variety of subject matter from cereal box characters to physics. Winning team gets $50 off their bar tab.  
**How much:** Free

**[Trivia Night](http://putnamspub.com/event/wednesday-trivia-night-3/2015-01-21/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Wednesday, January 21 from 8-11pm  
**Where:** Putnam’s Pub at 419 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Weekly trivia competition to win gift cards of $100 to Putnam’s. Beer specials all night.  
**How much:** Free

**THURSDAY, JANUARY 22**

**[Adult Healthy Living Program](http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/walt-whitman-adult-healthy-living-programs/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 2-3:30pm  
**Where:** Walt Whitman Library at 93 Saint Edwards Street  
**What:** Discover a simple meditation technique that can melt away stress and be a powerful addition to a healthy living regimen.  
**How much:** Free

**[Playspace for Toddlers](http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/open-playspace-toddlers-clinton-hill-library-012215?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 4-5pm  
**Where:** Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue, at Lafayette Avenue  
**What:** Get a break from the winter blues as toddlers play with toys and parents commiserate.  
**How much:** Free

**[Thirsty Thursday](http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/thirsty-thursday-tipsy-2/2015-01-22/?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 5-8pm  
**Where:** Tipsy at 584 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Every Thursday the folks at Tipsy open a special bottle or two and pour free tastes over fun chit-chat.  
**How much:** Free

**[Salsa Party](http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/8181?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 6-9:30pm  
**Where:** Brooklyn Museum at 200 Eastern Parkway  
**What:** Salsa music, dancing, and performances by Brooklyn’s top professional salsa teams. Dance lesson at 6pm, followed by a [*Killer Heels* Curator Tour](http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/8361?ref=bklyner.com) at 6:30 p.m., and the *Killer Heels* photo-op at 7 p.m.  
**How much:** Free with admission

**[FLICFest: André Zachary and Jin Ju Song-Begin](https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9972139?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 through Saturday, January 31 at 7:30pm  
**Where:** Irondale Center at 85 South Oxford Street  
**What:** Zachary at 7:30pm and Song-Begin at 9pm, kicking off the [annual festival](http://irondale.org/FLICfest.html?ref=bklyner.com) of feature-length independent choreography. Each evening includes two feature-length dance theater works followed by a performance cabaret in the balcony lounge.  
**How much:** $25

**[Coffee Tasting, Talk and Book Signing](http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/ruth-brown-offsite?ref=bklyner.com)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 at 7:30pm  
**Where:** Greene Grape Annex at 753 Fulton Street  
**What:** *Coffee Nerd* details the history behind the beans and helps you navigate the exciting and sometimes intimidating new wave of coffee.  
**How much:** Free; $14.99 for the book

[**Comedy Thursdays**](http://www.myrtleavenue.org/event/comedy-thursdays-splitty-3-2/2015-01-22/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 7:30-10pm  
**Where:** Splitty at 415 Myrtle Avenue  
**What:** Greg Johnson (New York comedy staple) and Larry Murphy (Bob’s Burgers) host this warm and friendly weekly comedy show featuring an artfully curated night of stand-up, characters, and the unexpected.  
**How much:** $5 cover

**[Truly Yours Live Music](https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatGeorgiana/photos/a.650199068353342.1073741827.599186693454580/893548537351726/?type=1)**  
**When:** Thursday, January 22 from 9pm-2am  
**Where:** The Great Georgiana at 248 DeKalb Avenue  
**What:** Music all night long, every Thursday.  
**How much:** Free for guests