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# Sidebar: Stuff You Should Know About
- URL: https://bklyner.com/sidebar-stuff-know-fortgreene/
- Published: 2016-05-10T21:56:50.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-10T22:03:38.000Z
- Author: Justin Fox
- Tags: Events, fort greene, News, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, volunteering, brooklyn historical society, brooklyn museum, Fort Greene Park, greening, mocada, refugees, trees, #wp

![Fort Greene Park's Tree Trail (Courtesy Instagram/MyrtleAveBk)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-28-at-9.57.52-AM.png)

You can help spruce up Fort Greene Park on May 21\. (Courtesy Instagram/MyrtleAveBk)

Here’s a roundup of press releases and other mishegoss that came through the mailbox and deserves a mention:

- The Myrtle Avenue Partnership will convert over 40 tree beds into sidewalk gardens as part of its TreED on Myrtleproject throughout Fort Greene and Clinton Hill tomorrow.
- Black Renditions of Universal Superheroes will have a panel at MOCADA [tomorrow](http://mocada.org/events/markus-prime-lives-at-mocada/?ref=bklyner.com), followed by a book signing.
- Tomorrow, the Brooklyn Historical Society will [host](http://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/2016/05/05/refugees-in-their-own-words/?ref=bklyner.com) a panel about how refugees adapt to life in Brooklyn and panelists will include Eileen Reilly of CAMBA, Zeinab Eyega of Sauti Yetu, Alec Brook-Krasny of The Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations, and Ninaj Raoul of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees.
- On May 21, volunteers are invited to [help spruce up ](http://newyorkcity.www.events.wid941.cbslocal.com.eventful.com/events/its-my-park-fort-greene-park-/E0-001-093250853-2?ref=bklyner.com)Fort Greene Park alongside members of the Fort Greene Park conservancy.
- The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra finalists will perform [on May 22](https://brooklynsymphonyorchestra.org/events/finalists-of-the-bso-concerto-competition/?mc%5Fcid=8257465ee2&mc%5Feid=fe435c1380&ref=bklyner.com) at the Brooklyn Museum.

If you have an event or a thought and you want to get the word out, please e-mail [editor@bklyner.com](mailto:editor@bklyner.com).