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Image via CUNY.It’s good news for the mixtape and podcasting fans. Bklyn Mixtape Podcasting Club is being funded at Central Library. The podcast is an oral history project that will teach adult participants how to collect, adapt, record, edit, and produce people’s stories as radio-style podcasts that
Education
Photo by plherrin [https://instagram.com/p/2GLr0sRZZb/?taken-by=plherrin].A garden WILL grow in Brooklyn! More specifically, our own Clinton Hill Library will be launching an outdoor gardening program built from the ground up by students of PS/MS 492 Academy of Arts & Letters, in partnership with Teen
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Photo by Utopian Branch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/utopianbranch/3469064600] .“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
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The Cortelyou Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Photo: Google Maps)“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
Arts & Culture
There are over 8 million different faces in New York City and artist Noboo Kawaguchi [http://nobookawaguchi.com/] is intrigued by them all. Her work aims to capture the diversity and feelings of the people that live in New York City and who make it so unique. Using vivid colors,
Arts & Culture
Circular #8 by Eric Pesso. (Courtesy of Eric Pesso)The most intriguing exhibitions resonate long after a viewer experiences the work of an artist for the first time. ‘A Tree Falls In Brooklyn‘ is Eric Pesso [http://www.flatbushartists.org/EricPesso.htm]‘s newest exhibition that began showing at the
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Shore Boulevard in Manhattan Beach was flooded during high tide. (Photo: Councilman Chaim Deutsch [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=561447090690789&set=a.368600459975454.1073741830.100004765095752&type=3&theater] / Facebook)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you
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Circular #8 by Eric Pesso. (Courtesy of Eric Pesso)The most intriguing exhibitions resonate long after a viewer experiences the work of an artist for the first time. ‘A Tree Falls In Brooklyn‘ is Eric Pesso [http://www.flatbushartists.org/EricPesso.htm]‘s newest exhibition that began showing at the
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Source: yewenyi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/2256618233/] via Flickr It’s the year of the (fire) monkey! February 8 marked the Chinese or Lunar New Year, and since Brooklyn is home to a large Chinese-American community, there will be many opportunities to celebrate this lively cultural event all
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Source: yewenyi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/2256618233/]via Flickr It’s the year of the (fire) monkey! February 8 marked the Chinese or Lunar New Year, and since Brooklyn is home to a large Chinese-American community, there will be many opportunities to celebrate this lively cultural event all
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The Brighton Beach Library. (Photo: Google Maps)The Brooklyn Public Library is lending free laptops to library cardholders while the Brighton Beach branch [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/brighton-beach] closes for a $1.5 million renovation, City Councilman Chaim Deutsch announced Wednesday. Library patrons can go to the Shorefront Jewish