Events - Bklyner

Outdoor Movies This Summer: Parks Edition

At Prospect Park: A Summer Movie Under the Stars [https://prospectpark.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=af49fae3995832605e637055c&id=5a3c9c5e2e&e=d310e664bf] series this year kicks off on Thursday, July 29, and runs for four consecutive Thursdays through August 19, and will include Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Goonies, Jumanji:

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Live Music Pics 7/9 - 7/15

Brooklyn International Music Festival, Jazz, Indie Rock, country blues, and more will brighten this rainy weekend.

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One Month Into Reopening Music + Live Choices 7/2 - 7/8

Learnings, insights, new truisms and beefs with the new live music reality

Events

Coney Island Fireworks Return With the Steeplechase Spectacular Fourth of July Fireworks Show

Coney Island is best in the evenings. The slick crowds and tourists are gone, and the beach is filled with locals soaking up what remains of the day. Watching a movie. Listening to music. Dancing on the boardwalk. Catching up with a neighbor. Watching the sky light up on a

Arts & Culture

The Rose Room Comes to East Williamsburg, Offering “Nights of Mystery and Wonder”

Guest Artist Allison Schieler. Photo courtesy of Mister Dusty Rose.The Rose Room, a nightlife variety show coming to queer bar and performance space 3 Dollar Bill [https://www.3dollarbillbk.com/] on May 13th, is here to answer the prayers of live performance-deprived Brooklynites. The queer, inclusive, body-positive experience is

Arts & Culture

Greenpoint Terminal Market Returns to the Greenpoint Waterfront this Sunday

Greenpoint Terminal Market during its inaugural season in 2020. Courtesy of Greenpoint Terminal Market.Greenpoint Terminal Market [https://greenpointterminalmarket.com/], the outdoor flea market that opened on the Greenpoint waterfront last summer, returns this weekend with around 100 vendors as well as live music, food, and ample room – over four

Arts & Culture

Green-Wood’s First Ever Hanami Festival Showcases Springtime Cherry-Blossoms

Event-goers gaze at the blooming Japanese Cherry Blossom trees. April 19, 2021. Bklyner/Cai PigliucciThe cherry blossoms are in full-bloom, drawing New York’s nature lovers to parks all over the city to admire the delicate, ephemeral blossoms. Many of the city’s cherry blossom viewing festivals, including the reigning

Central Brooklyn

Opinion: The Racial Cost of NYC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

NYCHA vaccination site at Nostrand Houses in Brooklyn on Friday, February 12, 2021. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Brian Benjamin, Roxanne Persaud, and Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD New York City is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world – it’s what makes our city incomparable to all

Arts & Culture

Socially Distant Blues

My fridge is full, pantry too So, why do I still feel empty inside? I’m physically distant but digitally connected Scrolling from my couch while couch-surfing in place I have followers and friends but nobody to share my life Will I find comfort in this chaos or discontentment in

City Kid Corner

Easter Egg Hunts Around Brooklyn

Easter is on Sunday, April 4th this year! After spending last year’s Easter at home, we know you’re just as excited as we are for an Easter egg hunt! We hope you have a great and safe time at one of these Easter activities, starting this weekend and

Arts & Culture

BAM Guest Curator Hanif Abdurraqib Releases Essay Collection on Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib. Photo credit: Megan Leigh Barnard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In his new essay collection, ‘A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9781984801197],’ award-winning poet, cultural critic, and BAM Guest Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib [http://www.abdurraqib.com/] examines the history of

Arts & Culture

Open Culture Program Brings Live Events to Brooklyn Streets

Performers at Dock Street between Front Street and Water Street, Brooklyn. Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.This Spring, over 50 Brooklyn streets [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cecm/cultural-events/locations.page]may be used as entertainment venues, thanks to the new Open Culture program. Open Culture will shut

Downtown Brooklyn

Brooklyn Shows Support to Its Asian-American Communities

Wai Wah Chin, Charter President of The Chinese American Citizen Alliance Greater New York [http://www.cacagny.org/home.html] speaking at the rally #StopAsianHate in Brooklyn Borough Hall on Sunday, Mar. 21, 2021. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerFollowing the Atlanta shooting last week, where six out of the eight killed were

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Brooklyn Municipal Building Renamed the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Municipal Building

Brooklyn Municipal Building. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Today Mayor Bill de Blasio, First Lady Chirlane McCray, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, other local officials and the family of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gathered this afternoon to rename the Brooklyn Municipal building in her honor. “Today we honor

Arts & Culture

Last Supper at LatchKey Gallery: A Seat At The Table With 12 Artists

“Cheers to You” by Ariel Dannielle, courtesy of LatchKey Gallery.The Last Supper [https://www.latchkeygallery.com/press-release-last-supper], an art exhibition showcasing the work of 12 African American female artists, opened to the public this month at LatchKey Galler [https://www.latchkeygallery.com/]y at Industry City [https://industrycity.com/

Announcements

Look Up – Let Freedom Ring At BAM Feb 12-15

Jasmine Wahi x For Freedoms “On Visibility” 2020 for BAM Let Freedom Ring Vol. 1 displayed in January.The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM [https://www.bam.org/]) is bringing back its Let Freedom Ring project in celebration of Black History Month and President’s Day. The public project, curated

Arts & Culture

BKLYN Fashion Academy Graduates Debut Their Looks In Virtual Fashion Show

Dominus Sowell working at home. Courtesy of Dominus Sowell.Tomorrow, the soon-to-be graduates of Brooklyn Public Library’s BKLYN Fashion Academy [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bklyn-fashion-academy] will debut their original collections in a Zoom fashion show, free and fully accessible to the public. This year’s designers – a mix of

Announcements

Bringing Back Arts: Open Culture Coming To An Establishment Near You

Mayor Bill de Blasio announces the opening of the Open Culture Program to allow live performances on designated streets. Dock Street between Front Street and Water Street, Brooklyn. Monday, February 08, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of Open Culture, a

Announcements

Myrtle Ave Black ArtStory Returns: Love, This Time

Ashley Crawford art for Black ArtStory / Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn PartnershipThe Myrtle Avenue Black ArtStory [https://myrtleavenue.org/blackartstory2021/] is back to celebrate Black History Month in the neighborhood. The art-history-social-justice event is organized every year by the local merchants’ group Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, and this will

Business

A Valentine’s For Every Budget: How to Spend The Holiday This Year

We could all use a little more love in our life right now. Whether you’re alone or together, whether you have no money to spend or $15,000, we’ve got you covered. Enjoy a quiet meal at home, a “newlywed game” style trivia night, or a day of

Business

Celebrate The Year Of The Ox In Brooklyn

Get ready to welcome the Year of The Ox – the Lunar New Year – which falls on February 12. This year, several of our usual favorite celebrations – like the Sunset Park parade – are missing, and a lot has changed since last year’s Year of the Rat in the Brooklyn Chinatown.

Central Brooklyn

Why You Should Run For A Seat On Community Education Council – Fellow Parents Tell All

Tevina Willis, lead community organizer for the nonprofit Red Hook Initiative, listened to officials explain rezoning plans for District 15 at a meeting that was held at P.S. 676.Are you a parent concerned with the future of public school education [https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/

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78 Brooklyn Restaurants Participate In Next Week’s NYC Restaurant Week To-Go

Pasta Louise’s outdoor setup. Courtesy of @pastalouise on Instagram.Like many things this year, New York City’s restaurant week is going virtual. The program will run from January 25th- January 31st February 28, with the option to participate in a second week. In the 29 years that the

Central Brooklyn

Brooklyn Celebrates MLK Day in a Year Like No Other

Monday, January 18, is Martin Luther King Jr. day. A week after the attack on the Capitol, in the middle of a global pandemic, and a year of Black Lives Matter protests, it is a timely reminder of the legacy of the civil rights activist who championed non-violent protest to

Arts & Culture

A New City Point Residency Gives Aerialists and Acrobats A Chance

For aerialists like Kyla Ernst-Alper [https://www.kylaernstalper.com/], life during the pandemic has felt pretty precarious. Kyla Ernst-Alper performing at BKLYN STUDIOS. Photo by Giles Clement. Ernst-Alper, whose job – using her airborne body as a means of visual storytelling – depends on the tight margins of freelance gigs and self-produced