Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – As Spoke The Hub [https://spokethehub.org] readies to open its new 2,900-square-foot home at 298 Butler Street, the organization is planning a month of Oktoberfest events to celebrate its grand opening and help pay for the costly renovations at the space. From October 5 through October 27,
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – The non-profit dance studio and community arts organization, Spoke the Hub [https://spokethehub.org], will have to sell its Gowanus Arts building at 295 Douglass Street after 34 years at the location. Spoke The Hub, 295 Douglass Street, Gowanus (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)While Spoke the Hub’s second
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS/PARK SLOPE – Spoke the Hub [http://spokethehub.org/] celebrates 40 years of bringing community dance classes, performances, and flash mob routines to Park Slope and Gowanus. Spoke the Hub’s Prince Flash Mob at Local Produce event. Elise Long is on the right. (Photo courtesy of Spoke the Hub)
Events
Come rain or shine, the Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair [http://parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/event/the-fabulous-fifth-avenue-street-fair/] is happening this Sunday, May 21, on Fifth between Sterling Place and 12th Street from 10am to 6pm. Hosted by the Park Slope 5th Avenue Business Improvement District [http://parkslopefifthavenuebid.com], this popular annual street fair
Events
JJ Byrne is swinging Saturday night with a fundraiser for the adults to eat, drink, and dance. (Photo via atownagency [https://www.instagram.com/p/BE9AdlzNb6H/?tagged=swingdancing&hl=en])The weekend is here, and the joint is swinging. Actually, it really is. Head to JJ Byrne to swing
Kids & Family
If TARDIS, hobbit, and Peter Parker are all a part of your children’s everyday vocabulary, you probably have a few fantasy and comic book fans. Congratulations! You’re doing this parenting thing right. Park Slope is known for its family-friendly activities, so it should come as no surprise that
City Kid Corner
If TARDIS, hobbit, and Peter Parker are all a part of your children’s everyday vocabulary, you probably have a few fantasy and comic book fans. Congratulations! You’re doing this parenting thing right. Park Slope is known for its family-friendly activities, so it should come as no surprise that
295 Douglass Street
In Art We Trust at the Gowanus Arts Building (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)There’s a lot of faith in the entrance hallway at Spoke The Hub’s Gowanus Arts Building [http://spokethehub.org/rentals/gowanus/] (295 Douglass Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues). Take any photos
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Exterior of the Gowanus Arts Building, 295 Douglass Street (Photo by Donny Levit)If you were passing by the Gowanus Arts Building in the 1880s, you’d be peering into a soap factory. A lot has changed over the last 130 or so years at 295 Douglass Street; acquired in
Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band
Local Produce Festival via [https://www.facebook.com/spokethehubadmin?fref=ts] Put your dancing shoes on and join Spoke the Hub’s Local Produce Festival of the Performing Arts [http://spokethehub.org/perform/local-produce/], a community-based, cultural “green market” featuring the diversity, creativity, and vitality of Brooklyn’s own performing
Garden of Union
Spoke the Hub [http://www.spokethehub.org/]’s free outdoor series Local Produce in the Gardens [http://www.spokethehub.org/perform/local-produce/] returns for the season this week with several family-friendly events in three of Park Slope’s community gardens. On every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 5-6pm, stop by
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The weather is only going to get better this week, with temperatures inching up toward something resembling spring. So get out and enjoy it! From a screening of a Brooklyn-based classic, to a philosophy discussion on masculinity, to a great big jazz band, there’s plenty to check out in