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Natasha Wozniak, a jeweler who also runs a non-profit dedicated to raising funds for Nepali villages hurt in the 2015 earthquake, in her Boerum Hill studio. (Photo Credit: Aliza Chasan)Natasha Wozniak may live in Park Slope, but she takes the slow, measured steps of a Nepali. Her time studying
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Photo via CHiPS Soup Kitchen & Women’s Shelter [https://www.facebook.com/chips4thave/photos/a.473886572685772.1073741829.473843106023452/1086939821380441/?type=3&theater] There’s no better way to enjoy a meal than by donating to a good cause as well. Tonight, generous, local businesses are participating to support
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Photo by Mitchell J. Silver.A group of local kids and their parents will be leading a Sunday morning peace march in the aftermath of the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five police officers in Dallas. The march is scheduled for 10 am tomorrow, July 10, at the
Arts & Culture
Courtesy of Boa MisturaOpen Source Gallery [http://open-source-gallery.org/] (306 17th Street near 6th Avenue) has been on a tear this year with engaging projects during a season dedicated to collaborative artists [/blog/art-music/power-up-your-mobile-device-for-rive-collectives-anamorphosis-at-open-source-gallery/] . “Throughout 2016, we will be exclusively exhibiting art collectives and artist-run organizations from around the
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Volunteers from the WeLoveU Foundation posing with City Councilman Chaim Deutsch. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It’s not everyday we get visited by a group whose founder is considered to be a deity. That’s what happened Sunday when volunteers from the WeLoveU Foundation [http://eng.weloveu.or.kr/
Central Brooklyn
Young volunteers at last Saturday’s Neighborhood Beautification Day, sponsored by the Flatbush Development Corporation (Photo: FDC)Residents joined the Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) [http://www.fdconline.org] in cleaning up our community last Saturday. Volunteers painted over graffiti, planted flowers, and did all sorts of things to make our
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(Courtesy Ben Wellington. Photo by Bridget Badore [http://www.bridgetbadore.com] .)“I see myself as telling stories hidden within data,” explained Ben Wellington, the Pratt professor behind the open government blog I Quant NY. [http://iquantny.tumblr.com/] Wellington’s most recent study has made headlines because he discovered that
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Photo by Jeremiah Sierra / Park Slope StoopThe 84 diners who shared a Mother’s Day feast this past Sunday did more than honor the women in their families. They raised almost $5,000 for the Frances Residence at Community Help in Park Slope [http://chipsonline.org/] (CHiPS). The Residence houses
Events
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
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Volunteering with the Church Avenue BID’s 2015 Graffiti Clean-Up. The next Church Avenue clean-up day is Saturday, May 14th. (Photo: Church Avenue BID)Do you have some flexible time right now? Do you want to make our community a better place for all of us? Do you want to
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Photo via flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattwootton/4562590442/in/photolist-7Xbtbs-5S9Lcp-bZkMRS-ErZn-8D7Kq-5uULun-ngHJCk-ikXNVC-bVKZj1-kYgYGT-8GZBpr-aEgovE-bVKX71-8BsGhr-4t4T5i-dPgUNq-kvnaDL-hmEZZX-chiKT1-bVKYfW-kYgzxZ-bpwmw-7X8eSx-dPgUB3-25GXf-7Xbtdq-5uZ7Tm-dPgV95-kYh8pT-8GZL4p-7XbvsY-9dKCy2-8D7Kt-8D2N3-6ZicSh-8D7Kr-kYgqtX-dYB272-8c2hX8-kYgqHp-4BLAbv-kYh7eX-8H3pfd-96m5ib-h737KQ-8c2mxV-8H3Hdf-DDuVm-5A1R8C-jhtXgn] Congregation Beth Elohim [http://congregationbethelohim.org/] will soon op
Central Brooklyn
Last year’s Butterflies, Bulbs and Bookmarks event. (Photo: Cortelyou Library Friends)Come out and support one of our terrific public library branches this Saturday. The Cortelyou Library Friends and the Farm on Adderley are hosting their fourth annual Butterflies, Bulbs and Bookmarks fundraising event [https://www.facebook.com/cortelyoulibraryfriends]