Many thanks to the good folks at the Brooklyn Public Library for another great event.
Exposure to music helps children develop a life-long apprecaition for the arts. Music Adventures is an innovative program that encourages creative expression through music, dance and related arts.
Where:
Bay Ridge Library
When:
Friday, Dec 11 3:30 PM
Audience:
For Kids
Events for Youth and Families [...]
Bitov reads from his latest book “Prepodavatel’ simmetrii” (“The Symmetry Instructor”). A novelist, writer, geologist, Bitov was born in Leningrad in 1937. Bitov first became well known internationally through his novel Pushkin House. This program is presented in Russian. Please RSVP for tickets at 718-230-2222. Limit 2 per [...]
Catch the Classic at the Dweck Center, (the Central library of the BPL system) tomorrow, Sunday the 22nd, afternoon at 1:30.
Sunday, November 22, 1:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
Hard Times Film Series: American Madness
Frank Capra directed this Depression-era story of an honest everyman assailed by thievery, adultery, mobsters, gambling and capitalism gone mad. Tom Dickson, president [...]
The internet is a great tool, except for one little flaw. It is saturated with humans and their own personal, unsubstantiated opinions. There once was a time when that opinion might never go any further than the fool’s, who thought it, front porch. It might just be one of those family secrets that everyone knows about and are conscience enough to never mention that topic when that crazy uncle is around. When outsiders would come for a visit, they might have gotten stopped at the door before entering and warned not to mention anything about “the lake.” But now that crazy uncle has a computer with internet access and has a “Creature in the Lake” website that gets over 15-thousand hits a [...]
A big nod and tip of the hat to the good folks at Gallery 364 for setting up another great event. Below it he Press Release from the [...]
CINDERELLA / LA CENICIENTA
…a bilingual musical play for children of all [...]
From the Brooklyn Public Library
Alice McDermott’s sixth novel is a vivid portrait of an Irish-Catholic, American family from Long Island in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Each of the KEane family’s four children react differently to new and unusual cirumstances, in particular to the sexual revoluation.
Please come to the Reference Desk for a [...]
Dressed in traditional costumes, Ballet Fiesta Mexicana Ybarra presents an interactive dance performance that celebrates the diverse and culturally rich country of [...]
If you’re in Sunset Park Brooklyn, during the afternoon on Wednesday check out this great free event
CityParks Kids: Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Brooklyn
Saxophone player Hayes Greenfield and his trio take you on an interactive journey through jazz that includes scat singing, call and response, rhythmic exploration, and improvisation.
Location: Sunset Park: 41st to 44th streets & 5th to 7th avenues
Category: Cultural, Kids, The [...]
The Brooklyn Museum, has been facing some grim new economic realities. Approximately half a million patrons visit the museum each year, and the money crunch has already forced them to increase the suggested donation price by $2 and even offer buyouts to all of its 281 full time employees.
If you would like to donate and help them keep bringing the world to our borough, their fiscal year ends on June 30th and they could definitely use your help. [...]