Brooklyn Community Board 6
The Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services’ 10-week training series for small, community-based nonprofits: get contract-ready, learn how to access City funding, build capacity and get hands-on support. The fall cohort begins October 22; the deadline to apply is October 9. Eligible nonprofits do not currently have a City contract, have an annual budget under $100,000, […]
Volunteer shift caring for the rain gardens, 10 AM to 12 PM. Training and tools provided: trash pickup, invasive plant ID and weeding, pruning, curb cleaning and sweeping. No experience necessary. Ages 14 and up; younger volunteers with a parent or guardian.
Strong Rope Brewery, 175 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn 11231; enter on the Barnell Street side, not the Valentino Park side. Exhibit opening for The Free Portrait Project: Red Hook, portraits painted from life by artist Rusty Zimmerman. With Community Arts Brooklyn, We Are Red Hook and Council Member Alexa Avilés. Ends 9:00 PM.
Volunteer shift on 3rd Street, 10 AM to 1 PM: weeding, soil cultivation, planting and watering the young street trees. Come as you are; training and tools provided.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy New restoration by Rialto Pictures: the original 35mm negative was scanned in 4K on Blackmagic Cintel and the color grading was made with Da Vinci Resolve Studio. The restoration was supervised by the film’s director, Alejandro Amenábar. Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly […]
Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Vincent Gardenia, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell-Martin Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of […]
A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. Gerry reads poetry […]
Year-round Sunday market. 9AM–2PM. Site host: Old Stone House.
A community celebration of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s new campus. Join BKCM at 58 Seventh Avenue for a musical march to the new location, BKCM Prospect Park West. Ends 12:00 PM.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy New restoration by Rialto Pictures: the original 35mm negative was scanned in 4K on Blackmagic Cintel and the color grading was made with Da Vinci Resolve Studio. The restoration was supervised by the film’s director, Alejandro Amenábar. Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly […]