PARK SLOPE: PREGNANT NEW YORKER

Wednesday, November 19th: 7 PM

If you are expecting, this is one great event. There is a conference called The Pregnant New Yorker with lots of different speakers on how to have an easy, healthy pregnancy hosted by Janet Markovitz of Maternal Massage and More. Learn the latest craze in prenatal fitness, what a doula is, preventing slips and falls in the home,how to eat healthy, and how physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture and massage can help you through your pregnancy.
Birth Day Presence Studio
291 8th Street
(btwn 5th and 6th Avenues)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
(located inside the Pilates Garage)
this is a FREE EVENT but please RSVP@ [email protected]
Guest Speakers
Doula – Jada Shapiro birthdaypresence.net <http://birthdaypresence.net/>
Physical Therapist – Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS renew-pt.com
Prenatal Massage Therapist – Janet Markovits, LMT maternalmassageandmore.com
Acupuncturist – Mia Hatgis, LAc
Nutrition Counselor- Stephanie Lazzara b3wellness.com
Perinatal Fitness Specialist – Suzanne Caesar, MA maternaldance.com
Managing Partners, GRiPPiES, LLC – Corrie Wilder and Yelena Mogelefsky, grippiesonline.com
Network Chiropractor – Wendy E. Morris, DC soulshinewellness.com

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: GREAT GIVEAWAY EVENT

Wednesday, November 19th: 7:00 – 8:30 PM

Baby Bites Brooklyn is putting on a “Great Giveaway Event”- so named because they are going to give away a ton of products- juicy! Strollers, Stokke high chair, diaper bags, shoes, etc. I wouldn’t mind the free semester class at NY Kids! The speaker will be style expert and product reviewer, Nicole Feliciano. She will talk about the best products on the market for your new baby. Then everyone leaves with a goody bag. $35 in advance, $45 at the door, refreshments will be served. RSVP to [email protected]

PARK SLOPE: GIRL GUIDES USA INFO MEETING

Wednesday, November 19: 6:30 p.m.

I was in the Brownies eons ago. Well, something akin to that is starting here in Brooklyn: Girl Guides USA . It is a Scouting organization for girls in grades 4 through 10. The “emphasize youth empowerment, teamwork and environmentalism.” It is a year-round program, with meetings during the school year that prepare Guides for a two-week camp in the summer. It is launching its first American program this December: its inaugural Brooklyn Company. Park Slope Library (431 6th Avenue at 9th Street

MANHATTAN: CAN SCULPTURE COMPETITION

Thursday, November 20 – December 2 (open Thanksgiving): 9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily
WFC Courtyard Gallery

I think this sounds fantastic. This is right up my alley: a combination of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns and Yves Klein and……well, it is a smash of art and pop. You have to go to their site to see what I mean. Since 1992 Canstruction® has organized teams of architects, engineers and students in competitions throughout North America to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. This year’s 40 entries from New York City will be displayed at the WFC and then donated to City Harvest for distribution to those in need.

MANHATTAN: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OPENS ITS FIRST ICE RINK

Saturday, November 22: 12-3 pm

OH MY GOSH- I can’t wait to go- it sounds spectacular. Sign me up (not this weekend though when it will be overly crowded- but in the coming weeks) The Museum’s new Polar Rink, made from synthetic ice, is located on the Arthur Ross Terrace, with views of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the surrounding Theodore Roosevelt Park. Skaters will glide around a 17-foot-tall polar bear made of openwork stainless steel festooned with pine boughs and twinkling lights. Engaging facts about polar bears and the Earth’s polar regions, as well as “green” tips and suggestions, will surround the rink, extending the Museum experience beyond its halls. Non-skaters can hang out on surrounding benches on the Terrace under trees adorned with lights, or from the glassed-in North Galleria adjacent to the rink where hot cocoa and snacks will be served. Following an afternoon on the rink, and for a suggested admission, visitors can easily explore the Museum and have ready access to the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The skating rink will remain open through February 28, 2009. The rink is 150 by 80 feet and can accommodate up to 200 people during a one-hour skating period. The Polar Rink will be open from 12–8 pm Monday–Thursday, 12 pm–10 pm on Fridays, 11 am–10 pm on Saturdays, 11 am–8 pm on Sundays, and 11 am–10 pm on holidays. Tickets will be $10 for adults, $9 for students and seniors, and $8 for children 3-12 years old, and include skate rental. Members’ tickets will be $8 for adults, $7 for students and seniors, and $6 for children 3-12 years old. All children under 10 must be accompanied by someone 16 years of age or older. For more information visitors should call 212-769-5200. Tickets can be purchased at any of the Museum’s entrances or enter directly through the Weston Entrance on Columbus Avenue and 79th Street or via the Terrace stairs.

CLINTON HILL: FREE STORY TIME

Saturday, November 22: 3 pm

This is a new event for Still Hip and I, for one, am so pleased they have added it. Montessori teacher Emmy is hosting a storytime every Saturday. It i called “Thinking Theater for Kids Presents Story Time”- which includes songs, stories and arts and crafts. She will also do free reading readiness assessments. Cool.

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS: ICKY FESTIVAL AT BROOKLYN CHILDRENS MUSEUM

Saturday, November 22: 12-6 pm and Sunday, November 23: 12-6 pm

I think this Icky Festival at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum will appeal to a lot of kids- make slime, touch creepy crawlers, watch a snake eat lunch and dissect owl pellets. EWWWW! This is for all ages. Included with Museum admission. For event details check their website.

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, PARK SLOPE, PROSPECT-LEFFERTS

Saturdays, Sundays

Heart of Brooklyn has initiated The HOB Connection, a new FREE shuttle for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park and Prospect Park Zoo. You can even start in the city at the Met and hitch a ride home to Brooklyn! The shuttle picks up passengers each Sunday outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (at 10am, 1pm and 3:45pm), and on 42nd Street at Bryant Park (at 10:15am, 1:15pm, and 4pm). It then makes its way to central Brooklyn’s cultural destination, stopping at the main entrances of each of Heart of Brooklyn’s member institutions.The shuttle will also run continuous loops between 10am-6pm from Bay Ridge (second Saturdays), Red Hook (third Saturdays), and Williamsburg (fourth Saturdays).On the first Saturday of each month from 5-10pm it will also run its stops for FREE .For more information on these programs, and for an up-to-date list of routes and times, visit The HOB Connection webpage or call (718) 638-7700, x22.

WINDSOR TERRACE: TOY SALE AND CONCERT

Saturday, November 22: 12-3 pm

The Windsor Terrace Library is having a concert and toy sale to raise funds for their library. You can donate your toys too! (Great time to make room for the holiday toys!). The concert will be performed by FOOTa Fluxus styled art/improv trio, from 2 – 3 p.m. Foot features Don Fleming (guitar and synth), Jim Dunbar (synth and electronics) and Thurston Moore (guitar and effects). Please bring toys to the library or email to arrange for drop off or pick up: Cara Tuzzolino Werben [email protected]
Windsor Terrace Library
160 East Fifth Street
F train to Ft. Hamilton Parkway Station
718.686.9707

PARK SLOPE: ORGASMIC BIRTH FILM AND PANEL

Saturday, November 22: 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm

Orgasmic Birth is a documentary that invites viewers to see the miracle of birth with commentary by a dozen preeminent health professionals–including midwife Ina May Gaskin and Dr. Christiane Northrup–and 11 women and their partners who share their birthing journey, Stay after for a panel on birth with local birth professionals, including: Miriam Schwartzchild, CNM and Kristen Leonard, CNM (homebirth midwives), Amanda Segilia, CNM (St. Lukes Roosevelt birth center midwife), and Terry Richmond and Jada Shapiro (co-founders of Birth Day Presence) Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. BAX, 421 5th Ave, 3rd Floor (btwn 7th and 8th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Please email Birthday Presence with the number of tickets you would like to buy and they will send you an email invoice.

BRONX: BOTANICAL GARDENS HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW

Sunday, November 23- January 11: Hours listed here

The 2008 Holiday Train Show begins this weekend at the NY Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. I did this last year so I have some thoughts on it below. But first, it is free with garden admission. You can watch the trains and trolleys chug beneath the boughs of a 30 foot evergreen tree twinkling with lights, across bridges, through tunnels and around NY landmark replicas and plant. You can also participate in the Gingerbread adventures- where kids use their senses to taste, smell and touch the spices and other plant parts that make up a gingerbread recipe. You can make spices, sachets, ornaments and decorate gingersnap cookies. So, for my experience there last year: I called one morning to buy tickets to the train exhibit for the same day, but they said they weren’t available online or on the phone at such late notice. When I inquired about reserving a spot for that morning, they said, “Oh, just come in, there aren’t lines until 12:30 pm”. Well, you guessed it- bad advice! We got there at 11:30 am and couldn’t get tickets until an hour later. We messed around in the beautiful gardens (even in the winter they really were) and went to see the gingerbread house. The house was a disappointment to us. We expected a really large construction with natural bounty decorating it. It was really just a small little toy house. Then we went to line up for our time slot at the train show. We had to leave strollers outside. We waited in one line, then another line. The second line was through the hot greenhouse so we stripped the children down with nowhere to put our coats. That was a real drag because we were incredibly hot with each of us holding coats, scarves and hats! The lines took us 30 minutes. People were impatient. This old couple behind us took every chance they got to sneak into our spot as we raced around after our children. Once we got into the display however, the children were mesmerized. Trains zoomed overhead and through mysterious tunnels, they circled at every moment so if you happened to miss one, another one equally as fun chugged by. There were ladybug trains, high-speed trains, old fashioned trains: it was magical. The sets were incredible. The only bummer is that you have to push by people if you want to go at a faster pace- and with children that is inevitably the case. I think I would advise doing this with sleeping infants or children that can wait patiently in lines (do those exist?). Birch got antsy and so did his partner in crime. My advice: don’t go on a weekend or go earlier than 11:30 am. If you happen to be in Chicago these holidays (my home town), I think the holiday train show at the Botanical Gardens there is better! But if you are in NY, here is the scoop fr the NY Botanical Gardens: http://www.nybg.org/ 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458

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