Socrates Sculpture Park Bike Parade
This weekend is full of great events from crafting to storytelling. Before I forget: check our daily Calendar for more events and also our Music Listings for the weekend. Here’s some of the fun stuff going on this weekend!
Saturday, June 11: 10 am- 8 pm
Renegrade Craft Fair
The Renegade Craft Fair is headed back to McCarren Park for their 7th Annual Brooklyn Fair! Along with hundreds of today’s best makers of handmade goods, they will be hosting hands-on crafting workshops and planning a handful of summertime surprises. At the Fair, you can also get crafty by participating in a number of interactive workshops, and find inspiration from local businesses who keep Brooklyn in the loop with all-things creative.
Details: McCarren Park at Bedford Ave and N. 12th street
Saturday, June 11: 11 am- 4 pm
LIC Bike Parade in Socrates Sculpture Park
I love Socrates Sculpture Park- it is a gritty city park with fabulous sculptural surprises at every turn. This Saturday is a big bike day: get free helmets and fittings, learn about bike safety and decorate your bike for the big bike parade. For a second year, Recycle-A-Bicycle will also host a Kids’ Bike Swap. Children who have outgrown their bicycles or have extra gently-used bikes to donate, are invited to bring their bike to Hallets Cove Playground and swap it in exchange for another gently-used bike. At approximately 12:30 pm, any unclaimed bicycles will be donated on a first-come first serve basis. All children’s bikes in working order and without gears are welcome at the event. For more information on the Recycle-A-Bicycle Swap visit www.recycleabicycle.org
Details: PO Box 6259, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard Long Island City, NY 11106 http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/
Saturday, June 11 and Sunday Jun 12 : 2 pm – 12 am
Brooklyn Folk Festival
Down Home Radio host Eli Smith will be hosting the Brooklyn Folk Festival, to be held at the Jalopy Theater and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. The festival will feature the best young talent from Brooklyn’s exploding folk music scene as well as luminaries from the generation that made the 1960’s New York City folk music revival. The music featured will include traditional styles such as old-time string band music, blues, jug band music, traditional music of Mexico, the Balkans and West Africa, local songwriters and more! There will be concerts throughout the day as well as workshops on various musical styles, film screenings and a Sunday afternoon square dance! This year will also inaugurate the Brooklyn Folk Festival “Banjo Toss.” The person who throws a banjo the farthest will win a free banjo!
Details: 499 Van Brunt St Red Hook, Brooklyn NY 11231 718-596-2506 [map] Price: $20 ($55 weekend)
Saturday, June 11: 12- 5 pm
Vintage Car Show at NY City Police Museum
The Museum largest annual event returns each June. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to view a piece of New York City’s history when the Police Museum displays classic patrol vehicles used by New York’s Finest at its Annual Car Show. Also on display will be original and replica cars from famous crime-fighting television series. The show takes place right outside the historic Museum. Car owners will be on hand to show off their prize possessions and answer questions. This is a free event.
Details: 100 Old Slip NY, NY 10005 http://www.nycpm.org/calendar/current/index.html
Saturday, June 11: 1-4 pm
The Great Brooklyn Storytelling Event
Highlighting all manner of traditional storytelling, the event features raconteurs from all over the borough and plenty of opportunity for the audience to join in by recording their own Brooklyn stories in Sabrina Artel’s specially equipped Trailer Talk trailer. Artists include George Davidson, Tammy Hall, Winston ”Jeggae” Hoppe, Professor Louie, Kid Lucky, Aeilushi Mistry and more. Share your family fairy tales, fables, or Brooklyn stories in Sabrina Artel’s specially equipped Trailer Talk trailer. Sign up for time slots is first come, first serve starting at 12:30!
Details: Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Click here for map & directions
Saturday, June 11: 11 am
Greenlight Storytime
The annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade is coming up on June 18! To help everyone get ready, Brooklyn author and illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg presents a kids-eye view of the parade in her wonderful picture book Mermaids on Parade. Melanie is the author of several great picture books about the city, and Mermaids is a colorful and lively celebration of this annual ritual; today at Greenlight Melanie draws mermaid pictures and reads from her book.
Details: 686 Fulton Street (at South Portland) in Fort Greene. 718-246-0200
Saturday, June 11: 12- 4 pm
Kinderdag
A Children’s Day with games, hands-on activities, face painting, kids’ music with Louie Miranda, make waffle and stamp cookies with Sarah Lohman.
Details: $10 students/seniors $12 adults. Free for members and children 10 and under. (All entertainment, food and hands-on activities included in price.)
5816 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY 11203. For more info: http://wyckoffassociation.org/visit/index.html
Saturday, June 11 and Sunday June 12 : 10 am- 6 pm
Figment Show on Governors Island
FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork – and then it’s gone. Art and activities in every medium available… especially the art and activities that YOU bring! Feel free to see a full schedule of all the 2010 artwork and activities. In addition, iPhone users can install the FIGMENT iPhone App – which you can download for free from the App Store.
Details: Governors Island, NYC… a free, short ferry-ride from lower Manhattan and Brooklyn! Click here for directions. http://newyork.figmentproject.org/figment-nyc-2011/
Friday, June 10 — 10AM – 4PM
Saturday, June 11 — 10AM – 6PM
Sunday, June 12 — 10AM – 6PM
Saturday, June 11 and Sunday June 12 : 11 am- 6 pm
Big Apple Barbeque Block Party
The weekend-long event occurs every June and brings together the country’s top pitmasters who cook up their award-winning food for over a 100,000 barbecue enthusiasts. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Madison Square Park, the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party attracts people from near and far to sustain and celebrate America’s authentic culinary and musical traditions. Admission to the event is free. Take in the sights, sounds and smells of the event – from great live music to engaging seminars and cooking demonstrations – without ever dropping a dollar. The country’s best barbecue is available from top pitmasters for only $8 per plate. Proceeds from the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party support the Madison Square Park Conservancy, the organization responsible for the beauty, ongoing maintenance, and programming of this historic park.
Details: Madison Square Park Madison Ave btw. 23rd and 26th Street. Subway: 6 to 23rd Street N/R to 23rd Street F to 23d Street
Saturday, June 11: 2- 8 pm
Williamsburg Walks
Williamsburg Walks 2011 is happening this weekend! The Walks, an annual event that shuts down Bedford Avenue to car traffic, will once again bring local businesses, artists, and activists out on to the street for skill share demos, kid’s activities, and gratuitous displays public art and creativity. This year, Williamsburg Walks will shut down Bedford from North 4th all the way to N. 12th from 2pm to 8pm on Saturday June 11th and Saturday June 18th. Little Williamsburgers can try out the giant trampoline, sing-along with local performers, express themselves with arts and crafts, and explore their inner rock star at the kid’s drum circle (performances on the hour!).
Details: Bedford from N. 4th- N. 12th
Sunday, June 12: 11 am
Baby Greenlight Storytime
On Sunday mornings, children’s performers keep babies and toddlers under 3 years old entertained with stories, songs, and interactive play. Jon Samson, musical therapist and professional goofball, produces and performs “alternative family music” for kids of all ages. He has been featured in Time Out NY Kids and Parenting Magazine, and has been interviewed on Doctor Radio Sirius XM about his private practice in Brooklyn. As a native South African who now lives in Brooklyn, Jon offers a world of music to his clients and fans.
Details: 686 Fulton Street (at South Portland) in Fort Greene. 718-246-0200.
Sunday, June 12: 3:30- 5 pm
Carroll Park Kids Concert
Audra Rox and David Weinstone sing Music for Aardvarks. The season kick-off concert will be in conjunction with PS 32; all proceeds will benefit the Friends of Carroll Park and PS 32. There is food and crafts from 3:30- 5:30 pm too!
Details: Carroll Park is located at President Street and Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Take the F train to the Carroll Street Station, exit at President Street and look for the welcoming park right in front of you. By bus, the B57 will drop you right here. http://www.carrollparkbrooklyn.org/?page_id=837
Sunday, June 12: 11:15 am- 1 pm
Bija Kids Open House
My favorite kids’ yoga studio is now opening a Preschool Alternative for 2-4 year olds! Go find out about their new preschool, summer camp (we are doing it for 2 weeks!) and fall classes.
Details: http://www.bijakids.com Their studio is located at: 900 Fulton Street (@ Washington) in Clinton Hill