Eat Pie and Shop at PS 29!

Sunday December 7th is PS 29's annual Eat Pie and Shop holiday event! Enjoy delicious homemade pies, enter a celebrity judged pie contest, shop more than 30 artisans at the gift fair, have your child’s portrait taken professionally, and hang out while your kids have their faces painted and do crafts.
Sunday December 7, 11am - 4pm
Eat Pie and Shop at Brooklyn’s PS 29
425 Henry Street, between Baltic and Kane
www.eatpieandshop.org

Pie Social: Taste delicious homemade and premium pies for $5 a slice or 5 for $20. Both sweet and salty options, so come for lunch and desert.

Celebrity-judged pie contest: At 2pm, Gail Simmons, judge of “Top Chef,” Melissa Clark, food columnist for the New York Times, Kelsey Nixon, Host of Kelsey’s Essentials, Paulette Goto, host of The Cooking Channel'sf Unique Sweets and other kitchen pros will name the best pie of the pie contest. Taste the winning pie.

Artisan Holiday Gift Fair: Take care of your holiday shopping while the kids do crafts. More than 30 of Brooklyn’s best artisans are selling their wares, including jewelry, clothing and beautiful paper products as well as books and classic toys from fork + pencil.

Children's Crafts and Activities: Face painting, crafts and a Kids Choice pie contest of kid baked pies. Your kids will have a blast!

Professional Portrait Studio: You can get a beautiful portrait of your child/children taken during the event. $30 for one high-resolution image which you can print, email, gift to grandparents, etc.

Toys for Tots: U.S. Marines will be on hand to pick up all donations of holiday gifts.

Eat Pie and Shop at P.S.29 December 8

On Sunday December 8th, PS 29 is hosting its fifth annual Eat Pie and Shop holiday event. It's a pie social, celebrity-judged pie contest, artisan gift fair, professional portrait studio and children's activity (face painting, kids' choice pie contest, batiking) wrapped into one awesome family event.

Eat Pie and Shop at PS29
Sunday December 8, 11am - 4pm
425 Henry Street, between Baltic and Kane
www.eatpieandshop.org

* Pie Social: Taste delicious homemade and premium pies for $5 a slice or 5 for $20. Both sweet and salty options, so come for lunch and desert. Plus frozen custard from Shake Shack.
* Celebrity-judged pie contest: At 1pm, Gail Simmons, judge of “Top Chef,” Melissa Clark, food columnist for the New York Times and other kitchen pros will name the best pie of the pie contest. Come toast the winner and taste the winning pie.
* Artisan Holiday Gift Fair: Take care of your holiday shopping while the kids do crafts. More than 30 vendors from Brooklyn flea markets will be displaying and selling their handmade goods, including jewelry, clothing and beautiful paper products as well as books and classic toys from fork + pencil.
* Children's Crafts and Activities: Face painting, glitter tattoos, batiking and a Kids Choice pie contest of kid baked pies.
* Professional Portrait Studio: You can get a portrait of your child/children taken during the event. $30 for one high-resolution image which you can print, email, gift to grandparents, etc.
* Toys for Tots: U.S. Marines will be on hand to pick up all donations of holiday gifts.

All proceeds go to PS 29 programs. For more information, contact ps29eatpieandshop@gmail.com or visit www.eatpieandshop.org.

Red Hook Playgroup Tours Now Available

Red Hook Playgroup is a progressive preschool founded by Red Hook parents, and the school has become an active part of our community. They are members of the community gardens and take their kids to Mother Cabrini Playground and field trips in the neighborhood. Priority is given to Columbia Waterfront and Red Hook residents, and they are now scheduling tours for families interested in applying for the 2014-2015 school year. Tours will take place from October to early December. See teachers and their classrooms in action, learn about RHP's educational philosophy and approach, and discuss any questions you have about the program and policies with RHP's Directors.

Visit www.redhookplaygroup.org to find more information and an application form. Once your form is submitted, you will receive an email within a few days confirming your tour date. 

Red Hook Playgroup is located at 295 Columbia Street between Woodhull and Summit. 

P.S. 29 Eat Pie & Shop festival December 4

Hey neighbors! I was away for a while to get hitched, but I'm back with some news about a chance to shop for gifts from local artisans and eat PIE! Sounds like heaven to me. 

 

Saturday, December 4

11:00am - 4:00pm

PS 29 

425 Henry Street (between Baltic and Kane)

 

Check out details about the pie competition with celebrity judges, kids activities and toy drive at http://www.eatpieandshop.org/. 

Fall Festival at the International School of Brooklyn this Saturday

This Fall Festival sounds like a lot of fun...

Join us for a Fall Festival at 

International School of Brooklyn

477 Court Street, corner of Nelson Street

Saturday, October 15

11 to 2 pm

Rain date is Sunday, October 16 

Featuring:

Delicious food sold by the Cubana Cafe

Homemade baking by ISB parents

Several arts and crafts stations for the kids-  design your own Fall felt crown, create a wooden bracelet, apple printing Fall mural, decorate Fall sugar cookies  and paint a pumpkin station hosted by Barking Cat Studio

Sports & Games

Mid autumn Chinese lantern making with Lango Brooklyn

 

 

11.30 -12 pm Spanish Puppet Show with P is for Puppets

12 - 12.30 PM, Live Concert with the multicultural kids music sensation the Bilingual Birdies 

1 - 2 pm, Live Bluegrass with the Wild Blue Strawberries

For more information go to www.isbrooklyn.org or call 718. 369.3023.

Book Fair at P.S. 29

PS 29 on Henry Street (between Baltic and Kane) is holding a book fair. Support the school by purchasing books for the classrooms, home, and holiday gifts.  For more information about PS 29 and this event visit www.ps29brooklyn.org

 

Monday, 10/17 through Friday 10/21, 

8:30am-6:00pm

Sunday, 10/23 10:00am-4:00pm

Monday, 10/24 and Tuesday 10/25 

8:30am-6:00pm

Wednesday, 10/26 8:30am-3:00pm

 

 

 

PS 29 PTA invites to the Bubble Lounge

The PS 29 PTA

Cordially Invites You to

An Evening of Short Readings & Tall Cocktails

Plays, Poems, and More by the PS29 Parent Community

The Private Cellar of the Bubble Lounge

228 West Broadway

February 1, 2011

6:30-9:00 PM

$40 per person, $70 per couple

Click HERE for tickets!

Drinks, snacks, and

great performances!

Denver Butson

Robert Harte

Rhonda Keyser

Annie Montgomery

Sarah Moore

Kelly Park

Stephen Park

Traci Parks

MC Richard Buchsbaum

Special Guest Star Lili Taylor

100% of Proceeds Benefit PS 29!

“Eat Pie and Shop” at PS29’s Annual Holiday Fair/Pie Social Pie! Shopping! Movies! Crafts!

On December 5 from 11am to 5pm, PS 29 in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, will host the second annual “Eat Pie and Shop” Holiday Gift Fair and Pie Social, to benefit the school. Proceeds from this family-friendly Holiday event will support the school’s PTA.

The Pie Social is sure to be a delicious and entertaining afternoon event with local bakers – both amateurs and professionals – supplying a wide array of pies. For a $5 tasting ticket the public can sample a piece of pie of their choosing. Be assured this event is not only for those with a sweet tooth, the pies will cover all categories including fruit, creamy, savory and nut, so shoppers can come to shop, eat lunch and get dessert!

The pie competition will be an afternoon highlight. Bakers are invited to bring pies to be judged by parents and a panel of celebrity judges. The panel will include Gail Simmons, Food & Wine and “Top Chef,” Dannielle Kyrillos, “Top Chef: Just Desserts,” François Payard, co-owner of François Payard Bakery, François Chocolate Bar and Payard, and Brooklyn’s own Borough President, Marty Markowitz. The winner will receive a gift package from Food & Wine, a Payard Gift Box and Silver Pie Server donated by Fork & Pencil and bragging rights for the year! Judging will take place at 1pm.

The Gift Fair will highlight local artisans, craftspeople and merchants, and promises to provide a huge variety of handmade, local and sustainable gift-giving choices, from jewelry, to clothing from Half Pint Citizens to hand made and classic toys from Fork & Pencil. More than twenty different vendors will be displaying and selling their wares.

And while you shop, Rooftop Films will show a selection of independent short films for kids continually throughout the day. Tickets to the movies are $2. In addition, children can make free holiday crafts – perhaps an ornament, sachet or a frame as a present for Mom and Dad. To quench their thirst, kids and adults can both enjoy delicious and refreshing egg creams from Brooklyn Farmacy.

Melanie Raneri Woods, Principal of PS 29, said, “We are thrilled to host the second annual Eat Pie and Shop event. The event was such an amazing success last year and I am positive this year’s will be even bigger. It’s refreshing in the midst of all the holiday craze to have an event where children and adults can spend some time together and at the same time support the fabulous efforts of our school community.”

Eat Pie and Shop will be held on Sunday, December 5, from 11am to 5pm, at PS 29, 425 Henry Street, between Baltic and Kane Street. For more information on the event, including a list of all vendors and information on how to enter a pie, please visit www.eatpieandshop.org.

Special PS 29 Benefit Evening - Tue, Nov 16

The PS 29 PTA & Strong Place

Cordially Invite You to

LENNONYC

A Special PS 29 Benefit Evening

Tuesday, November 16th

7:00 PM

A Private Preview of LENNONYC

at Cobble Hill Cinemas

Featuring a Talkback with Film Director/Writer Michael Epstein

(an Academy Award-nominated PS 29 Dad)

Immediately Followed by a Reception at Strong Place

$30 ticket price includes the screening, talkback

beer or wine & hors d'oeuvres

Sponsored by Sixpoint Craft Ales

Click here for tickets

Proceeds Benefit PS 29!

BNS/BCS Apple Fest 2010!

BNS Apple Fest 2010 :

A big, beautiful, fundraiser & community building, educational celebration!
Proceeds to benefit the Brooklyn New School & the Brooklyn School for
Collaborative Studies.

DATE: Saturday, Oct. 2, 11 am - 5 pm (Rain or shine)

WHERE: School yard behind our building at 610 Henry Street and 2nd Place

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Game booths, raffle, huge inflatable obstacle course, spin art, dunking booth,
frame-making, recycle arts, beading, composting, cider pressing, delicious
home-made food, smoothie booth; pumpkin decorating;, Live music (bands to be
announced), plant and compost sale; and more!

Help PS 29 win an Imagination Playground in a Box!

Email from PS 29:

Dear PS 29 Community Members,

PS29 has a great opportunity to enhance our recess offerings with a David Rockwell-designed Imagination Playground in a Box from Underwriters Laboratories and KaBOOM. Each Playground in a Box unit — designed to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play — costs over $20,000, but we can win one if we get enough fans by May 31.

Click HERE to become a fan.

Please be sure to share the link via email, Twitter, and Facebook.

Thank you!

Reminder: PS58 Spring Carmival tomorrow

Mark your calendars for the PS58 Spring Carnival!

SATURDAY, MAY 15TH
10-4pm
PS58 School Yard

Astrograss and Bonga & The Voodoo Drums of Haiti will headline this year's carnival along with performances by two dance groups featuring native hula dancers and a troupe of Bollywood dancers from India.

There will be games and prizes, a moonbounce and a slide, ice-cream, hot dogs and a fresh fruit stand. The Carnival is open to all the community and admission is free.
Pay only for what you play and eat.

Bring the entire family for a day of fun and tell your friends!

PS58 Spring Carnival - May 15th

Mark your calendars for the PS58 Spring Carnival!

SATURDAY, MAY 15TH
10-4pm
PS58 School Yard

Astrograss and Bonga & The Voodoo Drums of Haiti will headline this year's carnival along with performances by two dance groups featuring native hula dancers and a troupe of Bollywood dancers from India.

There will be games and prizes, a moonbounce and a slide, ice-cream, hot dogs and a fresh fruit stand. The Carnival is open to all the community and admission is free.
Pay only for what you play and eat.

Bring the entire family for a day of fun and tell your friends!

Electronic recycling at PS 29 - Saturday 4/25

On April 25th, from 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, the Lower East Side Ecology Center and the Cobble Hill Association are hosting an electronic recycling day at the PS 29 Schoolyard, on Baltic Street between Clinton Street and Henry Street. If you want to responsibly recycle unwanted or broken electronics, all you have to do is bring your e-waste with you.

-Home appliances such as microwaves or refrigerators will not be accepted
- Accepted items include computers, printers, scanners, fax machines, copiers, network devices, keyboards, mice, cables, hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, audio-visual equipment, cell phones, pagers, PDAs, handheld and desktop phones, and answering machines.

Science Fair at PS 29

Ticket link is: http://www.nycharities.org/events/eventlevels.aspx?ETID=1443

(Tickets also available at the door.)

2nd Annual PS 58 PTA Flea Market - April 24th

Come by and check out a schoolyards worth of goodies at
The 2nd Annual PS 58 PTA Flea Market

Saturday April 24th, 10-4, no rain date

PS 58 Schoolyard, Carroll at Smith

Even bigger than last year- more vendors, more food and more fun!


Interested in renting a space? We have very affordable space rental!
Email pbecker3@nyc.rr.com

It's time to shop for PS 29!

P.S. 29's PTA is hosting an online auction to raise funds for the school through March 14. Dozens of local businesses, including Columbia Street-area establishments such as Alma, Kotobuki, Calexico, Margaret Palca Bakes, Old Brooklyn Wine and Liquor, Woof's n' Whiskers, the House of Pizza and Calzone, the Super Movers, and Elite Fitness Studio have generously donated goods and services for sale.

Click here for the auction link

Anyone can bid on most of the 250 amazing items, spanning the gamut from dinner at Gramercy Tavern to sessions at swanky summer camps. Also included are unbelievable restaurant meals, clothing, spa services, vacation homes, sporting goods and designer jewelry. The only items that aren't up for sale to the greater community are the teacher experiences--those are limited to P.S. 29 families.

This year, one percent of our auction earnings will go to the Haitian relief effort.

BID AWAY, HAVE FUN, AND raise critical money for the school, even more critical given that P.S. 29 will be starting to prepare next year's PTA budget towards the end of March (and to a large extent it will be influenced by the success of this event).

Thanks for your support!

Bakesale at PS 29 for Haiti

PS 58 Holiday Book Sale - 12/9-11

Lobstah Feast at Rocky Sullivans'

This Saturday (12/12) from 5 to 8pm,
the PS 58 PTA and The Red Hook Lobster Pound brings you a kid-friendly lobstah feast
at Rocky Sullivans', located at 34 Van Dyke at Dwight street.
$35 buys you a Maine lobster with all the fixins.
[kid food and pizza available]

TIX online, click here.