Tom & Jerry at Big Movies for Little Kids

BIG MOVIES FOR LITTLE KIDS

Celebrating Our Fifth Anniversary!

Monday, May 3^rd at 4pm

TOM & JERRY

Trends come and go, but the chase is eternal! The most famous cat and mouse team are back for more hilarious antics on the big screen at Big Movies. (USA; 1965; not rated; color animation; approximately 70 minutes)

BIG MOVIES FOR LITTLE KIDS

Time: 4pm (every other Monday, following the public school calendar)

Ages: 2 and up (all ages welcome)

Location: Cobble Hill Cinemas, 265 Court Street @ Butler

Cost: $6.50 per person (as per theater policy, all walkers need a ticket)

For more information: www.bigmoviesforlittlekids.blogspot.com

To secure seats, tickets may be purchased on-line at: www.cobblehilltheatre.com

Drawing Blood opening at WORK - tomorrow 5/1

DRAWING BLOOD

May 1 – May 28, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, May 1, 6-9pm

ERIC AYOTTE – ELIZA MYRIE – OWEN RUNDQUIST – KARIN STOTHART – BRIAN ZEGEER Curated by KATHLEEN SMITH

WORK gallery is on Union Street at the corner of Van Brunt.

Guarding and Grooming Your Street Tree - Coffey Park this weekend

Learn street tree basics at the park house in Coffey Park this Saturday from 10-12. Click flyer for closer look at details

Mother's Day Gift from the neighborhood

How great is this?
A delicious cake, a Spring floral arrangement, and a delicate card, all of which you can order right in the neighborhood. No excuses daddies! It's time to honor the mommies!

Audra Rox to have a benefit at the Urban Meadow

To find out more about Alexandra's Playground click here.

Coffee tasting at the Coffee Den - 5/2

This Sunday the Coffee Den is hosting a tasting extravaganza from 10 to 1.
Put your taste buds to the test and separate top organic brands from sock juice.


Enjoy and send in your reviews!

New cake place on Sackett

Kakes by appointment only...


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Salsa Sensation, La Excelencia, Remembers New York Roots

International stars donate concert to support community-based arts in Brooklyn

“When I first heard La Excelencia’s 2006 debut album, Salsa Con Conciencia, I remember feeling as if I had been struck on the head with a pair of clave and thinking: ‘Yes! This is what salsa is all about.’” So says Tijana Illich, Latin music journalist, about her first run in with the 12-piece powerhouse being called “the most sought after group in New York” (Chris Soto, The Mambo Scene Magazine).

The band, started in 2005 by Julian Silva and Jose Vazquez-Cofresi, comes to Southpaw (125 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn) May 4^th for a benefit party & concert (6:30pm). Their work their will support arts education programs for over 700 students run by Dance Theatre Etcetera, a community-based organization with a 17-year history of programming in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

These young musicians bring an urban edge to their socially conscious lyrics, and a no-frills, old-school sound that has some calling them the face of the salsa dura (“hard salsa”) movement. When their first album dropped the New York Times took note, saying "The real deal doesn’t show up that often, and here it is. Celebrate it".

So what made the group donate a free set when they’re in demand throughout the world? Like the music, it’s about giving something back. Not only will the band help a new generation of New Yorkers get access to the arts with their benefit concert, the men behind the band have reached out, through Dance Theatre Etcetera, to schedule a special workshop/performance with students at Red Hook’s South Brooklyn Community High School.

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Dance Theatre Etcetera’s benefit party & concert with La Excelencia

Tuesday, May 4^th, 2010 (6:30pm) @ Southpaw (125 Fifth Avenue)

More information about La Excelencia

Visit Dance Theatre Etcetera to find out more about the organization

For more info about the benefit concert,

visit www.dtetc.org/benefit.html

Kindiefest family music conference at Littlefield this weekend

This weekend at Littlefield, kid friendly musicians, bands, and others from the family music business will be coming from around the country to participate in the annual Kindiefest music conference. While a number of events within the conference are for insiders only, such as seminars on marketing or distribution, there will be a music festival on Sunday that can be enjoyed by any family with young children:

Sunday, May 2

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm • Festival

Ralph Covert
Clementown
Bill Harley
Recess Monkey
Royal Order of Chords and Keys
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased in advance here

For more details about these artists or the festival in general, check out the conference site here

Littlefield is located at 622 Degraw St. Check out their site here

BBQ and book drive for Books Through Bars - Freebird - 5/8 from 2-6pm

The non-profit organization Books Through Bars recently found a temporary new home on Columbia St. in the basement of Freebird Books and Goods. Welcome them to the community on Saturday May 8th from 2-6pm by attending a "BBQ and Book Drive" being held for them at Freebird! (see details below)

If you can't make it to that event, staff from Books Through Bars also accepts book donations at other times. More info can be found on their site here.

Details from Freebird's site are as follows:

Saturday, May 8, 2-6 pm

BBQ and Book drive for Books Through Bars

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
--Mark Twain

Over the past month we have readied our basement for the grassroots organization, Books Through Bars, a non-profit which donates books to prisoners across the country. Now that they have made the move from Boerum Hill, they are in need of filling up their more spacious new digs downstairs. There are lots of shelves that need to be restocked. Please help us out.

So in the spirit of spring cleaning (you know those walls are closing in on you) and Mark Twain, whose passing 100 years ago we also note, we will make our backyard a book drop and party space for the occasion. BBQ and beer will be on hand, not to mention Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer T-shirts special for the occasion (from our friends at Novel-T). All Freebird’s proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts will go to Books Through Bars.

Books donated to BTB are tax deductible. Books Through Bars is especially looking for books in the following categories -- and preferably in paperback, to cut down on postage costs:

• African-American history, especially 20th century
• Native American history
• Latin American history
• Radical politics
• Social sciences and psychology
• Dictionaries, thesauruses, and Spanish-English dictionaries
• Learning world languages
• How-to (drawing, chess, sign language...)
• Mayan and Aztec history
• Memoirs and fiction by people of color
• Mythology
• Poetry anthologies

That said, we don’t want to turn away any generous offers and what BTB can’t use will either make its way into Freebird’s general population or off to another charitable organization.