FRIDAY, June 18, 2010
BAMcafé Live
TamarRaqs Summer Solstice Hafla
9:30pm
It wouldn’t be the summer solstice without TamarRaqs ushering in the year’s longest day with the bi-annual hafla (“celebration” in Arabic) series at BAMcafé Live. Guest host Kaeshi Chai fills in this year with guest dancers Altagracia, Janelle Cortes, and musical guest Shusmo. Free!

SATURDAY, June 19, 2010
10th Annual Juneteenth Arts Festival
Noon - 6:00 pm
Cuyler Gore Park (Fulton Street and Carlton Avenue)

The Brooklyn-based collaboration between artists and business owners will commemorate Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the formal end of slavery in Texas and other parts of the South. This Brooklyn gathering is a day-long celebration of arts, entertainment and culture. Call 718.643.8322 or
[email protected] for more information.
Brooklyn Music School
Dance Recital “A Blast From The Past”
1:00 - 6:30PM

The Brooklyn Music School Dance Department will be having their end of the year Spring Recital - theme ” A Blast From The Past”. The performances will be featuring 60′s 70′s and 80′ music. Our students will perform to these wonderful tunes.
Tickets price are $20.00 before June 19th, at the door $25.00 Come support our BMS students!
Irondale Season Finale
85 South Oxford Street
6:30 - 9:30PM

Join Irondale for an evening of fun as we announce highlights of our upcoming 2010-2011 season and the Irondale Ensemble performs a staged reading of The People Next Door, a black comedy about terrorism and winner of a Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival 2003.
The People Next Door by Henry Adams
“Blissfully and absurdly entertaining” The Guardian
Admission is Free but contributions will be gratefully accepted!
Free food! Cash bar!
Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park
1:00 - 3:00 PM Fort Greene Park
Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park A stroll sponsored by Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project
Walk around Fort Greene Park, a greensward that owes its existence in large part to Walt Whitman’s editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and learn about this poet’s intimate connection with Brooklyn’s first official park.
The afternoon includes readings of Whitman’s prose and poetry and discussions about the park, the Wallabout Martyrs and the monument dedicated to their memory, and Brooklyn Hospital. This event will conclude with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson Street, the last existing building in Brooklyn that was a residence of Walt Whitman.
Your guide is Greg Trupiano, Artistic Director of The Walt Whitman Project. Guest artist: Nicole Mitchell, mezzo-soprano.
· Meet at the Visitors Center, Top of the Park, Fort Greene Park
· Enter at Myrtle Avenue, Washington Park, or DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn
· FREE event / rain or shine
Information & Reservations: 718-391-8824 or visit www.whitmanproject.org
FABfest
12noon - 6pm

This Sunday, June 20, 2010, FABfest is happening again with games, crafts and activities for kids; live music from the rock band “Falling Short of Luxury”; and on the main stage… programming by Greenlight Bookstore that includes Poetry, Comedy and authors in conversation. Plus EVERYBODY PAINT is back, where everyone is invited to grab a brush and contribute to one of four large 4×8 foot canvases lined up down the middle of Fulton Street.
MAIN STAGE
12noon - 1:30
SALSA DANCE PARTY and lessons for everyone!
Courtesy Brooklyn Salsa Party
1:30 - 2:00 Live Rock Music
FALLING SHORT OF LUXURY
2:00 - 2:30
DJ RAINY
Greenlight Bookstore presents
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2:30 - 3:30
URBAN WORD POETRY
3:30 - 4:00
DJ RAINY
4:00, 4:30, 5:00
STEAMBOAT COMEDY
5:30 in conversation
TOURE & NELSON GEORGE
PLUS these activities up and down Fulton Street:
@ South Elliott
Calling all artists, age: 4+ for Private Picassos’
Free Balloons, courtesy Prudential Douglass Elliman
Walking Tour of the picturesque blocks of Fort Greene (3:00)
with Author Adrienne Onofri
@ South Portland
For Kids: Streetside Mad Libs, Stickers, Buttons, Six-Word Memoir Contest, Prizes
All Ages: Creative Writing Class 4:00 (all ages) with
Courtesy Greenlight Bookstore
Milkweed for Monarchs!
Plus more environmental displays
Courtesy Habana Outpost
Potato print aprons for Father’s Day (12noon-3pm)
Bring one of dad’s old t-shirts or an apron to decorate for him - or we’ll provide you with one (while supplies last).
Courtesy ShopKeep, the web-based point of sale system, and Greene Grape Provisions
@ South Oxford
Everybody Paint! Grab a brush and go (but not in your nice clothes!)
Courtesy of Benjamin Moore/Go Greene Hardware
GAMES!
Including the Ring Toss, Hula Hoops, Bean Bag Toss, Milk Bottle Bowling and more…
Courtesy the Fort Greene Park Conservancy