FRIDAY, June 18, 2010
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!
Dance Recital “A Blast From The Past”
1:00 - 6:30PM
6:30 - 9:30PM
“Blissfully and absurdly entertaining” The Guardian
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
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
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
