Greenpoint Gallery Night Video Recap
Enjoy this video recap of Greenpoint Gallery Night which took place on May 10, 2013!
Enjoy this video recap of Greenpoint Gallery Night which took place on May 10, 2013!

In Brooklyn, when we brunch we brunch HARD. But, to brunch AND be philanthropic all at the same time? Last Saturday Rally Downtown hosted Brunchtacular: the mother of all brunches, in which a portion of the proceeds benefit The Lamp and Greenpoint Reformed Church Food Pantry.
The event was hosted at T.B.D., the largest beer garden in Greenpoint, featuring local restaurants: Anella, Action Burger, Cafecito Bogota, Ovenly, The Bagel Store, Mabels Smokehouse, Selamat Pagi, and Brooklyn Label. And get this: it was a three-hour, all-you-can-eat brunch, with bottomless mimosas.


In the midst of the brunch-madness, I was able to be chat with founder, Tom Gray and grab the inside scoop on Brunchtacular:
Greenpointers: What was the impetus of “Brunchtacular” ?
Tom: We thought it was a unique way to highlight local businesses, while supporting some great nonprofits organizations that serve Greenpoint and the rest of Brooklyn. Continue reading
Greenpointers is excited to announce Greenpoint Gallery Night on Friday May 10, 2013 from 6-9pm at over a dozen participating Greenpoint art galleries.
All are welcome to stroll from gallery to gallery, free of charge, and experience the wealth of artwork and diversity of exhibition spaces our great neighborhood has to offer.
Afterparty is at the newly reopened Coco66 (66 Greenpoint Ave.) at 9pm!
Co-organized by gallery owners Lia Post (Fowler Arts Collective) and Scott Chasse (Calico), the following galleries will be opening their doors for an evening of gallery hopping: Beginnings, Booklyn Artist Alliance, Calico, Theceeflat Gallery, Dobbin Project Space, Fowler Project Space, G Spot (at CoCo66), The Greenpoint Gallery (8-12pm only), Heliopolis, Janet Kurnatowski, Laundry Lung, The Yard, Yashar Gallery, and Yes Gallery.
There is always something intriguing going on at Greenpointers HQ, which is the home of Dobbin Project Space (50-52 Dobbin St). When I walked in the door there was a gorgeous array of local flora in the window, part of an exhibition called “Botanical,” presenting new works inspired by the plant kingdom by artist Laurie Sumiye.
“In her installation, Island, Sumiye uses endemic New York grass plants from a local native plant nursery to recreate a patch of wild, uncultivated land — a forgotten bucolic landscape of Williamsburg-Greenpoint. The live grass plants (Scirpus cyperinus, Leersia oryzoides, Carex comosa) represent a homecoming and estrangement; native seedlings are reintroduced to a location where they once grew, but inside a building surrounded by urban industry. Island explores the tension of controlled environments, as well as reflect a specific history and perspective of place.”
The exhibition opens Friday, April 11, 2013 from 6-9pm, and on Saturday from 2:30-5pm there will be live drawing of plants in the nude. ($12 suggested donation)
See you there!
Join us Sunday, April 7th - 7pm at The Exley (1 Jackson St) for Classic Cocktails mixed by Young Nathan (the man in the middle), inspired music by Darryl St. Christopher Specht, and the 2 Hour Season Premiere of Mad Men Season 6.
Sponsored Post Courtesy of The Exley.

I love that I get event info via Instagram. Our friends @silkroadcycles and @rbwnyc tipped us on this fun Greenpoint Egg Hunt – this Saturday, March 30, 2013 from 10-11am at Transmitter Park!

Yes, I said sweat lodge. And crawfish boil. And I personally promise that the fat hairy men in the photo above will not be there – sadly! (Do they even know that this photo exists on the magical interweb?)
This Sunday March 24, 2013 at The Diamond (43 Franklin St) at 3pm, the Center for Investigative Research is presenting The Double Boiler! They “provide the sweat-lodge, plunge-pool, and shaman–you just bring your bathing suit and your sinful self,” … and a towel. The sweaty part is free. The fishy part, “a genuine Crawfish Boil for those who like their schvitz a bit fishy…” they say, “costs money.” How much? I don’t know! RSVP.
We are getting pumped for Greenpointers Comedy Night which is TONIGHT – Tuesday March, 12th, 8pm at Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave). We hope you can make it! RSVP
$5 buck at door. 100% pays the comics!
Plus, Saint Vitus is donating $1 from every drink that night to the Writer’s Fund!
Hosted by Kerryn Feehan
Nimesh Patel
The Lucas Bros
Anthony DeVito
Michelle Wolf
Hadiyah Robinson
Justy Dodge
“To die would be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
There are more events in our weekly calendar. Submit Greenpoint events, too!
WEDNESDAY 2/13
♥Valentine’s Eve Eco Love @Freckle (154 Nassau Ave) 6-8pm FREE, Spend the night before V-Day with Freckle and SW Basics! $10 Eco Friendly Manis, create your own custom scent with S.W. Basics, champagne and chocolate RSVP Mandatory
☺AbeMixture: A Creamy Kind Of Love @Legion Bar (790 Metropolitan Ave) 7:30pm, $5 Jokes, videos, some possible tumbling, nearby booze and a ton of great music after the show RSVP
♦The Impossible Project Artist Talk @Reverse Space(28 Frost St) 7:30pm, FREE The Impossible Project will present and discuss the conceptions of creative minds
in a casual, open forum RSVP
☺Big Terrific Comedy Show @Cameo Gallery (93 N6th St) 8-10pm, FREE Max Silvestri/James Adomian,/Myq Kaplan/Street Seidell RSVP
♥Spectacle’s Sexy Soiree @Spectacle Theatre (124 S.3rd St) 8pm, Karley Sciortino, aka Slutever (runs the Slutever blog) will be screening a collection of erotic shorts, stag films, some of her favorite sex scenes from movies, and some quality artsy clips. More Info
VALENTINE’S DAY 2/14
♥Valentine’s Day with the Williamsburg Orchestra @Paper Box (17 Meadow St) Doors 6pm, $8-12 Celebrate Valentines Day with the the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, DJ EM, Nieves Dance Studio will perform, and Joey Corsica will be giving Free Fun Salsa Lessons! Tix
♥Valentine’s Day Singles Party-Ladies Night @Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave) 8pm, FREE Ladies drink for $3, DJ Heather and Blind Dance. More Info
♫Rated R V Day @Cameo Gallery (93 N6th St)8-11pm, $12 Lemonade/ILLLS/Empress Of/Heathered Pearls (DJ)/Evan M RSVP
♥Warm Sensations Valentines Party @Secret Project Robot Art Experiment (389 Melrose St) 9pm, $5 Shadow Lover/Little Band of Sailors/Doom Trumpet and videos! RSVP
♦Flux Thursday: Valentine’s Day Edition @Flux Factory (39-31 29t Street, LIC) More Info
♥Valentine’s Day: Makeout Dance Party @The Woods (48 S. 4th St) 10pm, DJ Slutbag RSVP

FRIDAY 2/15
♦Ashes57 @Reverse Space (28 Frost St) 7-9pm, A collection of illustration, graphicdesign and typography works from Ashes57 RSVP
♦Darina Karpov: Sudden Leap into the Interior @Pierogi (177 N. 9th St) Opening 7-9pm, Exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Darina Karpov with a focus on interiority, both literal and metaphorical More Info
♦Inside Out @Laundry Lung Gallery (67 West St) Opening 7-9pm, Laundry Lung Collective has teamed up with several outsider artists from Hospital Audiences Incorporated, a therapeutic arts
workshop centered around healing, growth and learning through engagement in the arts More Info
♦Morph @Fowler Arts Collective (67 West St, #216) Opening 7-9pm, Morph investigates the body as a conduit for different artistic and theoretical strategies, which reveal the body’s fundamental role in comprehending our sense of self RSVP
♫Patrick Higgins/Josh Modney/Elli Keszler/Ashley Paul/Jess Snyder/Sam Pluta/Federico Ughi @Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave, Bushwick) $8, 8pm RSVP
♥Over it: Bushwick Valentine’s Apocalypse @Bushwick Coffee House (44 Wilson Ave) 7pm-1am ,$5 A 90s MTV-style match up game, Love Is Nice art show,live music, dance party and prizes! RSVP
♥Eyes Wide Fucked: A Valentine’s Masquerade Ball @Cheap Storage (49 Wyckoff Ave) $5, 8pm-8am All night masked soul, motown, slow-jam dance party, masks available at the door, fog machine RSVP
SATURDAY 2/16
♫True Trill Death @The Flat (308 Hooper St) 11pm, FREE A night of the only the
trillest and the illest hip hop and R&B from the 90s Freddie Machete/Don Castillo/Mr. Sniffles RSVP
♫Percussion Lab presents: Chrissy Murderbot/Galapagoose/Archie Pelago @Cameo Gallery (93 N. 6th St)12am-4am, $7 RSVP
SUNDAY 2/17
♦Brooklyn Analog Opening Party @Boulevard Tavern (579 Meeker Ave) Opening 3pm, Photo Exhibit featuring work from Brooklyn Analog More Info
♦Big Law Country Club Gallery Opening @Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave, Bushwick) Opening 6-8pm FREE, after party 8pm-12am, $7 New gallery space opening in Silent Barn featuring artists Eli Lehrhoff + Ginny Benson, performance from Alaskas/Eartheater/Mochs RSVP
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones likely
♦ Art Event
☺ Comedy Event
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway.
— Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac
There are more events in our weekly calendar. Submit Greenpoint events, too!
WEDNESDAY 2/6
•WABC 7’s Town Hall Meeting @ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy, Prospect Heights) 7-8:30pm, Brooklyn residents will have an opportunity to speak directly to reporters, in an open town hall forum, “Brooklynites” can discuss any of the issues they believe are important to their neighborhoods or the city at large
•Vans Open Skate @House of Vans (25 Franklin St) 7pm-11pm, FREE Every Wednesday night from now until it warms up Vans is opening the doors to anyone and everyone who wants to come in from the cold and get their skate on FREE pizza, RSVP required houseofvans (at)gmail.com
THURSDAY 2/7
♦EV’RYDAY @R.B.W. (174 Franklin Street) Opening Reception 6-10pm, Spring 2013 Artist curation featuring rruka Drawn Textiles “The Original Series” and the debut of her lighting “City Lights” Series 1 More Info
♫On An On/Tiny Victories/Young Heel @Glasslands (289 Kent Ave) 8:30pm, $10 RSVP
♥Funky Warsaw @ The Warsaw (261 Driggs St) 10pm, FREE DJ Bobby J plays all vinyl, sassy-ass 60′s soul, funky funk, power-pop pop-pop, post apocalyptic punk, and pre-historic hip-hop
FRIDAY 2/8
♦ Amy Lincoln: Plants, Portraits, and a Distant View @Projekt722 (722 Metropolitan Ave, 2nd Fl) Opening Reception, 6-9pm Solo exhibition of paintings by Bushwick artist Amy Lincoln More Info
*Born Again @Calico (67 West St #206) Opening 7-9pm, featuring works by Thomas Buildmore, Allison Maletz, and Charles Wilkin. Each artist takes something from the past a concept, an image, a sound – and recontextualizes or recreates it to be experienced in a new light, from a different angle than originally intended RSVP
♦Structure of Feeling @ Heliopolis (154 Huron St) Opening 7-10pm, An exhibition featuring Sandra Sitron and Ted Kennedy,Painting, video, haptics with special guests Christian Science Minotaur (in the Annex) RSVP
♦Heralds of all Revolutions @The One Well (165 Greenpoint Ave) Opening Reception 7-10pm, Colorful paintings comprised of dots on small wooden panels assembled into larger forms
comprise this show RSVP
♦Loose Lips: A Night of Erotica @Bushwick Fireproof (119 Ingraham St)7-11pm, $5 suggested Papercut Press presents a celebration of erotic art, film, and literature. Laurie Weeks (Zippermouth) is to headline the readings and Don Pablo Pedro will be among the artists showing work More Info
♫Heliotropes/JCK Davey/Dead Stars/The Veda Rays/Strangers@Paper Box (17 Meadow St) 7:30pm, $7 More Info
♦ Alan Watts/Yvette/Absolutely Free/Breeding Program/DJ Porkchop @ Big Snow (89 Varet St) 8pm, $7 Readings More Info
♥The Urban Circuit with Aputumpu Presents: Winter Warriors @Shea Stadium (20 Meadow Street) 8pm-4am, $7 Live Bands, DJs, Dancing, Interactive Art Installation: Part 1 Rock out to indie-rock bands, TalkFine, Jangula and Wild International, Part 2 Shake your booty on the dance-floor with DJ duo The FancyCats and DJ Norm RSVP
•Portlandia Party @ Boulevard Tavern (579 Meeker Ave) 10-11pm,
Every Friday night see Portlandia on Boulevard’s big screen! Grills open too,$5 all-you-can-eat BBQ! More Info
•Adult Animation Midnights @Videology (308 Bedford Ave) Midnight, $5 a month long series of cartoons that are definitely NOT for children More Info
SATURDAY 2/9
*Greenpointers Valentine’s Market @ From The Source (69 West St) noon-6pm, Picking up a local gift for your honey will be easy with over 45 vendors under one romantically decorated roof: Gifts, Food, Drinks, Nail Art, Couple Astrology Readings, Prizes, Raffle, Photo Booth, Message In A Bottle! RSVP
Vegan Valentines Shop-Up @ Pine Box Rock Shop (12 Grattan St, ) noon-5pm, NYC’s only all vegan pop-up market, V-Day edition, featuring the best small businesses around. More Info
Joe Goddard (Hot Chip DJ set) @ Cameo Gallery (93 N. 6th St.) 11:30-4am, $20 RSVP
SUNDAY 2/10
•The Skint’s Vegan Bake Off @The Bell House
(149 7th Street,Gowanus) 3pm, $15(includes raffle) Feed and bump elbows with other local vegan-sweet seekers plus judges Chef Adam Sobel (owner of the insanely-popular Cinnamon Snail Food Truck and Certified Orgasmic),Sarah Gross, organizer of the annual NYC Vegetarian Food Festival and owner of Rescue Chocolate, and whip-smart comedian Myq Kaplan TIX
♫Yob/Hull/Bezoar @ Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave) 7:30-10:30pm, $15 RSVP
MONDAY 2/11
*Greenpoint Environmental Benefit Projects Program @ The Polish & Slavic Center (176 Java St) 5-8pm Get updated on the program’s progress mee the general administrator and weigh in on the types of environmental projects you want to see funded in Greenpoint, Learn More
FAT TUESDAY 2/12
•Mardi Gras @Mable’s (44 Berry Street) 7-11pm, Mardi Gras Party on Fat Tuesday at with Catahoula Cajun Band for an incredible night, toe-tappin foot stomping dance music, and comfort food specials RSVP
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones likely
♦ Art Event
☺ Comedy Event