brooklyn museum first saturdays: art dances on
i know, i know, we really should have gone by now. the brooklyn museum has been hosting 1st saturdays for several years now, and even though they are family friendly and we aren’t exactly booked most saturday nights we have never made our way over there for what seem like great events. the lineup planned for tomorrow night looks great (as does most everything that they have done so far) so i think we really owe it to ourselves to make our way over to eastern parkway.
the evening begins with the blue vipers of brooklyn (pictured above) playing swing for a couple of hours (something j and i have taken way too many lessons for at the great sandra cameron dance center and yet we still can only remember just a few steps but maybe this will help us brush up) and some fun kid and adult activities centered around the hernan bas exhibit (see below). to finish up, dj adrian michna will spin the sounds of miami bass.
so now that i am determined to come to first saturdays, i have had to figure out some good places to eat and shop nearby which i have put together in my mini guide below. the brooklyn museum of art, 200 eastern parkway at washington avenue, brooklyn, new york, .
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with two small and darling kids and one lovely husband who all occasionally need some amount of tending to as well as a full-time job, this blog is an excuse for me to explore the streets of new york, with a focus on brooklyn -- my home -- and manhattan, for those great little finds that seem to appear randomly on all sorts of blocks around new york but are sometimes hidden from plain view. i gravitate toward small, beautiful, independent places with interesting things, fantastic and friendly service and mostly affordable stuff (or at least an excellent value) and food that is extremely tasty, reasonable and in a great space -- though taste will trump design every time. to help put all these ideas in one place, i also will provide a series of new york mini-guides. in each of these, i will highlight something fun to do and then give some food, shop and doing suggestions nearby. these mini-guides, soon to be accompanied by mini-maps, will help to fill an afternoon -- where to pick up a snack, what shops to check out nearby and is there a really sweet little park along the way for a much needed rest. and i am always looking for ideas -- so if you have any suggestions for where to eat and shop or what to do please let me know. . you can also follow me on twitter at cherrypatter.
and for those of you more interested in the photos, i have absolutely no photography training and while i have been picking up a few tidbits here and there, mostly i think the credit for the photos goes to my lovely camera. it is a canon rebel xti, and the lens i use most of the time is the 50 mm 1:1:8. i also have a 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 for longer views.
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