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Recycled
Fashion Show & High Tea Everything old becomes new again
Spoke the Hub's semi-annual "Recycled Fashion Show and High
Tea" provides all clothing wearers with the opportunity to purge
their closets and turn their tired fashion rejects into someone else's
high fashion fireworks. It's fun, it's funky and
it's ecological! Come watch your old duds spring back to life again on
the Brooklyn catwalk, complete with music,
super models from the ‘hood, and delicious tea and crumpets. At the
end of the show, all garments are up for grabs at rock bottom prices!
Proceeds go to benefit Spoke the Hub's annual Local Produce Festival of
the Performing Arts. Used clothing donations are accepted beginning in
January for the next Recycled Fashion & High Tea to be held the 3rd
weekend in March. Call the studio for clothing drop-off times.
Works
on the Wall
The walls of the Spoke the Hub Re: Creation
Center
host a new changing
solo visual art exhibit every 4-6 weeks entitled "Works on the
Wall" which features the art of local painters, photographers,
printmakers and multi-media artists. Exhibit requests are reviewed
throughout the year. Artists should be aware that the space is an active
one, filled with children and adults 7 days a week, thus content and
fragility of works should be considered carefully before applying. To
apply, artists should send a resume, a selection of recent works on slides,
and an SASE for return of materials to: Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center, 748 Union Street, Brooklyn
11215
POTLUCK
SINGALONG with Barry Oreck & Friends
During the aftermath of the 9/11 devastation, many members of the Spoke
the Hub community expressed a need to come together, grieve, and share
each other's company. Folksinger and dancer Barry Oreck
brought his guitar, Cory Munson brought her fiddle, and musicians Doug
Pierson, Jody Kruskal and David Goddy joined them in leading friends and neighbors in
song. This impromptu gathering proved such a heart-warming success that
it has become a regular communal affair at Spoke the Hub. Singalongs begin with a potluck/social hour around 6:00 pm and conclude with about two
hours of singing everything from the Grateful Dead to Gershwin to Child
Ballads. Bring food and drink, instruments and sheet music to share if
you have a favorite musical request. Call for upcoming dates.
"Miles
of Tiles" Community Mosaic Project
The "Miles of Tiles" Community Mosaic Project began in 1985,
when Elise Long and friends founded the Gowanus
Arts Exchange. They wanted to create an entrance into the building that
would make people smile as soon as they walked in the door; the colorful,
crazy-quilt mosaic which greets you at the threshold and throughout the
halls of 295 Douglass Street is
the result of 25 people’s first tiling efforts on one industrious
weekend. It proved the perfect solution to the problem.
Since that time, Long has created whimsical mosaics in foyers, showers, on
walls and across floors on both the East and West coasts, in addition to
directing communal tile projects which involve dozens of men, women and
children collaborators. The 200 square foot floor in the basement of the
STH Re: Creation
Center
on Union Street is
the site of the latest group masterpiece.
To learn more about making your own mosaics or to participate in the next
communal "Miles of Tiles" project, please call or email Spoke
the Hub and ask to be put on the Tile Tag Team Phone Roster.
BANDWAGON
PRODUCTIONS with Elise Long
Spoke the Hub Founder/Director Elise Long has been creating small, medium
and extra large dance/theater works with and for all ages for over 30
years. Dubbed the Cecil B. De Mille of Brooklyn, these often zany, upcategorizeable epics have appeared on the Staten
Island Ferry, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, and in parades, beer halls,
pizza joints and weddings, as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(to name just one upscale venue!) They have been performed by casts en utero to
octogenarians and usually involve a core of professional performers
shored up by the raw physicality and exuberance of scores of regular old
kids and adults enlisted from the immediate neighborhood. If you would
like to jump on the next Bandwagon, the minimum participation
requirements for laymen are: a good, adventurous spirit, punctuality,
ability to commit to a regular rehearsal schedule, and a willingness to
explore new physical and emotional terrain. Call if interested in
participating in the second installment of Elise's latest "Line
Dances" to be performed in the Spring of 2004.
On Temporary
Hiatus:
Fridays Out Loud
Fridays Out Loud, Brooklyn's monthly
writers reading series, was launched by Hilary Platner
and the Brooklyn Writers Group in the Fall of ‘98. The series
features the work of emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and
plays presented in an intimate and informal setting.
HOLIDAY ART SALE
Spoke the Hub celebrates the spirit of giving each holiday Season by
supporting the creative work of local arts and crafts people and
connecting them with an audience of local arts enthusiasts who will
appreciate their unique, handmade works of art. In seasons past, this
event has taken the form of a weekend crafts sale at one of Spoke the
Hub's studios or at the Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope. Artisans
are invited to sell their work during STH's
annual "Student/Faculty Benefit Concert" held in the Gowanus
Arts Building/
For further information on renting a table at this upcoming event, please
call the studio.
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