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Pilar Celebrates One Year Anniversary with a Pig Roast

September 6, 2010
4:00 pm	to	7:00 pm

A tipster sent us this photo of a poster for Pilar Cuban Eatery’s upcoming celebration. Pilar will be celebrating their one year anniversary (and perhaps Labor Day) with a pig roast next Monday! The event will be held at Sweet Revenge (348 Franklin Avenue between Greene and Lexington) and the delicious food from Pilar will be served from 4-7 p.m. Sweet!

Pilar Cuban Eatery Celebration
Monday, September 6th
Food Served 4-7 p.m.
Sweet Revenge Bar
348 Franklin Avenue (between Greene and Lex)

Common Grounds Vinyl Night with DJ Contra Sounds

August 28, 2010 9:00 pm

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August 29, 2010 12:00 am

Common Grounds’ Wonderful Backyard

Common Grounds is having their monthly all vinyl night tonight from 9 pm to 12 am! DJ Contra Sounds will be spinning an all vinyl set in a gorgeous newly renovated well lit backyard perfect for summer night dancing. Expect mostly old school classics in the soul, hip hop, house, Latin, Brazillian, and Afrobeat realm.

This event is early enough for those to get a warm up before going out to other events and local enough for folks in the Stuy who don’t want to go far but want to get their party on. You won’t be disappointed.

Oh yeah, did I mention that this event is FREE ALL NIGHT???!!!

Check out a little bit of DJ Contra Sounds’ mix: http://www.divshare.com/download/11192326-d0d here.

Karaoke at SarahJames!

August 27, 2010
9:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

SarahJames is hosting Karaoke Fridays! So tonight bring your voice and your best dance moves so that you can take the Karaoke crown! The show starts at 9:00 p.m.

SarahJames Lounge
Classic American Food (and Vegan!)
Live Music Wednesdays * Couch Lounge* Free WiFi
217 Pulaski Street (at Throop Ave)
Brooklyn, NY
718-928-5590

NYC Green Carts in Bed-Stuy

Have you seen the NYC Green Carts around the neighborhood? NYC Green Carts are mobile carts that sell produce at really cheap prices. There are several in Bed-Stuy that are there regularly but because they are mobile, there is no guarantee that they will be at a particular location. The New York City Health Department is hoping that by promoting them more and getting them more business, the Green Carts will be more likely to stay put and increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in the neighborhood. We’re trying to spread the word so that you’ll know where to find them.

Here are a few of the consistent NYC Green Cart locations in Bed-Stuy:

Nostrand and Macon

Nostrand and Lafayette

Throop and Fulton

Utica and Fulton

Herkimer and Nostrand

Fulton and Nostrand

I know that I’ve also seen one of the NYC Green Carts around Nostrand and Myrtle, although it’s not always there. Are there any others in the neighborhood that I’ve left out?

SCRATCHbread Starts Up The SCRATCHshop

August 29, 2010
2:00 pm	to	6:00 pm

If you’ve been wondering about this new business opening in the neighborhood, here’s your chance to find out more: SCRATCHbread, now occupying the former Focaccino space on Bedford Ave at Lexington, will have a preview of its walk-up window “hot toast menu” this Sunday: toasted stuffed savory muffins, griddled chai sticky buns and what is described only as “other morsels of deliciousness.”

In addition to the toasted goods, there will be Brooklyn Soda Works seasonal soda on tap, wine courtesy of Chestnut restaurant, and local produce from BK Farmyards (whether that’s on its own or incorporated into morsels of deliciousness I don’t know). Sounds promising, right?

Details:

Sunday, August 29
2-6pm
1069 Bedford Avenue (at Lexington), Brooklyn

Facebook Event Page

SCRATCHbread’s Kickstarter Page

DJ Contra & Sound Liberation Front at Moe’s Tonight!

This week’s SOUNDLIB will feature Philly-native Brooklynite DJ CONTRA SOUNDS as the special guest. He’ll be spinning an interesting mix of styles that includes Latin, Caribbean and Hip-Hop, alongside DJ LIL TIGER’s selections of all things soulful. As always, the party is FREE all night. They start and end EARLY (9pm-1am), so they won’t keep you out too late. Hope to see you there!

@ Moe’s
80 Lafayette Ave
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
718.797.9536
http://www.moesbarandlounge.com/

C to Lafayette Ave / G to Fulton St
Also within walking distance from the Atlantic Ave station (B-Q-2-3-4-5 trains)

Check out the Sound Liberation Front Blog!
Join the Sound Liberation Front movement!

Street Art on Walworth

Walworth near Dekalb

Sunday Open House on Sumpter

August 22, 2010
2:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

Bedford Central Community Development Corporation is having the first of a series of open houses for affordable homes. Please make time to view this newly renovated frame two family home on 201 Sumpter Street Between Howard and Saratoga Avenues. The open house is scheduled for Sunday, August 22nd from 2:00PM to 4:00pm. This home is listed for $450,000.

Register for the open house now by clicking here.

Hattie Carthan Community Market Advocacy Series

The Hattie Carthan community garden will conduct a 5 session Basic Advocacy Training for community residents to gain the basic skills necessary to educate and engage neighborhood stakeholders in local advocacy around food and public safety in farmers markets located in high crime areas. They are also hoping to create valuable relationships with community residents to help evolve the work of advocacy around community gardens and farmers markets in this area. Participants who complete the 5 session course will receive a certificate in basic Community Advocacy 101.

On August 28th, they will give a quick overview on what you can expect to learn in the course and take in last minute applications. August 28th is the last day to submit your applications, class size is limited to 25 participants as this is very intensive learning series.

To download an application for the basic advocacy for community residents workshop series, please go to their website hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com and click on the food justice button.

Objectives

Community members will
1. learn why citizen advocacy is crucial to food and public safety policy.
2. learn what kinds of issues can be addressed through policy and how to identify them.
3. examine effective proposals and learn to create a proposal which addresses the need for safe streets initiatives for farmers markets located in high crime communities.
4. learn how policy works in NYC and NYS.
5. be able to identify resources that keep them informed about food and safe streets issues pending legislation.

Expectations

For all the participants:
1. Develop basic advocacy skills
2. Be able to create effective advocacy goals and objectives
3. Be able to identify different steps in advocacy process and understand how City and State works.
4. Gather violence statistics for farmers markets located in high crime areas.
5. Join the Hattie Carthan garden/market advocacy team
6. Sign on to all petitions of the Hattie Carthan community garden/market in a timely manner.
7. Help support campaigns by gathering petitions from community members, write and call politicians to voice your support for Hattie Carthan community campaigns.

For participants continuing on with the public safety in Farmers’ Market and Parks campaign:
1. Advertise and network all advocacy meetings held on this issue as a way of promoting the campaign.
2. Sign on to all petitions in a timely manner and mobilize people in the community you work in to complete petitions, write letters to neighborhood politicians about public safety in farmers markets located in high crime communities.

Training Schedule

August 28th 3:00 – 3:30pm
Advocacy series overview:
Last day to signup for the advocacy series in the market

Training 1: Welcome & Introductions / Understanding Advocacy
Saturday September 25th 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• What is it? Why is it important?
• Identifying the Problem and the causes.
• Over two decades of advocacy in Central Brooklyn
(Hattie Carthan community garden advocacy efforts in the Central Brooklyn community)

Training 2: Examining the Problem/Solutions for safe streets around farmers markets located in communities with high violence statistics
Saturday October 9th 3:00– 5:00 pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Analyze problem and possible solutions grid to identify action areas
• Examine local solutions to public safety
• How can this be replicated for farmers’ market working in communities with high violence statistics? What resources are available to create neighborhood watch committees? How can farmers markets located in communities with high violence acquire seasonal street closure permits and resources for programming the streets?

Training 3: Developing the Proposal
Saturday October 23rd, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Identify strategies for change
• Review effective proposals that have created policy change
e.g. recent proposal at the 2009 climate change conference – Just Food/Scott Stringers office
Review example of Hasidic community neighborhood watch plan
• How to create an effective proposal

Training 4: Navigating the System / Refining the proposal
Saturday November 6th – 3:00– 5:00 pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Who has the power to make decisions about your proposal?
• Understanding City and State government

Training 5: Getting to know the key players of District 36 / Presenting certificates to new community advocates
November 20th – 3:00– 5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place

• Getting to know your legislators

Keep Those Votes Coming!

August 20, 2010
4:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Vote for the Marcy Tennis Club so that they can receive a Pepsi grant! Your votes have helped The Marcy Tennis Club move slowly up the rankings, but for the past day or so they’ve been ranked in the 40s based on the number of votes they’ve received. Remember that Pepsi will only fund the top 10 ideas, so if you support this program it is imperative that you cast your vote every day between now and the end of the contest on August 31st. It only takes a minute and you can vote twice a day (once online and once via text).

You can vote by texting 101156 to Pepsi (73774) and you can vote by visiting the Pepsi grant vote page by clicking the Vote for this Idea button below:

You can also help by attending their fundraiser this Friday, August 20th from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at Stone Creek (140 East 27th Street New York, NY). Ten dollars will get you in, and there will be a slide show, a raffle, and cheap drinks. Raffle drawing will take place at 8:30 p.m.

Confirmed raffle prizes include:

Marcy Tennis Club T-shirt
Stone Creek gift certificates
Two Mets tickets
Two Yankees tickets
Two Avett brothers tickets
Prince gift bag
New O3 speed Prince tennis racket (same model used by Maria Sharapova)

So vote for the Marcy Tennis Club and come out to Stone Creek on Friday!

The Marcy Tennis Club website
The Marcy Tennis Club Facebook page