A Most Egg-Cellent Easter
Gather your baskets, because it's egg hunting season in Brooklyn! This Saturday, bring your best game to one of these fun hunts, where you can expect to find (besides an Easter egg or two) prizes, treats, live music, and more.
On Saturday at 1pm, Prospect Park will host its annual Egg Hunt. The fun will begin at the Music Pagoda, where hunters ages 2 through 9 will be able to search the park for eggs and prizes. Afterwards, kids and parents aike will want to make their way to Egg-O-Rama, held in the Prospect Park Audubon Center. Visitors will be able to play egg games, partake in various egg crafts, and learn everything you ever wanted to know about eggs. Egg-O-Rama is free and will be open both Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. Need more information? Call (718) 287-3400. Need directions? Click here.
Another egg-happy option is the fourth annual Spring Fling Egg Hunt, held in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO. A celebration of all things kid-friendly, the event will boast children's theater, face painting, a live kid rock group (AudraRox), storytelling, and, of course, an egg hunt. Prizes include everything from Jacques Torres gift baskets and goods from the children's store Half Pint. The Spring Fling is free. For more information, call (718) 802-0603.
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SWAN Flight: Women Artists Share their Riches with Brooklyn
Saturday, March 29, 2008 beginning at 4pm, PuLsEsTuDiO will serve as an art gallery, a performance venue and a meeting hall for women artists to present and discuss their work with the public. The event, at the new Crown Heights studio, will celebrate International SWAN Day with a rare opportunity to sample the work of some of the finest female musicians, performers, writers and visual artists on the New York scene today.
The idea for SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day), grew out of a collaboration between Martha Richards of The Fund for Women Artists and Jan Lisa Huttner of Chicago’s WITASWAN (Women in the Audiences Supporting Women Artists Now). SWAN Day will be an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March).
PuLsEsTuDiO will open to the public at 4 PM to explore the visual art and written work. Collage, textiles, an interactive installation and one of a kind t-shirts will be displayed by Bina Altera, Danica Holoviak, Ursula Wing, and Marian Courie.
Prior to the performances, from 7:00 – 8:30 PM, a roundtable discussion moderated by Andrea Wolper (former president of International Women in Jazz) will engage the artists participating in the show and other local female artists in a conversation about how we, as women, find, create and maintain balance in our lives.
Performances will begin at 9 PM and will feature, among others, vocalist Andrea Wolper, pianist Connie Crothers, word-smith and performing artist, Laylage Courie, performers Ophra Wolf and Kron Vollmer, the pop duo/circus act n.a. + a.n., flautist and composer Jane Rigler, and writer Masha Hamilton. A suggested $5 donation will go towards making the show and the continuing work of the studio possible.
As economic, political and social hardships increase their strain on both the local and the world community, PuLsEsTuDiO is actively seeking to represent and make accessible to the public the voices and visions of women who are dedicated to personal and global transformation. The light and inspiration inherent in the art of the women participating in this event is an immensely powerful, renewable source of energy that can power the change we seek on a personal and community level.
Martha Richards, the co-founder of SWAN Day says, “This day of celebration will help people imagine what the world would be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning.”
For more information about SWAN Day events happening around the world, please visit www.SwanDay.org.
SWAN Flight will be at PuLsEsTuDiO, 1100 Dean St. #5 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The studio will open for art viewing at 4pm. A round-table will commence at 7pm. Performances begin at 9pm. A $5 donation is suggested. For updated information about the event go to http://events.womenarts.org/swan/events/show/3625.