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Democracy in Art & Action
President's Week Camp : February 17-21
Using the sometimes slow and messy democratic process in dance-making, art-making, and other kinds of creative problem solving, we will explore questions of individual freedom vs. compromise for the common good, as well as the idea that everyone has a unique voice that deserves to be heard and considered.
Registration opens Saturday, January 11
10% OFF Early Registration ends January 27
This year’s President’s Week camp line-up includes:
DANCE-MAKING TOGETHER
with Gloria Llompart
PRINT-MAKING OUR WORLD TOGETHER
with Jess Poplawski
ENSEMBLE ACTING TOGETHER
with Laura Livingston & Mike Durkin of Freestyle Repertory Theater
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Spring Green / Spring Break
Multi-Arts Day Camp: April 14- 18
Join us for an inspiring week of healthy and sustainable Art, Eating, Living and Moving with our amazing teachers and “green†advocates. Kids bloom and bud along with the daffodils while learning about growing healthy bodies, minds, art, plants and planets!
Registration Opening Soon
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 UNION STREET FILM SERIES
Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 @ 7:00pm
Venue: STH Re:Creation Center - 748 Union St. I Parkslope
Admission: $10 (with free popcorn!)
Cash Bar
Join us on Tuesday January 21st for our new monthly film screening of work by well-known and emerging documentary and experimental film makers, as well as short films, dance films and even a few feature flicks.
Film makers interested in showing their work at an upcoming screening should contact curators, Sarah Dahnke and Philip Swift
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 This Month's feature film:
At the Corner of 3rd and 3rd
by Max Kutner
The New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building had been all but forgotten until Whole Foods opened its first Brooklyn market next door. But the landmark continues to deteriorate as Gowanus changes around it. Through archival materials and interviews with historians, activists, artists, photographers, and residents, this documentary short explores how a community must look to the future while fighting to preserve the past.
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COMING THIS SUMMER: Film Making Classes for Adults
Do you have a bunch of videos on your phone you don't know what to do with? Do you have a story waiting to be seen on the big screen? Do you want to take your Film making skills to the next level? Then join NYC film maker Philip B. Swift this summer as he offers a three level film making workshop that begins with adapting your story ideas into proven screenwriting techniques, continues with filming professional-grade videos with smart phones or camcorders, and finishes with learning how to put it all together and publish your film to the web! You will come in an amateur and leave with the skills of a pro! We recommend taking all three levels, but you can also just take the one that most interests you.
Contact spoke@spokethehub.org for more info.
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WORKS ON THE WALL
STH's ongoing solo art exhibit series presents:
"Brooklyn (Un)Covered" - Photography by Joseph Sharp
Opening Reception
January 12 | 4:00-6:00pm
STH Re:Creation Center - 748 Union Street @ 6th Ave.
Come meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments at this family friendly event. Works are for sale and will remain on display through the end of January with a percentage of sales benefiting Spoke the Hub.
Interested in presenting your own WORKS ON THE WALL solo show at Spoke the Hub in the future? Please send letter of interest and availability, plus website or portfolio information to maril@spokethehub.org.
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 "GOWANUS CURRENT"
new documentary on the evolving Gowanus
Unless you have been living under a rock with your head buried in the sand, Brooklynites must know by now that the Gowanus is “hot hot hotâ€! Every day, a new creative enterprise opens up in the ‘hood (alongside a new hotel). In the last few months, we have noted the openings - or “Coming Soon!†notices - for a new brewery, indoor tennis courts, a fine furniture showroom, a morbid anatomy museum, vintage clothing warehouses, and a new shuffleboard court which nicely compliments the already existent indoor rock climbing haven, many new music and performance venues, a skate board par course, and a myriad of working artists’ studios.
"GOWANUS CURRENT" is a new documentary on the evolving Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, currently being shot and edited by husband and wife film-making team, Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds. Now in its early stages, the film will record the changes in and around the Gowanus neighborhood over the course of the next year through the stories told by the people who live and work there, including Spoke the Hub and Gowanus Arts’ Founder/Director, Elise Long. (Watch for the release of this timely film and local screenings, hopefully at Gowanus Arts, upon its completion.)
Chris Reynolds is a camera operator and cinematographer, who works in film and TV. HIs lovely wife, Jamie Courville, likes to record the voices and faces of those seldom heard. Please check out her “Squirrels Stories†to hear her sound portraits of people living with cancer at www.SquirrelsStories.com.
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Marriott Boycott Update
For those of you who have been following the continuing Gowanus Arts / Marriott conflict – we still have no new or good news to report – thus, the Marriott boycott continues. Please continue to encourage your visiting friends, co-workers, fellow artists, and family members to support local artists and stay at one of the many other hotels and cozy AirBnBs cropping up all over our neighborhood. For a local list of Park Slope and Gowanus hotels, with better locations, cheaper prices, and many more attractive amenities, and to find out more about this ongoing conflict, please contact: spoke@spokethehub.org.
Of interest, a recent NY Times article on Marriott's push to lure younger crowds.
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Wanted: Creative, Resourceful Handyperson with Carpentry Skills
Spoke the Hub often needs a skilled handyperson for various odd jobs, repairs, and studio maintenance projects. Must be very neat, a creative problem solver, and comfortable building things and working with wood. Please contact lori@spokethehub.org if you would like to be on our “handyperson†call list. Current local references a must.
Wanted: Freelance Cleaning Person
Spoke the Hub often needs to augment our weekly cleaning schedule after performances, parties and special events, as well as during our studio maintenance weeks, once a month for more deep cleaning of all our spaces. If you are a responsible, hopefully somewhat OC neatnik type who moves all furniture and vacuums behind it, please contact lori@spokethehub.org if you would like to be on our “cleanliness next to godliness†call list. Current local references a must.
Wanted: Snow Shovelers and Shleppers
We are looking for some young brawn with strong backs to shovel in front of our community arts facilities before 9:00am on heavy snow days. We also need help periodically setting up and striking our audience risers, and shelpping furniture up and down the stairs at Gowanus Arts, or to and from our studio on Union Street to Douglass Street and back again. Please contact lori@spokethehub.org if you would like to be on our “strong like bull†call list. Current local references a must.
Wanted: Teen or College Students To Digitally Archive STH Photography, Video and Music LIbraries
STH is seeking several very detail oriented, well-organized, and technically inclined young people to help digitalize STH’s massive 30+ years of photos, video and music, thanks to a grant from the Park Slope Civic Council and mentorship from NYC librarian/archivist Stephen Klein. Interested? Please contact: spoke@spokethehub.org
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