April 2016
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EAT, DRINK, THEN COME PUT ON YOUR RED SHOES...

Come chow down and join over two dozen of your favorite neighborhood dancers and friends on the dance floor after dinner in the Grand Prospect Hall ballroom as STH's community David Bowie flash mob storms the Fifth Avenue BID’s annual “TASTE OF 5th” foodfest sometime after 8:00pm...tickets are almost sold out so get yours now and come get ziggy with us!

“ZIGGY" Created By: Elise Long with the performers

 
Donnaldson Brown Jean Grassman Willa Romer-Mack
Liza Bruna Marcia Halperin Sarah Safford
Mark Caserta Vanessa Isaacs Bethina Sayegh
Jiwon Choi Masai Lee Sue Slovak
Jon Crow Sung Uni Lee Joanna Tallantire
Michela Deidda Laura LIvingston MIndy Toro
Mike Durkin Elise Long Chloe Wasserman
Gail Flanery Sara McCabe David Webb
Lori Jorgensen Sarah Pope Gilly Youner
  Bryony Romer  

 

TASTE OF 5TH
Try some grub, support the Hub! 

Buying a ticket not only allows you to see the flash mob in action, but also lets you sample all the savory offerings from local restaurants and bars (complimentary wine & beer). Tickets are $55 online with $20 of every ticket going to Spoke the Hub!  Buy tickets now

WHAT'S SPINNING @ THE HUB

STH is proud to present Winter Follies 2015 "People's Choice" artist, Alexander Borinsky 

The Witches

a fugue for five voices 
by Alexander Borinsky

music by Alaina Ferris
assistant directed by Jordan Baum
with performers Mikeah Jennings, Mary Neufeld, and Stephen Winter

One bikes back and forth across the bridges. One negotiates with a goldfish. One examines a friendship. One is in love with a kettle. One burns the city down.
Friday April 15th & Saturday April 16th @ 8:00pm, Sunday April 17th @ 6:00pm
Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center 748 Union Street @ 6th Avenue, Brooklyn
BUY TICKETS NOW!

SAVE THE DATE: 

LOCAL PRODUCE

Festival of the Performing Arts & Union St. Block Party!
Saturday June 4, 2016

10AM – 6PM (Rain or shine)
Union St. between 5th & 6th Aves.

FREE ADMISSION!
STH will once again close the street off and pitch a big top tent out in front of the STH RE:CREATION CENTER on Union St. as part of our Union Street Block Party offering. We welcome the participation of all our neighbors who want to jump in and make the day their own as well.

Want to host a BBQ? A stoop sale? A lemonade stand? Fantastic! Have a community arts and crafts project, a beautification project or a karaoke booth you want to commandeer? Awesome!

Come to our first planning meeting and share your ideas on:

Sunday April 10th @ 4:00pm
Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center, 748 Union Street

And, as a special treat right after the meeting, STH master teacher Debra Wanner invites all block residents who come for the meeting to stay and take her delicious “Healthy Back through Feldenkrais” class at 5pm for free. (Don't know what the Feldenkrais Method is? Come and find out!)

Please RSVP to spoke@spokethehub.org if you plan to attend.

SPRING & SUMMER CAMPS

Spring Green/ Spring Break Camp: April 25 - 29, 2016




This week kids learn to design and create sustainable, functional, and whimsical clothing and architecture through recycling and re-purposing found materials.

 

NEW! GREEN BUILDING w/ Monika Wurher of KOKO Open Source: 

KOKO and OPEN SOURCE, known for their innovative exploration of the intersection between Art, Technology and Sustainability, join STH for this special, one-of-a-kind "Green Building" camp! Campers will work as a group to design, engineer and build a real bridge out of recyclable and re-purposed materials and light up the new bridge by harnessing wind power. 


NEW! GREEN FASHIONISTAS with Iliana Quander 

Campers design and construct their own original fashion statements, learn sewing basics and how to handle re-purposed materials, then take their unique clothing creations down STH's re-purposed catwalk. This week will also feature a field trip to pick out reusable materials for incorporation into kids' individual designs. 

HAVE A PORTABLE SEWING MACHINE YOU CAN LEND OR DONATE TO STH?
SIGN UP NOW!

 “CAMP GOWANEE” REGISTRATION IS OPEN - REGISTER NOW!

Multi-Arts Summer Program

July 11 - September 2, 2016 
Programs For Pre-K through 7th Graders

Early Bird Discount: 10% off if registered by May 2nd
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE
Where else can your child sharpen their dance skills, hone their theatrical prowess, create their own original fashion, delve into the world of digital film-making, create their own art portfolio, and learn eco-building all in one place? Join us at Spoke the Hub this summer where small classes and master teachers equal mega fun!
SIGN UP NOW!

BECOME A MEMBER OF THE HUB:
Membership includes sibling discounts and other great perks for you and your family AND you will help support your favorite, not-for-profit community dance and arts center all at the same time! 
Find out more
SPACE @ GOWANUS ARTS

ATTENTION PERFORMERS & FREELANCE TEACHING ARTISTS:
Longer Term Shared Teaching, Rehearsal and Performance Spaces  @ Gowanus Beginning Fall 2016:

STH will have three large dance and performance spaces plus one non-movement space available to share next Fall. STH is currently accepting space requests and proposals for long-ish term space shares from teaching artists, independent artists, performance groups and other not-for-profits who might need large, open meeting space on a regular basis. Current continuing STH space users will have first choice of teaching times, days and spaces; newcomers will fill in remaining time slots thereafter. Minimum long-term share arrangement: 1 year. Please send an outline of what you need space for, how many people you anticipate working with, their ages, and your optimal space size, days, and times, to: space@spokethehub.org..
STAFF & COMMUNITY NEWS

IN MEMORIAM: ANGELA CAPONIGRO
(Sat Kaur Khalsa / Mujaku Senjin 1946-2016)

"...Lose your skin as a barrier and enter with me, the axis mundi, the central point, the point where stillness and movement exist together."
A. Caponigro

STH Director Elise Long and Dancer/Choreographer Dalienne Majors remember the profound, quirky, moving, funny and inspirational Angela Caponigro. Their loving tribute

Sewing Machines Wanted!

Please donate to our young fashionista program!
Have a working, portable, sewing machine in your closet that is just occupying space and gathering dust?  We can use it! Please consider donating (or lending?) your idle sewing machine to STH for Spring & Summer fashion design camps. Please contact spoke@spokethehub.org

6 Designer Globes for sale

We are cleaning house at Gowanus Arts in preparation for the upcoming renovation and selling some gems including 6 large sculptural "globe" lighting fixtures created for Iron Chef Morimoto's Tribeca Restaurant. $300 for the set. All proceeds go to support STH! More info

HŌKŪLEʻA: Wayfinding Project 

Hōkūleʻa, Hawaiʻiʻs traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, is more than halfway on her extraordinary Worldwide Voyage, and has arrived in Cuba. She is expected in New York this summer early June. 
More info on all upcoming events

Jess Gripo

2015 STH Follies winner Jess Grippo competes in next week's Wild Card Show for "New York’s Got Talent!" Help her move on to the next round with your vote. The winner gets their own show produced for a 5-week run at an Off-Broadway theater in the city.
More info and tickets
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