The City Reliquary Presents: The 4th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00noon – 6:00 PM
Havemeyer St. between Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave
Afterparty 8pm –latepm at the City Reliquary: 370 Metropolitan Avenue.
FREE!
A Street fair for your bicycle! Show off your ride and revel in the beauty of all types, styles, and genres of specialized, customized, and personalized bicycles. CONTESTS throughout the day: Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includes foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more. Games, Rides, Bike Beautification Station, Merch tables and more!
Live performances by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, NYC’s finest street-art-protest-radical-marching-band-and-dance-troupe! DJs Stacher and Dirtyfinger from Black Label Bicycle Club laying down the tracks and inducing a dance riot! Burgers & dogs, both carnivorous & herbivorous for sale! Cheap beer to be enjoyed in the beautiful City Reliquary backyard / veranda! Peruse arts and crafts at local organizational tables. Come and enjoy the springtime and bring yer bike!
Free Afterparty to be held at the City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer, 8-late. Tunes provided by DJs Stacher and DirtyFinger.
Contact:
The City Reliquary Museum,
messages@cityreliquary.org
www.cityreliquary.org,
718. R.U.CIVIC (718.782.4842)
Getting there:
Ride Yer Bike! or
L train to Lorimer St.; G train to Metropolitan Ave.; J, M, Z train to Marcy Ave.
76 KISSES: Snapshots from the Collection of Lori Baker and David E. Brown
The City Reliquary presents a Valentine of Kisses
A soldier’s parting kiss, a summer kiss at a picnic, a midnight kiss on New Year’s Eve, a lusty kiss not meant to be seen. Luckily, a camera was present to capture all of them.
76 KISSES, an exhibition of snapshots at The City Reliquary, presents an intimate and compelling look at the kiss. Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
The carefully selected vintage photographs comprise a catalog of the kiss. Each photo captures some essential quality of love and affection—the unguarded moment when two people, overcome with emotion, find their lips meeting another’s.
The photos span a full century, from a risqué and intimate smooch in a Victorian parlor to a 1990s Polaroid of a New York couple at a dance, with its super-saturated color and long embrace the very opposite of the 19th century image. The core of the collection are snapshots from the 1930s through the 1960s, widely considered the Golden Age of the American snapshot. 76 KISSES showcases the inventive, intuitive, and surprising explosion of creativity that small cameras and fast film brought.
The photographs in 76 KISSES come from Lori Baker and David E. Brown’s collection of more than 200 vintage snapshots of kisses. They have been culled from flea markets, junk shops, photo albums, yard sales, eBay, and chance finds. Baker and Brown estimate that they have looked at approximately 800,000 photographs in the search of these pictures.
Vernacular photography–that is, snapshots–has become the newest and most democratic frontier of photography collecting. Thousands of people have found art, beauty, and meaning amid billions of discarded snapshots. Vernacular photographs have been the subject of several major exhibitions, including the National Gallery’s “The Art of the American Snapshot” (opening at the Amon Carter Museum on February 16), Thomas Walther’s “Other Pictures” at the Metropolitan Museum, and “Snapshots” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Snapshots and their collectors have been the subject of an award-winning documentary (Other People’s Pictures) and created numerous books, including Babette Hines’s Photobooth and Mark Michaelson’s Least Wanted.
76 KISSES is on view at the City Reliquary from February 1 to March 31, 2008. The opening reception is Friday, February 8, from 7 to 9 pm. The City Reliquary is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 6 pm and by appointment.
76 KISSES:
Snapshots from the Collection of Lori Baker and David E. Brown
February 1 – March 30
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8th at 7 pm
The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue (at Havemeyer St)
Williamsburgh, NY
(L train to Metropolitan / G Train to Lorimer)
Open Sat / Sun 12 – 6 pm
or by appointment
718-RU-CIVIC
The City Reliquary’s hours are: Saturday and Sunday: 12pm – 6pm. Admission to the museum is by suggested donation. For general information, please visit the Museum’s website www.cityreliquary.org or call 718. R U CIVIC.
Three images are available for press use. Please email Lori Baker at lori@loribaker.com for photos. Photo credit must read: © Lori Baker and David E. Brown
76 Kisses Opening Reception
Join us on Friday, February 8, from 7 to 9 pm. Carefully selected from Lori Baker and David E. Brown's collection of vintage photographs, these snapshots present an intimate and compelling look at the kiss. Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
Opening reception:
Sat. November 10th, 2007
12-6 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This weekend, the City Reliquary will be participating in the annual Open House New York event. We will be open for extended hours on Saturday and Sunday from 9AM to 7PM.
Also, we are hosting the 2nd Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum of Art on Saturday October 6th.
Saturday, October 6th 2007 7:00 – 9:30pm
The Panorama Challenge Round 2 – The NYC Geography Trivia Event of the Year!
$20, includes drinks, entertainment, and chance to win prizes.
Think you know New York? Get out your binoculars, grab your friends, and head out to the Queens Museum of Art for an interactive game challenge at the newly refurbished Panorama of the City of New York. Individuals as well as groups are welcome to participate.
This event serves as a fundraiser for your beloved home town museum. Please come out this weekend and show your love for New York and the City Reliquary. We hope to see you soon!
October 6th & 7th, 2007 is the annual Open House New York. We will be open for extended hours on both days from 9AM to 7PM. Also on Saturday we will be hosting the Panorama Challenge Round 2 with Queens Museum of Art. See our web site for more info...
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This weekend, the City Reliquary will be participating in the annual Open House New York event. We will be open for extended hours on Saturday and Sunday from 9AM to 7PM.
Also, we are hosting the 2nd Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum of Art on Saturday October 6th.
Saturday, October 6th 2007 7:00 – 9:30pm
The Panorama Challenge Round 2 – The NYC Geography Trivia Event of the Year!
$20, includes drinks, entertainment, and chance to win prizes.
Think you know New York? Get out your binoculars, grab your friends, and head out to the Queens Museum of Art for an interactive game challenge at the newly refurbished Panorama of the City of New York. Individuals as well as groups are welcome to participate.
This event serves as a fundraiser for your beloved home town museum. Please come out this weekend and show your love for New York and the City Reliquary. We hope to see you soon!
Saturday September 8th, 2007 12-6PM
The fourth annual
Tribue to Our City will be held on Havemeyer Street between Grand & Hope Sts. A neighborhood pot-luck picnic in the streets complete with live music, games, entertainment, free food and good will all day long! Please come out to join us.
Macaroni and Mal Occio by LuLu LoLo
Food, Faith, and Family - Growing up Italian American
Recapturing the love, laughter, and tears of her Italian-American childhood in East Harlem’s Little Italy, LuLu LoLo in a virtuoso performance—without intermission—and with inventive costume changes and songs—fills the stage with a non-stop parade of eleven family characters and vignettes such as Making Macaroni with Grandma LuLu, Great Aunt Lena Warding off the Evil Eye (Mal Occhio), The Seven Fishes of Christmas Eve Dinner and other scenes which take the audience back to the tenement life of her Italian immigrant grandparents. Theatergoers from all backgrounds will recognize themselves and their families in this poignant, exhilarating, and heartwarming show.
The first production of this play was performed in Williamsburgh at the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in 2002. For a review of Macaroni and Mal Occio by Arlene McKanic, Greenwich Village Gazette go to www.hoast.org/artists/artistsLL.htm - 14k –
LuLu LoLo is an actor/playwright who has written and performed five acclaimed one-person plays Off-Broadway highlighting her immigrant family heritage and the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past. LuLu has performed at Metropolitan Playhouse, NY; FAR (Field Artist Residency) Space; Hofstra University; Columbia University; Stony Brook University; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo NYU; Garibaldi-Meucci Museum; Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theater; Raw Space, NY; 2004 Columbus, OH Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival; and Provincetown Fringe Festival, MA. LuLu is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. The New York Times and The Village Voice have reviewed her work. LuLu was also a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
A History of Williamsburgh's Italian Heritage
July 2007 - The City Reliquary is proud to present in its Exhibition Hall,
"The Dancing of the Giglio - A History of Williamsburgh's Italian Heritage A display of artifacts, photographs and folk art which tells the history of the 120 year old festival at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburgh Brooklyn.
Sat. July 7th at 7:30PM, FREE
Film Screenings:
"Da Feast" by local Havemeyer St. resident and filmmaker Artemis Willis
"Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July" by Award winning filmmaker, Tony DeNonno
and,
Sat. July 14th at 7:30PM, $5.00 Suggested donation
Performance:
"Macaroni and Mal Occio"
Food, Faith, and Family--Growing up Italian-American
A one-woman show written and performed by LuLu LoLo
(Limited Seating at both events)
Larry from Classic Riders B.C. winner of "Best in Show 2005"
Bicycle Fetish Day 2007
Brought to you by the City Reliquary Brooklyn Civic Riders B.C.
May 26th 12 - 6 PM in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
Havemeyer St. btw. Grand & Hope Sts.
Bicycle contests, live music, food, raffle prizes all day long!
For more information: messages@cityreliquary.org
Join Us Thursday May 10th from 7-10 PM for the
unveiling of two new exhibits:
The Bicycle Paintings of Taliah Lempert in our new Exhibition Hall
The Bicycle Builders' Collection of Johnny Coast and Dave Perry in our Community Collections Window.
Sunday 4/15/07 New York Times, City Section "The Night of Know-It-Alls" by Ellen Barry Coverage of the "Panorama Challenge."
