Regular Events

CAPRICORNS’ BIRTHDAY BASH

Capricorns are a resourceful and tenacious bunch of do-gooders by nature, but they also like to party down (and since so many Spoke the Hubbers have birthdays on either side of New Year’s, we thought we would throw ourselves our own dance party and raise money for a worthy cause in lieu of presents!) Past dance parties have raised thousands of dollars for Heifer International and Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. If you are a Capricorn and want to join the goat girls in planning our next birthday bash for the dead of winter, call and let’s get busy!

THE GOWANUS GUEST ROOM : Annual Showcase

The Gowanus Guest Room is an annual dance and performance showcase currently in its second year. Curated by dancer/choreographer Erin Gottwald, the Gowanus Guest Room is host to artists from around the U.S. and the globe each fall. For information on how to apply, please visit the Performance Opportunities page.

HERE COMES THE SUN: Yoga Fundraising Event

Inspired by the Global Mala Project, this sun salutation marathon raised money to buy new yoga equipment for the new Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center this year. Call for future marathons.

MILES OF TILES: Community Mosaic Project

The “Miles of Tiles” Community Mosaic Project began in 1985, when Elise Long and friends founded the Gowanus Arts Exchange. The colorful, crazy-quilt mosaic which greets you at the threshold and threads throughout the halls of 295 Douglass Street is the result of 25 people’s first tiling efforts on one industrious weekend.

Since that time, Long has created whimsical mosaics in foyers, showers, on walls and across floors, indoors and out-of-doors, on both the East and West coasts, in addition to directing community tile projects which involve dozens of men, women and children collaborators. See latest community mosaic projects adorning the “new” STH Re:Creation Center on Union Street! Call to be put on a future tile tag team phone roster

PEACE FINDING AND KEEPING: A Day of Workshops For the Whole Family in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Launched in 2008 on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday in collaboration with the Old First Reformed Church, this day of participatory workshops for children and adults focuses on how to create and nurture peace within in order to extend it toward others and in the world at large. Our first event included workshops in Yoga, Meditation, Non-Violent Communication, Big Heart Drumming, a Theater of Change Presentation, lectures, films, and silent meditation/prayer in the Old First Sactuary. The day concludes with a shared meal donated by local restaurants.

NY MATTERS: A New Documentary Film Series
(Curated By Isabel Hill)

Film-maker / urban planner, Isabel Hill (of “Brooklyn Matters” and “Made In Brooklyn”), has joined forces with Spoke the Hub to present pithy social documentaries “about community” by local film-makers. Meet the film-makers, see your neighbors and neighborhood up on the silver screen, and enjoy some popcorn while you are at it, once-a-month on Union Street. Call for upcoming film line-up

RECYCLED FASHION SHOW AND HIGH TEA

Spoke the Hub’s semi-annual “Recycled Fashion Show and High Tea” provides all clothing wearers with the opportunity to purge their closets and turn their tired fashion rejects into someone else’s high fashion fireworks. It’s fun, it’s funky and it’s ecological! Come watch your old duds spring back to life again on the Brooklyn catwalk, complete with music, super models from the ‘hood, and delicious tea and crumpets. At the end of the show, all garments are up for grabs at rock bottom prices! Proceeds go to benefit Spoke the Hub’s annual Local Produce Festival of the Performing Arts.

WORKS ON THE WALL (WOW)
SOLO ART EXHIBITS

The walls of the Spoke the Hub Re: Creation Center host a new changing solo visual art exhibit every 4-6 weeks entitled “Works on the Wall” which features the art of local painters, photographers, printmakers and multi-media artists. Exhibit requests are reviewed throughout the year. Artists should be aware that the space is an active one, filled with children and adults 7 days a week, thus content should be considered before applying. To apply, artists should send a resume, a hardcopy “portfolio” of current work or website address, and an SASE for return of materials to: Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center, 748 Union Street, Brooklyn 11215

POTLUCK / SINGALONG
with Barry Oreck and Friends

During the aftermath of the 9/11 devastation in 2001, many members of the Spoke the Hub community expressed a need to come together, grieve, and share each other’s company. Folksinger and dancer Barry Oreck brought his guitar, Cory Munson brought her fiddle, and musicians Doug Pierson, Jody Kruskal and David Goddy joined them in leading friends and neighbors in song. This impromptu gathering proved such a heart-warming success that it has become a regular irregular communal affair at Spoke the Hub since that time. Singalongs begin with a potluck/social hour around 6:00 pm and conclude with about two hours of singing –everything from the Grateful Dead to Italian Art Songs. Bring food and drink, instruments, and sheet music to share if you have a favorite musical request. Call for upcoming dates.

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