Local Produce
Local Produce For All Seasons is all about Brooklyn: its diversity, vitality and creative spirit as expressed through dance, music, theater, literature, and visual art. It was created in an effort to highlight Brooklyn’s vast and varied wealth of artistic talent as well as to give Brooklyn-based performers a chance to develop a larger home audience and more paid work opportunities on their home turf.
SPRING: The Local Produce Festival
Launched in 1993, The Local Produce Festival of the Performing Arts originated as a weekend marathon of music, theater and dance which now takes place annually around the last weekend in May, first weekend in June, in various indoor and outdoor venues around Park Slope.
SUMMER: “Local Produce in the Gardens”
“Local Produce in the Gardens” is a weekly series of rejuvenating creative arts activities offered outdoors on Tuesdays from 5:00- 7:00 pm from May through September in one of Park Slope’s most beautiful community gardens, the Garden of Union on Union Street and 4th Avenue.
FALL: Local Produce “Octoberfest!”
Making its Local Produce debut in the fall of 2003, Spoke the Hub’s first Brooklyn Octoberfest! will celebrate the harvest season with a weekend of international social dance classes and performances from around the world. In keeping with the tradition of this season, fruit of the vine wine and beer tastings will be available to quench revelers’ thirst.
WINTER: Local Produce “Winter Follies”
At the Follies, each artist/ group gets five minutes to show what they do best, and the audience votes at the end of each evening for which artists they would like to see come back in the Spring. And, in addition to being produced at the Spring Festival, the artists receiving the most #1 votes also win 50 hours of free rehearsal space. The “Winter Follies” takes place in Spoke the Hub’s industrial penthouse in the Gowanus Arts Building