Local Produce

Date: June 2, 2012
Time: 11:00am - 11:00pm
Venue: Various Neighborhood Gardens and an indoor concert at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

This year there will be outdoor site-specific performances in three different neighborhood gardens, an indoor Young Artist Concert and an Adult Professional Concert. Later in the evening at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, there will be a dance lesson and open dancing with a big band!

It’s Spring and you know what that means! It’s time for Spoke’s the Hub’s 18th Annual Local Produce Festival!

This year there are site-specific performances in three neighborhood gardens as well as an indoor Young Artist Concert and an Adult Professional Concert. We’ll wrap up the evening with a dance lesson taught by Laurie Shayler and open dancing with Art Lillard’s Heavenly Big Band!

Here is where we will be throughout the day. All events are FREE so come join us amongst the flowers and trees!

Outdoor Performance Schedule in the Gardens

11:00am – 12:00pm
Warren / St. Marks Garden (Warren St. between 4th & 5th Aves)

Abigail Block / Dance
Children’s Guitar Workshop with Ezra Maoz
Funikijam / Family Concert
Morning Restorative Yoga Workshop with Mina Hamilton

12:30pm – 1:30pm
Garden of Union (4th Ave & Union St.)

ASHA / Dance
Beauty Shop Quartet
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Guitar Students
Kaina Quenga / Polynesian Dance
Luminguou Night / Vocals, Accordion and Autoharp
STH Modern Dance Students

2:00pm – 3:30pm
President St. Garden (5th Ave & President St.)

BCM Music Partners / Sing-along with PS 295 and Bob Goldberg
Bob Goldberg and the Famous Accordion Orchestra
Caitlin Bailey / Dance
Chia-Hui Cheng / Dance
Kathleen Stansell / “A Good Day to Pie”
Wildwood Sisters / Bluegrass

Dance, Music & Theater @ Berkeley-Carroll Performance Space

4:00pm – 5:00pm | Young Artist of Today Showcase

BCM Music Partners / PS 29 Band
BCM Stream of Sound / Chamber Music
Cavallaro Junior High School Dance Ensemble
Charles Moore Youth Ensemble / Dance
Shiloh Gonsky / Classical Guitar
STH Young Artists Dance/Theater
Zoe MacIntyre / Theater

5:00pm – 6:00pm | Garden Variety Showcase

Ariel Asch / Dance
FICA-NY / Capoeira
Freestyle Repertory Theater
Kamaria Dailey / Afro-Fusion Dance
Keith Thompson Dance Group
Mindy Toro / Dance
The Ya’el Tap Company

Swing Dance Party @ Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

7:30pm – 8:30pm
Swing Dance Lesson with Laurie Shayler

8:30pm – 11:00pm
Swing Dance Party featuring Art Lillard & His Heavenly Big Band

Not a performer? Not a problem! You can still get involved in Local Produce in the Gardens by volunteering! If you are interested in helping out June 2, please contact us to let us know when you are available and we will be in touch.

The Local Produce Festival, which has featured the work of hundreds of Brooklyn’s finest performing artists-in-residence of all ages, indoors and out-of-doors, since 1993, made its initial debut in the Prospect Park Picnic House and has since sprouted in oodles of Park Slope community gardens and other indoor venues throughout the neighborhood.