Please join the City Reliquary for the 3rd Annual September Tribute to Our City
SAT. 9/9/6 from 12 NOON until 6PM
Havemeyer St. btw. Grand & Metropolitan
Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
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Every year the City Reliquary organizes a “Tribute to Our City” in honor of the strength and unity New Yorkers demonstrated surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001. We close down a block of Havemeyer Street, have a neighborhood-wide potluck lunch, listen to live local bands play and offer you a chance to meet your neighbors. We need all the grills and chefs we can get together. So, bring out your BBQ equipment, or if you can loan some equipment for the day please contact george@cityreliquary.org. If you know a band, speaker, or performer who would like to participate, please contact dave@cityreliquary.org.
Saturday, September 9th from 12:00 to 6:00 PM on Havemeyer Street between Grand St. & Metropolitan Av.
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Appearances by Manhattan Borough Historian Mike Miscione, Brooklyn Poet Laureat Ken Siegelman, live bands, Brooklyn street games, FDNY Fire Safety Education, free food all day, and much more in the works.
To see pictures from last year’s event, go to: “Tribute to Our City”

September 14 – 19th – The City Reliquary is a proud participant of CONFLUX: the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. confluxfestival.org

Rest Assured that the City Reliquary will be participating in this amazing insider’s weekend:
The 4th Annual openhousenewyork (OHNY) Weekend will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 7 & 8, 2006. Nearly 200 sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island are gearing up to show an expected 75,000 visitors why New York is one of the greatest cities in the world! For more information go to: www.ohny.org
We don’t know what special doings we’ll have in the works for this event yet, but you can bet that they’ll be worth more than the fifty cent admission.

The City Reliquary and the Brooklyn Civic Riders are pleased to announce our:
2nd Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
on July 1st 2006 from noon until 5 PM. Find the festival on Havemeyer between Grand & Metropolitan.
CONTESTS:
Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includeds foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more…
BANDS, FOOD, and RAFFLE PRIZES
including, IRO bike built-up by Bicycle Doc, Gift Certificates to: Catbird, Lodge, Foodswings, Loveshine, Cheeks Bakery, Maiden Brooklyn, Celebritay, and more… Brooklyn Bridge walking tours by Matt Levy of Vintage NY Tours, Merbag Messenger Bag, and more…
After party on Hope street between Havemeyer & Roebling Sts.
An INCREDIBLE DAY AND NIGHT for you and YOUR BIKE!!!

Sunday, April 9th at 5:00 PM
Friends,
If you thought the Grand Opening of the City Reliquary Museum was a big event… You haven’t seen
anything yet!
Collectors’ Night 2006 has been rapidly shaping up to easily surpass last year’s expectations. There will be
collectors of all kinds setting up their displays for your enjoyment and a special presentation which will give
amazing new insite to the wide world of collecting. Union Pool has agreed to open up their entire space to
allow for the displays to expand into the front room as well as the outdoor area (weather permitting). This
has allowed us to accept some incredible last minute additions to the line up of collectors. I assure you,
this year’s event is not to be missed! All the information is just below.
Hope to see you Sunday.
Always civic,
Dave

Download this form if you wish to participate in Collectors’ Night 2006:
http://www.cityreliquary.org/collectorsform2006.pdf

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Happy Presidents’ Day. When current presidential turmoil troubles you, turn to the folks at the City Reliquary. We
have been working hard on the new City Reliquary Museum at 370 Metropolitan Av. While we aren’t yet fully prepared
to open our doors, we would like to offer you a special event to honor presidents, collectors, artists, and of course
most importantly, our beautiful new windows!
The City Reliquary Inaugural Sidewalk Reception
FEATURING:
Pedro Genao’s Abraham Lincoln Statue,
Christy Gast’s Collectible Presidents’ Plates
and honoring the first African-American female presidential candidate, Charlene Mitchell
AT:
The new City Reliquary windows at
370 METROPOLITAN AVENUE at Havemeyer Street
ON:
Sunday, February 26th beginning promptly at 12:00 noon
SERVING:
Civic pride, honorary degrees, and delicious refreshments.
Our featured presentation will include:
A special appearance by our honored guest, CHARLENE MITCHELL.
Ms. Mitchell, the first African-American woman to run for President, represented the Communist Party in 1968. A civil
rights activist for over 50 years, Ms. Mitchell is also the founding National Coordinator of the Committee of
Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy. She serves as national co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racist
and Political Repression, the organization that grew out of the campaign to free Angela Davis. A portrait of Ms.
Mitchell was included in a large wall mural called “When Women Pursue Justice,” which was recently completed by
Artmakers, Inc. at 498 Greene Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She will be honored with a special presentation by our
presenter of Presidential Plates, Christy Gast.
A collection presented by CHRISTY GAST
of COLLECTIBLE PRESIDENTIAL PLATES with
Limited Edition LADY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Collectible Plates 2004
In honor of the 2004 campaign season, Ms. Gast created a set of Limited Edition Lady Presidential Candidates
Collectible Plates, featuring the first ten women to run for President. The candidates and their stories are largely
unknown, although a number of them were major players in their times. Some of those included are: Victoria
Woodhull, whose running mate was Frederick Douglass, was the first female stockbroker on Wall Street. Margaret
Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Patsy Mink all served in the legislature in the mid-twentieth century, and
Charlene Mitchell, a native New Yorker, has been a civil rights activist and union leader for 50 years. Thanks to Melissa
Memory, Rodney Harrison, and Kevin Harper for generously lending their collections of original collectible Presidential
Plates.
PEDRO GENAO’s Life-size Abraham Lincoln Statue
made of 100% hand-felted wool.
Pedro moved to New York in 1992 from the Dominican Republic and soon became employed as a Maintenance
Technician at the Steiner School, a part of the Waldorf school system. There he watched some of the teachers’ craft
presentations working with wool. He has since taught himself many finer techniques of NEEDLE FELTING and is now
considered to be easily among the best in his field. The Abraham Lincoln statue presented in our windows was
created by Pedro during the course of 3 years and over 300 hours. Pedro estimates that the statue was pointed with
a single needle over 3 million times. As he should be, Abraham is standing tall at over 6 feet 4 inches not including
his 9-inch top hat and supports his own weight with absolutely NO INTERNAL ARMATURE.
CITY RELIQUARY ON TV!
This FRIDAY February 24th, our hometown news channel NY1 will feature a story about the City Reliquary,
LIVE at 7am, 8am, and with recorded highlights throughout the day.
NEXT MONTH:
The Grand Opening Celebration of the City Reliquary Museum
and the 2nd Annual Collectors’ Night, at Union Pool
We’ll keep you posted with the final dates for these two exciting events!
Thank you for your support.