Saturday, May 25^th, 12noon – 6pm

Havemeyer street between Hope & Grand streets.

FREEEEE!

 IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The 9th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day features biking activities, bike competitions, bike rides, bicycle advocacy groups and artists selling their wares. With a BBQ grill and more, you couldn’t miss this yearly celebration of all things bicycle.

Bring Your Bikes Because We’ve Got Prizes!!!

Contests include: Best Vintage Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike prizes donated by: Outlier Tailored Performance, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Affinity Cycles, and maybe, possibly, hopefully a bicycle or two.

Schedule for Bike Prizes:

Judging starts at 2pm

2:45: best vintage bike

3:15: Best Mutant Bike

3:45: Best Commuter

4:15: Best Handmade

4:45: Best Small Wheel

5:15: Best Ugly Bike

5:45: Best in Show

Cycling, Artists, and informational booths including:
BIKENY, Transportation Alternatives, Times UP!, Taliah Lempert Bicycle Paintings, Outlier Tailored Performance, POW! Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, Coast Cycles, MER Bags, d’emploi, Horse Cycles, Velo Brooklyn, Vaya Bike Products, Bicycle donated by NYC Bikes AND MORE.  Want a table?  Contact Bill Scanga at bill@cityreliquary.org

BMX tricks courtesy of POST Bike shop.

Performances by: DJ Tinseltown.

See you there!!!!!!!!!!!

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Located at 370 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization provides a wide array of services to the community. As a certified 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, we are committed to serving the people of New York City – natives, newcomers, and passersby. Originally established as a window-front display only museum in 2002 at the corner of Grand and Havemeyer Sts, it moved into its present location in 2006 and is committed to plan and host public events, which provide neighbors and visitors with a place to meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate the diversity of our community.

The City Reliquary’s hours are: Thursday through Sunday: 12pm – 6pm. Admission to the museum is $5 suggested donation. For general information, please visit the Museum’s website www.cityreliquary.org or call 718. R U CIVIC.

May 24th 2013

Celebrate an EXTRAORDINARY 130 years of our favorite bridge in town!

The City Reliquary is looking for a few good men and women to help us staff the museum, support public programs and events, or take the lead on special projects of your choosing.

Love New York City? Think our museum is the bee’s knees? Have a high tolerance for people who use phrases like “bee’s knees”? Click on over to our volunteer page to learn more about who and what we’re looking for.

Open Mic Show-and-Tell, hosted by Paul Lukas, returns to the City Reliquary on December 15th.

Open Mic Show-and-Tell is exactly what it sounds like: Anyone can bring an object of personal significance and talk about it for up to three minutes. No theme, no agenda — interesting stuff and the stories behind them are their own reward.

If you have a particularly odd object to share, that’s fine. But Show-and-Tell isn’t really about the objects — it’s about the stories. Look in your pocket or purse — there’s probably good show-and-tell fodder there, whether you realize it or not.

You can either (a) bring an object and be prepared to talk about it, or (b) just be part of the audience (because you can’t have show-and-tell unless there are people on hand to be shown and told). Either way, it’s a good time.

The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Lorimer Avenue Station
Doors and sign-ups at 7p; showing/telling commences at 8p
$5 suggested donation; beer available for sale

http://www.cityreliquary.org/

plukas64@gmail.com

Open Mic Show-and-Tell, hosted by Paul Lukas, returns to the City Reliquary on November 17th. This show will mark a solid year of showing and telling since the monthly series began last year.

Open Mic Show-and-Tell is exactly what it sounds like: Anyone can bring an object of personal significance and talk about it for up to three minutes. No theme, no agenda — interesting stuff and the stories behind them are their own reward.

Objects that were featured last time included a very old photo album, a wedding band made from gold that had been mined from a very special mine in Australia, and two wisdom teeth.

But as always, Show-and-Tell isn’t about the objects — it’s about the stories. Look in your pocket or purse — there’s probably good show-and-tell fodder there, whether you realize it or not.

You can either (a) bring an object and be prepared to talk about it, or (b) just be part of the audience (because you can’t have show-and-tell unless there are people on hand to be shown and told). HOWEVER, lately we’ve had more folks who only want to watch, without participating. C’mon, people — it’s better to give than to receive, remember? Of course you do.

The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Lorimer Avenue Station
Doors and sign-ups at 7p; showing/telling commences at 8p
$5 suggested donation; beer available for sale

http://www.cityreliquary.org/

plukas@gmail.com

October 15, 11am – 4pm
Havemeyer and Metropolitan

Eat treats for the City Reliquary! Join us for a delicious bake sale and baking competition. Proceeds from every cookie, cupcake and brownie will support the City Reliquary!

Donate Baked Goods
We are looking for bakers and sweets-makers (you!) to donate their fresh-baked yummies to the Festival. Cookies, cupcakes, bars, brownies, quick breads, tarts, cakes, pies…any fresh baked treat is welcome! You do not even have to attend the event to sell your goods. All proceeds will go toward the City Reliquary.

Dropping Off Baked Goods
Please drop off treats at the City Reliquary (370 Metropolitan Avenue) on Saturday October 15 between 10:30am and 1pm. If you cannot drop off on Saturday, we may be able to pick them up or arrange a Friday drop off: please email jtancil@yahoo.com if you cannot drop off on Saturday or if you have any questions.

Baking Competition
Calling all home bakers! Do you make the city’s best (non-professional) treats? Bring your best baked goods to the Sugar Sweets Festival. A team of professional bakers will judge your treats. We will award great prizes to all winners.

Categories

• Best Cookie
• Best Brownie/bar
• Best Cupcake
• Most New York

How To Enter

• Bring at least 5 samples of the treat(s) you wish to enter to the City Reliquary on Saturday, Oct 15th. No treats will be accepted after 1pm.
• If you cannot bring treats to the Reliquary, please contact jtancil@yahoo.com to see if he can arrange a pick-up.
• Bring (many!) additional treats to sell at the Festival. All proceeds go to benefit the City Reliquary

More Information
Please contact Jeff Tancil at jtancil@yahoo.com.

Project Neon, a photography exhibit celebrating New York City’s great collection of glowing neon signs, is coming to the City Reliquary. The show will open with a reception on Friday, Sept. 23, at 7pm.

Project Neon began as a personal photography project by Kirsten Hively in commemoration of the centenary of neon’s first commercial display. It quickly grew into a larger project to explore the city and document all of New York’s major working neon signs (and many of the smaller ones, too). Now firmly established as a blog with a popular following, Project Neon’s goal is to inspire New Yorkers to visit the great signs that light up the night across the five boroughs.

Commercial neon signs–free and accessible to all–are repositories for stories both grand and personal. Some say they are a dying breed, but Project Neon believes they are a unique and vital part of New York’s identity. The signs’ particular quality of light, their lovely typography and design, and the history they embody all make neon signage worth celebrating, preserving, and perpetuating.

The exhibit will feature several dozen of Hively’s neon photos and will also mark the release of the (free!) Project Neon iPhone app, which visitors will be able to download on-site. The app features photographs and information about many of the signs featured in the show, as well as maps to help people find them in person.

Hively co-produced the Candela Structures show at the City Reliquary in 2009. This is her first solo show.