The City Reliquary Presents: The First Ever Meals and Spiels:
An Evening of Dinner & Lectures about NYC’s Food!
April 27th from 7-10pm at The Brooklyn Kitchen – 100 Frost Street.

WILLIAMSBURGH, BROOKLYN. The City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization, in partnership with a host of Brooklyn’s finest purveyors of food, is putting on an event that is NOT to be missed. The First Ever Meals and Spiels, An Evening of Dinner & Lectures about NYC’s Food! Meals and Spiels is a dinner that will focus on the incredible food shops, breweries, bakeries, and kitchens of North Brooklyn. What’s more, each dish and beverage in the Meal will come paired with a lecture about the food on your fork and beverage in your glass! All proceeds will go towards the City Reliquary’s operational funds, to keep us open to the community at large. Guests will be able to take home a Goody Bag stuffed with City Reliquary souvenirs and a Not for Tourists guidebook and more.
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Reserve your St. Paddy’s Day Night 3/17
for a BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE CITY RELIQUARY

At the Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn
Doors @ 6PM, Show @ 7PM

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:00 PM – Cecilia Brauer, historic glass armonica virtuoso and lecturer

http://www.gigmasters.com/armonica/index.asp

8:00 PM – Drink Me, acoustic duo and Fanta-bottle music

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9:00 PM – Brian Dewan, with his auto-harp, accordian, melody gin, and “Civic Pride” film strip

http://www.dewanatron.com/

10:00 PM – Frankenpine, the Brooklyn-based bluegrassy string band

http://frankenpinemusic.com/

http://www.youtube.com/frankenpine

11:00 PM – Lucky Chops, Laguardia High School grads’ New Orleans-style brass band

http://www.myspace.com/luckychopsbrassband

Tickets $20 available in advance at the Knitting Factory Website.
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=4711

QUEENS, NY! The Panorama Challenge is back! Come to the Queens Museum of Art on Friday, March 12th from 7-10pm to participate in the world’s ONLY geographical trivia-based game night involving the world’s largest panorama – The Panorama of the City of New York! Participants will compete in teams to test their knowledge of New York City geography. Team members will be asked questions ranging from easy to difficulty as game controllers assist by highlighting landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods and other sites with far-reaching laser pointers. Admission is free and there will be beers sold and snacks served.

The Panorama of the City of New York, originally commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, is the largest architectural scale model in the world. With a scale of 1 inch: 100 feet, the Panorama has always offered a truly unique view of the five boroughs, one that has left the millions who have seen it in awe. The Panorama made a triumphant return in February after undergoing a massive lighting and multimedia effects upgrade. Now featuring a twelve-minute tour of the model and the city it represents, the recently-upgraded Panorama will continue to transform how viewers experience this one of a kind treasure, and the city it captures in wonderful miniature.

The Levys’ Unique New York! NY’s First Family of Tour Guides will host this NYCentric Event by pointing out notable icons of New York City via laser pointer as well as giving audio clues to assist the teams. NYCentric events are entertaining events that explore, spotlight and celebrate everything New York City. Produced and hosted monthly by The Levys’ Unique New York! New York’s First Family of Tour Guides. They aim to introduce New Yorkers and visitors alike to fascinating stories and locales of the city.

The funds raised will benefit The City Reliquary, a one-room museum of curiosities located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A homegrown museum devoted exclusively to New York memorabilia, the City Reliquary’s collection is comprised of everything from fragments of Brooklyn Trolley cars and skyscrapers, to soil samples from all 5 boroughs and an extensive Statue of Liberty collection. Created and produced by Levys’ Unique New York!, New York’s first family of tour guides, performers and event impresarios, the Panorama Challenge is sure to educate and entertain New Yorkers of all walks of life.

INFORMATION:

Friday March 12th, 7-10pm
Queens Museum of Art: Flushing-Meadows Corona Park
FREE! Register your team with Mark@levysuniqueny.com or 718-287-6177 by Thursday, March 11th

Hello Friends of the City Reliquary,

We are happy to announce the return of our spectacular THird THursdays events. This week, on THursday January 21st, from 7:00-10:00 PM we will host a reception for TWO new exhibits at the museum.

In our Exhibition Hall, we are proud to announce the opening of “Company Journals of the Southside Firehouse”
An exhibit of historic logbooks detailing the daily work of Williamsburgh companies Engine 221 and Hook & Ladder 104 since the turn of the century, beautifully hand-written with fountain pen in calligraphic form and displayed with photographicic and printed support materials of the era; Curated by Firefighter Patrick D’Emic L104.

Also, in the COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS window we are proud to present, Amanda B. Friedman’s Unicorn Collection.

We hope you’ll join us THis THird THursday at 7:00 for refreshments courtesy of the Brooklyn Brewery.

THis THurd THursday is the BIG event!!!
$5 at the door- will get you a night you won’t forget!

Thursday November 19th 7-10 PM is the first ever…
****************Miss G Train Pageant!!!**************
at the City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization
370 Metropolitan Ave at Havemeyer St.
(take the G train to Metropolitan Ave!)

The Crowning of Miss G Train!
Music by;
DJ Stacher spinning from our Treehouse DJ Booth all night!
& “The G-Train” sung by “Chip and the Crosstown Express”
“Being a G in New York” video by “Fernando”
Special Guest judges:
Fiona Gardner, “Miss Subways” photographer
Abbie Borod, Beauty Pageant Coach
Ed Coffey, NYC transit expert
and stunning 3-minute performances from 6 of our 12 Semi-Finalist Miss G Trains!
and of course, beverages by the Brooklyn Brewery!

Is the G train your local subway that you love to hate? Or hate to love? Do you ride it everyday to work, to see a loved one, or out on the town in one (or two) of the “outer” boroughs?
The G train is perhaps the most under appreciated train in the system. It has some of the most unpredictable and slowest service, sketchiest platforms, and rails that refuse to turn westward to the “high society” of Manhattan. Yet, there are still some G train love stories out there. We need it. We rely on it. No matter how bad it gets, the G train is truly a train “FOR THE PEOPLE”. We G-trainers are a breed that truly rely on our beloved and despised line. The G is the quintessential underdog of our transit system. Bringing attention to this too-often neglected line can only make it better!!!
And that is why The City Reliquary, museum-for-the-people, will host a spectacular PAGEANT to crown the first ever “Miss G Train”.

Following in the New York transit history of the “Miss Subways” contests, and corresponding with our current City Reliquary exhibition, Meet Miss Subways – a study of the former Miss Subways past and present by photographer Fiona Gardner, we have been collecting submissions from numerous G train riders who are all vying to become the first ambassador of the last remembered line in the MTA system. Competition to become the first Miss G Train is RIGHT ON TRACK! And, its up to OUR Semi-Finalists to decide just what Miss G Train is! This contest will truly show the diversity of the ridership which uses this line, because we are leaving it to the contestants to define just what being Miss G Train is all about!
We hope to see you there as we crown the first ever Miss G Train on Thursday night!

The City Reliquary is proud to host the Southside Halloween Festival, an evening-long multi-disciplinary party with candy, music and games. Created especially for the City Reliquary and the Brooklyn Public Library, there will be an atmospheric adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortune Teller Mikaela Corbo sharing her gift to all who dare to listen, neighborhood students from El Puente performing a dance act specifically created for this event, local musician Jeff Davis playing the musical saw, games, refreshments, and a sideshow act! William Allgood will serve as the evening’s ghoulish Master of Ceremonies. There will be goody bags and candy for the young and old alike.

The Southside Halloween Festival is produced by local artists Stephen Cedars and Christina Latimer, and is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Halloween Festival at the City Reliquary
Friday October 30th, 2009
8-11pm, FREE, Donations gratefully accepted.
370 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer