Saturday, May 26th, 2012 from 12noon – 6pm

Havemeyer between Grand and Metropolitan Aves.
Afterparty in the CR Backyard 6 – 10pm.
FREEEEE!

IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The 8th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day takes place on Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand. 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:

Cycling, Artists, and informational booths including:
BIKENY, Transportation Alternatives, Times UP!, Taliah Lempert Bicycle Paintings, Outlier Tailored Performance, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, Coast Cycles, Horse Cycles, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Nona Varnado, Vaya Bike Products, AND MORE.

BMX tricks courtesy of POST Bike shop.
Goldsprints courtesy of Affinity Cycles

Performances by: DJ Tinseltown.

AFTERPARTY @ 6PM at the City Reliquary with Brooklyn Beers for sale. Featuring DJ Tinsletown!

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

BIKE FETISH DAY 2012!!!

2002-2012
April 1st, 2012 (no foolin’!)
12-6pm
at the City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue
FREE FOR ALL!

We’re so very pleased to report that the City Reliquary is starting its 10th year of existence. We’ve grown so much over the past 10 years; from tiny windowfront displays to a legitimate Museum and events space. AND we’ve been working harder than ever to make this our biggest year yet! On April 1st, we will unveil…

An all new GIFT SHOP featuring local, hand-made products and NYC gifts!

Two new room-sized DIORAMAS and several new civic DISPLAYS!

A meet and greet with the newest member of our civic organization, a MANAGING DIRECTOR!

With all of these incredible developments about to be released, we hope you won’t miss this opportunity to help us celebrate the past and launch our future.

Please stop by the CR on April 1st at 12:00 noon, to experience the grand ribbon cutting ceremony followed by much pomp, circumstances, and refreshments for all.
MORE INFO TO COME! Please email Matt@cityreliquary.org with queries and questions.

Thanks to Corey Kilgannon of the NY Times for the photo.

New York City Above and Below: Works by Plein Air Artist Enrico Miguel Thomas
Opening Reception Saturday January 28th, 2012
Doors at 7pm.
FREE! Donations gratefully accepted
Delicious Brooklyn Brewery beer available by donation.

Friday December 9th, 2011
Doors at 7:30pm, Lecture at 8.
$5 suggested donation at the door,
Thirst-quenching Brooklyn Brewery available for donation.

StockingShare!- our collaboration with the online journal Blue Stocking Society- on December 9th. They are currently accepting submissions ( in the form of text, audio or image) on the theme of women in the metropolis. That said Blue Stocking is happy to review materials related more broadly to issues of gender and sexuality in the context of city living. On December 9th those accepted will have the opportunity to share their works in an evening salon. We sincerely hope to see you for what promises to be a lively evening of sharing, discussing and Brooklyn Brewery’s finest.

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.