DECEMBER 6, 2013!!!!
7-10pm – $25 Tickets/Kids free – The City Reliquary’s Swedish Holiday Benefit and Locavore Punch-Off Competition
8-9pm – Caroling
10pm – Swedish Drum and Voice Choir Performance
10pm+ – $15 suggested donation – After Hours Party, DJ, and Dance

Join the City Reliquary and denizens of Brooklyn in a festive Holiday fete featuring hot Swedish Glögg, Locavore Punch, dancing, drinking, delights, and a Swedish singing choir!

Hosted by Jefftown extraordinaires Nicole and Alan, benefitting the City Reliquary and featuring local booze from NY Distilling Co, The Noble Experiment & Kings County Distilling in a Holiday PUNCH OFF! Competition.

Share your holiday cheer with us and friends over a warm mug of mulled Swedish glögg (with or without vodka.) Sample NYDC Gin punch, TNE Rum punch and KCD Whiskey punch and vote for your favorite punch! All night,

Sponsors:
Jefftown Street
AmsVan

Partners:
Mominette Bistro
JoeBobLeigh Jewelry

*Proceeds support The City Reliquary Museum’s exhibitions and public programming series.

Much love from your hosts,
Nicole, Chief Swede
Alan, Executive Glögger
Matt, City Reliquary Vice President
Lindsay, Fest Designer and City Reliquary Board Member
Royal, Jefftown Mayor

*If you or your company is interested in supporting this years event, please reach out [email protected]. We are still seeking donations or sponsorships for red wine and food.

**If you are interested in joining the super-group drum and voice choir, please email [email protected].

October 6, 2013 | 10am – 4pm
At The City Reliquary

The Sugar Sweets Festival is a family-friendly celebration of New York’s bakers, sweet-makers and treat-lovers. Featuring blue-ribbon baking competitions and an all-donation bake sale all to raise money for The City Reliquary.

Be A Civic Baker

Every treat sold at the Festival will support the City Reliquary, a unique and essential Brooklyn institution. We’re looking for nearly anything freshly-baked or recently confected – sweet, savory or both!

Want to donate? Please contact us!

Blue-Ribbon Competitions

Do you make the city’s tastiest (non-professional) treats? Bring your best baked goods to the Sugar Sweets Festival. Pro bakers and food writers will judge. Prizes provided by The Brooklyn Kitchen.

This year’s categories are:

Best Vegan/Gluten-Free – 11:30am
Best Fall Flavored – Noon
Most Creative Cupcake – 1pm
Chocolatastic– 1:30pm
Best In Brooklyn – 3pm

Want to enter?

• Check in at 370 Metropolitan at least 15 minutes before your competition
• Bring a plate of (ample) samples
• Bring extra cupcakes, cookies, bars or other non-cake/pie treats that we can sell at the bake sale

Questions?Please contact us!

Fun Stuff

Music, demos and more from:

Sweet Songs with Lloyd of the Deedle Deedle Dees
Historic Dessert Curiosities from A Cake Bakes In Brooklyn
Apron decoration with The Reliquary

Contact

If you want to donate, sponsor, compete or ask ANY questions, please contact [email protected].

Sponsors & Donors

The Brooklyn Kitchen, Oslo Coffee, Saltie, The Treats Truck, Momofuko Milk Bar, Susty Party, Baked, A Cake Bakes In Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bakes, Butter Me Up Brooklyn, Betty Bakery, The Blue Stove, Fortunato Brothers, OddFellows Ice Cream, Steve’s Key Lime Pie, Peter Pan Donuts, Salty Road Taffy, Mast Brothers, Greenpointers and TancilTown Media

June 21st
Celebrate the longest day of the year with great music in our backyard!
Free!
Sponsored by Make Music New York

Free Daytime concerts in front of the Reliquary
2 – 3pm: Glaser Drive – Sister-driven folk rock.
3 – 4pm: Triple A String Band – Fiddle and banjo from Southern Appalchia
4 – 5pm: Chicken Barn Heroes – Country, Bluegrass & Blues
5 – 6pm: Twigs – Bluegrass, indie-folk

Make Music After Dark – Free Concerts with cash bar in the CR’s Backyard
7:15 Sara Banleigh
8:15 Union Street Preservation Society
9:15 Bushwick Gospel Singers

June 29th | 6 – 9pm
Join NY Bike Jumble founder and bike maven Harry Schwartzman for an evening of bike-awesome to celebrate the opening of his exhibit exploring the Coney Island Velodrome.

May 12 – 19
As Featured In The New York Times

Henry Miller Memorial Library comes to Brooklyn! Our California friends will open a pop-up bookshop in the Reliquary featuring rare original manuscripts, letters, books, and more.

The shop is just one great part of a week’s-worth of art, comedy, music, and movies all staged in Miller’s old neighborhood of Williamsburg.

Here’s more info on the Festival. We look forward to greeting new friends, come on by the Reliquary!

MOVED TO SUNDAY DUE TO YUCKY WEATHER!!!

SUNDAY, May 26^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 [email protected]

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.

CANCELLED DUE TO CRUDDY WEATHER

But rest assured, we will be back next year to celebrate the Bridge’s 131st birthday!

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May 24th 2013

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