Sunday, September 21, 2014, 2-5 pm
Featuring: Chicken Tails, storytelling for kids, 3-4 pm, with Micki Spiller

The father-son curatorial team Spiller & Spiller premier “Which Came First? The Chicken Museum” their dually collected and curated exhibition. This presentation of everything chicken includes Omelet King Rudolph Stanish’s custom pan and recipe book; photographs of hand-painted roast chicken signs from Roosevelt Avenue; and a collection of wishbones ranging from the tiny breastbone of a quail to pelican and turkey furcula (Latin for wishbones) This is the first known public exhibition curated by a parent-child team.

Six-year-old Hiro Maddock Spiller inspired “Which Came First? The Chicken Museum” at age 3 when he asked, “Can I go to a chicken museum tomorrow?” That night his father, Harley Judd Spiller, amassed chicken-related items from around their home and installed the considerable selection in their museum cabinet. Hiro has curated “I Am 3” and “Lego Vehicles” and exhibited his art at Wayfarer Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

About Spiller & Spiller
Harley Spiller met Colonel Sanders in 1968 and stewed wings for William Grimes in 2009. A longtime NYC museum professional, dubbed “collector extraordinaire” by The New York Times, Harley has blogged about sasami (Japanese raw chicken); published essays on chicken culture for magazines Flavor & Fortune and Gastronomica; and written the chapter “Chow Fun City” for Columbia University Press’Gastropolis: Food & New York City. His flavor-intensified Buffalo wing recipe ran in The New York Sun.

Micki Spiller teaches art at Parsons The New School for Design and Pratt Institute and is currently completing an MLS at Queens College. Her sculptural children’s books are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn and Newark public libraries. She tells fun stories.

Mortimer Spiller sired the family predilection for poultry and collected many of the artifacts on view. “Which Came First? The ChickenMuseum” is presented in his memory.

The City Reliquary is a not-for-profit community museum and civic organization in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Through permanent display of New York City artifacts, rotating exhibits of community collections, and annual cultural events, The City Reliquary connects visitors to both the past and present of New York.

Saturday, June 21st, 2014
Noon til 6PM
Havemeyer between Grand St. and Hope St.

Calling bicycle fetishists of all types!! Bike collectors, builders, activists, shops, attire designers, community groups and all-around BIKE NERDS…

BICYCLE FETISH DAY IS A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The 10th Anniversary Bicycle Fetish Day will take place on Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand. We’ll have a bike judging contests, offer bike rides, host bicycle advocacy groups and display boutique bicycle-artist wares… and our BBQ grill will going at full capacity.

Contests include: Best Vintage Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike trophies , and maybe, possibly, hopefully a bicycle or two.

If you’re a self avowed bike weirdo, bicycle enthusiast, bicycle advocate, bicycle commuter, biek nut, you shouldn’t miss this yearly celebration of all things bicycle.

See you there, BIKE NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!

(…Bring Your Bikes And Get Those Prizes!!!)

Schedule for Bicycle contests:

Judging starts at 2pm

2:45: Best vintage bike

3:15: Best Mutant bike

3:45: Best Commuter bike

4:15: Best Handmade bike

4:45: Best Small Wheel bike

5:15: Best Ugly Bike

5:45: Best in Show

BMX tricks courtesy of Harvest Cyclery.

Music by: Boogaloo DJ Harry Ballz

Saturday, July 26th | 6pm – 9:30pm | at The City Reliquary
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After spending the last year on Hawaiʻi Island, City Reliquary founder Dave Herman is returning to the equally beloved islands of New York, and heʻs bringing home plenty poi to share!

If you remember, or if you missed last year’s blazing polynesian revue, you won’t be disappointed with the Hana Hou (encore)!

This year’s line up will include:
* Authentic Hawaiian Cuisine by our neighbors at “Onomea”
* Hula by Kaina Quenga and Hoaaloha
* Mele (songs) by Dewi Maile Lim
* Vintage Hawaiian Vinyl spun by DJ Steel Guitar
* Live music by Zeph and Jonny

And more surprises and Hawaiian souvenirs for all…

Plus, after-show performance by the Lucky Chops Brass Band!

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October 25 | 10am to 4pm
BROOKLYN’S BIGGEST BAKE SALE IS BACK!
On October 25, 2014 New Yorkers of all ages will pig out at the City Reliquary Museum’s 5th Annual Havemeyer Sugar Sweets Festival, the city’s biggest celebration of New York’s bakers and sweet-makers.

Civic Bake Sale

The heart of the Festival is the Civic Bake Sale, a sweet-tooth smorgasbord featuring treats donated by everyone from humble home chefs to top-tier pros and landmark New York bakeries. 100% of the proceeds from the bake sale will support the City Reliquary Museum, a beloved New York history and civic museum.

Want to donate? Just email jeff(at)cityreliquary.org

Blue Ribbon Baking Competitions

Are you one of the city’s best home bakers? Bring it on! Throughout the day, pro-bakers, food writers, and sweets experts will judge treats entered in each category – awarding prizes any baker and NYC-enthusiast would love to take home! This year’s categories include:

• Best Fall Flavored
• Best Booze Infused
• Best Brooklyn-y (anything goes…but keep it local-ish!)
• Best Recipe You Made Up (bring – and bake – your imagination)
• Best Oh My God! Chocolate

Family-Friendly Entertainment

As always, there will be entertainment for everyone! Multiple music acts including Lloyd Miller (Deedle-Deedle-Dees), a performance of Hansel and Gretel, face-painting, “sweet story-time” readings, crafts, and the good cheer and sweet disposition of NYC’s home bakers and the City Reliquary’s crew.

Apron Fashion Show

New in 2014: Bring your best aprons for a dazzling display of cooking finery! Everyone will be welcome to participate in The Apron Fashion Show and vie for the title of Brooklyn’s Best Apron!

The Sugar Sweets Festival is a family-friendly celebration of New York’s bakers, sweet-makers and treat-lovers.

We Love Our Sponsors

Many thanks to the kindness of The Brooklyn Kitchen, Crest Hardware, Cupcake Land, Oslo Coffee, Saltie, Liddabit Sweets, The Meat Hook and our other friends and neighbors.

Want to sponsor? Email [email protected].

We’re looking for food donations and products to raffle off. We’ll sing your praises on social media and give you a tax donor recognition letter.

Get In Touch

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

Saturday May 3, 2013 | 7pm
At The Brooklyn Kitchen | 100 Frost Street, Brooklyn NY

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Join us for an evening of storytelling, food and booze. ALL proceeds benefit The City Reliquary!

Enjoy a sampling of powerful potables, noshes and nibbles.

In the past, this event has gathered close to 100 fine aficionados of spirits, beers, wines, foods and storytelling, and we’re at it once again.

Hooch
This year we’re proud to partner with the fine hooch-producing people at Kings County Distilling, Greenhook Ginsmiths, Van Brunt Distilling, Industry City Distilling, The 86 Co. The Noble Experiment, New York Distilling Company, Brooklyn Brewery, Rockaway Brewing, bartenders from Maison Premiere & Hotel Delmano and more tbd! They’ll each be serving sippycups of their stuff and mixing mini-cocktails for public consumption.

Edibles
We’ll be serving scrumptious snackies from the following folks: Best Pizza, Meat Hook, FattyCakes NY, Brooklyn Brine, Better Off Spread, more tbd.

Boozy Tales
We’re also asking notable liquor lovers to share a tale about the best / worst / most exciting / stupefyingly dull story they’ve got…provided it involves intoxicating imbibery!

Guests are invited to battle the best brains at our event, and the winning story will receive a gift goody bag.

Drunk Shopping!
The Brooklyn Kitchen will also open up their store afterhours for discounted drunk shopping! As always, we’re highlighting local brewers, distillers, bakers, and makers.

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Saturday, May 10th at 7pm

Admission $5 / Limited seating / Refreshments served
RSVP required: info(at)anabellalenzu.com

Exploring the importance of dance, community, choreography and dance pedagogy, Argentinean Choreographer Anabella Lenzu celebrates 23 years of teaching dance in a book of her writings in Spanish and English.

Having opened her own dance school at 18, Lenzu recounts her experiences teaching in South America, Europe, and the US, as well as publishing an arts magazine and creating repertory for her dance company. Lenzu’s eloquent prose reveals reflections of a life devoted to dance performance and education.

Photography by Todd Carroll fully documents the performances and provides a glimpse into the creative process.

This book is an inspiration to dancers and teachers alike, and the first of its kind as a bilingual text on dance pedagogy.

“I invite you to submerge yourself and pursue self-knowledge because
without that, we are lost in life.
When we remain strangers to ourselves, we are deprived of the pleasure of growing,
transforming, and finally discovering an inner balance.”

http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com/book

On View March 8 to May 31, 2014

“A well thought out cartoon can tell the reader the story in a second.”
– Burris Jenkins

Long before Colbert and Stewart, satirical cartoons were the sharpest arrows in the quiver of those who endeavored to inform and persuade the public. The new exhibit Drawing Perspective: The Cartoon Genius of Burris Jenkins Jr. examines cartoons published in New York City during the mid-20th century.

Around a dozen original drawings by master cartoonist, Burris Jenkins Jr. will be displayed, each accompanied by insightful descriptions.

The exhibit focuses on cartoon panels published in The New York Journal (later Journal-American). A writer as well as an artist, the influential power of Jenkins’ work lies in his narrative prowess; every panel on display is as much a full story as a gag. Jenkins was versatile, able to switch hats from political satirist to courtroom illustrator, and he is remembered as one of America’s favorite sports cartoonists.

Jenkins was an artist with his finger on the pulse of so many different veins of public consciousness, who believed “cartoonists should be on the level and not hold anything back” from a public who “had to believe again that a newspaper can have ideals and heart.”

The original illustrations exhibited in Drawing Perspective come from the carefully curated collection of Chris Engel, an avid collector of original illustrations.

Saturday, March 1 | 3 pm

Enjoy a special talk by Sally Levitt Steinberg, author of The Donut Book and granddaughter of Adolph Levitt, inventor of the automatic donut machine!

Dubbed the “Donut Princess” by The Washington Post, Sally Levitt Steinberg has published articles in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. She was featured in the Travel Channel’s documentary Donut Crazy.

March 2nd | 4pm

A revival of the 1930s National Dunking Association, this club will meet to practice donut dunking techniques. Everyone who attends will receive an official Donut Dunkers Club membership card.

Donut Dunkers Club buttons also available!

Donuts and coffee will be served!!

$5 suggested donation to dunk.

Saturday, February 8, 2014 | 10:30 a.m.

Join the Reliquary for a family-friendly morning of stories, songs, crafts…and donuts!

In hopes of cultivating a new generation of donut lovers, we’re hosting a special event for kids that focuses on our Keep Your Eye Upon the Donut exhibition! Bring your young ones to listen to some delicious donut stories, work on a donut-related craft project, hear a few donut songs, and learn a little about New York City’s rich donut history, too.

Donuts, milk, and coffee will be provided.

Suggested $5 donation.