Greenpoint Gazette published a sweet little piece on this year’s Sugar Sweets!

7pm until…?

$5 admission, 100% of which goes to Red Cross to help with Hurricane Sandy relief.

Brooklyn Brewery Beer available for donation.

This Tuesday, come to the most civic Museum in Brooklyn and cheer, scream, laugh, cry, celebrate or bemoan the state of American politics at our Election Night Circus 2012!!

We’ll have MC Matt Levy describing the states blow-by-blow. We’ll be proud to display our technologically ancient STATES VOTES Board in the Museum; a live MSNBC video stream in our beautiful backyard; Brooklyn Brewery beers available by donation; death-defying acts by the human blockhead Donny Vomit; and the ever-politic DJs Stacheroni and Tinseltown, spinning for the occasion.

Don’t miss the most exciting political event of the season; just be sure to come AFTER you cast your vote!

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

November 19 | 8pm

Hailing from Gainsville Florida, but steeped in the Brooklyn and North-east indie-folk pop strains, Holopaw plays music that has sweetness and grit, longing and potential violence, lulling strings undercut by anxious guitars, lilting “la’s” turning sinister and demanding. Horns, keyboards, guitars, cymbals and harmonic convergences tell fairytales with unsure endings.

Open Mic Show-and-Tell, hosted by Paul Lukas, returns to the City Reliquary on Thursday, October 20.

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 an old toaster, a quilt whose design was themed around the movie ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ and a very special cigar.

But as always, Show-and-Tell isn’t about the objects — it’s about the stories. Look in your pocket or your 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