| The Village Alliance Business Improvement District is now hiring for the Executive Director position. Download the job description here. To apply, submit a cover letter accompanied by a resume and a one-page writing sample electronically to mdresner@vno.co. On the subject line enter “Executive Director Position. Do not contact the BID office directly regarding this employment opportunity. |
| BridgeStreet Development Corporation is hosting a free workshop: Strategies for Reducing Debt Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm At this workshop you will learn:
Seating is limited. |
| The Brooklyn Workforce Recruitment Calendar for the week of 12/6 is now available for download here. Health care (HHA, CNA, Direct Care Workers, Billerand Coders, LPN, RNs) dominate the open job inventory this week, but there are amply opportunities as well for trained security guards, retail sales associates and experienced food service workers. The exact job requirements for each employer is available to download here. |
| Hanukkah Puppet Show Wednesday, December 8th at 6pm FiveMyles, 558 St. Johns Place Fiddlehead Production present The Master of Prayer, a puppet show celebrating Hanukkah, based on a story by Rebbe Nachman. For all ages. With live Kletzmer music. Suggested donation $10. Vodou Brooklyn Saturday, December 18th at 7pm to midnight FiveMyles, 558 St. Johns Place Vodou Brooklyn - Book Signing, Photo Exhibit and Vodou Performance. Hosted by Stephanie Keith and Marie Carmel Moise |
| Have a great idea for a community improvement project? Citizens Committee for New York City awards grants of $500 to $3,000 to volunteer-led groups for projects that bring neighbors together and have positive community impacts. Application deadline: January 31, 2011 Citizens Committee also offers Mollie Parnis Dress Up Your School Awards of $500 to $3,000 to support student-led projects that beautify schools or neighborhoods immediately surrounding schools. Application deadline: January 31, 2011 Past award recipients have transformed empty lots into community gardens, organized tenants to preserve low-income housing, increased access to fresh, locally grown food, and created projects that foster understanding and collaboration among youth. For more information, visit http://www.citizensnyc.org/grants.html. |
| Come to a Citizens Committee Grant Application Workshop to learn more about their grants and for a Q&A about the application. The next application deadline is January 31, 2011. Manhattan Tuesday, December 7, 6pm Just Food Offices 1155 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor (between 44 and 45 Streets) Queens Thursday, December 9, 6:30pm Queens Borough Hall 120-55 Queens Boulevard Kew Gardens Please be sure to RSVP to Wole Oduye at (212) 822-9563 or email aoduye@citizensnyc.org. Stay tuned for workshops in other boroughs. |
| The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council presents a forum on traffic and transit issues raised by the Atlantic Yards construction and the planned opening of the Barclays Center in 2012. Wednesday, December 8, 2010 7:30pm at P.S. 9 80 Underhill Ave. (b/w St. Marks Ave. and Bergen St.) |
| Vendors still needed Sunday, Dec 12 12 - 7PM, Force and Flow 1102 Dean St. #4, Between Franklin & Bedford Ave's To throw a little spice into the holiday shopping season and to offer beautiful, locally crafted alternatives to petroleum based plastic gifts from China, Force and Flow is once again organizing a holiday bazaar. Inspired by the wildly colorful markets of the Morocco, the studio will transform into an exhilarating venue for affordable hand crafted goods. Here's a chance to spend your money on gifts that support the community, sustain the environment and satisfy your taste buds all at once. With live music, bodywork samples and other suprises, this promises to be your most surprising and exhilarating shopping outing this year! We still have space for a few more vendors, so if you would like to sell your goods at the bazaar please contact us at info@forceandflow.com |
| SOUND WALK Sunday, Nov 28th 6PM, meet at Force and Flow 1102 Dean St. #4 $15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Our monthly Sound Bath series returns with a very special installment of sonic immersion - a guided Sound Walk! On Sunday, Nov 28 Katie will lead us on a walking meditation on how we hear through the streets of Brooklyn. We will take turns, half the group at a time, walking blindfolded so that our listening senses become heightened as our ears become ever more finely tuned to the sonic environment around us. Walkers will experience the phenomenon of deep listening through other senses such as touch, taste, and smell, getting in touch with the soundscapes we usually take for granted. This is a sonic adventure not to be missed, a great way to get to know the neighborhood and to walk off all that extra Thanksgiving food!!! Bring a warm hat and coat, and if it decides to rain on us we'll do a more traditional Sound Bath indoors. For more info please contact us at info@forceandflow.com |
Saturday November 6th @ 10:AM at Park Place and Franklin Avenue Join your neighbors as we plant daffodil bulbs on Franklin Avenue and the front of the Garden. In the spring, watch the flowers that we planted bloom! From 10:00 a.m. to noon, volunteers will loosen soil in tree pits and plant boxes & plant daffodil bulbs Wear clothing and shoes that you don't mind getting some dirt on. if you can, bring: a hand cultivator, a trowel, a bulb borer, anything else that's useful for digging and planting, extra gardening tools, if you have them, for your neighbors to use. Please RSVP so that I know how many people are committed. 
