Round Robin “Hospitality” All Winter Long

Now through March 10, North Brooklyn-based arts collective will fill Arts@Renaissance with installations, open drawing studios, film screenings, and community events as part of their “Hospitality” project.

Swing by and check out any of the following:

Tues. Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 13, Feb 21, Feb 28, 7p-9p: Open Drawing Studios
Tues. Feb 7, 21, 28, 6p- 7p: Reading Group: On the Social Contract
Sun. Feb 12, 7p- 10p: Heart-breakers and Lonely-Hearts Party
Thurs. Feb 16, 7p- 10p: Film screening, Title TBA
Sat. Feb 18, 12p- 5p: Community Sewing Day
Sat. Feb 18, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm: Chi Kung classes
Sun. Feb 19, 12p- 4p: A Blizzard Built, interactive installation
Wed. Feb 22: Complications Supper Club
Sat. Feb 25, 2pm & 3pm: Chi Kung classes
Sun. Feb 26, 12p- 4p: A-Maize-ing Grain, family friendly food and crafts day
Thurs. Mar 1, 7p: 30-30 Vision, film screening
Sun. Mar 4, 5p- 10p: Winter BBQ
Thurs. Mar 8, 7p: Your Day Is My Night, performance
Sat. Mar 10, 7p: Journey Into Darkness, film screening

Full details after the jump.

What Would You Do With 4,500 sq ft of Arts Space?

Join us on Tuesday, January 17th at 6:30pm to share your thoughts on what the future holds at Arts@Renaissance!

What is an art space? What is a community space? What are the responsibilities of bringing these two spaces together?

Postcards To North Brooklyn Available As Holiday Gifts

Looking for a way to support the local economy, local artists and give an absolutely killer gift this holiday season?

Now through January 9th Arts@Renaissance is offering originally-crafted postcards created by artists inspired by North Brooklyn.

Each 4×6 card reflects the unique character of our neighborhood and makes for the perfect keepsake. All proceeds of the $50 cards go to Arts@Renaissance.

There will be two special showings of the cards this Saturday and Sunday (12/17 & 12/18) from 1pm to 3pm at Arts@Renaissance, 2 Kingsland Avenue.

You can also view everything online HERE. To purchase work send an email to arts@stnicksalliance.org.

Have a wonderful holiday season!

Postcards To North Brooklyn tickets on sale NOW!

Be the first to order up tickets for Arts@Renaissance fundraiser featuring custom-designed postcards by 100 artists! Discount tix start at $10. Get yours HERE.

Parsons The New School For Design Amplifying Creative Communities Opens November 10

During two weeks (Nov 7 to Nov 20) experts, professionals, design students, local residents, activists and the general public will get together to participate in a sequence of workshops to discuss local challenges and local initiatives and propose new ideas for sustainable change. Please join us at Arts@Renaissance at 2 Kingsland Avenue for the following events.

Exhibition Opening
November 10th (6:00pm – 9:00pm)
Parsons students from the TransDisciplinary MFA Design program will work with human-centered design methods and tools in order to explore the exhibition artifacts and propose scenarios, service ideas, toolkits, policy recommendations, around four major areas of social challenges and innovations identified in our project.
Free

Workshop 2: Recipes for Change
November 12th (10:00am – 5:00pm)
The online micro-philanthropic initiative ioby will launch its “Recipes for Change” toolkit, which will enable community leaders to propose and implement sustainable initiatives in their neighborhood.
RSVP: recipes4change.eventbrite.com
Free

Workshop 3: Share your Perspective – Think Global, Map Local!
November 16th (3:00 – 6:00 pm)
Green Map System, an organization that utilizes mapping to promote sustainable community development, will host a workshop for the North Brooklyn community. Teens encouraged to attend.
RSVP: arts@stnicksalliance.org
Free

Workshop 4: Designathon Challenge
November 20th (9:00am – 5:00pm)
Workshop organized by Shareable.net and part of the Share NYC event, a conference about the sharing economy hosted by DESIS Lab at The New School. In this workshop participants will be guided by Shana Dressler, co-founder of the Social Innovators Collective to explore how digital tools and platforms can enable the sharing economy. Event hosted at The New School university campus, 6 E. 16th Street.
$10 using the code DESIS7
RSVP/registration: milicent@shareable.net

tART 8 opens on Friday!

A Day In North Brooklyn Opens Friday!