BIG BIG CITY: Brooklyn A Pop-Up Art Market and Workshops with Brooklyn Skillshare! Brooklyn, NY (February 2, 2012) – Brooklyn Skillshare and San Francisco-Bay Area arts & culture blog, BIG THINGS are teaming up to bring you BIG BIG CITY: Brooklyn, an afternoon of mini-skills workshops and pop-up art market featuring local artists. Join us on Saturday, February 11th from 10:30 – 3:30pm at (LaunchPad 721 Franklin Avenue) in Crown Heights while we learn and share skills.The workshop schedule:11 am – 12:30 pm   Confetti egg tutorial with Tessa Watson of The Textile Utility12:30 pm – 2 pm Bookmaking with Elise Pelletier from Foreshadow Press2 pm – 3:30 pm Japanese tea ceremony and matcha-making with tea expert and photographer, Johnny Fogg. A donation of $5 is suggested to participate in classes.A marketplace of artists will include handmade goods by West Coast artists in the BIG THINGS SHOP; leather moccasins and jewelry by Manimal; prints by Foreshadow Press; tiny terrarium jewelry by With Roots, work by illustrators Tuesday Bassen and Pete Gamlen; and photo prints by Meg Wachter.This event is the second installation of BIG BIG CITY, a yearlong series of events celebrating and connecting the vibrant arts communities in the USA.Questions? Ask Rebecca Goldschmidt: rebecca@bigbigbigthings.comWe appreciate your support!Thanks to Dante Carlos for our amazing poster.About UsBIG THINGS is an art & culture blog, online shop, and series of events curated by Rebecca Goldschmidt that supports artists and arts communities around the world. BIG THINGS has had lots of fun in San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, and Chicago, as well as Berlin, Istanbul, Vienna, Athens, and other equally amazing places.The Brooklyn Skillshare is community-based, community-led, and community-building learning events organized and taught by Brooklyn residents. It is for learning, making, sharing, and doing! We know that Brooklyn is an endless supply of artistry and talent, and we all have something to teach and to learn from each other. We believe that education is a right - not a commodity, and hope this inclusive project will grow and foster a reciprocal community in Brooklyn.
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BIG BIG CITY: Brooklyn

A Pop-Up Art Market and Workshops with Brooklyn Skillshare!


Brooklyn, NY (February 2, 2012) – Brooklyn Skillshare and San Francisco-Bay Area arts & culture blog, BIG THINGS are teaming up to bring you BIG BIG CITY: Brooklyn, an afternoon of mini-skills workshops and pop-up art market featuring local artists. Join us on Saturday, February 11th from 10:30 – 3:30pm at (LaunchPad 721 Franklin Avenue) in Crown Heights while we learn and share skills.

The workshop schedule:
11 am – 12:30 pm   Confetti egg tutorial with Tessa Watson of The Textile Utility
12:30 pm – 2 pm Bookmaking with Elise Pelletier from Foreshadow Press
2 pm – 3:30 pm Japanese tea ceremony and matcha-making with tea expert and photographer, Johnny Fogg. A donation of $5 is suggested to participate in classes.

A marketplace of artists will include handmade goods by West Coast artists in the BIG THINGS SHOP; leather moccasins and jewelry by Manimal; prints by Foreshadow Press; tiny terrarium jewelry by With Roots, work by illustrators Tuesday Bassen and Pete Gamlen; and photo prints by Meg Wachter.

This event is the second installation of BIG BIG CITY, a yearlong series of events celebrating and connecting the vibrant arts communities in the USA.

Questions? Ask Rebecca Goldschmidt: rebecca@bigbigbigthings.com

We appreciate your support!

Thanks to Dante Carlos for our amazing poster.

About Us

BIG THINGS is an art & culture blog, online shop, and series of events curated by Rebecca Goldschmidt that supports artists and arts communities around the world. BIG THINGS has had lots of fun in San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, and Chicago, as well as Berlin, Istanbul, Vienna, Athens, and other equally amazing places.

The Brooklyn Skillshare is community-based, community-led, and community-building learning events organized and taught by Brooklyn residents. It is for learning, making, sharing, and doing! We know that Brooklyn is an endless supply of artistry and talent, and we all have something to teach and to learn from each other. We believe that education is a right - not a commodity, and hope this inclusive project will grow and foster a reciprocal community in Brooklyn.
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Kool aid dyed yarn tutorial: http://www.missmake.com/2012/01/kool-aid-dyed-yarn-tutorial.html

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Susana Soares’s design work is as fascinating as the science behind it:

Scientific research has demonstrated that bees have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath.

The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.

Could this revolutionise medicine as we know it?

Oh gosh, I don’t know about this.  I just feel like someone’s going to end up with a bee in her windpipe.

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One Plastic Beach—a video interview with Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, who artists who collect tiny pieces of colored plastic from the beach and make furniture, jewelry, and installation art to raise awareness about the collection of trash that is dumped and settles in the middle of our ocean.