Join us every Tuesday evening and Friday morning for a heart-guided yoga experience led by Elle Pierre. Tuesdays we offer "Like Water: A Dynamic, Fluid Flow" / Fridays are "In Gratitude: A Flow to Cultivate Joy." Both are deeply grounding, gentle, and open to all levels. Yoga mats, blocks, straps, cushions, and blankets provided, or bring your own. Sliding scale pricing (starting April 1) between $20-35 per class; $15 deposit to register and the remainder paid by cash, card, or ApplePay upon arrival on class date. Register now as space is limited :) Register here!

Care informs all of our lives — we have all been cared for, given care, or will need it one day. And yet care can feel so isolated from the rest of our lives — especially our creative lives. Join Miriam Grossman and artist Rebecca Katz at the Brooklyn Artery to explore our relationship to caregiving through lively discussion and art-making using the Jewish Studio Process.

In this three-part series, we’ll dive into different dimensions of caregiving — how we care for others, care for ourselves, and approach caregiving in society.

Come to one, two or all 3 sessions! $18 per workshop.

All are welcome—no artistic experience is necessary. 

April 24 — Taking Care of Others: Who do you care for? What are the expectations and responsibilities—from yourself or others? What have you lost and found in becoming a caregiver? What are the boundaries—or self, time, creativity, and move—you’ve needed to establish and tear down? Register HERE for April 24!

May 15 — Taking Care of Ourselves: Who cares for you as you care for others? What do you need to take care of yourself — and are you receiving it? How do you adapt when those needs change? What, if anything, do you yearn for? Register HERE for May 15!

June 5 — Caregiving in Society: What did you learn about care and caregiving from your family and community growing up? What are the formal and informal structures that you rely on to make your life work? What do you need to sustain yourself? Register HERE for June 5!

Save the date for a fun movie night complete with popcorn, candy, and drinks for sale! Doors at 6:30 and movie will start at 7. Film selection will be revealed soon so stay tuned! Space is limited so please RSVP HERE (attendance is free!)

Bring your in-progress art or crafting projects and join us for an evening of creativity and community. Enjoy sipping on a warm tea in an inviting setting as you work on your projects and make new friends! Free to join :)

Blind tasting is an important exercise for the intrepid wine drinker. By withholding the identity of a wine, your attention is focused on what is in the bottle, not what is on the label. It can be a little intimidating, but if you don't mind maybe missing the mark, it is really, really fun!

Join us as Jim guides a blind tasting of ten wines. Expect some tasting technique, a discussion of wine styles, a lot of guessing-games, and good conversation.  $40 per participant. Register here!

Spring is almost here and so is the time to clean your closet! 🌸👢👜🎒🌸🧤🧣👖🌸🧥👕👠 🌸👗🧥

We’re thrilled to host our first ✨community clothing swap✨ of the year and give all us neighbors a chance to purge what we don’t need and score some new treasures — for FREE! April 14th, 11am to 6pm.

This swap is for clothing, shoes, and purses/handbags for ALL AGES, all seasons, all sizes, all gender expressions and styles

Bring items that are in good clean wearable condition (free of stains, odors, and pet hair)! Please save stained items for textile recycling — see grownyc.org/clothing for more info! ♻️

Please be mindful of our dropoff window, Apr. 1st-8th. We’ve intentionally left some time between drop-off and the swap date (4/14) so we can sort, and organize all the goods for easy browsing!

Spread the word with the ones you love and happy swapping! 🔄✨

Join us for Palestinian Storytime! Come meet Aya Ghanameh, author & illustrator of These Olive Trees, the story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. Story reading followed by book signing and olive tree craft activity. This event is intended for children ages ~4-8, but of course all are welcome!

When: Sunday, March 3rd from 10 am –12 pm

Where: Brooklyn Artery, 1004 Cortelyou Road

Cost: $30 (includes the price of the book + donation to recently arrived family from Gaza)

Reserve your spot & your book HERE!

We’re honored and excited to announce that Reparative Reading Book Club is back at the Artery next month, brilliantly facilitated as always by @brandenjanese ❤️‍🔥

We’ll be reading Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, which is both a bestseller and a deeply important narrative for *these times* we’re living in.

Meetings will be every Wednesday evening in March, and the reading schedule is pasted below. Please note that the idea is to come to the first session having read the first chunk of the book 🤓 (but you’re always welcome to join regardless!)

AND 🌟 grab your copy from Taylor & Co Books in person or online and use the code ReparativeReading24 for a 10% discount on the book!

We’re looking forward to reading and exploring this book in community — come join us!! It’s free and you can let us know you’re coming with a quick RSVP HERE!

READING SCHEDULE:

March 6th: come (ideally) having read pages 1-86 (Hurricane Staxxx - Personhood Link)

March 13th: pages 87- 183 (Circuit - Melee)

March 20th: pages 184-278 (To Be Influenced - Balloon Archway)

March 27th: pages 279 - 378 (The Farmers Market - Loretta Thurwar)

We invite you to join us in a full moon circle on March 24th where we will  embark upon a profound exploration of divine rage—an emotion that is often obscured by shame. 

This full moon falls under the sign of Libra, the sign of relationship and beauty.  Libra is known for its pursuit of balance and harmony.  While peace is the ultimate goal for Libra, within this sign lies the potential for repressed anger, stemming from its inclination towards people-pleasing.

In this circle, we will shed light on the ways we mask our own anger and delve into the concept of Divine Rage—a formidable force that serves as a guardian, signaling our needs and delineating our boundaries. The intention is to transmute this potent energy into a catalyst for empowerment and self-realization

We invite folks to come dressed in comfortable light-colored clothing and to bring a journal as we prepare to move through various practices on our journey together.

Register soon as space is limited… click here

If you made a wine Venn diagram of Elegance, Variety, and Hipness, the overlap would be France’s Loire Valley. Europe’s longest river, lined with grand Chateaux and nature preserves, is home to famous grape varieties like sauvignon blanc, cabernet franc, and pinot noir, as well as a bunch of unique, under-the-radar ones like pineau d’Aunis and grolleau. Join Adam and Hannah as they survey and celebrate this rich trove of wine delights on Thursday March 21st from 7:00 to 8:30. Taste 6+ wines and earn $20 in Kings County Wines loyalty points with every registration.

Click HERE to sign up! :)

Join us as we learn the art of fiber jewelry making with Jessie (@the_weekend_weaver)! Come try this fun and functional craft and you’ll walk out with a handmade pair of earrings or other baubles that you can wear or give as a gift!

Your $60 registration includes:

• An interactive lesson in how to make pompom earrings, macrame feather earrings, and rainbow earrings — skills that can also be applied to other forms of jewelry as well!

• All materials for jewelry-making

• A lovely piece of jewelry you made yourself

• A fun afternoon with friends & neighbors

Come join us! Click here to RSVP soon as spots are limited :)

Want a fun, festive, and delicious plan for February 14th? Bring your date, your pal, or your fine self to an evening of wine & cheese with husband-wife team Jim Hutchinson of Kings County Wines & Chef/Owner Erika Lesser of King Mother!

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

7:00-8:30 pm

$75/person

Taste 5 wines + spirits alongside 5 specially sourced cheeses + other goodies. And back by popular demand, King Mother's legendary focaccia will be provided!!

Click HERE to register!

Join us for a fun and relaxing evening of painting and sipping with us and Caitlyn of @Lemon_Water_Studios! For this February rendition, you’ll have the option to paint either a canvas, or a wooden picture frame — either would make a beautiful addition to your own life or a special gift for a loved one!

• $35 registration fee includes all materials, one free drink, and your take-home masterpiece

• Additional drinks available for purchase by donation

• (Outside food & drinks please leave at home, thanks!)

• These fun events fill up so RSVP today!

Join us for the 4th installment of the most magical seasonal lit series, ~ The Parlor ~ as we close out our first full year with the winter edition. Black & white & tender purple are our guiding colors / mirror, ache, submit our thematic words for this upcoming night. We invite you to come out and join what’s always a deeply special time, to dress to theme if you like or just come as you are. There’ll be wintry libations for sale, and an after-party somewhere nearby. Please be ready to show some love to our amazing readers in the form of a suggested $10-20 donation which goes 100% to the writers. Who are!!:

AJ Clauss

Benin Gardner

Sydney Haas

Ife Olujobi

Emily Zhou

We hope to see you here on 2/2/24!

Join us for a festive evening as we taste around the world in 20+ glasses! Looking for a bottle to bring to dinner with your in-laws? Or do you need a gift for your hard to please boss? Maybe you need the perfect bottle of bubbles to ring in 2024. Heck - you don't even need a reason! – just come by to taste some of our favorite wines & spirits with some of our favorite representatives from Ripe Wine Imports, MFW, Domenico Valentino, and more!

Friday, December 1, 2023; two sessions available

*** Please RSVP for only one time slot ***

• 6:00-7:15pm

• 7:30-8:45pm

Your $40 registration includes:

• Taste 16+ wines and 5+ spirits

• Light snacks provided by King Mother 

• A rollicking good time!

RSVP HERE. Spots are limited so hop on in!

Please join us for the opening reception of “Sorry, I Can’t Do This Right Now (But I’m Doing it Anyway)”, an art installation by multi-disciplinary artist Sara Erenthal (@saraerenthalart ), on Nov 30th, 7-9pm at Brooklyn Artery, 1004 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn.

A few months ago the Brooklyn Artery invited Sara to exhibit her art at our Backspace this winter. Everyone was excited about the future show. Then the horrors of October 7th occurred and the world would begin to react from all perspectives. Each day’s events since have shattered Sara’s heart, leaving her wondering if this was the right time for such an undertaking. But, knowing that art is an act of protest, as well as a potential tool for healing, the only direction to go was forward — for Sara to share her work as she continues to experience it.

Join us for this special exhibition which will allow our community to witness Sara’s work during this time.

The exhibition will run through December.

Flyer by @jack.adam

We are honored to cohost (alongside Taylor & Co. Books) author Jodi M. Savage reading from her new book of essays The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind. A gorgeous book on grief, mourning, and the particular transmission (and manumission) that only black daughters and mothers experience in each other's presence. Jodi will be in conversation with poet JP Howard.

The 3rd Thing Press will be releasing an amazing new critical edition of Jean Toomer’s CANE to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the work’s publication. This gorgeous new edition comes with an oracular card deck and features original art, writing, and poetry from some of the greatest of our generation: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bettina Judd, Christina Sharpe, Doug Kearney, John Keene—just to name a few. We’re so excited to host this event alongside Taylor & Co. Books. You won’t want to miss it!

Orange, sparkling, red, pink or white. Fruity, funky, full-bodied or light. Wine is, most simply, fermented grape juice, but cultivated and crafted for over 2000 years, it displays a range of characteristics that is astonishingly rich and diverse. Join us for our first-ever KCW wine class as we try to make sense of the full palette of wine styles. Try new things, break old habits, learn a little and have a good time!

Your $30 registration includes:

• A fun, informative lesson on the many styles of wine and how to taste more confidently. Why do you like what you like? Come find out with us!

• Taste 10 different wines

• 400 Points ($20!) automatically added to your loyalty account for future store use

RSVP HERE. Spots are limited!

The New Moon in Scorpio is casting a shadow of intensity. Instead of wrestling with the dark and stormy vibes, you’re invited to embrace tranquility and self-care through A Sacred Respite.

Led by experienced guides Elle Pierre and Soleil Atiles, A Sacred Respite is a transformative communal mindfulness experience that offers a sanctuary amidst life's chaos.

A Sacred Respite is designed to help you tap into your inner well-being through five powerful healing modalities:

Meditation for inner calm, Breathwork to discover the inner healing power of your own breath, Movement to connect you to your body, Sound and Energy healing to sooth, release and transform.

The theme for November is Rain.

Join us on Monday, November 13th from 7:30-9:30pm for a supported journey toward rejuvenation and self-discovery. Serenity is on the other side – see you there!

$60 event fee goes toward the facilitators, the use of the space, & materials. We are also working to secure funding for community-sponsored spots; please reach out if you are in need of a community-funded spot.

Register here!

This month’s Movie Night took a dark turn down the wrong hiking trail….

Join us & guest host / all things horror powerhouse Adam Torkel for a super special screening of The Ranger, complete with badass indie horror sponsors, an appearance by the director (!), giveaways, drinks, popcorn, candy…. It’s a fright night you won’t forget. Come thru!!

From Somalia:

PORTAL is a writing workshop created for all writers, but specifically those who are yet to respond to the call of putting pen to paper. Come join us for an evening of imaginative tangents and judgement-free creative exploration.

As a writing coach, I will offer clarity on how to use intuitive writing as part of your spiritual practice and my personal writing guidance with the full breadth of my career and spiritual integration to date.

For those who embark on this journey on October 26th, we will begin an exploration into various writing techniques, some of which will include writing dialogue, prose and poetry. PORTAL is ultimately envisioned as a series of workshops for emerging writers, offering you a toolbox of exercises and techniques to facilitate the development of your stories and ideas.

If anything I have shared above excites you, please be brave and sign up! I look forward to meeting you.

Register here! More info about Somalia here.

Caroline Davis and The Brooklyn Artery invite activists, artists, writers, thinkers, and families to discuss incarceration and its relation to works of art. Davis' new album, Captivity, was inspired by individuals who kept the hope alive during various forms of imprisonment, and she will be sharing some of the recording for the first time. Those who attend are also invited to share their expressions of art and music that engage with incarceration, prison reform, and abolitionism. The space will then be open for conversation and future collaboration among light refreshments.