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FREE Recurring Events in Brooklyn:
Office of the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office (209 Joralemon St.): Mon.Fri., All day Score NYC Small Business Mentoring Office of the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office (209 Joralemon St.): Mon.Thurs., 9:30am-4:00pm Constituent Assistance Center Walk-In Brooklyn Bridge Park (Fornino at Pier 6) Tues. nights, 7:00pm NYRR (New York Road Runners) Van Dyke Community Center (392 Blake Ave.): Fridays, 2:00-3:00pm FREE Zumba for all HealthFirst members Tuesdays until June 30 7:00-9:00pm Ronald K. Brown Community Dance Class All dance levels are welcome to this community dance class with Ronald K. Brown at the Billie Holiday Theatre. Classes begin center floor with an emphasis on alignment, rhythm and using the body to express ideas and themes; strength, prayer, and celebration. Restoration Plaza. 1368 Fulton
Street. $15. Now Until June 13 4:00pm DanceAfrica at Weeksville Weekends Experience the magic of DanceAfrica at these free community workshops on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Led by BAM teaching artists Kimani Fowlin and Farai Malianga, classes will focus on a variety of dances, songs, and traditions from Africa and the diaspora. Weeksville Heritage Center. 158 Buffalo Avenue. FREE. March 5-21 7:30pm Irondale’s On Women Festival Irondale, Brooklyn’s leading theatrical ensemble producing immersive and non-traditional performance, will present the On Women Festival, a three-week theater festival that places the feminine perspective in the spotlight. With two mainstage productions, To Moscow! A Palimpsest and Night Shadows - Or, One Hundred Million Voices Shouting, and two works-in-progress, En-
gland’s Splendid Daughters and The Fainting Room, coupled with educational workshops and a special performance by the Young New Yorker’s Women’s Ensemble, the festival highlights Irondale’s mission to present relevant and reflective works while tackling current issues facing the community. 85 South Oxford Street. $20-$80. March 5-8 Tecknopolis Transform the world around you at this interactive technology showcase. Create a living painting, play a rock concert using only household objects, and fly through a surreal dreamscape. Today’s leading digital artists use virtual reality, augmented reality, projection mapping, and other innovative tools to create multisensory installations that are only fully realized through your participation. BAM. 321 Ashland Pl. $18-$45.
America’s indie pop scene, performs from his album Latinoamericana, after Brooklyn’s “dreambow” pioneers Balún kick off the night. BRIC. 647 Fulton Street. $15-$18. March 5 3:00-7:30pm Pop-Up Library: Xu Bing Brooklyn Public Library drops by with a special selection of books from their collection, inspired by One: Xu Bing. Chat with a librarian and learn more about the themes of the exhibition: experiences of immigration and living between two cultures; Chinese American identities; the Brooklyn waterfront; the complex legacy of Walt Whitman; the visual nature of language; and the many ways artists communicate across time and space. Brooklyn Museum. 200 Eastern Parkway. FREE with Museum admission.
March 7 5:00-11:00pm First Saturdays: Geography of Gender Join for engaging and eclectic free art and entertainment every month. This month will feature feminist art, performancMarch 5 8:00pm es by Thelma, Brown Girls Alex Anwandter Alex Anwandter, aT:10"Burlesque, a Night Market leading voice in South to support local women,
hands-on art, music from the African diaspora, and much more. Brooklyn Museum. 200 Eastern Parkway. FREE to attend. March 7 12:00pm Encore: A Midsummer Night’s Dream The course of true love never did run smooth. A feuding fair king and queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway loves and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives—leading to love triangles, mistaken identities, and transformations, with hilarious but dark consequences. BAM. 30 Lafayette Ave. $28. March 8 10:30-4:00pm Container Gardening on Rooftops, Terraces, and Balconies Want to start a rooftop garden or care for an existing one? This workshop will give you the tools to get going! Learn about technical aspects like irrigation and container materials as well as soil, suitable plants, design, and proper care. (Note: This workshop covers gardens but not green roof systems.) BBG. 990 Wash-
ington Ave. $121. March 8 2:00-4:00pm Neotropical Hues: Dyeing with Quebracho, Fustic, and Annatto Explore some of the vibrant colors from plants of the neotropics like quebracho, fustic, and annatto that create a range of pink, golden, and orange hues, and discover the history and basics of dyeing fiber with plants. Each participant will receive three silk scarves and a natural dyes manuscript. BBG. 990 Washington Ave. $54. March 9 6:30pm When Pregnancy is a Death Sentence: Race and Reproductive Healthcare Join author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth Dana Davis as she moderates a panel with Chanel Porchia-Albert of Ancient Song Doula Services, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens, and Assistant Commissioner of NYC’s Health Department Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Deborah Kaplan about racial inequality in maternal healthcare. BHS. 128 Pierrepont Street. $10.
Our new health care providers are here for you. The whole you. At AdvantageCare Physicians, we believe in caring for the whole you. Meet three new associates who are ready to do just that. Join us.
Dr. Angel Gonzalez Internal Medicine
Dr. Richard Holmes Internal Medicine
Dr. Haitham Ahmed Cardiologist
Dr. Gonzalez is a jazz aficionado and loves spending his free time attending concerts. He believes showing patients that doctors are listening is the basis for building a successful care plan.
Dr. Holmes loves staying fit, stand-up comedy, and family time. He makes sure his patients feel comfortable. He says listening and communicating lead to the best health results.
Dr. Ahmed lives for coffee, playing soccer, and traveling. He really wants patients to understand the importance of a healthy heart—“an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
CARING FOR THE WHOLE YOU.
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