Dumbo NYC

1) Digital DUMBO #18 “Get Your Job On”

What: Digital DUMBO #18 “Get Your Job On”
When: Jul 29, 2010, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: The Dumbo Loft, 155 Water St, Brooklyn, NY

Month after month, the newspapers report shrinking job numbers. However, fueled by the digital economy, the DUMBO area of Brooklyn continues to grow. Why? Because there are hundreds of companies in the Digital District that are providing services that matter in the new economy. And the good news is….THEY ARE HIRING.

Attend the Digital DUMBO event at The Dumbo Loft on July 29th from 6:30 – 8:30 and have the chance to meet decision makers from some of the industries hottest media and technologies companies. At the event, you can find out more about hiring at HUGE, Pontiflex, The JAR Group, Carrot Creative, and DealNews.com, among many other companies. These companies are working with some of the world’s most recognizable brands from Ford, Disney, PepsiCo, ASPCA, Tommy Hilfiger, Heinz and many others.

This will be a great chance to meet hiring managers and learn about opportunities over casual drinks!

Note: You don’t need to be actively persuing a new career to attend. The event, as usual, is open to everyone and will be in the typical Digital DUMBO format.

2) Media Circus:The Year in Hyperlocal

What: Media Circus: The Year in Hyperlocal
When: Thursday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: JLA Studios, 63 Pearl St (between Water and Front St.), Brooklyn, NY 11201

Join Gelf for a frank discussion of the pitfalls and prospects of hyperlocal featuring Mark Potts, a hyperlocal pioneer and CEO of Growthspur (interview here) and Jake Dobkin, publisher of Gothamist and well-known rabble-rouser (an interview from Dobkin’s last appearance available here), as we once again view the past and future growth of the field through the eyes of the people who are driving it.

3) Movies With A View

What: Movies With A View: Rear Window
When: Jul 29, 2010, 6:00pm – 11:00pm (Films at sundown; DJs at 6:00)
Where: Pier 1 section of Brooklyn Bridge Park

“Come down to the park to enjoy the city’s premiere (free!) outdoor film series with an eclectic line-up of films and breathtaking views of the NYC waterfront.”

DUMBO Fight Night will return to The Archway on Wednesday, July 14th at 7pm. The proceeds of this outdoor, boxing show will be contributed to the DUMBO BID, to support future Archway programming. For those who were unable to go last year, DUMBO Fight Night features USA Boxing Metro sanctioned matches with Gleason’s Gym, and music provided by halcyon the shop. Please support the DUMBO BID and the 2010-11 FREE Archway programming by purchasing tickets or sponsoring the event:

$50 ringside tickets and $25 general admission tickets can be purchased online.

See www.dumbonyc.org for more.

{Dumbo Fight Night 2009}
{Dumbo Fight Night 2008}
{Dumbo Fight Night 2007}

On Sunday, July 11th, the Dumbo Improvement District shows the Final match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup:

1:30PM – Netherlands v. Spain
(listed time is when television coverage of the game begins, game time is one hour later)

So, celebrate the final World Cup game of 2010 with fellow soccer enthusiasts in The Archway, under the Manhattan Bridge! Halftime tunes selected by halcyon the shop. Also, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join soccer fans to view the event.

This weekend, Time Warner Cable’s Ice Cream Truck will be at the event serving cups and cones for the suggested donation of $1, with 100% of the proceeds being donated to local museums.

Afterwards, head over to the Celebrate Brooklyn! concert in Prospect Park. Gates open at 3PM, with the show starting at 4PM with headliners OkayAfrica with the Roots and Talib Kweli.

Also, join the Dumbo Parents Organization from 4-5:30pm as part of the organization’s FREE Summer Series. Jane Walentas has generously offered to open the carousel for rides for neighborhood families.

(Photo by Josh Derr)

On Saturday, July 10, the Brooklyn Bodega presents the 6th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival where Old School, New School, Funk, Soul, Local, and International artists will converge upon downtown Brooklyn and the waterfront for a full day of the best Hip-Hop music our culture has to offer. The event begins with Family Day, a family centered block party, where Brooklyn Bodega hopes to spread a message of peace and unity while celebrating the central themes of Hip-Hop. Come out and celebrate with the Bodega Fam, enjoying all-day activities such as blow-up bowling, arts and crafts, face painting, poetry writing, DJing lessons, a community mural, yoga for kids, a graffiti workshop, a children’s dance party, give aways and more! After enjoying time with the family, come over to The 6th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival’s performance stage! De La Soul will be headlining the event and other artists include Black Milk, Masta Ace, Diamond District, Money Making Jam Boys, Curren$y, Fashawn, Skyzoo and the Duck Down Records 15th Anniversary celebration featuring Buckshot, 5FT, Smif N Wessun and DJ Evil Dee. For more information on this event and other events of the week, please visit bkhiphopfestival.com, brooklynbodega.com, or call 718-210-3340.

All ages

What: The 6th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival
When: Saturday July 10th. 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Where: The Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and Tobacco Warehouse 26 Dock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tickets (includes admission to family and performance day): $15.00
Online: brooklynbodega.showclix.com
Phone: 1-888-71-tickets
In-Person (cash only): Fat Beats Records, 406 6th Ave (between 8th & 9th street), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011

Syfy presents Brooklyn Bridge Park’s 11th Anniversary Season of Movies With A View summer 2010, this year on the newly opened Pier 1. The first one begins tomorrow, Thursday, July 8. The full schedule is below. Ditch Plains will sell prepared meals from the Pier 1 Gatehouse on Thursday nights for Movies with a View, and will be open full-time later in July.

Note: Movies start at dusk. Chairs are not permitted on the lawns and alcohol and glass bottles are not permitted in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Thursday, July 8
Feature Film: Annie Hall (PG) 1977, 93 min
Short: Abbie Cancelled by Dumb Bunny
DJ: Ursula 1000

Thursday, July 15
Feature Film: Monsters vs. Aliens presented in 3D (PG) –2009, 94 min
(no short this night)
DJ: DJ Lupe Loop

Thursday, July 22
Feature Film: The Big Lebowski (R) – 1998, 117 min
Short: Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No by Christopher Isenberg
DJ: Cosmo Baker

Thursday, July 29
Feature Film: Rear Window (PG) – 1954, 112 min
Short: Sketches from Great Gull by Nicholas Laviola
DJ: DJ DRM

Thursday, August 5
Feature Film: Brokeback Mountain (R) – 2005, 134 min
Short: Last Address by Ira Sachs
DJ: Soulstatic

Thursday, August 12
Feature Film: Dreamgirls (PG 13) – 2006, 130 min
Short: S From Hell by Rodney Ascher
DJ: DJ Conquerrah

Thursday, August 19
Feature Film: The Blues Brothers (R) – 1980, 133 min
Short: Mr. Okra by T.G. Herrington
DJ: Soulstatic

Thursday, August 26
Feature Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PG 13) – 1989, 127 min
Short: Jerrycan by Julius Avery
DJ: DJ Emch

Thursday, September 2
Feature Film: Public Vote! Check back at brooklynbridgepark.org for details.

1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk is tonight. A few other events in the neighborhood:

1)
Gelf’s Varsity Letters sports reading series returns tonight, July 1, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Hyman, Elias Altman, and Will Leitch will read from and talk about their work. Hyman will examine youth sports and their dangers. Altman will bring stories from the latest, sports-themed issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. And Leitch will discuss father-son relationships around baseball.

Doors open at 7:00.
Event starts at 7:30. FREE!

Visit reBar, around the corner, afterward; attendees of Varsity Letters and other Gelf events get discounts on food and drink.

2)

Digital DUMBO #17 IWNY Wrap Up
July 1, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm

Did you miss out on Internet Week NY? Or maybe you had so much fun networking and crashing parties that you want to re-live it all over again?

Join us for a summary & wrap party Digital DUMBO style where we will showcase some of the work done for the event by Dumbo’s finest. We’re heading back to Galapagos and we hope to see you there to toast to another Internet Week NY event gone by!

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

ART ATTACK, a ‘guerilla display of art’ is featuring Orianne Cosentino’s Moving Violation on July 1, 2010 (6-10pm). For one night only, a truck transformed into a gallery space will be parked in Dumbo near Rabbit Hole Studios (33 Washington Street). Info on Moving Violation:

MOVING VIOLATION, a selection of paintings from the series QUOTA, shows the progression from abstract canvases to strikingly concrete corners of the city. Light and movement are key elements of the works as are the actual sheets of the familiar bright orange violation paper. As the siege of the city has also transformed, the coffers still regularly reinforced with the dollars of the hard-working folks, the relevance of this series continues.

As an art student during the mid-90’s in NYC, Orianne spotted her first discarded parking ticket strewn on the ground near 23rd street on the eastside. Finding it a compelling piece of urban design, she decided to keep an eye cast downward as she maneuvered the city to see how many more she could find. The collection grew rapidly, and still does, though they are never taken off cars nor acquired illegally in any way. It is incredible how many of these garish and obvious shards of paper there are littering the streets and, ironically, the collection was sparked just as Mayor Giuliani began his obsession with cleaning up the city. Some tickets are reclaimed in frustrated pieces, others waterlogged, many still in a pristine condition. Certain gems were written upon, with insults and messages to those bearing the bad news. In their found state, they are incorporated onto the canvases as both overt and subtle elements.

First Thursday on Thursday, July 1st from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A chance to visit many quality galleries at night in the Dumbo Historic District – galleries showing works from artists of many disciplines, especially photography, while hosting receptions, producing live music performances and curator/artist talks among other highlights.

Let’s not forget the incredible views you can enjoy as you walk from one gallery to the next and the local drink specials afterward. Most of the art is for sale. Printed maps and 1st Thursday cards are available on-site.

Participating galleries may vary each month. For more information contact Zannah Mass at zannah@twotrees-dumbo.com or 718-222-2500 x38.

This month’s highlights include: An art-making event entitled Art at Dusk at Art in General for the final night of Kambui Olujimi’s Wayward North, a special reception for the annual postcard show Wish You Were Here at A.I.R. Gallery, the group show of new members at Amos Eno gallery entitled Crossroads/ Seven Act, and Mario Tama’s photographic exhibition Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgence (at Umbrage Gallery), which explores the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the on-going recovery in the city.

Check gallery websites for updates.
A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 228
Amos Eno Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 202
Bose Pacia, 163 Plymouth St.
Brooklyn Arts Council, 111 Front St., Suite 218
Caption Gallery, 55 Washington St., Suite 802
Cave Canem, 20 Jay St.
Central Booking, 111 Front St., Suite 214
Collective Consciousness NYC, 10 Jay St.
DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington St.
Farmani Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 212
Giacobetti Paul Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 220
Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 226
Klompching Gallery, 111 Front St.
Kris Graves Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 224
Magasin Totale, 10 Jay St., Suite 724
Melville House, 145 Plymouth St.
Mighty Tanaka Gallery, 68 Jay St., Suite 416
NY Studio Residency Program, 20 Jay St.
One Arm Red, 10 Jay St.
Powerhouse Books & Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St.
Pratt Institute Photo Seniors, 20 Jay St.
Rabbithole Studio, 33 Washington St.
Randall Scott Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 204
Smack Mellon, 93 Plymouth St. @ Washington Street
Spring, 126a Front St.
Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front St.
VII Photo, 28 Jay St.

The Brooklyn Heights Association joins with ISSUE Project Room to celebrate Walt Whitman as part of their Centennial Celebration.

A Special Evening of Music and Poetry in Brooklyn Bridge Park include a special outdoor performance, “I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn” and bands including Wingdale Community Singers, Christy and Emily, Prince Rama, and others.

When: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 5pm – midnight
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn (Rain Location: The Tobacco Warehouse)

The event is FREE. For more info, go to www.thebha.org

Wall Street Journal also mentions the BHA event.

Saturday: Walking around this morning, we saw a CNN broadcast truck parked next to the Archway in Dumbo. We asked around and confirmed with the Dumbo BID that they are in fact doing a live broadcast from Dumbo for the World Cup 2010, USA vs Ghana game. The first live feed is at 12:03 on CNN International and 12:10 on CNN domestic. CNN’s senior U.N. correspondent, Richard Roth will be covering the event and may be interviewing fans. Come out early to watch the game, show your support for your team, and show the world how Dumbo celebrates.

Also, the Brazilian network SBT will be filming fans in Dumbo during the game. (Any Portugese speaking fans in the area?)

{CNN World Cup page}