SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20th – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21st
11am to 5pm

Presented by Beam Camp, the Brooklyn Inventgenuity Festival brings kids and their parents together with artists and big thinkers in a full weekend of hands-on making and building workshops and demonstrations. Girls and boys aged 6-17 and their parents can make amazing things out of electricity, fabric, wood, dirt, food and other materials, join in a signature Beam Camp Project, set individual and group World Records and learn the art of fixing common household objects.

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The weekend will be jam-packed with a tremendous range of projects taught by some of New York City’s most imaginative and resourceful minds. Scheduled presenters and workshops include the Fixers Collective, Steve Gerberich’s Flap-Pet Shop, Art Bots by Christian Cerrito, and hydroponic agriculture, presented by Brooklyn Farms.

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Recession Art is a new arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving middle-income art lovers and collectors an opportunity to buy original work at reasonable prices. We believe that in spite of hard economic times, artists and art lovers don’t have to put their passions on hold! We aim to break the traditional gallery model and make exposing, purchasing, and enjoying art more accessible for people who have been hit by the recession. We believe that we can start our own art stimulus plan today!

Recession Art – No Money No Problems
October 3rd – 10th, 2009
Weekdays Noon to 10pm
Weekends Noon to Midnight

http://recessionartshows.com/

copyright – 2009, Martine Fougeron

Martine Fougeron explored the building at 51 bergen street and through her pictures shows us what she felt and what she “smelled”.

www.martinefougeron.com