Saturday, May 4th: Old Stone House Spring Fling
Spring Fling Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 5:30-9:30pm $10 Show your love for the Old Stone House & Washington Park and celebrating the first anniversary of the Playground and gardens with music, face painting, a cake walk, a raffle featuring 2 nights at Nickelodeon’s Orlando resort, a mask & flag making [...]
Saturday, April 6th: 8th Annual Spring Seed Celebration & Swap
8th Annual Spring Seed Celebration & Swap Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 10am-3pm Free Join us for our annual celebration of making things grow all around the Old Stone House & Washington Park Schedule: 10am Seeding starts and transplanting seedlings 11am Seed cleaning, storage and identification (includes guess that seed, displays [...]
Thursday, February 28th: Brooklyn Reading Works: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights
Brooklyn Reading Works: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm $5 suggested donation, includes drinks and snacks New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights, curated by Rosemary Moore, brings together accomplished playwrights presenting their latest works-in-progress. Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Tuesday, January 29th: Passive House 101
Passive House 101 Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 6:30-8pm $7 at the door With Jeremy Shannon, Prospect Architecture Learn about the passive house building standard, a low energy building system. This presentation will focus on four local town house renovations and is geared toward those new to the idea of passive [...]
Thursday, January 17th: Brooklyn Reading Works: The Truth and Publishing
Brooklyn Reading Works: The Truth and Publishing Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm $5 suggested donation includes drinks and snacks A panel discussion about the future of writers, agents, editors and publishing featuring Rob Stillman, editor of Tin House; moderated by John Guidry, author of the blog, Truth and Rocket Science. [...]
Sunday, January 13th: Maker’s Meetup
Maker’s Meetup Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 4pm Free Join us for our inaugural Maker’s Meetup. Bring your current sewing/knitting project for a fun and festive 21st Century Crafts Circle. Light snacks provided. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Monday, December 17th: Community Sense Writing
Community Sense Writing Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 6:30-9:30pm Free, RSVP: madelyn@pearstudios.org or 917.702.0151 A free workshop open to writers of all levels that is meant to be an active place of reflection during this time when many overwhelming and concerning stories surround and affect our community. Emphasizing presentness and acceptance, [...]
Saturday, December 15th & Sunday, December 16th: Brooklyn Brandenburgers Annual Holiday Concert
Brooklyn Brandenburgers Annual Holiday Concert Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) Saturday: 7pm Sunday: 2pm $10 Join us for our beloved annual family holiday season concert by The Brooklyn Brandenburgers with music by Albinoni, Bach, Chasnoff, Doppler, Dvojak, Gershwin and Scarlatti. Click here for more cheap New York City events & things [...]
Saturday, December 1st: Brooklyn Holiday Book Fair + Reading of ‘Gift of the Magi’
Brooklyn Holiday Book Fair Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) Noon-6pm Free Reading of the First Edition of the Gift of the Magi at 4:30 pm Rare, vintage and out-of-print books from independent booksellers from all over Brooklyn. Antiquarian maps, prints and ephemera. Get to know emerging local booksellers, jump-start your holiday [...]
Thursday, November 15th: Writing War: Fiction and Memoir by Vets
Writing War: Fiction and Memoir by Vets Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8-10pm $5 suggested donation, includes drinks and snacks Curated by The New York Times’ Peter Catapano with Antony Swofford, author of Jarhead and other writers. Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Saturday, November 10th: Permaculture Festival + The Great Pumpkin Smash
Permaculture Festival + The Great Pumpkin Smash Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 10am-3pm $10 PERMACULTURE FESTIVAL! Indoors at the Old Stone House: music. food. barter. environmental education. community. Outdoors: compost training, herbal studies, mud plasters, stone setting, saw skills & more. THE GREAT PUMPKIN SMASH Learn about compost, gardening and other [...]
Thursday, November 8th: Musical Ecologies – An Evening with Miya Masaoka
Musical Ecologies – An Evening with Miya Masaoka Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8-10pm Suggested donation Miya Masaoka — musician, composer, sound artist — has created works for koto and electronics, Laser Koto, field recordings, laptop, video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she [...]
Thursday, October 11th: Musical Ecologies: ‘On Foot, Brooklyn’
Musical Ecologies Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm Suggested donation This first Musical Ecologies event features Brooklyn-based composer Craig Shepard in an evening of music, images and conversation drawn from his work “On Foot: Brooklyn,” a 91-day 780-mile trek in New York City during which Shepard composed a new piece each [...]
Saturday, October 6th: Kings County Fiber Festival
Kings County Fiber Festival Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 10am-6pm Free Join us on Columbus Day weekend for the first annual Kings County Fiber Festival where crocheters, dyers, felters, knitters, quilters, spinners, and weavers will come together to celebrates historic and contemporary approaches to the fiber arts. Click here for more [...]
Saturday, September 8th: Brooklyn Bike Jumble Flea Market
Brooklyn Bike Jumble Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 10am-4pm Free Click here for more information. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Thursdays & Fridays Through July 20th: Free ‘Xanadu’ Performances
Xanadu Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm Free Piper Theatre brings the unrestrained fun and fashions of the 1970s to the Old Stone House this July, as we proudly present the Brooklyn premiere of “Xanadu,” the musical comedy adapted from the 1980 cult classic film starring Olivia Newton-John. Book by Douglas [...]
Tuesday, June 19th: Making Public Space Planning Public
Making Public Space Planning Public Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 7-9pm Free A discussion and skill-share about community involvement in park design *Learn successful examples of participatory public space design* *Learn about the role of artists in shaping public parks* *Learn how YOU can design/improve a public space in your community* [...]
Saturday, May 19th: Brooklyn Bike Jumble Bicycle Flea Market
Brooklyn Bike Jumble Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 10am-4pm Free admission Come join us for the 4th annual Spring Brooklyn Bike Jumble at the Old Stone House in Washington Park – Park Slope, Brooklyn. The park will be filled with vendors selling used bikes, new and used bike accesories as well [...]
Saturday, May 19th: Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space/Play Space
12pm: Eminent Domain Bike Tour with Bettina Johae 5-10pm: Interactive Games with Gigantic Mechanic 5-7pm: Augmented Reality Workshop with Will Pappenheimer Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space at Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) brings together 19 artists and arts groups to consider the history, politics, and planning surrounding public parks and [...]
Saturday, April 28th: Brooklyn Utopias: Skygazing, New Football & Public Murals
Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 5pm Free Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space brings together 19 artists and arts groups to consider the history, politics, and planning surrounding public parks and recreation spaces in Brooklyn and beyond. Exhibiting artists tackle issues such as parks’ relationship [...]
Saturday, April 21st: New York Permaculture Exchange’s Seed Celebration
Seed Celebration Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 11am-3pm Free Seed saving, trading & sales. Hands-on garden education. Seeds, information, demonstrations, games & more.
Tuesday, April 17th: Riverkeeper: How’s the Water? How’s the Gowanus?
Riverkeeper: How’s the Water? How’s the Gowanus? Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 7-9pm Free Join Riverkeeper and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy for a presentation on water quality in the Hudson River Estuary and its tributaries, focusing on the waters around Manhattan Island and in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek. For [...]
Thursday, February 16th: Brooklyn Reading Works: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights
Brooklyn Reading Works: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8-10pm $5 suggested New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights, curated by Rosemary Moore, brings together five accomplished playwrights – Trish Harnetiaux, Marian Fontana & Leah Gray Mitchell, Karen Hartman and Joseph Goodrich — presenting their latest works-in-progress. Suggested donation [...]
Monday, December 12th: ‘The Gowanus Canal Anthology’: A Reading
The Gowanus Canal Anthology: A Reading Old Stone House (5th Ave. & 3rd St., Brooklyn) 7-10pm $5 suggested donation includes drinks & snacks Written by Donnaldson Brown Directed by Welker White
