Every year you hit the same problem: what to buy absolutely anyone for Christmas. Video games, perfumes, books - it's all the same to you. You don't know a lick about their newfangled PS 360's, find vanilla undertones and vanilla wafers indistinguishable, and you're fairly certain a Bernard Shaw is a sandwich at Dean & Deluca. Don't think you're doomed to a department store sweater, though, we have the answe...
Coworking is a bit of a pet obsession of mine, for really no reason at all. There are lots and lots of neat new spaces popping up all around Brooklyn and the city -- a pretty inclusive list of which you can see here -- but we've been lucky enough to get the know the folks at a couple of them that are equally awesome. If you're in the market for some desk space that's not in your apartment or a cof...
We have three one-night (and very different!) events coming up in November. Check out the course pages for registration info and all the other relevant details!
*The Life of Che Guevara - Tuesday, 11/9, 7:30 p.m.
I bet you can guess the subject of this one - it'll be lecture and discussion style with Mickey Fuertes.
*Holiday Cooking Workshop - Tuesday, 11/16, 7:45 p.m.
With presenta...
Huge, huge thanks to our awesome presenters at last night's workshop!
First, we totally stuffed ourselves on 50 million varieties of savory tarts from Emily Beebe. Seriously, there were so many, and they were so good, like this beet and goat cheese variety. If I had to choose one though, it would be the caldo verde - a take on Portuguese kale soup - with plenty of sausage, potatoes, and kale. Amaz...
In case you missed that big old "gift certificate" button over on the sidebar, we're really excited to have gift certificates available! Just click on the button below and Paypal will take care the rest, including sending a nice little email to the person you're buying it for. They can use it for any class we offer, anytime they want.
The basics:
* $5 minimum
* no expiration (but no refunds eith...
More random knowledge gleaned during the last couple weeks of classes:
Beekeeping - First week we covered the anatomy of bees and the social structure of the hive. In the process, we learned approximately 65 million interesting things, but I'll keep it to just a couple of my favorite facts. You can gather way more from Tim at Borough Bees, his blog.
*In the summer, workers (the sterile females who, as yo...
It's rainy, it's freezing, and it gets dark at 7, so there's really no reason not to come to our lamp making workshop tonight (October 4).
We've had a couple spots open up for tonight's class, so shoot us an email if you want one! You'll learn about lighting design while creating your own hanging lamp to take home at the end of the night, and it's just $25.
Read more about the workshop over here!
We've got some new classes starting tonight and next week (lots of food, and bees too, for good measure), but in the meantime, here're some random fun things we've learned over the past couple of weeks in Knife Skills, Pseudoscience, and Astronomy.
Emily's lead a couple of one-night knife skills workshops over the past couple of weeks, and if there's one lesson to be learned about knives, it's that they shou...
Our next semester starts Monday (with a knife skills workshop!) and we're pretty excited about all the awesome classes coming up (and their equally awesome teachers) over the next month.
Things are mostly full for this semester, but If you want to hear whether any spots open up, follow us over on twitter (@bkbrains) or check us out on Facebook. You can always email us too if you want to be place...
So if you're out there and you're looking at this in the first place, you're probably already interested in informal education in our lovely Brooklyn.
And you probably know all about the Brooklyn Skillshare, and you're probably planning on going, cause it's a really good time with lots of really good people.
If that's the case, then you should absolutely make your donation in advance (only $10!) throug...
