Bluegrass BBQ Pics are up!

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3rd Ward Member Jade Townsend in Wired Magazine!

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Brooklyn's Urban Beekeepers: "Watch Out Ladies" Honey Harvest

Brooklyn's Urban Beekeepers: "Watch Out Ladies" Honey Harvest from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

Vote for TA-RA-RA-RA!

It's Advertising Week in New York and you know what that means! -  “Battle of the AdBands,” featuring the rock stylings and skills from various agencies.

This year, our friend Liz formed the band Ta-Ra-Ra-Ra!, a mash-up of Project Management Mastery, Production Power, and Designer Drums.

Vote um up here! 

There is no limit to the number of votes you can cast. Contest ends September 7th.

Antistrot in 3rd Ward Magazine

David Elshout, Charlie Dronkers and Johan Kleinjan of Antistrot sat down with Ben Zoltowski to talk B-movies, gonzo porn and the Situationist movement of the 1960's to which they seem (to us, at least) so directly in line with.  Val Kilmer inevitably comes up too.

Grab one of our magazines to check it out, or click here to download a copy.

3rd Ward Fall Magazine Hot Off the Press: Over 100 Unique Classes!

3rd Ward's free fall magazine is hot off the press! Click here to download a copy.  In addition to articles from local writers on art, culture & fashion, this issue ushers in some exciting news:

• We just announced the launch of our 2nd Williamsburg location at 573 Metropolitan Avenue (on the corner of Lorimer Street).
  
  
• Our education program has quadrupled (!) and now includes classes in Art & Ideas, Circuitry, Craft, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting & Printing, Jewlery, Labooratorio de Cumputacio Enspañol, Multimedia: Video/Audio, Photography, Professional Development, Web Design, Welding & Sculpture, Woodworking and Writing!
  
  
• We're still offering the greatest deal known to Brooklyn, when you sign up for any annual 3rd Ward membership, you get a FREE bike!
  
  
• This fall we're hosting Nonsense NYC's 10th Anniversary Art Show, The 5th Annual Last Supper Festival and SCORE!, New York City's best pop-up swap!

Pick one up at 3rd Ward or anywhere in Brooklyn or Lower Manhattan.

Domestic Labor Dinner (Last Supper Fundraiser)

Domestic Labor Dinner (Last Supper Fundraiser), August 29 at 26x3 Art Space (Everard Findlay, 26 Broadway, Williamsburg Brooklyn)

Join the folks from the The Last Supper for a celebration of simple pleasures and simple measures: the fruits and labors of local artists, farmers, craftspeople, musicians and djs, filmmakers, and writers. The Last Supper presents the following two-part fundraiser/evening: Domestic Labor Dinner and Dance Hoedown. Brought to you by Coralina Meyer and Alicia Blegen, this farm fresh dinner party is so local, it's home! Lila Dobbs, of Brooklyn Sour and Brooklyn Film Collective, will prepare a simple harvest feast using the freshest ingredients from local farmers and purveyors.

Homemade Menu: bathtub gin, rhubarb honey vodka sourdough toast cornmeal drop biscuits butter beans with bacon and rosemary spicy tomato jam cucumber kefir soup corn with brown butter and thyme roasted fingerling potatoes market salad with roasted tomatoes peaches with ricotta, honey and thyme buttermilk and brown sugar pound cake cocoa molasses toffee

*Menu subject to change without notice due to market availability. Allergies and dietary restrictions can be accommodated with advance notice. To request substitutions, please contact Alicia: arblegen@gmail.com.

Plus- throughout the evening:

*learn how to make preserves
*screenprint t-shirts or napkins
*bob for apples
*enjoy handmade pieces by local artists
*get to know your neighbors.
Taste, Touch, See, Smell, Hear

What: 4 course dinner + drinks
When: Saturday, August 29, 6pm
Where: 26x3 Everard Findlay Brooklyn
Cost: Dinner Tickets (including dance party) $45 Buy Tickets
Details: Domestic Labor Dinner / Fundraiser
Volunteer, Support, or Participate, contact: lambastic@gmail.com

Brooklyn Urban Beekeepers: Breaking the Law for the Planet

Brooklyn's Urban Beekeepers: Breaking The Law For The Planet (Part I) from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

The Feast Workshop: Work Life vs Life's Work, Tomorrow

The Feast Workshop, August 7, 9 a to 4:30 p, MEET at the Apartment, 101 Crosby Street

Two words: hands on.

For those who want to roll up their sleeves, and turn their learning and inspiration into application and action. Come learn about how to find the perfect career, learn how to get lost, how you're a racist, build better brands and overcome your fears. By signing up for a workshop, you'll have access to an all day playground with others looking to change the world. Plop down and knock out some work in the co-working space, collaborate, and have fun!

Register here!

Workshop hosts include:

How to Buck the System and Change the World, Doing What you Love Hosted by Stephanie Redlener, Head of Strategic Talent at The Talent Business  

How to Agree to Be Offended Hosted by Kyra D. Gaunt, 2009 Ted Fellow

How to be Fearless in a Fearful World and Embrace What Scares You Hosted by Ishita Gupta, Co-Founder of fear.less & Clay Hebert, President of Tribes Win

Way of Seeing: Instructions for Getting Lost Hosted by Liz Danzico, School of Visual Arts

Brand-Building a Better World Hosted by Benita Singh, BBMG

Biking Rules PSA Competition: $4,000 Grand Prize!

Media Makers!

Our friends at Transportation Alternatives, NYC's leading advocates for Cycling Announces the Biking Rules PSA Competition! Submit PSAs (moving or still) with creative messages to empower cyclists with the Rules of the Road or Why Biking Rules!

Grand Prize is $4000 cash and other prizes include a free Kona Bike, a consumer camera, and tons of cycling gear! PSAs should be between 30 seconds and 4 minute and the deadline is August 31, 2009.

Go to www.bikingrules.org/psa to submit and learn more.