The Bushwick Open Studios & Arts Festival is taking place this weekend from the 6-8th.

Bushwick Open Studios is a self-organized art festival where anyone and everyone in the community is welcome to participate by presenting art work, organizing activities or helping to produce the event. The purpose is to create an open and inclusive event that benefits the entire community through the sharing of artistic projects and the encouragement of community interaction and dialogue. [Read more]

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I just read through the monster article The Life And Death Of Bushwick by Steven Malanga in the City Journal. I mean monster in the sense of 3600+ words but if you want the scoop on Bushwick’s history, this is a great piece. From the original settlers’ word Boswijck meaning ‘Town Of Woods’ to the Beer Baron mansions to the rioting, crack and abondoned buildings all the way to present day of the neighborhood’s revival. Malanga outlines all of it. If you’ve got a few minutes, learn your history!

This is a cool art project idea (if I do say so myself).  

“Graham Coreil-Allen will create five temporary “crosswalks” demonstrating some of the casual paths that pedestrians take when navigating various intersections in the northwest section of Bushwick. Coreil-Allen will also install interactive posters around the crosswalk sites and other locations. The posters will consist of a neighborhood map with a detail of particular intersections, and will posit this question: “How did you get here?” and “How did you cross the street?”. Each map will also include a marking pen so that passers-by may answer the questions. Coreil-Allen will periodically collect these maps and use the participants responses as plans for installing additional crosswalks.” (from the write-up on ArtCal)

Find out more at ArtCal.

(Errata 5/27/2008: Credit for the above photo belongs to Danee Voorhees Copywrite 2005)

I found this today on Time Magazine Online. Really great pictures of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy by Serbian born photographer Boogie. Visit Time to see this photo essay and hear about Boogie’s photography in his own words.

Oh yeah, and the music to the slideshow is Dr. Octagon.

Want to become a real member of the Bushwick Social Club? Come Join us on May 17th for the first Bushwick Social Club Party at the Northeast Kingdom.

Event Info:

The Bushwick Social Club is a group of people working to stimulate art, culture, music and life in the Bushwick Section of Brooklyn.

Starting May 17th, we will be putting on a monthly party at the Northeast Kingdom (18 Wyckoff Ave) on the Third Saturday of the month. We don’t really have a set format or represent for any genre or demographic. We’re really just about getting people together and having a good time.

Music will include: Electro, Hip Hop, Funk, Dance, Indie-Rock, Crunk, and whatever else keeps people doing their thing.

Bushwick resident or not, please come and join us!

The Bushwick Social Club is FREE. Please RSVP here on going, or by sending an email to:

rsvp@bushwicksocialclub.com