When we started Brooklyn Creative League, we set out to create a company that embodied our conviction that we’re all better off when we’re all better off. We’ve spent the past three years building an organization whose economic value was rooted in community, collaboration, and mutual benefit. Now that we’re out of the start-up phase, it’s time to start giving back to the broader community: Beginning in 2012, we will allocate 5% of BCL’s profits to nonprofits and mission-driven investing in the areas of human rights, LGBT rights, direct service, and social investing. We’ve also set aside $2,000 to mach donations from BCL members. Read the announcement letter from BCL members here.
January 3rd, 2012
We hired BCL member StoryKeep to produce an audio slideshow about Brooklyn Creative League. StoryKeep did a great job of telling our story and capturing what we’re all about. (For real, people: You should check out StoryKeep’s work. They do an amazing job of helping families, small businesses, and individuals tell the stories that matter most.) Dig it:
September 22nd, 2011
The Gallery@BCL is please to announce the opening of NEW MESSAGES: An Exhibit of Four Artists. Please join on Saturday, October 1, 6-8pm, for the opening featuring the work of Areta Buk, Henrietta Mantooth, Erica Harris, and Shannon Holman. The reception will be held in the 3rd Floor Lounge. The work will be up through the Fall.
September 20th, 2011
The Gallery@BCL is pleased to present recent photographs by Sean Eno. Working with multiple images, Eno’s photographs refract and reflect the industrial and the ethereal, setting buildings, boats, and bridges afloat in a reflecting pool of clouds and sky. The resulting images achieve an almost Taoist balance.
Curated by  Frank Sills and Faith Evans-Sills, TheGallery@BCL is a way for Brooklyn Creative League to showcase the work of local artists, and to make original art more accessible and affordable to all. For more info on purchasing work or showing at TheGallery@BCL, please contact us at info [at] brooklyncreativeleague.com.
February 7th, 2011
Santa’s Superfun(d) Holiday Party: The Gowanus Holiday Party. Mark your calendars, people:  Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:00pm, Littlefield Performance + Art Space.
BCL has joined up with Overflow Magazine and Brooklyn Craft Central (aka, BCL’s own Deb Klein) to throw the neighborhood a proper holiday bash. It’s gonna be huge: DJ, holiday-themed burlesque, drink specials, local food vendors, and general mirth and merriment. We’re also having a charity raffle to benefit CHIPS, the local soup kitchen and women’s shelter. Tickets are just $6 if you buy early ($8 at the door). See www.santassuperfund.com for ticket info and event details.
November 22nd, 2010
Grab your homemade pickles and cookies, people, and head on down to BCL on October 27th at 7:00pm. Here’s the drill, you bring:
1. Larder goods you made (those jams, pickles, kimchi, preserves, butters, chutneys you’ve compulsively canned over the summer)
2. A homemade (i.e. wrapped) food unit for trade (think a bag of crackers, batch of outta-this-world cookies, a loaf of bread, dried foods, ummm…whatevs, just so long as you made it)
OR
3. A snack for 20-30 people to share at the swap. It doesn’t have to feed everyone, but cutting larger things up in advance is a good idea.
Remember, there’ll be two separate features of the party on Oct 27, feel free to participate in one or both:
1. SWAPPING goods we made (pickles, loaves of bread, jams, chutneys, biscuits, bags of granola, etc.) All trade items are considered equal (food swap equal rights manifesto!) so please don’t bring anything you deem worth more, etc.
2. SAMPLING goods we made and brought to share at the party
RSVP: http://bkswappers.eventbrite.com
October 12th, 2010
Join us for a conversation on the sustainable food system as a metaphor for our lives. Ana Joanes, director of FRESH, will explore how, as we explore the meaning of the word “sustainability,” we begin to develop a vision of a complex web of life where each element — soil, water, worms, animals, wind, trees, insects, etc — has a place and a role. Joel Salatin explains in FRESH that chicken should be allowed to express their chicken-ness, pig their pig-ness, cow their cow-ness.  And, he adds “when you do that, everything else falls into place.†Following this model also brings a radical perspective on our own lives.  As we come to see ourselves as part of this incredible web, we can realize the power and impact of expressing our individual voice and celebrating our uniqueness.
$5 suggested donation. Doors at 6:30, talk starts promptly at 7:00. Limited seating, please RSVP to Lisa{at]FRESHthemovie.com
July 26th, 2010
Once again, BCL is a proud sponsor of Celebrate Brooklyn, the summer performing arts fest at the band shell in Prospect Park. BCL members can sign up for free tickets, which include access to the VIP section (food tent and orchestra pit seating), as well as early admission. Featured artists include Norah Jones, Sonic Youth, Ozomatli, and The Roots.  So grab your picnic blanket and get ready for a summer of music, dance, and fun.
May 20th, 2010
The Gallery@BCL is pleased to present a new show of prints by Michelle Han. Working mainly with lithocut prints, Michelle’s work is a sublime blend of fluid lines and vivid colors. Nature woodcuts in an urban environment. Red petals on a wet, black bough.
Curated by  Frank Sills and Faith Evans-Sills, TheGallery@BCL is a way for Brooklyn Creative League to showcase the work of local artists, and to make original art more accessible and affordable to all. For more info on purchasing work or showing at TheGallery@BCL, please contact us at info [at] brooklyncreativeleague.com.
May 19th, 2010
Momasphere and Park Slope Parents Career Networking presents an intriguing book launch and panel discussion with Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Un-Friendly Nation. With life harder on American families than it’s been in decades, the book takes the blame away from moms and puts it where it really belongs. Leading Human Resource, work/life balance and legal/policy experts will join Sharon for an illuminating evening. Wine and snacks will be served and there will be time for mingling/networking after the discussion Q&A.
Tickets are $10 online and $15 at the door (cash only at the door), but PSP members get a discount. See here for details.
May 11th, 2010
Anders Ramsay
Dara Erck | Erck Consulting
Raphael Crawford-Marks
Generation Schools
Elana Haviv
Todd Neufeld
