Posts Tagged Brooklyn
Tackling Poverty Brooklyn
September 27, 2012 by Administrator
Tackling Poverty Brooklyn #TacklingPoverty How Schools Can Succeed In Educating Poor and Homeless Children Date: Wednesday October 3rd Time: 6 PM-8:30 PM Location: Galapagos Art Space Description: As the new school year gets underway, we’ll highlight the connection between education and poverty. This series installment will explore the role of the community in education, enrichment, [...]
2012, Jobs, Working Your Creative Enterprise|No Comments
Tags: Brooklyn, city limits, poverty, tackling poverty brooklyn
Join us for Afro Fest 2011 in Brooklyn
September 18, 2011 by Administrator
NY Afrobeat Festival, Inc.’s Afro Fest 2011 which celebrates African rhythms, roots culture and the United Nation’s designation of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. New York Afro Fest will include an African Literary Conference, film screenings and performances featuring live African, African-American, Latino and Diaspora Sacred music, and more. The [...]
Tags: Afrobeat, AfroFest, Arit Essien, Arit's Fables, Brooklyn, Buka Restaurant, calabar magazine
Phoenix Rising: Our Rebirth and Change
September 11, 2011 by Administrator
It has been three months since I decided to re-launch this magazine in this compact form. In June, our store on Washington Avenue closed until December 2011 for renovation due to a fire and we opened one in Dumbo this September. For me, the loss represents opportunity, and a rebirth. The return of this publication to [...]
2011- articles, Editorial|No Comments
Tags: atim annette oton, Brooklyn, calabar magazine, Cassandra BromCalabar Magazine, Cassandra Bromfield, Ezinne Adibe, Krystal Deville, Patricia Spears, Phoenix Rising, the Hotness List
2011 Festival Advertising for the 40th Anniversary of the International African Arts Festival
June 20, 2011 by Administrator
The International African Arts Festival began in 1971 as a fundraiser for the Uhuru Sasa School – a community based initiative that educated youth and adults about African culture. The fundraiser was a small festival with about 20 arts and crafts vendors, local entertainers, and food prepared by parents. Almost 2,000 people came to the [...]
Tags: advertising, Brooklyn, calabar magazine, festival, International African Arts Festival
Re-Invention, Mission and Risk in hard times
July 8, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton After spending four days at the International African Arts Festival in Brooklyn as the business Calabar Imports, I observed an interesting phenomena and came to the conclusion that some black retail businesses and other businesses these days are stuck in a rot. And rot is not polite word these days. The economy [...]
2010 - articles, Working Your Creative Enterprise|1 Comment
Tags: Brooklyn, calabar imports, down economy, International African Arts Festival, retail business, small business
See The Haiti Softhouse at the International African Arts Festival
June 24, 2010 by Administrator
The Haiti SoftHouse will be at the International African Arts Festival from July 2 – 5 at Commodore Barry Park. This will give Brooklynites an opportunity to see the Haiti SoftHouse designed by local architects as a transitional housing solution to the challenge Haitians are facing with increasing hurricane threats. The Haiti SoftHouse group, led by [...]
2010 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|2 Comments
Tags: black designers, Brooklyn, Brooklyn's creative industry, Haiti, Haiti Softhouse, Haitian Earthquake, Rodney Leon
The 39th Annual International African Arts Festival
June 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton The 39th Annual International African Arts Festival starts Friday, July 2nd through Monday, July 5th, from 10 :00 am until 9:00 pm, at the spacious Commodore Barry Park, at Park Avenue and Navy Street, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Festival goers will gather each day to enjoy live music, dance, spoken word performances, African [...]
2010 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features, Uncategorized|No Comments
Tags: Boys and Girls High School, Brooklyn, brooklyn fashion, Brooklyns African arts community, Freedom Now - UHURU SASA, International African Arts Festival
Small Business Dramas: Surviving the Depression
February 6, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, Feb 6, 2010 Even as the media continues to proclaim that things are getting better and the statistics are showing some improvements, the truth is for small businesses in local communities, it’s not getting better. Just talk to any small business today and you will hear the “pain” as well as [...]
Working Your Creative Enterprise|2 Comments
Tags: Bread-Stuy, Brooklyn, export, Obama, partner, recession, small business, state of the union
Food: Comfort and Generosity
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, July 2008 Food is a subject so fraught, I am not sure I want to deal with it. Of course, Atim who is tall and slender probably can eat anything she wants. But I am short and round and when I wasn’t looking the pounds begat pounds making food both a [...]
Columns, Cosmopolitan in Brooklyn|No Comments
Tags: Brooklyn, Food & Dining, Grand Dakar, Kumbaya, Pierre Thaim, Tom’s Diner
Reflections in the midst of a recession
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, June/July 2008 After my last article on Food 4 Thought, a Brooklyn restaurant, I was thrilled to see their re-emergence in the same space with a slew of partners that included Brother Solomon, the guy who created Solomon’s Porch and the Sankofa Collective, a locally based Bed-Stuy organization. My wish for [...]
2008 - articles, Columns, Working Your Creative Enterprise|No Comments
Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn restaurants, calabar imports, Food 4 Thought, Harriet's Ego, Pieces, recession