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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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The World Comes to Dance At the Brooklyn Public Library

Music and dance events abound at the Brooklyn Public Library and start this month with an African Dance Workshop at 6:30 p.m., March 1 at the Bedford Library, 496 Franklin Avenue (718-623-0012) and again on March 7, 4:30 p.m. at the Macon Library, 361 Lew
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Brooklyn On the Mind

“Brooklyn on My Mind,” a reading series featuring prominent Brooklyn writers, will resume at Brooklyn College at 7 p.m., March 6 in Whitman Hall. In this series, Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio’s “The Leonard Lopate Show,” moderates
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Creatively ‘Happy’

Sunny’s, a historical Brooklyn institution located on the Red Hook waterfront, announces its second art exhibition in a series that looks to showcase contemporary cutting edge artists.

The exhibition, “Happy,” features the paintings
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Photos Beyond NYC

State of Mind, an exhibition of new works by Amy Williams, runs March 3-26 at the 440 Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The opening reception is March 3 from 6-8 p.m.

The photography of Amy Williams is at once personal and objective. Her images ran
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Cages Unleashed

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus presents works by sculptor Helene Brandt that have special relevance in today’s times when issues of imprisonment and aggression have been blurred with those of aid and security.

The exhibition,
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‘Cultural Memory’

In honor of Black History Month, Con Edison is hosting an art show, Artworks by Jamal Ince, on display in the lobby of Con Edison through February 28 at 30 Flatbush Avenue Extension (between Livingston & Nevins streets) in Downtown Brooklyn.

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Children’s Concert

Music on the Heights at Plymouth Church presents Allison DeSalvo’s “World of Song” Children’s Concert on March 4 at 10:30 a.m.

The concert will be held at Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks Street, in Brooklyn Heights. Tickets are $5; $
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Shoots And Greens

Both sweet-sharp daylily shoots and chive-like field garlic will already be producing bumper crops, and corn-flavored chickweed should be sprouting in partially shaded areas throughout the park.

East of the Boathouse, we’ll examine a dense st
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Object Image Gallery

The Object Image Gallery, 91 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, presents a new exhibition of new works by Thomas Hagen.

A master at capturing a sense of time and place, Hagen’s works have been a highlight of past BWAC shows on the pier and he has shown
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BAMkids Film Fest

The eighth annual BAMkids Film Festival, a popular weekend festival featuring more than 40 international short and feature-length children’s films from 23 countries, returns to BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, March 4 and 5.

Parents and
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‘Good Enough’ Theatre

The Brooklyn-based Theatre of Mass Destruction presents Good Enough To Be True, by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and directed by Kielsen Baker. Ali Skye Bennet of Park Slope and Matt Lockwood of Williamsburg are the minds behind the company.

Performances r
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Around The Clock: February 24-March 5

In honor of African American History Month, Ifetayo will offer free dance classes with live drumming, taught by Yalani Bangoura, at Public School 249, 18 Marlborough Road, between Church and Caton avenues, 5:30-7 p.m.; 718-856-1123, ext. 19.

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Swapping Songs

The Songwriters Exchange, a new monthly music series at Vox Pop, 1022 Cortelyou Road in Flatbush, hosted by Brooklyn’s own Rebecca Pronsky, returns March 1 at 8 p.m., bringing local and touring singer/songwriters together at one of Brooklyn’s co

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