BRIC House Party: Free Family Fun the Second Saturday of Every Month in Brooklyn
Submitted by Karlyn on
There's a new FREE monthly family party in town at Brooklyn's newest culture spot: BRIC House. Last fall, BRIC Arts Media (the nonprofit organization behind annual summer favorite Celebrate Brooklyn!) moved into its cool new Fort Greene digs: a 40,000-square-foot interdisciplinary art and media center featuring a performance space, an art gallery, a public access television studio, a cafe, classrooms and The Stoop, a gathering place for no-cost events. Although most of the programming is aimed at grown-ups, on the second Saturday of every month, BRIC House hosts a FREE afternoon all-ages party. While the theme changes for each edition, there are always a nice variety of hands-on activities like art projects, performance workshops, games and scavenger hunts, and free time for kids to horse around in front of the TV cameras.
My sons and I went to check out the BRIC House Party last month and we all had a blast. It's usually hard to convince my boys (a six-year-old and 19-month-old) to play together because of their age difference. But when the folks at BRIC House say it's an all-ages party, they mean it. We found plenty of fun things we could do as a family.