with ramps’ sweet green blades
comes promise of Spring’s bounty
First to be pickled
In a series of kirbies
radishes green beans scapes grapes
Ramp Tanka
New Drawings by Blaze Lamper at TMBTP!
Friends, we can’t express enough, our love and gratitude for your support in helping us meet our Kickstarter goal this past weekend. Thanks to you, our dream of having a truly inclusive community art space is beginning to take root and grow.
We’re so excited to bring you a new awesome show at This Must Be the Place! Blaze Lamper will showcase her drawings at the art space for the month of April, beginning with an opening tomorrow, April 5, from 6p.m. to 8p.m. We can’t wait to see you there!
In The Clearing: New Drawings by Blaze Lamper
This Must Be the Place
81 Broadway, Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
6pm-8pm
More Kickstarter Rewards: Pie, Bitters, Cheese Slate! Thank You!!!
With two days left in our kickstarter campaign for This Must Be the Place our dear friends have donated some amazing new rewards that we’re so happy to offer you.
Brooklyn Slate Company donated 20 of their Special Edition Cheese Slates…
Nate Smith and Sophie Kamin at Allswell donated dinner for two at Allswell and two seasonal pies…
Marlow & Sons is offering up a selection of homemade bitters…
Photo of Nick Perkins in Diner by Julia Gillard
Marlow & Diner’s Nick Perkins and a fellow sous-chef are yours for one night and will assist you in creating the perfect dinner party!
New Kickstarter Rewards! Turn Wine into Vinegar with Scarlett
Got a couple of half-sipped-on bottles of wine around the dining room? Don’t pour those babies down the drain. Learn how to make your own vinegar at home. Diner Journal Recipe Editor Scarlett Lindeman wants to show you how.
Find out more HERE
…And thanks for the support thus far! Three days to go!!!
One Week to Go to Reach Our Kickstarter Goal!
Dear Friends! Thank you for your support of our new art space/creative endeavor This Must Be the Place. As we near the end of our campaign, we’ve got new rewards!
- Pledge to the kickstarter campaign this weekend and we will add on to your reward the opportunity to tour Reynards and the Wythe Hote!
- Donate $500 or more and get an exclusive invite to Friends and Family!
Also, join our kickstarter event on Monday, March 26 at 8pm at This Must Be … 81 Broadway, 3rd Floor
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/924813353/this-must-be-the-place
Portrait of an Artist
Marlow and Sons and Stephen Rogers have been featured on Oliver Strand’s T Magazine blog, Ristretto. Read more here.
This Must Be An Invitation: TMBTP/Kickstarter Open House
image credit: Merica Lee and George M. Jackson of the Naked Heroes by Julia Gillard
Monday, 26th of March, 2012
81 Broadway, Brooklyn
3rd Floor 8-10pm
Lite Fare from the Wild Imaginations of
… DJ Recipe Editor Scarlett Lindeman and
Chef Dennis Spina of Roebling Tea Room
Art, Silent Auction and Reading Included
Beer donated by Brooklyn Brewery!
image credit: Julia Gillard
This Must Be the Place is a burgeoning art space centering around community creativity and founded in the practices and spirit of the Diner Journal. Located above Marlow and Sons in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the space is a hub for our community within the restaurants as well as the neighborhood and city at large to come together and celebrate each other’s talents, stories, paintings, collaborations and imaginations.
image credit: Mel Shimkovitz at the opening of “Cats Like Us” by Mel Shimkovitz, photo by Julia Gillard
Please Join us Monday Night the 26th or on the web at Dinerjournal.com!
And find us on Kickstarter by March 31st to make our dreams come true!!
image credit: Julia Gillard
Thank you, Kate for this magnificent reward!! And congratulations!!!!!!
The Original – Cow Leather – Green: $750 Pledge
Each week we receive grass-fed cows, pigs, goats, lambs, chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits from allover New England, upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Everything is broken down and portioned out to the restaurants at our butcher shop. The only part of the animal that we were not using was the hide. So, after 10 years of dreaming together of a simple leather goods brand, we found a tannery in upstate New York who would custom tan the cow and pig hides of the animals that we serve in the restaurant. They are picked up from our slaughterhouse in Troy Pennsylvania and taken to Gloversville, NY. for tanning. Once the leather is tanned and colored it is taken to our bag maker in midtown, NYC. All linings are made of organic canvas, our zippers are riri, and our hardware is solid brass.
• Canvas lining, pocket and zipper
• Width: 19 inches / Height: 14 inches / Thickness: 4 inches
• This cow leather is valued for its suppleness and ability to conform and mold to the wearer over time
Reward includes two tickets to our triumphant dance party. This distinctive tote will also come stuffed with a hand drawn map of its very own creation myth/narrative and the, in comparison, decidedly ordinary Tarlow original Cyclops drawing and an Anna Dunn drawn Odyssey coloring book!
We’re Excited for Megan Auster-Rosen’s Play, ‘From the Same Cloth’
“The jet plane is a time machine. Today I am in a timeless African story, tomorrow I am in late twentieth-century America. Today I am part of a novel, tomorrow this place will not exist.”
Synopsis
In 1971 Ken Rosen travelled to Sierra Leone with the Peace Corps, forging a deep connection with West Africa that would weave itself into the rest of his life. 30 years later his daughter Megan travelled to Ghana, searching for the same experience, but it wasn’t until her father joined her that she was able to see that what she had been looking for was all around her. Together they immersed themselves in the local culture and explored the landscape until a tragic accident ended more than just their journey through Africa.
Built from fragments of Ken Rosen’s unfinished memoirs and the playwright’s own recollections of her adventures in Africa, From the Same Cloth is Megan Auster-Rosen’s journey towards understanding her father and discovering herself. The play saw a successful run at NYFringe in 2008 and has been restructured and updated under the direction of Aaron Rossini and Fault Line Theatre. Megan Auster-Rosen tells her own story, playing herself and twenty additional characters. The role of Ken Rosen is performed by Jacques Roy.
Tickets Available at SmartTix: http://bit.ly/z5Vkxi
Save the Date for Fun!
Monday, March 26 @ This Must Be the Place
81 Broadway, 3rd Floor (Above Marlow & Sons)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Bottle it All Up: Art House Co-Op’s Jar Project
We’re excited to be a pick-up location for Art House Co-Op’s Jar Project.
Stop by This Must Be The Place (81 Broadway, Floor 3, Brooklyn, NY 11211). Pick up a Jar and fill it with your favorite musings and memories. Return the jar to Art House to be part of their latest installation project.
Learn more about the project HERE
Don’t Forget to Look Up
Portal by Peter Miller Greiner
Poetry Reading at This Must Be, Sat. March 10
Featured Poets
Will Edmiston is a poet living in Brooklyn. He also serves as the volunteer archivist at The Poetry Project.
Jeremy Hoevenaar lives, writes, and makes healthy choices in Baltimore, MD. Two books, Adaptations of Pelt and Hoof (H_NGM_N), and Cold Mountain Mirror Displacement (American Books;Steck Editions) will be out sometime this Spring. He believes in saving the end for the applause.
Michael Lala is the author of two chapbooks: [fire!] ([sic] Press Detroit) and Under the Westward Night (Knickerbocker Circus Publishing). His poems and text art have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, the Red Cedar Review, Explosion-Proof, Sink Review, and GQ Italy, among others. He curates for Fireside Follies, Recession Art, and CULTUREfix, and lives in Brooklyn.
Kathleen Miller is a poet and social worker who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in publications such as HOW2, Jacket, Faux Press’ Bay Poetics Anthology, Matrix Magazine and Shifter Magazine. Her chapbook, The Weather is Happening All Around Us, was published by Delirium Press in 2006.
R.M. O’Brien lives in Baltimore with his wife and son, where he curates the WORMS reading series. He subsists on Mtn Dew, a multivitamin, & fruits from the Tree of Life. When he wakes his face is radiant w/ the light of the True Guru.
Douglas Piccinnini is the author of SOFT (The Cultural Society) and CRYSTAL HARD-ON (Minutes Books). His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Jacket, Lana Turner, Verse, VLAK, Well Greased and other journals. He is an editor of Tea Party Republicans Press.
Brett Price lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. He currently serves as the Friday Late Night Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in LUNGFULL!, Brawling Pigeon, Bright Pink Mosquito, Sink Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Well Greased.
Christopher Stackhouse is an artist and writer. His books include a chapbook of poetry Slip (Corollary Press, 2005), and a collaboration with writer John Keene, Seismosis(1913 Press, 2006), that features his drawing in philosophical discourse with Keene’s text. His forthcoming collection of poetry , Plural, will be published by Counterpath Press autumn 2012.
Nicole Wallace is the Program Assistant at The Poetry Project and co-edits BRAWLING PIGEON, which appears occasionally.