Brooklyn Bowl is continuing its Our World Campaign this month with a Brooklyn-based fund drive that celebrates summer, youth and special opportunities.
Camp Brooklyn works to send kids from the borough to sleep away camps in the tri-state area. Through generous donations, camperships are awarded to deserving children ages 7-16 to attend one of the many outdoor camps in the surrounding metropolitan area. Awarding children from such an urban environment as Brooklyn the opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors, wildlife, and the starry night sky can change their lives forever. Now in its 8th year, Camp Brooklyn sent 403 children from the borough to great summer camps this summer.
Our World is a place to explore the problems and much-needed solutions facing this planet. Brooklyn Bowl will continue its dedication to sustainability and a green Earth by highlighting worthy causes each month.
In April 2010, a devastating oil spill wrecked the Gulf of Mexico. Just a month later, nearly 200,000 tons worth of crude oil now sit in Gulf waters. As it comes closer and closer to shore, we are reminded of our own waterways here in Brooklyn.
Did you know that the spill in the Gulf is not the first time big oil companies have devastated the ecosystems in which they exploit for oil and profits? Despite the large volume of oil left untended in the Gulf, there’s a body of water even more so contaminated just a few miles from our front door. Newtown Creek in Greenpoint is little known yet has a long history of pollution dating back to the late 19th century. The creek waters are filled with anywhere from 17 to 30 million gallons of oil, and untold amounts of additional pollutants from the factories that line its shore.
While in future months to come we will expand Our World to larger organizations nationwide and internationally, we believe that the dire situation so close to home is in need of some attention.
If you would like to get involved with some of the organizations heading up the fight for clean waterways, you can contact these great organizations and get involved in the neighborhood:
FADER Bowl returns for its first party of the decade withReal Estate, a psychedelic surf pop band hailing from New Jersey now rooted in Brooklyn, N.Y. and the Babies!
Eli “Paperboy” Reed, a Boston-via-Delta South soul singer who, with his band the True Loves, conquered both street corners and punk clubs with a mix of grooved-out rave-ups and slow-burning ballads.
THE EVERYONE ORCHESTRA is a revolving cast of stellar musicians conducted by founder Matt Butler. EO performances are designed to span musical genres and break the boundaries of how an audience experiences music, while having a lot of fun and doing good too.
Featuring: Vinnie Amico, Eric Deutsch, Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Roseman, Jen Hartswick, Will Bernard, and Marc Friedman
Motion Potion aka Robert Kowal is one of the Bay Area’s hardest working, most innovative, and versatile DJ’s; By pushing the Pioneer CDJ-1000’s technology to their limits, Motion Potion’s able to mix together any style, any genre, regardless of tempo -transcending the confinements of the usual dj genres. Legends like Isaac Hayes, Dr John, and Maceo Parker have all called on Mopo’s deep vault of musical knowledge to open their shows and rock their set-breaks. Mopo studies music like a historian; he brings a flexible, open-minded approach that can adapt to any audience -whether they dig the rare grooves, oldschool hip-hop, the new mash-ups, African beats, 70’s disco moves, Latin rhythyms, psychedelic jams, or any possible variety of funky treats. His only rule is that it must be funky: “If it ain’t on the one, he ain’t havin’ none.”
Quintus walks the underground of self-endorsed ‘musicians’ and Reuben Chess, the affront man of the band and alleged ‘Songwriter That Sings’ is rumored to be a carrier of contagious melodies. “He’s a Song-u-nist!” snarfs Downtown Records executive Joe Douche. Others suspect he’s the illegitimate spawn of Chess Records founder, Phil “Cadillac” Chess. However, in a recent show of solidarity, Quintus has been anointed by Moonshine as the unofficial house band at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club. Currently, Quintus is declassifying their audio files in the form of a full-length recording. The band’s EP “The Shape We’re In” (produced by and featuring musical pioneer Levon Helm) can be downloaded via facebook.
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// FREE BOWLING //
A VERY HAPPY HOUR
A Very Happy Hour starts tonight! We’ve got FREE BOWLING 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monday through Thursdays during the whole month of November. And as always from 7:00om – 8:00pm we offer 30$/lane/hour Happy Hour bowling specials too
A Very Happy Hour starts tonight! We’ve got FREE BOWLING 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Monday through Thursdays during the whole month of November. And as always from 7:00om – Close we offer 40$/lane/hour Happy Hour bowling specials too.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
// MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL //
Where else on the planet can you watch the Baltimore Ravens take on the Cleveland Browns on 9 huge HD screens, while bowling, while eating Blue Ribbon food… while getting down to funktastic tunes by our inhouse DJs? …only at Brooklyn Bowl!
Das Racist is a weed edge/hare krishna hard core/art rap/freak folk music duo based in Brooklyn, NY, comprised of Queens-born Himanshu Kumar and San-Francisco-born victor Vazquez. The two met at Bard Art College in Massachusetts, where Victor was Himanshu’s Resident Advisor in a “Students of Color for Social Justice” themed Freshman year dorm.
Formed in New York City in 2004, Red Directorsis a mixture of rock, pop, punk, and epic solo piano song writing. With their wide range of style, timeless hooks, and rich harmonies… all mixed with a raw, high-energy performance… Red Directors have been drawing people from all over and caused many to freak out over their live shows.
