New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Workman Entertainment & PR) Urban Space is proud to announce the launch of Dekalb Market on April 7, 2012, now a multi-purpose cultural destination featuring a new outdoor event space with a full season of free, curated music, art, food, film and eclectic experiences in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn.
Dekalb Market 2012 will include: Dance parties, free open-air markets, unique foodie events, bike in movie nights, lobster boils, roller derbies and an ongoing series of special live music performances. All of this alongside the new permanent Dekalb Market Beer & Wine Garden, featuring local craft beer, wine and sangria, the ideal spot to hang out with friends, relax in the sun and take a break from shopping, set against the gritty-cool urban backdrop of downtown Brooklyn.
Open seven days a week, locals and visitors can now spend a leisurely morning, afternoon or evening while enjoying a Robicelli Cupcake along with a cup of Joe's Coffee or partake in Maharlika's Filipino street food while browsing among the additional 45 retail shops including Etsy Collective, YakBlak, Hank & Jo Jo, Harriet's
Alter Ego and Pip & Estella.
Situated over an entire square block - voted best New York Architecture of 2011 by New York Observer - Dekalb Market is built from recycled shipping containers converted into over 60 food & retail shops which frame a distinct space for this year's outdoor events and programs.
SPRING WEEKENDER // APRIL 7th & 8th // 10 - 6pm
SPRING WEEKENDER will be held April 7th & 8th to celebrate the inaugural market in 2012. The two-day extravaganza will be host to a myriad of activities including, but not limited to:
* Easter activities including a market wide Easter egg hunt, a curated flower
and garden flea market, and urban farming demos.
* Live music from local bands & DJ sets will compliment the day with spring inspired
tunes.
* Mimosa Mornings will serve said drinks from 10 - 1pm.
2012 PROGRAMMING:
SCHEDULE
Open 7 days a week
Food // Mon - Thurs 8am/noon - 10pm // Fri- Sun 10 - 10pm
Retail // Tues - Fri 11 - 6pm // Sat - Sun 12 - 8pm
Beer // Sun - Thurs 12 - 10pm // Fri - Sat 12 - 1am
EVENTS
With a capacity for 2000 revelers and a state of the art sound system, Dekalb Market will be a one of a kind Brooklyn destination for live music, festivals and parties alike. A taste of what's in store:
Weekly
* Dance parties Sunday afternoons
* 60 open-air vendor markets adding to the roster of amazing local food & retail merchants
* Live concerts weekly both ticketed and free
Monthly
* Bike in movie nights
* Lobster boils hosted by Red Hook Lobster pound
* Roller derby hosted by Down & Derby
* Twilight Market
Special Events
* 718 Sessions // Dance party
* Good Room // Interior Design Show
* Vegan Shop Up // Vegan food & retail market
* Brooklyn Busk
* Rooftop Films
* Supperclubs
* Food Competitions & Festivals
* Contra Dance
FARM // PRODUCE PICK UP // INCUBATOR KITCHEN
Dekalb Farm is a collaborative project that unites members of the Urban Agricultural community to provide fresh produce and public workshops to market goers. Additionally, it is home to Food 360, a farm-to-table job-training program run by Family Cook Productions and housed in a brand-new incubator kitchen designed by Marketshare. The kitchen will eventually become a functional space for local makers, entrepreneurs and culinary professionals to prepare their products for sale at the market. Just another way Dekalb Market is bridging makers, artists, farmers, chefs and the community!
Weekly produce pick-ups will be organized by Plovgh and will have a weekly theme correlating with the crops available that week. There will also be monthly programming centered around farming.
VENDORS
https://dekalbmarket.com/
APRIL DEALS
https://dekalbmarket.com/
THE TEAM
Dekalb Market is the lovechild of community developer Urban Space and cultural mavens Jennifer
Louise Lyon and Joann Kim-Nunez.
Urban Space aims to revitalize inner-city spaces without imposing a solution on a neglected area but rather growing it organically, rooted in the teamwork of community residents and based around creativity, individual enterprise, and performance arts. They are also the ingenious team behind the pop-up holiday market in Union Square, Madison Eats, and London's Camden Lock Market, which was initially conceived as a temporary stall market in 1978 but has evolved into the city's fourth largest tourist draw .
Jennifer Lyon is the founder of MeanRed Productions, a music event production and curation company known for Parked! A Food Truck Festival and the Brooklyn Electronic
Music Festival. She independently produces and curates hundreds of music-related events annually and is a staunch supporter of community-building through events, ecological and small business sustainability.
Joann Kim-Nunez is a freelance writer, curator and event producer responsible for Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Work It Brooklyn, Greenpoint Open Studios and Greenpoint Food Market. She has collaborated with various partners to produce Northside Festival, Slideluck Potshow, Parked! and various other food and art-related events. Her mission to build and support a platform in which small businesses and creative professionals can thrive, share, and sell their products/services is demonstrated in these and upcoming events.
Praise for Dekalb Market
"Hey everyone, if you haven't heard or haven't witnessed... Dekalb Market is completely awesome. Food vendors in crates, crazy good DJs, a stage with Downtown Brooklyn as the backdrop. Go check it out - it's awesome!"
--South Brooklyn Post, November 2011
"Roller skates, lobsters, and bike-ins. Get with it! It's a super, sexy, cool Dekalb Market re-opening in April. More flavor, more awesome-ness, more must-do's coming to Downtown Brooklyn. Oh and there will be beer and wine...nuff said."
--Time Out New York, February 2012
Dekalb Market
138 Willoughby Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
https://dekalbmarket.com/
