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Saturday Aug. 10, 2024

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Various

Free Kayaking

Ages: 5 and up
Boating
Community
Family

Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn Heights

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All day

Art on the Ave

Art
Free

All day

The Billie Holiday Theatre Presents Sky’s The Limit: Style As Resistance

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

The Billie Holiday TheatreBedford Stuyvesant

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8 am – 3 pm

RiseBoro Farmers Markets at Maria Hernandez Park

Maria HernandezBushwick

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9 am – 3 pm

Brooklyn Book Bodega Book Giveaway

East New York FarmsEast New York

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10 am – 3 pm

Free Kayaking

Ages: All
Family
Free
Outdoors

Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2 DockBrooklyn Heights

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10 am – noon

Community Science Seining

Ages: 3 and up
Animals
Community
Family

Pier 4 Beach – Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn Heights, DUMBO

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10 am – 1 pm

The Brooklyn Dribble

Ages: All
Family
Free
Sports

Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Summer Pop-up [Dumbo]

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Dumbo

RSK picture

11 am – noon

Ready, Set, Kindergarten! @ Sheepshead Bay Library

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BaySheepshead Bay

A moment for the new logic please

11 am – 2 pm

A Dino-Mite Shopping Event!

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

The Living GalleryWantagh

Noon – 3 pm

Splish Splash Saturdays

Ages: 3 – 12
Community
Family
Free

Splish Splash SaturdayBoerum Hill

1 – 5 pm

Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

Ages: All
Family
Free

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Environmental Education CenterDUMBO

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1 – 6 pm

It’s Summer in the City at BWAC

Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionRed Hook

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1 – 6 pm

It’s Summer in the City at BWAC

Art
Free

BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionRed Hook

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1 – 5 pm

Patterns & Textures: Visual Expressions of a Tactile Urban Environment

Art
Free

Gowanus Dredgers BoathouseGowanus

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3 – 7:30 pm

Hindu Lamp Ceremony

Ages: 5 and up
Community
Family
Free

Brooklyn Bridge Park Pebble BeachBrooklyn Heights

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3 – 8 pm

World Steelpan Appreciation Day

Free
Music

Harbor View Lawn – Brooklyn Bridge Park

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