The One Crown Heights Festival this Sunday, July 21, on St. Marks Ave between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues from 12-5pm offers a day of activities for the whole family, music, togetherness, prizes, and a free puppet show by Small Wonder Jewish Puppet Theater.
Join us for the 9th annual One Crown Heights Festival (OCH Festival), a celebration of diversity and unity in the heart of Brooklyn!
What to expect:
Free Puppet show by Small Wonder Jewish Puppet Theater
Free admission to Brooklyn Children’s Museum 10 am – 5 pm
Free Activities with Jewish Children’s Museum
Live music and performances by Brooklyn artists 12pm – 5pm
Learn to play Chassidic melodies
Free musical instruments and prizes (while supplies last)
Fun street games and art activities for all ages
Free books from PJ Library
Enjoy live music on our outdoor stage featuring professional kids percussion ensemble Brooklyn United, classically-trained cellist Laura Melnicoff, griot-inspired Kakande, singer/songwriter Aaron Einhorn, and the steel pans of Tropicalfete. Inside BCM’s theater, children will be treated to an entertaining mix of music, puppetry, and storytelling presented by the Small Wonder Puppet Theater.
An important feature of the event will be the ‘Community Conversations Tent: Neighbors to Neighbors, Can We Talk,’ where local residents are invited to engage in discussions in a safe space to hear directly from their neighbors.
There will also be a basketball pick-up game 5v5 challenge by Love Hoops NY taking place on the courts in Brower Park.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum will be open from 10 am – 5 pm and will be free throughout the entire day.
Museum activities include:
Design a roller coaster car in our ColorLab art studio, inspired by artist EJ Hill
Build and test earthquake-resistant skyscrapers in our Nature’s Engineers STEM makerspace
About OCH:
The mission of One Crown Heights is to bring people together, to foster an environment of understanding and appreciation for different cultures, and to inspire positive change. It received funding and organizing support from its inception, from JCRC-NY, in its role as an anchor agency of the Mayor’s Office on the Prevention of Hate Crimes, Partners Against the Hate (PATH) initiative.
One Crown Heights Community Festival is a partnership of: Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Jewish Children’s Museum, together with ADL New York/New Jersey, American Jewish Committee (AJC), Brooklyn FAM: Festival of Arts and Music, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Community Boards 8 & 9, Crown Heights Community Council, Crown Heights North Association, Friends of Brower Park, Interborough Developmental & Consultation Center (Connect-IDCC), Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC-NY), Local Development Corporation of Crown Heights, Love Hoops NY, Mayor’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, The Neighborhood BK, NYC Commission on Human Rights, Repair the World, Shua Strong, Simon Wiesenthal Center, 77 Community Precinct Council, UJA-Federation, The Office of the Mayor, NY City Council Members Crystal Hudson, Rita Joseph, Chi Osse, and Darlene Mealy, Congress Members Yvette D. Clarke and Hakeem Jeffries, NYS Senator Zellnor Myrie, NYS Assembly Members Brian Cunningham and Stephanie Zinerman, and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
Come celebrate Crown Heights with your neighbors!
Thank you for your tireless work on behalf of our community and putting these awesome events together which has something for everyone. Much success!
Again, you did a great job in bringing our Communities together. It was a great idea this year to put the event in front of the museum although you had the puppet show, full house inside in the auditorium and the basketball outside. Thank you also for the kosher food which we don’t usually have at the BCM. Lots of families and community members had a great time as well as members of the African American and Caribbean American members of our community.