Red Hook Holiday Fair this weekend. Can you help us tomorrow?
December 5, 2020
Greetings!


Hello again. Hope you are all hanging in there.

Here's a last minute call for help tomorrow starting at 9am to get PortSide set up for the Red Hook Holiday Fair. Details on that below.

The Red Hook Holiday Fair runs 10-6pm today and tomorrow. We are not participating today due to the weather and our lack of an indoor space.

Ideally, we are am set up by 10am tomorrow. If not, by 12pm when the music starts here. Music runs from 12-3pm

Set up means:
  • a PortSide table to sell t-shirts, ask for donations, and general “tabling” eg talk up PortSide.
  • getting all the used stuff to give away out of the Bunker and moved from the fence close to the ferry walkway to our set up by the walkway to the NYC Ferry.
  • setting up 8 of the park umbrellas
  • removing the stem of the 9th near the kids toy area to install the inflatable Christmas penguin helicopter
  • inflating that helicopter and weighing it down. Peter made a wood frame for it last year when we suspended it from the boom, and if we tie it to that, I am think that the pavers around the 9th umbrella base would hold it down.

After setting that up, having 1-2 people through out the day to talk about PortSide would be a help.

Please let me know.

Thanks for anything you can do! And Happy Holidays!


Best,
Carolina Salguero 
Founder & Executive Director

Join us for the Red Hook Holiday Market this weekend!
Saturday afternoon and Sunday 10-6

This is a rain/shine event. Some vendors will set up Saturday afternoon as the weather clears, and all vendors plan to set up Sunday.

Where: Select businesses around Red Hook. Most locations on the map above have multiple local, artisan vendors and chefs.

Places marked in green each have a free giveaway food/drink from vendors who are participating in a contest for the best food and drink from the weekend.

Market visitors will vote on their favorite giveaways at the end of the weekend, and voters will be entered into a raffle to win gift cards and prizes from Red Hook Businesses and the NYC ferry.

Vote for your favorite giveaway in link at bottom

Locations and Vendors

PortSide, Atlantic Basin, with music
Sunny’s Musicians Live Performance 12-3 Sunday

This coming weekend 12/5 and 12/6 come out and support #RedHook
12pm: Olivia Ellen Lloyd
1240pm: Madame Henni
1:10pm: Sam Barnes and Christian Apuzzo
1:50pm: Ben Swan Gypsy Jazz Duo
2:30pm: Kat and Friends

They normally play at Sunny's Bar and this event is a paid gig that helps support them at this time.

AND PortSide has a big give-away of used kids toys and books. Final such give-away of the year.

She-Weld

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, with vendors
Exstasy Creations,
Aesthetic Soul
Deborah Ugoretz Art (inside)

Cora Dance
Featuring indoor Creative Canteen market with more vendors

Ecotone, with vendor
Good Son Bad Design

Formula E 285 Van Brunt

Hyssop, with vendor
Ashley Taylor (astrology) and RE:GEN:CY everyday goods store

Ice House, with vendors
Society of Bold Kids
Dashana Gooding

Industry Light and Grip, with vendor
Izzy Goldberger Art and Jewelry

Jam’IT Bistro (only Sunday)

NY Printing and Graphics

Pioneer Works (only Sunday), with vendor
Kathleen Delaney pottery

Realty Collective, with vendors
Mylinda Hull
Jacqueline Renaud-Rivera - The Red Hook Cook

Red Hook Lobster Pound, with vendor
Krista Dragomer Art

Red Hook Pilates, with vendor

SHARED Brooklyn
Virtual Programs for youth and adults during COVID19 era

Visit our virtual museum Red Hook Water Stories

Explore a growing collection on our blog of virtual programs from around the world selected by our Historian/Curator Peter Rothenberg
Some thoughts about handling stress of social distancing

Here's what our crew learned about handling social isolation during the 9 years that PortSide was stuck in the containerport where the ship had no public access and was not even visible from the street. 

Replicating what sustained our beleaguered crew may help you: a strong belief in what we were doing, a lively sense of humor, and compliments. Getting a compliment meant being seen and was hugely uplifting. So compliment and thank others liberally; that makes good energy flow and will bring it back to you. End your day affirming yourself and your day, what was good about it and how you handled it, even if it was just “that sandwich was great.” Falling asleep thinking about positive things makes for better dreams and a stronger tomorrow.

Stay strong. Stay safe. Digital hugs until we see you aboard the MARY again.
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