All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

BAZAAR BENEFIT

The Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us
The Baltic Bazaar store on Atlantic Avenue is hosting a festive bash to thank its donors and the public is invited to join the celebration.

The Baltic Bazaar Bash, on Oct. 27 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm, will feature food, drink, crafts, a corner for decorating masks or hats (just in time for Halloween), a fabric art performance emceed by a comedian, a jazz trio and a silent auction, said Dana Anthony, executive director of the Baltic Street Mental Health Board, the agency that operates the shop.

Proceeds from the silent auction - which offers temptations such as pillows, pins and more goods sold at the store as well as one-of-a-kind items made by people who teach craft classes there - will benefit the 12-year-old shop, which is a work training site for those recovering from mental illness.

"When we started out at 250 Baltic St. we had a budget of $3,000 and now the Baltic Street Mental Health Board has a $3.2 million budget to offer support services for the mentally ill," said Anthony. "The Baltic Bazaar is one of the agency’s programs. It serves the dual purpose of offering creative opportunities for the community and helps people to get training and get back to work."

Return to the Baltic Bazaar another day to sign up for a class in crocheting, embroidery, felting, knitting or sewing or to shop at this boutique, where luxurious textiles, trims, exotic yarns, buttons and other notions are sold both by the pound and by the piece.

The Baltic Bazaar Bash, at 141 Atlantic Ave. between Henry and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, is free and open to the public. Open Tuesdays through Sundays. For more information about the bash, call (718) 855-5929 or visit www.balticbazaar.com.

- Lisa J. Curtis

©2004 Community Newspaper Group


Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

Waterford on the Bay
Dog Day Cyclery

Links