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This is a question that may sound meaningless, but it is not so for Swedish (or Scandinavian as well) handling of the pandemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Sweden has not imposed any lockdown as well as any mandatory mask-wearing, which is why roughly 84.7% of people do not do it at all, according to the german site Statista. […]
Red Hook now has a new and modern dance studio that will offer instruction in an array of different styles and mediums. On September 26, World Arts East Red Hook officially opened its doors with an open house that included a variety of dance classes. World Arts East takes up the entire spacious second floor of 127 King Street and […]
The Brooklyn Style Foundation is organizing their very first Fashion Accessories Design Competition where contestants will create a fashion accessory that solves a problem relating to our current situation. This contest is open to high school students all around the country. The impetus to have a competition like this one was partly because of everything that the country is going […]
Na Lakan Masego is a young adult who grew up in Red Hook and has long been a passionate activist for racial justice. He graduated from South Brooklyn Community High school in 2018. The death of George Floyd as a result of police brutality pushed his activism up a notch and led to him start his own group, calling it […]
So We connected Rethink who we’d like to partner with in the future. They were parking their food truck in front of the red hook library providing free meals but that has ceased once school began. Their truck broke down which was the only reason the truck wasn’t there, however my contact who works there showed up. Not sure if, […]