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Northside Town Hall Art Event Sat Night! (And One At The New Pierogi Too)

Please join us Saturday night, March 7th from 7:30 pm –11:30 pm, when we hold the inaugural art exhibition at the Northside Town Hall site!

The piece showing will be “Running," by Michael Ballou, who some people may be familiar with through his work at Four Walls back in the day. There will also be David Watson on bagpipes
from 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm

More on the Town Hall:

Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) and the People’s Firehouse, Inc. (PFI) were awarded the rights to re-develop the former Engine 212 Firehouse at 134 Wythe Ave. by the City of New York into a full-service community and cultural center.

More art in the neighborhood:
Pierogi is opening a new space, The Boiler, also on Saturday night. It's at 191 North 14th Street (Between Berry St. and Wythe Ave.) More info here. This is from the release, sounds rad:

The inaugural exhibition will include works by three gallery artists: Tavares Strachan, Yoon Lee, and Jonathan Schipper. We will show, for the first time in New York, an ambitious project by Strachan, “The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project).” The centerpiece of this installation is a 4.5 ton block of ice, brought from the arctic and kept frozen by the power of the sun in a solar powered glass freezer. (See attached press release for full details.) We will also show a dramatic twenty-foot painting by Yoon Lee and Jonathan Schipper’s “215 Points of View”—a 6-foot diameter sphere covered with 215 surveillance cameras and corresponding monitors—suspended from the ceiling.