Busy, Busy, Busy...

AUGUST

 * TONIGHT! Tim from Boroughbees on NY1 Inside City Hall with Errol Lewis, Friday, 8/15 7pm and 10pm http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/inside_city_hall/

* TOMORROW! Celebrate National Honey Bee Day Saturday, 8/16, approximately 11:45 with our weekly hive inspection in the Brooklyn Saint Marks Avenue Prospect Heights Community Garden at the Redwing Blackbird Hive (at St. Marks and Vanderbilt, behind Zaytoons)

COMING SOON...

*The Beekeeper  NYC film premiere featuring Boroughbees beekeepers. Wednesday, 8/20 at Anthology Film Archives (Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street) http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=8&year=2014#showing-42903 The evening program (http://www.newfilmmakers.com/) begins at 7:30 PM. The Beekeeper, the feature presentation, (trailer here: http://vimeo.com/75836162) will screen at 9:15 PM. Tickets for the whole evening are $6 and are available at the box office the night of the screening. Filmed several summers ago, a New York City urban beekeeping documentary, screening on as part of the NewFilmmakers Summer Series.

SEPTEMBER

*Urban Ecology Lecture Series at Gowanus Canal Conservancy: The Role of Honeybees and Other Pollinators in Urban Areas Wednesday, 9/10, 6:30-8pm at FIND Home Furnishing 43 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215   http://www.nychoneyweek.com/events/2014/9/10/the-role-of-honeybees-and-other-pollinators-in-urban-areas   RSVP for free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-role-of-honeybees-and-other-pollinators-in-urban-areas-tickets-12493226577

* NYC Honey Fest with Boroughbees observation hive and honey extraction events: Saturday, 9/13, 11am-sunset Rockaway Beach 97 (97th & Ocean) Free, daylong festival features art, food, music, film, kids’ arts and crafts, and a bee-product marketplace. Fun for the whole family, Honey Fest is a perfect way to close out the summer by spending the day at the beach.

http://www.nychoneyweek.com/honey-fest/

*Gowanus Canal Conservancy Apiary Tour with Kim from Boroughbees: 9/14 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM on the Salt Lot at 2 Second Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

REPLAY:

*Tim from Boroughbees on WFUV Cityscape: The World of Beekeeping in NYC: http://www.wfuv.org/news/cityscape/140716/cityscape-world-beekeeping-nyc

*Shelly from Boroughbees on Fiorella Eats (from Smorgasburg Food Book Fair):  http://www.fiorellaeats.com/#!Food-Book-Fair-Food-Book-Farm/c4ij/39F786DB-C8D0-4C7F-A31E-F69152CF2988