Family Programming

Bubby’s 8th Annual Pie Social

Main Street overflows with a bevy of irresistible pies from local bakers. Foodies of all ages are encouraged to bring a pie to share.

Drawbots at Tobacco Warehouse

At Tobacco Warehouse, join Jonah Brucker-Cohen and build Drawbots by mixing standard drawing materials such as magic markers with weighted motors and plastic cups. When the cups vibrate, they draw circles and lines depending on their overall weight and power.  Drawbots is a drawing system and robot that anyone can build and use without having to learn electronics. The project has been shown and workshopped over 50 times in 14 countries on 5 continents since 2001.

Great Small Works Workshop: Tobacco Warehouse

Come to Tobacco Warehouse, roll up your sleeves, and make some simple puppets, cut-outs and flags. Then join Great Small Works and the Greatest Smallest Band in a procession through the streets of Dumbo.

Great Small Works Procession: Tobacco Warehouse

Come to Tobacco Warehouse, roll up your sleeves, and make some simple puppets, cut-outs and flags. Then join Great Small Works and the Greatest Smallest Band in a procession through the streets of Dumbo.

Bookbinding Workshop

At Tobacco Warehouse, join artists of The{NewNew} Etsy Street Team and stitch up some journals using the stab stitch binding technique. Once you have mastered this technique you’ll be able to re-purpose any and all scrap papers you may have lying around the house into one-of-a-kind notebooks.

The Tapestry Project

At Tobacco Warehouse, join Textile Lab and Laura Sansone in the construction of The Tapestry Project, a gaint collaborative textile that is created from local NYS wool, and dyed with plants found at the GrowNYC Greenmarkets.

Pop Up! A Book-Making Workshop for Children and Families

At Tobacco Warehouse, Marquis Studio teaching artist Polina Porras, a painter, puppeteer and all around visual artist will lead this workshop for parent-child or family teams. Participants will learn the basics of making pop-up books from ubiquitous, recycled and found materials, mastering several methods of folding, cutting and otherwise manipulating paper and binding to create storybooks that really leap off the page!

Jane’s Carousel

The first carousel to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, this completely restored marry-go-round was made by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1922. It is a classic three-row machine with 48 exquisitely carved horses, two superb chariots, and the scenery panels, rounding boards, crests, center pole and platform are all original. Now open in the newly restored section of Brooklyn Bridge Park between Main Street and the Brooklyn Bridge, the carousel is housed in a spectacular pavilion designed by Pritzker Prize winning French architect Jean Nouvel and magically set on the East River. It will delight NYC children, as well as visitors from around the world, for many generations to come. $2 admission.

Comic Book Artist Workshop at Tobacco Warehouse

SUNDAY ONLY. 12-5.  A redux of 2010′s popular hands-on comic book storytelling workshop. At Tobacco Warehouse, Christine Norrie shows children of all ages how to craft a tale with comic book illustrations.