It’s hard to believe we’re already close to completing one year of being open! It feels like just yesterday that we opened Another World with a dream: to be a space for neighbors to experience community, nourishment, joy, and people power. We’re entering year two with even bigger dreams, so mark your calendars for our one-yeah anniversary party and fundraiser on May 30, ft. some fire fish fry 🐟🎉
Leading up to that, we have our usual, packed lineup of events, centered on healthcare for the people, movie and poetry nights, communal childcare; tenant rights, abolitionist study and more 🌱🩻
🚨 DATE & LOCATION CHANGE: @no4apartheid is now on 5/31 at 3 PM meeting in Herbert Von King Park (NOT Another World)!
And you can always drop by anytime during our open hours, from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 8pm, to relax, mingle, work, and meet your neighbors! 🩵
June Balloon was a neighborhood festival for kids in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the 80s and 90s. When it ended in 2001, Crown Heights was on the verge of a period of rapid gentrification and increased policing; today, many long-time residents are fighting for their right to stay in the neighborhood they grew up in and raise a new generation. We need to build community more than ever, in the face of rising fascism, and the children are our future.
The Crown Heights CARE Collective and Another World, with the help of our local block associations and grassroots community groups, plan to bring back June Balloon this summer 2026. Follow us on this journey and watch our full June Balloon video on YouTube (link in bio).
And if YOU or your neighbors want to get involved, please join us at 629 Nostrand every Saturday at 11:15 am for our June Balloon planning meetings ✨💗
Extra extra: the latest edition of the People's Torch is out - get your copy at Another World! In this edition, an op-ed about the necessity of abolishing SRG, a report back from the Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba, and more
The People's Torch is a free local newspaper founded by Another World staffers and youth from Crown Heights that we've trained as community reporters. Donate to Another World to support this work 🤠
We are ONE WEEK AWAY from our Starr bar fundraiser!! We have some amazing art and raffle items that we will be showing here throughout the week, and we are so excited to add @_evilo__ to our DJ line up!
Credit for our newest amazing flyer art goes to @mahntrahaha , who will also be reading tarot and selling art at the fundraiser!
RSVP at the link in our bio and Venmo for your ticket!
See you Thursday!
We’re back with our monthly community playdate at @anotherworldbk exploring seasonal foods! 🍓
On Sunday from 11 AM to 1 PM, come join us to do fun art activities with strawberries and cleavers and sing food and spring themed sing-a-longs ! 🐝
The seasons and hyperlocal ecosystems help us build the webs of care that are right outside our doors. Come hang out and connect with other parents and caregivers about sustaining this work 🌱
All ages welcome !
Time for another Crown Heights poetry night! In her essay Poetry Is Not A Luxury, Audre Lorde writes, “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.” Sign up at Another World on Friday May 15th, 7pm to expand our collective horizons by sharing an original poem, or amplifying one you love.
JOIN US Sunday, May 17th at @anotherworldbk FOR OUR NEXT COMMUNITY FILM SCREENING!
This month we’re showing the 2002 film John Q.
A humble, working-class family is struck with a terrible and sudden tragedy when one day their nine year old son collapses at the park; only to find that little Michael is in desperate need of a life-saving heart transplant. With no money, with no insurance to cover them and with no alternative financial-aid options to help them, John Q. Archibald takes matters into his own hands in a last-ditch effort to save his son’s life and takes the hospital’s emergency room hostage.
- 📍@anotherworldbk 629 Nostrand Ave
- 🕐 Doors at 7:00, Film starts at 7:15
- ✍️ Stay after for a short discussion on the film’s real world implications of our healthcare system
NEXT SANCTUARY JAM THIS THURSDAY, 5/14
Join us for the next installment of @sanctuaryjam this Thursday at Another World! All levels of musicians welcome. Photos are from last month’s jam 😎
See you there!
‼️ATTN: Crown Heights📍‼️Sanctuary Jam is back next Thursday, May 14th from 6-10PM at 629 Nostrand Ave [Another World]! Bring an instrument or bring a friend!
Sanctuary is free, fun and open to anyone willing to try🎶 Collaborate with neighbors, hobbyists, indie artists and industry professionals alike in a free-form jam session.
Join our mailing list for gigs, volunteer opportunities and instrument requests [Link in bio].
#nycnitelife #freenycevents #nycartists #openmicnyc #livemusic
Next Wednesday (5/13) join PSWG-NYC and Jakhi McCray's Support Committee for a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point", a counterculture cult classic... The story of a student activist turned cop killer on the run and an anthropology student traveling across Death Valley, California, set during the height of the anti-war movement in the 60s.
After the screening, we'll reflect on abolition and activism on campus, the relation between student organizing, the broader movement, and our communities, and the question of individualism versus collective action.
film content warning: graphic violence and sexual scenes/nudity!
Event details:
Wednesday, May 13th, 6-10pm
Another World, 629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Online RSVP: http://bit.ly/JS13May ($10-20 suggested, but NOTAFLOF!)
6:00pm - Doors opens
6:15pm - Screening begins
8:20pm - Discussion
We’re making a big community mural at June Balloon 2026!!! 🎈 🎨
Join us on Saturday, May 16, from 12:30-2:30pm at @anotherworldbk for a workshop to brainstorm and create the design for the mural as a community. Bring memories and pictures of June Balloons past, as well as stories about your block: what makes it special? what are some hidden histories people don’t know about?
@brooklynemac will lead the workshop and create a design based on community input, with paint-by-numbers panels. At June Balloon, on June 20, attendees can color in the mural (materials will be provided) and produce an amazing piece of collective artwork :)
See you there!
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