A Prospect Heights collective for creative experiments,
renewal, stillness and celebration. Welcome home.
Be. Play. Make. Offer. Join us.
A Prospect Heights collective for creative experiments,
renewal, stillness and celebration. Welcome home.
Be. Play. Make. Offer. Join us.
“In myth, in ritual, and in theology, the broken heart is not a regrettable symptom of derailment, but is rather the starting point of anything that matters.” Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School Whether it’s something we asked for or not, the experience of divorce often represents a kind of initiation: a marked…
“In myth, in ritual, and in theology, the broken heart is not a regrettable symptom of derailment, but is rather the starting point of anything that matters.” Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School Whether it’s something we asked for or not, the experience of divorce often represents a kind of initiation: a marked…
Meditation isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. –Pema Chodron In the middle of these uncertain days, let’s gather in the shelter of each other. We’ll sit in stillness together for an hour, share reflections, and break bread potluck-style…
You are cloud, sea, forgetting; you are also what you lost in a moment— we are all those who have left. The reflection of our face in the mirror changes each instant and every day has its own labyrinth. The cloud vanishing in the sunset is our image; endlessly, a…
Post-Election Meditation: come gather for a healing hour of collective stillness, as together we ground ourselves for what’s coming next. In these tender days following the election, let’s gather in the shelter of each other. We’ll breathe in stillness for an hour, check in on where we each are afterwards,…
Come share a story about a time you risked it all: for money or for love, about taking yourself to the razor’s edge and daring to look down. Tell us about the risk you took to fall on your face, or a risk you wished you’d taken, but didn’t. We…
The dark passageways of human experience–loss, disappointment, grief–are facets of life that many of us avoid. Yet as the natural world so gracefully reminds us, as we descend into winter these shadows of all existence are inescapable. Join artists Nicole Skibola and Colleen Doyle as together we bravely grapple with…
Give Amy Tingle and Maya Stein a single word to get them started. Then, as they sit side-by-side behind their vintage typewriters in the Brooklyn Cottage living room, they’ll each craft a one-of-a-kind poem just for you. What could be more fun for a Thursday night? Drop by the Brooklyn Cottage anytime between 6 and…
Straight, gay, any race or ethnicity, coupled, divorced, young, old: we all share the experience of navigating our worlds as men, and tonight we’ll accept the invitation to share our experience with each other. As men, we experience for most waking moments of our lives the burdens and the rewards…
Continuing our exploration of contemporary literature begun last spring over the course of the Brooklyn Cottage’s Artists Who Write series, Writers of a Certain Age presents readings of original poetry, stories and essays by people 60 and older. Co-curated with Iviva Olenick and featuring the work of Cheryl Clarke, Esther Cohen, Breena Clarke, Monte Olenick,…