May 7th, 2009 at 7 pm
powerHouse Arena in Dumbo

"Where better to take the pulse of this rapidly growing community of writers, thinkers and observers than the Brooklyn Blogfest?" ~ Sewell Chan, The New York Times

Also on the agenda:  A VIDEO TRIBUTE TO BROOKLYN'S PHOTO BLOGGERS by Adiran Kinloch of Brit in Brooklyn, WHY WE BLOG VIDEO SPOTS by Blue Barn Pictures, THE ROBERT GUSKIND VIDEO, and the annual SHOUT-OUT: a chance to share your blog with the world!
 
Whether you live to blog, blog to live or are just curious about this thing called blogging, you won't want to miss Brooklyn Blogfest 2009: the best Blogfest yet. 

Brooklyn Blogfest After-Party
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
(right across the street from powerHouse Arena)

Cash bar and refreshments

Brooklyn Blogfest Wishes To Thank Its Generous Sponsors: 

PowerHouse Arena is a laboratory for creative thought. Home to a world-renowned art book publisher, Powerhouse Books, the arena is a gallery, boutique, book store, performance and events space located at 37 Main Street, in New York City's Scenic DUMBO neighborhood.  Powerhouse Arena showcases a series of landmark exhibitions, performances, and controlled mayhem fusing the worlds of art, photography, design, fashion, pop culture, advertising, music, dance, film and TV into a glorious whirwind of captivating spectacle.

Galapagos Art Space is a performance space and bar, offering multidisciplinary bills of theater, performance, live music, dance, film, and visual art.

 Blue Barn Pictures, Inc. is a multimedia production company providing the highest quality images to suit the needs of its clients. Blue Barn Pictures' successful history includes producing imaging for: Canon USA, ExxonMobil, PerkinElmer, Casa Nova Pendrill, EZpass, the Element Agency, Media 100, Armani Exchange, and Worldwide Fight Services.

Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great and not so great in your neighborhood.

Rooftop Films is known internationally as one of the most dynamic film festivals in the world. In 2009, they screened more than 20 feature films, almost all of which were New York, U.S. or World Premieres. This combination of brilliant, original programming and stunning outdoor venues makes Rooftop Films one of the best-attended film festivals in New York.

Outside.in promotes and celebrates local bloggers by spreading their content to a new audience via their place, neighborhood, and city pages and their wide network of partners (which includes [nymag.com](http://nymag.com) and [NBC Local](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/). Through their tools for bloggers (including geotagging and an embeddable map to display posts), outside.in drives traffic to the local content producers who make the site possible. The thousands of sources, including many bloggers, newspapers and even Twitter tweets help people know what's happening right outside their front door.

City Limits probes underreported or entirely ignored topics, asking "the next question" about major urban events and raising the profile of important policy issues that might otherwise get lost in the mainstream news mix. And with its portfolio of news, events, resources, the award winning City Limits Weekly features updates and analysis, events and jobs of interest to people working in New York City's nonprofit and policymaking world.

Casio is one of the  world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. 

Babeland offers top quality products, a pleasant place to shop, and most of all information and encouragement to women who wanted to explore their sexuality. Claire Cavanah and Rachel Venning opened the first Babeland store in 1993 in response to the lack of women-friendly sex shops in Seattle.The store's popularity with both women and men eventually led to two more stores in New York and one in Los Angeles, as well as a thriving website.

Peeled Snacks make three tasty and nourishing varieties of fruit & nut mixes that became Peeled Snacks. Peeled Snacks are made with ingredients that you recognize. Large, easy-to-eat pieces of fruit and nuts provide a natural source of vitamins, minerals and fiber - with NO added sugar or fat. The nuts are dry roasted and lightly salted. And for the chocolate lovers, we use the finest rich dark chocolate with 61% cacao in our Shock-olate variety.

Melt is a restaurant in Park Slope, which aims to bring people together, meet and mingle, taste life and experience something new. Innovative New American classics, big on taste in the open kitchen and a taste of style with the sleek, modern decor all at an affordable price.

Slope Suds is a multi-service Park Slope salon and soap bar offers an escape from complicated city life.

Pizza Plus has served real Brooklyn pizza since 1987 on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. A very attractive neighborhood place with super delicious pizza and other Italian entrees.

D’Vine Taste is a gourmet market on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. Nalie Elsebaie, a native of Lebanon, runs the store with the help of her two brothers. Besides the wonderful selection of olive oils from Spain, France, and Italy, they carry five olive oils from Lebanon, which Elsebaie describes as having a stronger, greener taste. Make sure to sample the fresh fig treats, with figs imported from Lebanon

Willie's Dawgs serves plump, juicy and delicious hot dogs grilled any way you like them and reverently tucked into our hand rolled homemade buns. Over at Wilie's you can try traditional, natural or veggie dogs on challah, mulitgrain or rye rolls. Plus dozens of different homemade toppings piled high - don’t forget the fork.

Brooklyn Frame Works provides custom picture framing with an emphasis on preservation. Serving Park Slope Brooklyn since 1997, their friendly staff is happy to help customers design the ideal treatment for your cherished artwork.

Whimsy & Spice Brooklyn Confectioners create the ultimate accompaniment to tea and coffee, our shortbread cookies and biscotti, elevated and enlivened by the use of fresh ground spices, aromatic flavors and roasted nuts, can also be enjoyed alone. Choose among 3 deliciously complex shortbread flavors for a delicately crisp cookie: Chocolate Orange Cardamom, Honey Lavender, or Brown Sugar Gingerspice, or try one of our biscotti, Cinnamon Chocolate Malt or Chocolate Chili Cashew, which are twice baked to crunchy perfection. All of our cookies and sweets are hand rolled, hand cut and hand packaged in Brooklyn, NY, using only the finest ingredients with no added preservatives or artificial flavorings.

Alison Lowenstein is the author of City Weekends: Greatest Escapes and Weekend Getaways In and Around New York City.  She is the author of City Baby Brooklyn. She is also a contributor to Time Out Kids, and her work has appeared in Parenting and Babble among other publications.

Hugh Crawford is the photo blogger known as No Words Daily Pix. A show of his photography, Essence and Accident, runs through June 30th at the Old Stone House and is open on weekends. Hugh's editiorial work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Newsweek and Tattler. He is also a software developer who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Louise Crawford and their children, Henry and Alice.

Grimaldi's Pizza serves fabulous pizza on Fulton Street underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn Blogfest 2009

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