Sixpoint contest entry, submitted by Barclay Douglas

If you’re feeling a little in touch with your artistic side after a few Sweet Actions, you’re not the only one. Presumably because the last call for artist submissions for the Red Hook brewery was a huge success, Sixpoint Craft Ales is again summoning would-be beer culture experts to create inspired posters and upload them to the brewery’s Facebook page (the winner will be chosen by “Likes”). The theme is “Beer is Culture”, and any medium is acceptable, so all you mixed-media mavens, rejoice! Six finalists will win gift baskets with customized apparel, goodies from Sixpoint and other local artisans and (to emphasize the “culture”) a free year-long membership to a local art museum of their choosing. (more…)

Work by previous winner Surabhi Saraf

Via 3rd Ward we heard the Artists Wanted: A Year in Review contest has extended its deadline through Friday. The contest is a free-for-all for the best art of last year: all mediums, techniques, styles and narratives.The top prize is a featured spot at the SCOPE show in the city March 2-6 next to” top figures” in the art scene, a $10,000 grant ($5,000 to create new art, the rest to spend on whatevs), a publicity campaign and star treatment at the after party. Judging is underway, but you have until midnight Friday to enter for your big break. Judges include luminaries of the art world and … Topher Grace.

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It’s not even winter, and one of the thrills of next summer is already knocking on the door. Celebrate Brooklyn!, the summer-long concert series that’s the reason to spend a warm evening in Prospect Park in recent years, is looking for a new t-shirt design for 2011. The series’ organizer, BRIC Arts/Media, is holding a t-shirt design contest between now and Jan. 31, 2011. Whether you’re “an aspiring artist or designer squatting in Bushwick… or just a constant doodler in your 9-5 cubicle,” submit a design, get chosen by the judges at BRIC, and you’ll win a “Friend” summer-long membership that includes four reserved seats and tent-access for every regular show, plus two comp tickets to a benefit show and more. (more…)

Yes, the concerts at Celebrate Brooklyn are free. But go for one of the summer’s biggies, and free probably gets you an afternoon of line-waiting sunburn for nothing but a lumpy, bumpy seat on the distant grass. That doesn’t have to be you. LimeWire Store, the sponsor behind Sonic Youth’s Jul. 31 CB show, is giving away two VIP tickets for right up in front of the stage—so close, LimeWire says, that you’ll “see the settings on Thurston Moore’s amp stack.” If that doesn’t say “very important person,” we don’t know what does. To enter the giveaway, email LimeWire Store at contests@limewire.com by midnight, Jul. 29. Include the name of your favorite Sonic Youth album and why you like it. All the contest rules are here.

Sure, you can bring it like MJ on the dance-floor, and that David Paterson impression is killer at cocktail hours. But how about showing your stuff to the world? Next Saturday’s first ever Coney Island Talent Show is making a last call for entrants in a few distinguished categories. Cash and prizes (not to mention eternal fame and glory) await if you’ve got what it takes as a dancer (solo or troupe), “sassy senior” (over 60… and sassy), drag performer or celebrity impersonator. (more…)

Red Mango vs. PinkBerry. FIGHT!

It’s not even official summer yet and it’s already been jorts-soakingly hot. Your options for finding a cooling treat when you’re out of cash include: digging through the trash at your local grocery store and consulting that Pee-wee episode on how to make Dumpster ice cream soup, or hanging around ice cream parlors on windy days hoping a kid’s scoop gets blown your way. Or, you could weigh in on the debate between the Manhattan-centric Pinkberry and Brooklyn-friendly Red Mango to win a sweet free gift card for some cooling froyo. (more…)

Colin Hearts Kay is the kind of movie we can’t help but love: It’s shot entirely on location in Brooklyn, with a soundtrack by talented up-and-coming Brooklyn bands and most importantly, made on a pea-sized budget. This veritable ode-to-Brokelynites about a guy, a girl and a break-up is having its world premiere tonight at the Brooklyn International Film Festival (Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 9 p.m.). And on Sunday, CHK has been honored with closing out the 10-day fest. That show’s all sold-out, of course… except for the TWO FREE TICKETS we have to give away to one lucky Brokelyn reader. (more…)

Megafauna from Brooklyn's Catbird Pictures

As Brokelynites, we love free stuff, especially, lately, of the movie and festival variety. And especially, especially, we love taking previously un-free stuff, making it free and giving it to you. Enter the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Really, enter it, with the two all-access passes we’ll be giving away to one lucky Brokelyn subscriber. Win and you’ll have two keys to the kingdom that is BIFF, where you can spend Jun. 4 to 13 jaunting around the borough, watching more than 100 films from 25 countries and keeping your eyes peeled for the next Spike Lee or two. (more…)

This could be you

Do you have pipes to rival a church organ’s? If so, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir wants you. The world-renowned Gospel ensemble is offering two singers the chance to sing solos during a Sunday service. And beyond singing with the Grammy-winning group, each winner plus a guest will get an all-expenses-paid hotel stay in NYC. All you need aside from your monstrous talent is a video of yourself performing the choir’s required songs: for men, the song “Surrender;” for women, “Oh The Cross.” (more…)