Dec 20-21: Shop to End Hunger at Brooklyn Indie Market

Just heard from my friend Kathy Malone about a benefit the Brooklyn Indie Market is doing for St. John's Bread and Life,the largest provider of emergency food services in this area. THey are one of the designated charities of the "Give Where You LIve Campaign."

Brooklyn Indie Market, a collective of fashion and product designers based in Brooklyn, will donate 15- 20% of its proceeds from sales (which will be doubled by a matching grant from Independence Community Foundation) during the weekend of December 20th and 21st, 11-7pm.  St. John's Bread and Life is Brooklyn's largest emergency food provider.  Members of the market gather to sell items each weekend at Smith and Union Streets in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

The shopping event will be part of Bread and Life's "Give Where You Live Campaign," which seeks to involve the local Brooklyn community in charitable programs.  The organization provides meals to more than 1,500 people each day both at its location on Lexington Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant and via its Mobile Soup Kitchen which makes deliveries throughout Brooklyn and Queens.  In addition to sales at the market, local designers, artists and merchants have donated prizes to be raffled off during the December 20/21 weekend, including designer clothing and accessories, art, dinners and bottles of wine.  Donations will help Bread and Life reduce poverty and hunger, which affects one in five of every New Yorker.

Info about Brooklyn Indie Market
Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of fashion and product designers. Emerging Designers converge weekends under the red and white striped tent on Smith & Union Street, offering the public a first glimpse of the many new names in fashion and product design. Visit Brooklyn Indie Market at www.brooklynindiemarket.com.

Info about St. John's Bread and Life
Besides serving more than 1,500 meals daily, Bread and Life also provides an array of social services, including nutrition counseling, housing referral services, medical support, education, support groups and a legal clinic.  You can learn more about St. John's unique Digital Food Pantry and other innovations by visiting Bread & Life online at www.breadandlife.org or calling a real person at 718-574-0058, ext 145 to speak with Dorothy Kellogg.