Brooklyn Brainery
community centerCommunity-driven, crowdsourced adult-education space offering short classes, workshops, and events on a wide range of topics. Known for accessible, neighborhood-focused programming and pop-up learning experiences in Brooklyn.
Upcoming Events (50)
Classic Charcoal Drawing Faces
Join an evening charcoal drawing workshop at Brooklyn Brainery focused on portrait techniques, shading, and facial features in a relaxed, hands-on session with a friendly instructor.
Cold Process Soap Making for Beginners
Join a hands-on beginner workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to learn cold-process soap making. You'll learn safety, saponification basics, and craft a small batch of bars with natural scents to take home.
Mindful Watercolor
Join a calming watercolor workshop at Brooklyn Brainery for mindful painting and creative exploration in a relaxing evening session. Perfect for beginners and hobbyists, with friendly guidance and a focus on mindfulness. $25.
Watercolor Fundamentals: The Very Basics
Learn watercolor fundamentals in a friendly, hands-on session at Brooklyn Brainery. This beginner class covers supplies, brush work, color mixing, washes, and basic composition, with guidance for new painters.
Goat Milk Soap with Mix-Ins
Join a hands-on soapmaking workshop at Brooklyn Brainery in NYC to craft goat-milk soap with mix-ins; learn basic techniques, fragrance options, and safe handling. Materials included, take home your handmade bars, all for $45.
Tapestry Weaving for Beginners
Beginner-friendly tapestry weaving workshop at Brooklyn Brainery; learn basic loom setup, simple patterns, and color mixing in a friendly, hands-on session.
Shibori: Block and Bind Dye Techniques with Indigo
Join a hands-on Shibori dye workshop at Brooklyn Brainery in NYC. Learn block-and-bind indigo techniques, experiment with folds and resists, and dye a sample textile to take home. A creative intro ideal for beginners and fabric lovers.
Water Bath Canning for Beginners
Join a hands-on introduction to water bath canning at Brooklyn Brainery. This beginner-friendly class covers safe preservation, equipment, acidity, and sealing jars, with practical tips for home canning in NYC.
Watercolor Coasters
Join a 6pm watercolor workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to design and paint decorative coasters. Learn basic washes, color mixing, and sealing techniques in a friendly, hands-on session.
Half-Day Tarot Intensive: Accurate & Intuitive Readings
Join this half-day workshop at Brooklyn Brainery in NYC to master accurate, intuitive tarot readings. This hands-on session offers practical techniques and guided practice to sharpen your divination skills, on March 21 at 11am.
Walking Tour: A History of Brooklyn's Water Supply
Join a guided walking tour from Brooklyn Brainery on March 21 at 1pm to explore Brooklyn's history of its water supply, uncover landmarks, and learn how New York's urban water system shaped the city.
Toasting to Time: Green-Wood Cemetery & Crafted Cocktails
Join Brooklyn Brainery for an evocative afternoon exploring Green-Wood Cemetery's stories while sipping crafted cocktails. This guided tasting pairs historical insights with artisanal drinks in a casual, urban setting.
Needle Felted Mushrooms
Join Brooklyn Brainery for a needle felting workshop turning wool into whimsical mushroom sculptures. Learn basic felting techniques, shape caps and stems, and take home your own handmade fungi.
Craft Your Own Divination Charms
Join a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery in NYC to craft your own divination charms. Learn simple talisman-making techniques in a casual, artsy class. Materials included; $42. Sun, Mar 22, 1:30pm.
Visible Mending Sashiko And Woven Patches
Learn visible mending with sashiko and woven patches in a hands-on DIY workshop at Brooklyn Brainery, exploring stitch textures, color patches, and practical upcycling of worn garments for durable, stylish results.
Winter Cyanotype
Join a hands-on Cyanotype workshop at Brooklyn Brainery on March 25 at 6pm. Learn the historic blue-printing process, mix chemicals, expose negatives, and print your own cyanotype in a friendly, creative session.
Comedy & Cats
Join a quirky, hands-on comedy workshop at Brooklyn Brainery that blends cat-themed humor with practical performance tips. Learn setup, timing, and crowd-work to craft feline-friendly bits you can perform or write in a friendly classroom setting.
Intro to Embroidery: Making a Sampler
Join a beginner-friendly embroidery workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to create a sampler, with guided stitches, hands-on practice, and all materials provided. Perfect for crafty newcomers seeking a cozy, hands-on textile project in a friendly neighborhood setting.
Watercolor Fundamentals: Simple Landscapes
Join Brooklyn Brainery for an evening watercolor workshop focused on simple landscapes. Learn washes, color mixing, and composition in a relaxed, beginner-friendly session at Brooklyn Brainery in New York on Tue, Mar 31 at 6pm for $35.
Wet Felted Soaps
Join a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to craft wet-felted soaps. Learn this fiber-art technique—from felting fibers to shaping soaps—in a casual, creative evening class perfect for hobbyists. $30, April 1, 6pm.
Teeny Tiny Screen Print Project
Join a hands-on screen-printing workshop at Brooklyn Brainery in New York City for a tiny, creative print project. Learn the basics and complete a small design in a relaxed evening session starting at 6:30pm on Thu, Apr 2, priced at $68.
Crewel Embroidery: Reimagining a Cloister Tapestry
Join a hands-on crewel embroidery workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to reimagine a cloister tapestry. Learn stitches, motifs, and modern reinterpretations in a focused, studio-style session—perfect for textile lovers and craft enthusiasts.
The Taverns of New York: A Cocktail Themed Tour of Colonial Manhattan
Join a cocktail-themed, educational tour of colonial Manhattan at Brooklyn Brainery. Discover tavern life, early drink culture, and stories behind iconic cocktails in a lively, informative session for $75 on Apr 4, 2026 at 2pm.
Embroidery Colorwork: Pigeon Portrait
Join a hands-on embroidery workshop at Brooklyn Brainery on April 4 at 3:30pm to learn colorwork stitches and create a playful pigeon portrait in thread. Beginner-friendly class, $85 for a focused, studio-style session in a cozy Brooklyn space.
2026 Vision Board Crafting & Personal Tarot Readings
Join a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery for 2026 vision-board crafting paired with personal tarot readings. Create a visual plan for the year and receive one-on-one tarot insights in a friendly, casual learning atmosphere.
Intro to Food Writing
Join a beginner-friendly food writing workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to learn how to describe taste, texture, and aroma, craft engaging food narratives, and turn tastings into vivid, publication-ready prose.
Watercolor Vs Gouache
Learn the differences between watercolor and gouache in a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery. This studio session covers brushwork, layering, and color mixing, giving you practical tips to master each medium.
Classic Charcoal Drawing For Beginners
Discover the basics of charcoal drawing in a friendly beginner workshop at Brooklyn Brainery. Learn shading, line control, and composition in a relaxed NYC class designed for new artists and curious doodlers.
Fundamentals of Drawing
Online drawing fundamentals course at Brooklyn Brainery. Learn basic shapes, shading, and composition in a casual, beginner-friendly session on Sunday, April 12 at 11:00 AM from a cozy NYC community classroom.
Tarot 101: Learn to Do Your Own Readings
Join Brooklyn Brainery for Tarot 101: learn how to do tarot readings for yourself, tap into your intuition, and gain confidence in a friendly, beginner-friendly session at a cozy Brooklyn venue.
Tarot 201 Interpreting Card Spreads Reading Others
Dive into Tarot 201 at Brooklyn Brainery: a practical, hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to interpret card spreads for others, build confidence with sample spreads, and practice in a friendly community setting.
Cook Like An Ancient Roman
Join a hands-on cooking class at Brooklyn Brainery to recreate ancient Roman dishes. Learn authentic ingredients, techniques, and flavors from antiquity, guided by an expert instructor in a friendly NYC classroom.
Forbidden Fruit: 1000 Years of Prohibition (Online)
Online history session from Brooklyn Brainery: Forbidden Fruit — 1000 Years of Prohibition. Apr 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM. Trace bans, culture, and the economics of drinking across centuries in this engaging, accessible lecture.
H P Lovecraft In Gotham
Join Brooklyn Brainery for a focused lecture exploring H. P. Lovecraft's influence on Gotham and urban weird fiction, tracing cosmic horror through New York City's lore in an accessible, engaging evening class.
Gouache Florals
Hands-on Gouache Florals workshop at Brooklyn Brainery on Saturday, April 18 at 11:00. Learn gouache basics, layering, color mixing, and floral composition in a friendly, artist-led class.
Improv For Communication Skills
Join a practical improv workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to boost communication skills through spontaneous games, quick thinking, and collaborative exercises in a friendly, low-pressure NYC setting.
Drawing Animals Of The Renaissance
Join a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to learn drawing techniques for animals depicted in Renaissance art, exploring anatomy, posture, and historical style under expert guidance in a friendly NYC classroom. The session covers Renaissance animal motifs, anatomy notes, and
Growing Plants Indoors With Science And Magic Online
Join Brooklyn Brainery online for a quirky indoor gardening class that blends science and magic to grow lush houseplants from your home, guided by practical tips and playful experiments.
Pressed Flower Coasters
Join a hands-on DIY workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to make pressed-flower coasters: learn pressing, arranging, sealing, and finishing techniques in a casual, artsy craft session.
Birding In Nyc And Beyond
Explore urban birdlife with a Brooklyn Brainery workshop on Birding in NYC and Beyond. Learn field-identification tips, observe behavior, and track migration across city parks and green spaces.
Developing Your Intuition
Join a practical workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to explore how to access and trust your intuition through interactive exercises, guided reflection, and real-life decision-making tips in a friendly, accessible, beginner-friendly setting.
Scent Style Iconic Perfumes 1950 2000
Join a Brooklyn Brainery class exploring iconic perfumes from 1950 to 2000, tracing how scent styles, designer signatures, and cultural shifts shaped modern fragrance in an engaging, educational evening.
Block Printing On Textiles
Join a hands-on workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to learn block printing on textiles. You'll transfer patterns, mix inks, and print your own fabric samples in a friendly, maker-minded session perfect for crafters and DIY enthusiasts.
Intro to DSLR and Mirrorless Photography
Join a hands-on photography workshop at Brooklyn Brainery to master DSLR and mirrorless camera basics, exposure, focus, and composition through practical shooting in a welcoming, beginner-friendly session.
Photography 101 3 Sessions
Join a 3-session photography basics workshop at Brooklyn Brainery starting May 5 at 6pm. Learn camera controls, composition, lighting, and editing through hands-on exercises in a friendly, community-focused NYC setting.
Intro To Fermentation Kimchi
Join a hands-on kimchi fermentation class at Brooklyn Brainery to learn the basics of lactic acid fermentation, nail down salt ratios, safety tips, and flavor-building techniques in a friendly, kitchen-table setting.
Intro To Fermentation Kombucha
Join Brooklyn Brainery for an intro to fermentation with a kombucha focus—learn SCOBY basics, brewing steps, flavoring, and safe bottling in a hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop.
Fermented Veggies
Join a hands-on fermentation workshop at Brooklyn Brainery and learn how to transform vegetables into tangy, probiotic-rich ferments. A practical class exploring salinity, timing, and flavor profiles in a cozy Brooklyn classroom.
A History of Brooklyn's Water Supply
A Month Of Watercolor
Join A Month Of Watercolor at Brooklyn Brainery for a hands-on art course in NYC. Over several sessions, beginners explore washes, color mixing, layering, and composition in a friendly, affordable studio setting.