The Bob Ross Painting Takedown! Enjoy endless beers and party like it’s 1983 to 1994, when Bob Ross graced our airwaves and chilled as all so far out!!! 20 of NY’s funnest painters are painting an episode of Bob Ross, and you’re invited to drink beers and BID on each painting at evening’s end! That’s right, you can walk out with your very own happy little trees and fluffy little clouds painting if you bid in the auction, all to raise $$$ for Bushwick Street Cats!!!

WHAT: Bob Ross Painting Takedown 2018
WHERE: Better Than Jam Store & Studio, 20 Grattan St at the Morgan L Stop!
WHEN: March 2 7-10PM (auction at 9ish!)
HOW MUCH: FREE! (But bring cash and credit cards for the auction!)
WE TAKE CREDIT CARDS FOR THE AUCTION!
It’s FREE to come by, chug some brewskies and party while the artists paint! And stick around because all the paintings are up for auction!!!
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Cheezus beezus! It’s time!!!! Brooklyn’s home cooks defy the gods and create a heaven for us, right here on earth- made entirely of MAC AND CHEEZE for you to eat! All you can eat mac and cheeze- until you decide and vote on your favorite. A new Cheeze Champion shall be named in 2018 with your help!
MAC AND CHEEZE TAKEDOWN 2018
WHERE: Brooklyn Bazaar , 150 Greenpoint Ave in Greenpoint
WHEN: February 25, 2-4PM
Sean Sullivan’s mac and cheeze poster is breakin’!!!!
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WHAT – Brooklyn Soup Takedown 2018
WHEN – January 21 2-4PM
January looks bitter cold and unfriendly, friends. Arctic frost monsters sneezing your marrow solid blue!!! But fight and fight and fight we must! THE SOUP TAKEDOWN!!! Snap together your own Soup Emergency Rescue Unit (below) and pray for summer!!! Eat ALL OF THE SOUP!!!!

Want to enter?! Fight for prizes and fame with your prize winning soup!!!! Email Matt Timms at Matt@TheTakedowns.com to ENTER!!!
WANT TO EAT SOUPS!?!! TICKETS HERE!!!
A TAKEDOWN GIFT TO YOU: Download and cutout the full rez 3D PAPER DOLL HERE! (11×17!) probably the best poster ever by Sean Sullivan!!!
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Holiday cookies comin out your ears!!! Enjoy this holiday cookie massacre with your loved ones, and a bajillion of the finest cookies!!! Literally, a bajillion… HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
WHEN – December 17 2017 Noon-2PM
Home bakers wanna enter? Come at me! Matt@TheTakedowns.com
WANT TO EAT ALL THE COOKIES?!?!? TICKETS HERE
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What?! Almost Christmas and you don’t have a present for the Friend Who Has Everything? Know what they don’t have? A painting of extra-terrestrial pig spiders locked in deadly laserbattle with space vixens on an alien wasteland floating in the cosmos! This and more you’ll see painted live at the first ever Painting Takedown- and take them home!!! All paintings auctioned to raise $$$ for Bushwick Street Cats this winter! Hope you like saving kitties, art, and lazerblasted sci-fi!!!

WHAT: The Brooklyn Sci Fi Painting Takedown
WHEN: December 14 7PM-midnight (auction at 9)
HOW: $10 at door gets you beer, chili and a front row seat to the painting and auction!
Bushwick’s hottest artists!!! Pick up their artwork CHEEEEP to support kitty cats!!! Right before the holidays kick off!!!
Want to paint?! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to ENTER and I’ll give you a canvas and easel!!! Bring your own paints and supplies
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If you don’t know, now you know! The Brooklyn Chili Takedown represents the only and best chili in Brooklyn, a brutal feast of mammoth proportions!!!! Every bowl of red presented in a no-rules format, a never-ending supply of culinary thunder!!!!

WHEN – November 19 Noon-2PM
DARE TO COMPETE! – email Matt@TheTakedowns.com (fight for 6 prize packages, each that include hundreds of $ in Le Creuset, Anolon, Microplane and Wusthof cookware!!!)
EAT TO DARE!!! – all you can eat tickets available HERE!
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CALL FOR COOKS! What you love most at breakfastime!? Granola? Pie? Grits? Let’s make Breakfast Great Again, America! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to fight for love and prizes!! Brooklyn Breakfast Takedown is October 29!!! 1-3PM at Brooklyn Bazaar!!!

A portion of procedes will be donated to:
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WHAT: Brooklyn Bacon Takedown 2017
WHEN: September 24, 2017 2-4
Every possible inkling of bacon ideas that pinballs around in Brooklyn’s takedown heads- here at Arrogant Swine for the world to blast into their dang faces with! Get their and eat everything!!!!
Want to enter? I can give you 10 lbs of Cheshire Pork from Heritage Farms!!! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to enter, and fight hard for prizes and funzoz!
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CALL FOR HOME BREWERS!!! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!!!

Chugalug chugalug!
Home brewers of NYC! Bring your finest Saison, Pils, Gose, Citra, Lager or whatever else is bouncing around your brilliant noggin- and fight for prizes and good times!!!
WHAT: BK Homebrew Takedown
WHERE: Hill Country Barbecue, BK
WHEN: August 20, 2017 1-3PM
TIX: HERE
Want to come chug cold beers on a hot day!?! The people want to know the science of your party! Get your tickets!!!
THE VENUE!

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Summertime is here, and if you don’t wear a hat, the boiling rays can drill holes directly into your brain! Too bad there’s no Ice Cream thingie happening to clear our minds oh wait, it’s… THE BROOKLYN ICE CREAM TAKEDOWN!!!
WHEN: Noon-2PM July 23
Email
Matt@TheTakedowns.com to sign up and compete! Or hey, maybe you’re the type what likes EATIN ALL THE ICE CREAM! Tickets
HERE!
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