Patti Smith will play a low-cost, intimate benefit show tonight (Thursday, November 11th) in Park Slope at Southpaw. Doors open at 7PM. This event is under-the-radar, and tickets are still available as of this writing here.

Patti Smith has not played Brooklyn in decades. This is a bit of a scoop.

It’s for a good cause: Fortnight Journal, a nonprofit online journal that documents “promising members of the millennial generation.”

Ms. Smith and guitarist Lenny Kaye will play their own material, but also duet with–and preside as a mentor over–the young “millennial” musicians joining them onstage. These include Jesse Smith with Michael Campbell, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, Outernational, and journal contributors Zane Alan McWilliams and Tamar Korn.

Samantha Hinds is  the editor and co-founder of Fortnight. She is a Brooklyn resident and OTBKB reader and she emailed me to say that they will be devoting the proceeds from this event to sustaining Fortnight Journal, a nonprofit project.

“At Fortnight, we try to beat the  recession mentality by pairing a cast of 14 promising young thinkers and creators with luminary mentors, gaining their advice and perspective. Patti Smith is the first featured Fortnight luminary mentor this quarter,” Hinds writes.