I can just taste the weekend. There’s tons to do as always plus there’s all that holiday shopping we need to do. Tonight you could check out Danya Kurtz and Keren Ann at The Bell House. On Saturday The Alphabet Lounge Band is playing at Zora Space, that very happening cafe and performance space on 4th Avenue. Click on read more to see the whole list with all the details you really need like time, date, location and links.
Holiday Shopping
December 11 & 12, 15-23 at the Brooklyn Flea: Gifted, a holiday market. One-stop shopping for everyone on your list at One Hanson Place.
December 11 & 12 and every weekend at the Maker’s Market: Shop at an indoor, artisan market located at The Old American Can Factory in Park Slope/Gowanus. It is a ‘destination’ market offering visitors a changing, diverse group of Makers who exhibit and sell their wares of enduring design, high-quality materials, and artisanal fabrication.
Art
Through December 30: Serious Whimsey: A Collection of Inevitable Objects opens atLittlefield, a music club located at 622 Degraw Street between Fourth and Third Avenuesin the Park Slope/Gowanus neighborhood. The artists in the show are: Gail Rothschild, Justin Gignac, Kit Warren, Lisanne McTernan, Mark DiBattista, Stephanie Homa, and Sztuka Fabryka at
Movies
This weekend at BAM: Social Network, 127 Hours, Tiny Furniture, Love and Other Drugs
This weekend at the Pavilion: Unstoppable, Burlesque, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Love and Other Drugs, The Tourist, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas.
Music
Friday, December 10 (doors open at 7:30 PM) at the Bell House: Danya Kurtz and Keren Ann Zeidel. I heard Kurtz perform at the All Things Must Pass tribute at the Bell House a couple of weeks ago and she’s wonderful. Keren Ann is a singer-songwriter-composer- producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel-Aviv and New York. She has lived and recorded in France and New York for many years though she retains her Dutch and Israeli citizenship.
Saturday, December 11, at 8PM at Zora Space: The Alphabet Lounge Band, co-founded in 1999 by Roy Nathanson and Deidre Rodman, is unique for its mix of free improv and charted material, originals and standards, lively banter and poignant moments. NO one leaves a show without smiling-a lot!
The Hard Nut at BAM
December 10-19 at BAM: To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Mark Morris Dance Group reprises its irreverent and much loved The Hard Nut, a retro-modern take on the holiday favorite The Nutcracker. Morris’ rendition—which has won Ovation TV’s Battle of the Nutcrackers contest for three years running—transplants the story from the decorous 1890s to the swinging 1970s, a freewheeling era realized with panache and wit. Inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffmann story, Tchaikovsky’s gorgeous score, and the comic book art of Charles Burns, Morris captures the beauty and tenderness of this classic while infusing it with supreme musicality and raucous humor.
Theater
Through December 12 at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Knee High Theater’s Red Shoes: “No little girl who sees the Kneehigh Theater’s adaptation of “The Red Shoes” (not that any little girl should) will leave with sweet dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. This imaginative, so-ugly-it’s-beautiful production, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn through Dec. 12, is more likely to inspire nightmares involving severed body parts, public humiliation and concentration camps.” Ben Brantley in the NY Times.
Through December 19 at the Gallery Players in Park Slope: Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel’s haunting and beautiful Irish masterpiece opens December 4 under the direction of Heather Siobhan Curran.
On The Horizon: Snowflake Celebration
Thursday, December 16, 2010: Day 2 of the 4th Annual Snowflake Celebration on 7th Avenue is a “No Sales Tax Xmas” event.” Shop Local for an evening of merriment, late night shopping & community spirit!