MUSIC: On Friday at 8 PM: John Pinamonti, Neil deMause and RebelMart at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook.
—Chocolate Chip Chamber Music at Old First Church. Kids orchestra performs “The Cats Meow (More Tails from the Opera) at 10 AM and 11:30 AM on January 22 & 24th.
–All Ages Benefit for Haiti at the Old Stone House with Spencer Breslin & The Wild Children, Bad Teeth, Mother Courage, Passing Bells and Ray will perform at on Saturday, January 23 at 6 PM. $5 admission goes toward Haitian relief efforts. Third Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.
The Clark Sisters, one of the top female gospel groups in the country, at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. Saturday at 8 PM.
READINGS/TALKS: On Friday: Nick Flynn author of “The Ticking is the Bomb” at Book Court at 7 PM
–On Sunday: The Dynamic Gastropolis. Jonathan Deutsch leads a panel discussion on the history and culture of food in New York City at the GAP branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at 1:30 PM
THEATER: “Lyrics from Lockdown” is the true story of Brooklyn’s own Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion, Bryonn Bain, is wrongly imprisoned in a New York City jail while studying law at Harvard at 3PM at the Kumble Theater at Long Island University.
PUPPET SHOWS: “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “The Snow Queen” presented by Puppetworks. 12:30 and 2:30 PM on Saturday and Sunday.
–On Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 PM at Green-wood Cemetery, Victorian Toy Theater presents a multi-media show that celebrates the history and legends of Coney Island.