CHERRY BLOSSOMS:

They’re in bloom and you won’t want to miss them. Hanami is the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season. At Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hanami is a New York City “rite of spring.” You can stroll under a canopy of cherry trees, savor Japanese entrees at the Terrace Café.

FILM

Sunday, Apr 18 at 3, 6, 9pm at BAM: Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux) + A Day in the Country directed by Jean Renoir

THEATER:

Sunday 5:30 – 7PM at Proteus Gowanus: Shrink, a reading of a new play-in-progress by Lizzie Olesker, is inspired by the micro-universe of toy theater. Alice, of the traveling Tiny Universe Theater, faces another sleepless night as she waits for her teenage son to return home.  And it’s the anniversary of her brother Joe’s disappearance 25 years ago. As Alice waits at the kitchen table, the seemingly random objects in her old touring suitcase shapeshift into a world that seems small enough to hold in her hand.

MUSIC

Sunday at 8PM at Barbes: Dean Olsher. Funked-up ragtime. This is the music Scott Joplin would have written had he lived to the age of 143. With Dean Olsher, bass clarinet and accordion; Brian Drye, trombone; Kurt Hoffman, tenor sax and clarinet; Meg Reichardt, guitar and vocal and Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff, viola.

SHOPPING

Sunday at 11AM: Brooklyn Indie Market. Peruse your favorite indie designers at this open market on Smith Street.