FILM
Please Give, Babies, and Exit Through the Gift Shop at BAM.
Free movie at BAX on May 7th at 7PM: Sugar, The story of a Dominican pitcher’s journey to NYC to try to make it in the big leagues. (In Spanish with English subtitles.). Part of the Films on Fifth Festival.
EVENTS
On Saturday, May 8th BAM Block party and groundbreaking, an vent-packed neighborhood block party filled with outdoor performances, food vendors, arts & crafts, and more to celebrate the groundbreaking for BAM’s newest addition—the Richard B. Fisher Building. Located at the former site of the Salvation Army (321 Ashland Pl), the BAM Fisher Building will be dedicated to arts, education, and community programs.
ART
The Muriel Guepin Gallery at 47 Bergen Street in Cobble Hill has q show or paintings that will be open through May 31st. “Looking In,” features paintings and mixed media works by Pauline Galiana, Hovey Brock, and Robert Szot. Hovey Brock’s paintings (one is pictured above) are composed of many layers of transparent washes of intense colors. His goal is for viewers to release the habits that govern the way they look, and to get “lost” in his paintings.
MUSIC
Sunday, March 9th at 7PM, Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present a classical music concert featuring some of the best new talent in the classical world. This month: THE AFIARA STRING QUARTET. The all-Canadian Quartet (Valerie Li and Yuri Cho, violins; David Samuel, viola; and Adrian Fung, cello) is the graduate resident string quartet at The Juilliard School in New York, where they serve as teaching assistants to the celebrated Juilliard String Quartet.
Saturday, May 8th at 7:30PM at the Bell House: The Primitives emerged from the UK independent scene of the mid-80’s that spawned The Jesus and Mary Chain & My Bloody Valentine. Their sound distilled the shimmering guitar jangle of the Byrds with the buzzsaw style of The Ramones and 60’s girl group melodies, into two and a half minute pop gems. Morrissey named them his favourite band & a widely acclaimed first album, made them the UK’s indie-darlings. The huge success of Crash, saw them cross-over to a mass audience.
DANCE
May 8th at 7:30 PM at BAX: Dissonance Dance Theater presents: “What the Eye Sees,” a dance work compiled of specifically themed works that focus on the human perception of observed emotion and day to day situations. The work, musically, is a fusion of classical structure, with rock and hip hop ornamentation with the dance vocabulary ranging from contemporary ballet to hip hop. Inspired by the way we view familiar subjects.