Readings:

On Thursday, June 10th at 8PM at the Old Stone House in Park Slope Brooklyn Reading Works presents “People Make Mistakes,” an evening of fiction curated by Martha Southgate. Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family, Danielle Evans, author of the upcoming short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and Martha Southgate, author of Third Girl From the Left will read.$5 donation includes refreshments. Books for sale

Film:

Please Give, Solitary Man, Sex and the City at BAM

Dance:

Alvin Ailey “By Popular Demand” Program. Jun 11, 12, 16 & 17 at 7:30pm. Jun 12 & 19 at 2pm (ING Family Matinees)*
Audience favorites including: In/Side by Robert Battle; Uptown by Matthew Rushing; Revelations by Alvin Ailey

Music:

On Thursday, June 10th at 7PM at  Issue Project Room: With members hailing from 14 countries on 5 continents, Ensemble Laboratorium presented its debut performance at the 2005 Lucerne Festival. A truly international ensemble, Laboratorium seeks to discover and develop an interactive exchange between the cultures represented by its members, often in the form of projects exploring a wide range of contemporary music.

Saturday, June 12 at 8PM at Barbes: Gato Loco plays arrangements of early Cuban son dance hits from the 1920s-1940s. The quartet plays the great compositions of Ignacio Pinero, Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Quarteto Habanero, Casino De La Playa, Maria Teresa Vera, as well as traditional folk songs, all filtered th0rough subsonic instruments played as delicately as possible. tuba, bari sax, baritone acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass guarantees that you feel the music, rather than hear it.