Art Fair

Friday through Sunday in various locations: Bococacartsfestival.com, an annual fair in the Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods. Show times and locations vary.

Street Fair

Sunday, June 19: Seventh Heaven Street Fair on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope.

Mermaid Parade:

The Mermaid Parade in Coney Island happens every year on the first Saturday of the summer. On Saturday, June 18th come dressed up as a mermaid or merman or watch others “float by” in their parade-best mermaid or sea creature costumes.

Film:

Saturday at 9PM at BAM: Am I Black Enough for You? Described as the definitive profile of Philly soul legend Billy Paul, most famous for his Grammy-winning number one single “Me and Mrs. Jones,” released when he was almost 40. Yet his more “militant” records made him “a criminally unmentioned proprietor of socially conscious, postrevolution, 60s Civil Rights music” (Questlove of The Roots).

Opens Friday at BAM: Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work exposes the private dramas of irreverent, legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to remain the queen of comedy. Filmed as a cinema verite documentary, the film reveals a rare glimpse of the comedic process and the toxic mixture of self-doubt and anger that often fuels it.

Pixar’s Toy Story 3 IS playing at the Park Slope Pavilion. It’s in Disney Digital 3D
‎1hr 49min‎‎ – Rated G‎‎ – Animation/Comedy/Action/Adventure‎: 1:30  2:15  2:45  4:10  5:00  6:50  7:35  8:00  9:30  10:05pm

Music:

On Saturday, June 19th at Celebrate Brooklyn (Doors open at 6:30 PM) CB presents a dazzling, multi-generational lineup to explore the legacy of Miles Davis’ landmark album, Bitches Brew, on the 40th anniversary of its release. While the soul of the master is manifest in the project, the music stretches out into otherworldly territory, becoming “whatever it was Davis intended in 1969: spacious, black-magic stealth funk.” (NY Times) The night begins with the virtuosic Mike Stern, one of the premier jazz-fusion guitarists of his generation and a veteran of Davis’ band.

On Friday, June 18th at 10PM at Barbes: Kill Henry Sugar. Poised astride the epic time-line of life in the boroughs, Erik Della Penna and Dean Sharenow sketch moody musical portraits with what the Village Voice calls, “Cinematic gravitas.” Their ethic is subtle lines by modest means, employing a signature palette of drums, dobro, and voice to construct petulant yankee poetry—more Serpico than Grapes Of Wrath, more Olmstead than Moses.

On Saturday, June 19th at 10PM at Barbes: Slavic Soul Party will perform as part of the Carefusion Jazz Festival.

Art:

At the Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of Andy Warhol (1928–1987). During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques.