I try to bring you what I think are the funnest activities every weekend. It’s stuff I’d like to do but more often than not I don’t get around to it. Besides, I can only run around so much. As the weekend progresses I add more…
Film
July 22: Movies with a View in Brooklyn Bridge Park presents the Big Lebowski.
All weekend: Inception, I Am Love, The Kids Are All Right, Cyrus at BAM; Cary Grant film festival also at BAM
Theater
July 22 – August 1, the Gallery Players presents . Broadway’s Jeremy Bobb stars as the Danish prince in their summer presentation of Shakespeare’s seminal work. Read more about Hamlet or click here to buy your tickets.
July 22 and 23 at 8:30 Piper Theater presents Nocturnes by John Connelly directed by Nigel Williams in Washington Park.
July 24 & 25: Pipe Theater presents The Book of Liz by David and Amy Sedaris in Washington Park.
Celebrate Brooklyn
July 22 at 7:30 PM at Celebrate Brooklyn: The Brooklyn-born, UK-based Carl Davis, a conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra who has composed music for more than 100 television programs and whose remarkable work as a composer of original scores to silent films is unrivaled, makes a triumphant return to the Bandshell. Davis will conduct the fantastic Brooklyn Philharmonic in live performances of his original scores to Easy Street, 1:00 AM, and Behind the Screen, three of Charlie Chaplin’s classics from the Mutual Film Corporation.
July 23rd at 7:00PM Celebrate Brooklyn presents Masterminded by bassist-producer Simón Mejía and featuring by the rapid-fire delivery of the enchanting singer Liliana Saumet, Bomba Estéreo have exploded out of Bogotá to the forefront of the Latin alternative scene. The band merges traditional sounds from Colombia’s Caribbean coast like cumbia, bullerengue and champeta with electronica, reggae and hip-hop to conjure “homegrown folkloric music being etched upon the global DNA of urban beats.” (Hispanic Magazine)
July 24 at 4PM: Celebrate Brooklyn presents: Field of Dreams. You build it. You come. A DIY world’s fair of music and art. Grammy-winning producer Andres Levin and The Bruce High Quality Foundation present a Bandshell-wide, all day event fit for all the senses. Musical and theatrical guests include: Cucu Diamantes, Luis Guzman, Pablo Picasso, M1 from Dead Prez, Los Hanky Pankys vs. Yerba Buena, Les Nubians, Raven O, and many more to be confirmed. Track the new participants and the making of field of dreams here: musichasnoenemies.com/fieldofdreams.
Don’t forget “Winter’s Bone”..the description of 0zark drug dealers and bail jumpers may be off putting,but it is a film directed and written by women, told from a woman’s perspective ..powerful performances by Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes…”Hands down” the best movie of the summer and possibly the year….