I scour the city’s cultural listings to find interesting movies, music, theater and art for the readers of OTBKB to do and see. This weekend’s treats include Battle Week a variety of interesting events including a 10-mile race on Sunday, commemorating the first battle of the Revolutionary War, Emotional Sloppy Loose Limbed Cinema at BAM , a film series curated by Benny and Josh Safdie at BAM and Non-native NY, a group show of art by artists from outside the US and more so keep reading…
Through August 24th: Emotional Sloppy Loose Limbed Cinema at BAM with films selected by Benny and Josh Safdie includes:
On Saturday, August 21 at 4:30 and 9:15 PM: Daddy Longlegs at BAM: Frownland director Ronald Bronstein gives a marvelously loose-limbed performance in this swansong to irresponsibility as Lenny, an impulsive and hopelessly immature overgrown kid struggling against his nature to be a father to his two sons. Surprising, out-of-left-field magic moments abound (a super-human feat of refigerator hauling, a surreal insect encounter straight out of Kafka) in this compassionate, and often troubling, homage to the directors’ own father.
Winter’s Bone, I Am Love, Inception, The Kids are All Right also at BAM
Eat, Pray, Love, Dinner for Schmucks, The Switch, Despicable Me, Piranha 3D, The Expendables, Salt, Inception at Pavilion.
MUSIC
On Saturday, August 21 at 10 PM: Red Baarat Festival at Barbes: Baraat is Hindi for a marriage procession. In North India, it is a tradition on the day of the wedding for the groom to travel to his bride’s home on a magnificently decorated horse, accompanied by family and friends.
On Sunday, August 22 at 9PM: Hudson River Park Annual Blues Festival. Blues music and BBQ with Texans Smokin’ Joe Kubek and the Bnois King Band, belter and 2009 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year nominee Janiva Magness, gospel-laced guitarist Joe Louis Walker, and more.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eyewitness to Beautiful Black Brooklyn, a photography exhibit at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration complex’s Skylight Gallery (1368 Fulton St. between Brooklyn and New York avenues) featuring dozens of rare images from the 1960s to the 1980s
ART
The Brooklyn Museum presents the work of Abdi Farah, the winner of Bravo’s reality TV show, “Work of Art.” Late Warhol, an exhibition of work by Andy Warhol is also at the museum.
Non-Native New York, a group show celebrating the cultural contributions of international artists living in the borough at the De Castellane Gallery at 525 Atlantic Ave.
BATTLE WEEK IN BROOKLYN
On Saturday, August 21, 11 am – 4 pm: Battle Days Opening Reception at the Old Stone House.
On Saturday, August 21, 11 am – 3:30 pm: Battle of Brooklyn Van Tour with NYC Urban Park Rangers. Reservations necessary/Limited seating. Meet at the Old stone House.
On Sunday, August 22, 8 am: Battle of Brooklyn 10 Miler in Prospect Park. Race the entire 10 miles, or be part of a 3-person relay. Race past important Battle of Brooklyn sites. Registration: Individual $20 advanced, $30 race day. Relay: $45 advanced by 8/17. NO relay race day registration. Meet at Bartel Pritchard Square (15th St & Prospect Park West) Questions: (718) 636-9000/custserv@jackrabbitsports.com
On Sunday, August 22, 11 am – 1 pm: Evergreen Cemetery presents a walking tour of the revolutionary
war-related sites of the cemetery. Meet at Evergreens Cemetery. Main Gate, Bushwick Avenue and Conway Street. Brooklyn.
Sunday, August 22, 11 am – 2 pm
Tour the sites of the Battle of Brooklyn by Bike. Meet just inside the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park at the James Stranahan statue, southeast corner between the Park Drive and Flatbush Avenue. Tour ends at Ft. Defiance, a café/bar located at 365 Van Brunt Street. Bring your own bike or call OSH for rental info. To reserve: 718-768-3195/info@theoldstonehouse.org
More Weekend List to come…