Street Fair:
Sunday, Sept. 26: the 36th annual Atlantic Antic on the stretch between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue, featuring more than 600 food, art and shopping vendors, 14 performance stages and even kid-friendly activities like pony-rides and a magician showcase.
Movies:
Wall Street Money: Never Sleeps, The Town at BAM
Friday, Sept 14: Life Lessons, a program of shorts at BAM explores the often difficult process of growing up is explored in this shorts program that chronicles the hard-won lessons learned by children and young adults of color inside and outside the classroom. A Departure From a Love (2009, 8min) Directed by Ishmael Islam: A young man takes a walk through his beloved Brooklyn while reciting his spoken word poetry to an unknown lover. His journey takes us on a visual “lovefest” throughout the borough, connecting the people, places, and emotions that inspire his poetry. Sticks and Stones (2006, 9min) Directed by Rehema Imani Trimiew The Lesson Plan (2009, 30min) Directed by Eddy Dura, Premature (2008, 14min) Directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green.
Film Festivals:
There are two count ’em two film festivals this weekend:
Coney Island Film Festival and the Bushwick Film Festival grace the screens of Brooklyn this weekend.
Theater/Performance:
This weekend Laurie Anderson opens the Next Wave Festival at BAM with Delusion, “a phantasmagoric world made up of short plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent with Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A simultaneously contemplative and whimsical epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.”
Art:
The DUMBO Arts Festival will take over the waterfront community of DUMBO – its galleries, storefronts, performance venues, studios, and parks. More exciting names are expected to be announced over coming weeks.
Saturday, September 25, at the Morgan Fine Arts Building in Greenpoint, 40 Brooklyn artists open their studios to the public. From 5 to 10 P.M., 40 separate studios on five floors of the building will be open to the public, displaying fine art in every medium – painting, sculpture, silk screening, New Yorker cartooning, abstract photography.
BWAC’s Fall Group Art Show, Lineage, is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm, September 25 to October 31. 300 artists will be exhibiting 1200 works in all media, including those of Featured Artist, Anujan Ezhikode.
Muriel Guepin Gallery 47 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Group Show “Return us to Ourselves” Featuring the Artwork of Everett Aison, Matthew Conradt, and Jeanne Verdoux. On view from September 25, 2010 until November 7, 2010. Opening Reception Saturday September 25, 2010 from 6:30 – 9 pm.
Through Dec 12, Brooklyn Utopias Farm City at the Old Stone House curated by Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla, curators featuring artwork by: Andrew Casner, Hernani Dias, Kate Glicksberg, Katherine Gressel, Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, Christina Kelly, Jess Levey, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Scott Nyerges, ORPH, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy , Dan Sagarin, Eric Sanderson, Tattfoo Tan, Work.AC
Music:
On Friday, Sept 24 at 8PM at Issue Project Room: A celebration of Laurie Spiegel’s 65th Birthday ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a reception and piano concert of her work. The evening will begin with a 45-minute informal gallery show featuring slideshows of photographic documentation of Spiegel’s computer-generated art created at Bell Labs, personal photographs, hand made art and other selected visuals while we hear selected music from the greatly expanded double-cd re-release of her seminal 1980 LP “The Expanding Universe” forthcoming on Unseen Worlds Records. Following the exhibition, Spiegel will give a brief comments on her work and the evening will conclude with a rare performance of some of Spiegel’s rarely-heard very personal solo piano pieces performed by Joseph Kubera.
Saturday Sept 25 at 8PM Barbes presents Laura Cantrell, the WFMU DJ and country singer. She has been called “the most vital new country voice in decades” by The Independent. She has just released her first album in three years, “Trains and Boats and Planes”, a digital download with songs about travel and the heartache of separation and loss. Laura’s fans include the late BBC DJ John Peel, who described her album “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” as “my favorite record of the last ten years and possibly my life,” and Elvis Costello who claimed that “If Kitty Wells made Rubber Soul, it would sound like Laura Cantrell”.
At the Rock Shop, Park Slope’s newest rock venue: The Dig on Friday, Sept 24 and on Saturday, Sept 24: Hurricane Bells.
Sunday, Sept 26 at 9PM Barbes presents Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment: French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards.
Cooking Demonstrations:
On Sunday, Sept. 26th from 2-2:30 PM at the Park Slope Farmers Market on 5th Avenue between 3rd and 5th Streets in Brooklyn.Farmers Market, Fumiko Akiyama, owner of Park Slope’s Kappa Sake House, will demonstrate how to make two different kinds of miso soup using local produce and seafood at The event marks the first in a series of weekly cooking demos given by local chefs at the Farmers Market. Each demonstration will be held from 2 to 3:30pm and will feature local, farm-fresh ingredients.