Just added to The List:
The Old Stone House’s fantastic annual harvest event with pony rides and a petting zoo, as well as face painting, pumpkin painting and great craft activities, as well as a clothing swap upstairs at OSH from 10 am – 1 pm. Meet your neighbors and enjoy a beautiful day at Washington Park/JJ Byrne Playground.
Today at 2PM: Neighborhood Classics at PS 321 presents a program of tango, featuring cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Pablo Ziegler, who explore the ture sould of Buenos Aires tango. This family-friendly, one-hour concert will be hosted by Simone Dinnerstein. All musicians donate their performances, and all ticket sales benefit programs sponsored by PS 321′s PTA
Architecture and Design Film Festival in Tribeca
October 14-17 at the Tribeca Cinemas, the first US film festival celebrating the creative spirit of architecture and design featuring a wide selection of feature length films, documentaries and shorts. Also: discussions with filmmakers, architects and designers about the design process, architecture in film, and the brilliant designs we see and use every day.
Movies
Starts Friday at BAM: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger directed by Woody Allen.
Also at BAM: The Social Network, The Town and Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
Through October 26 at Film Forum: the stunning Barbara Sukowa stars in Vision, a new film about the 12th century mystic and composer Hildegarde Von Binghen directed by the great Margarethe von Trotta.
Saturday, October 17 at BAMCinematek: demonlover directed by Olivier Assayas (part of the Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas festival) with Chloe Sevigny and Gina Gershon. “It’s an exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie about life in the modern world and so very good that even when its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains unscathed.” —Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times.
Art
At Proteus Gowanus (543 Union Street, Brooklyn): Paradiso Contrapasso. “In Dante’s Inferno, Paradiso Contrapasso distinguishes each sinner by making his or her punishment uniquely appropriate to the committed sin, so that every soul inhabits a Hell all its own. Observatory encouraged artists to consider divine comedic retribution in all of its possible representations. The emphasis is on “Divine” and “Comedy”, and on our superstitious fear of getting what we wish for!”
Mad Men Finale Party
Sunday, October 17 at 9PM at The Bell House in Gowanus presents an event for Mad Men junkies: Dress up in your vintage wear and get drunk on whiskey while watching the final episode of Mad Men season four. If you dress up you’ll be automatically entered to win a prize. Important note: seated tickets are sold out – the reduced admission ticket link above is for STANDING ROOM ONLY.
Music
Sunday, October 17 at 7PM at Barbes: New Music Sundays A New Music Series curated by Richard Guérin and Giancarlo Vulcano. Every third sunday of the month, the series will present a composer-portrait focusing on new pieces or under-performed pieces in the composer’s bdy of work.
Sunday, October 17 at 10PM at Barbes: The Django Experiment with French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel, who 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
Up and Coming October 24:
On October 24 Brooklyn Indie Market presents the third annual Steampunk Day at the Dumbo Loft (155 Water Street, Dumbo) from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Steampunk Shopping and Fashion Show at 4 p.m. $20 Victorian/Steampunk portrait sitting with vintage camera by Tsirkus Fotografika $5 entry. Take the F train to York Street Station and travel to a re-envisioned Victorian age that features retrofuturistic fashion, brass and copper clockwork, ray guns, jetpacks, bustles and inventions that go far beyond 19th century technology. Think steam-powered mechanical wonders, brass-fitted computers, dirigibles, goggles, airships, and clockwork inspired accoutrements.