It’s Saturday and the weekend is in full force. Take advantage of this gorgeous blue sky day why don’t ya. There’s so much to do. My new additions to the weekend list are on top. Below that you’ll find the events I put up yesterday for Saturday and Sunday. Lots to do including Simone Dinnerstein’s Neighborhood Classics series this time in the Lower East Side at PS 142 on Sunday. See below.
Tonight there’s Great Line-up at Launchpad, a new-ish “creative gathering space” in Crown Heights.
On Saturday, Nov 12 at 7PM at Launchpad: “Words, Music and Moving Pictures” presents three NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp graduates. Documentarian and multimedia artist Ryan Murdock presents “Project: Butte, America,” a multimedia essay about Butte’s mining past and its questionable legacy. Poets Liliana Almendarez and the wonderful Wanda Phipps read from their work. Singer-Songwriter Stephanie Spangler navigates love, loss, and resolution in her original pop-folk songs played on the piano.
Dance to the sounds of a fabulous DJ from Japan at the Bell House
Saturday, November 13 at 8PM at the Bell House: An international superstar dj/producer from Japan to take the stage at the Bell House! “She creates dance music filled with originality and utilizes “taiko dub”, a percussive and tribal sound, as her weapon.”
Classical Viola at Barbes on Sunday
Sunday, November 14 at 7PM at Barbes: Jennifer Stumm, the acclaimed violist, has been hailed by the Washington Post has hailed the “opal-like beauty” of her playing. Jennifer will be playing solo works by Bach, Britten and Ligeti.
Movies:
Brooklyn Heights Cinema: Waiting for Superman, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
At BAM: For Colored Girls, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Social Network.
At the Park Slope Pavilion: Megamind 3D, For Colored Girls, Morning Glory, Due Date, The Social Network, Red, Hereafter.
Music
Nov 12, 13 at Issue Project Room: A festival of international vaulting voices, vivid sounds and vast genres Vital Vox, a Vocal Festival.
On Sunday November 14 a benefit for the PS 142 Amalia Castro School on the Lower East Side the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), presented by Simone Dinnerstein and her Neighborhood Classics series,will perform a concert featuring music associated with New York’s Downtown new music scene, including works by Philip Glass, Phil Kline, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Nico Muhly.
Saturday Nov 13 at 8:15 at the Jewish Music Cafe: Eden and Except Saturday.
Theater
Through Nov 14 at The Gallery Players: The musical adaptation of that cult classic movie Reefer Madness.
Through Nov 14 at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Druid Theater’s Penelope. Ben Brantley loved it: “extravagantly imaginative”and ”deliciously acted.”
Nov 12-13 at BAM’s Next Wave Festival: Ping Chong’s adaptation of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood.
Art
Through Nov 27 at Park Slope’s 440 Gallery: “Rite”, the debut exhibition of Katharine Colona Hopkins, who presents three large-scale works that encompass painting, wall- drawing, and animation.