Good morning everyone: I’m heading over to the PS 321 Holiday Craft Fair to buy a scarf for my mother-in-law from that wonderful scarf guy. Then I’m going to Claireware’s annual Holiday Craft Show (with hand-painted fabrics by Susan Steinbrock (see below). I hope to stop by Barbes to catch Soul Power, a doc about the Ali/Foreman fight in Zaire in 1974 (read more below). Did anyone make it over to Red, Hot and New Orleans last night? Tonight’s the special Chanukah Concert at the Jewish Music Cafe with The David Ross Band and special guests. Also don’t forget: On Sunday, December 5th at 6PM, an art show called Serious Whimsey: A Collection of Inevitable Objects opens at Littlefield, with an opening reception (that usually means white wine and snacks and lots of people). The artists in the show are: Gail Rothschild, Justin Gignac, Kit Warren, Lisanne McTernan, Mark DiBattista, Stephanie Homa, and Sztuka Fabryka at
Click on read more to see the whole list with all the details you really need like time and links and more.
Art Opening on Sunday
On Sunday, December 5th at 6PM, Serious Whimsey: A Collection of Inevitable Objects opens at Littlefield, a music club located at 622 Degraw Street between Fourth and Third Avenues in the Park Slope/Gowanus neighborhood with an opening reception (that usually means white wine, snacks and lots of people). The artists in the show are: Gail Rothschild, Justin Gignac, Kit Warren, Lisanne McTernan, Mark DiBattista, Stephanie Homa, and Sztuka Fabryka at
Local Shopping
Saturday 10AM-5PM and Sunday 12PM -5PM at Claireware: Holiday Craft Show with fabulous ceramics by Claireware and lovely hand painted fabrics by Susan Steinbrock.
Saturday 11AM -4PM at PS 321 (180 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope: Holiday Craft Fair.
Sunday from 11AM until 5PM at PS 29 in Cobble Hill: Eat Pie and Shop
Movies
This weekend at BAM: Social Network, 127 Hours, Tiny Furniture, Love and Other Drugs
This weekend at the Pavilion: Unstoppable, Burlesque, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Love and Other Drugs, Morning Glory, Care Bears: Share Bear Shines
Saturday at 8PM at Barbes: Miss Wit Designs presents a special screening of Soul Power. US. 2008. In 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Muhammad Ali is waiting for his rumble in the jungle with George Foreman, Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine organized a three day music festival featuring an unbelievable lineup of the best R&B, African and salsa musicians of the time. James Brown, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Yomo Toro, Franco, Rochereau, The Spinners, Miriam Makeba – the list goes on. The plane ride from New York to Zaire, with most of Fania’s roster jamming for hours would alone be worth the price of admission but the highlights are plentiful: James Brown and Muhammad Ali talking about black power, Ray Baretto on the street of Kinshasa – and of course, unbelievable performances.
Music:
Saturday night at 8PM at BAM: Red, Hot and New Orleans with Irma Thomas and Dr. John, Ivan Neville and MORE. From its deep traditions of jazz, blues, funk, and “second line” sounds to the more raucous “bounce” music scene, an exceptional group of emerging artists and established legends assembles to celebrate the resurgent and resilient sound of New Orleans, a city whose spirit has influenced countless artists and styles. This program is produced by BAM in association with The Red Hot Organization in recognition of World AIDS Day (Dec 1). Part of the proceeds will benefit New Orleans’ NO/AIDS Task Force.
Dec 1-4 at at 8PM at Issue Project Room: Darmstadt Classics of the Avant-Garde: Essential Repertoire: “an adoration and exploration of the experimental tradition in classical music, named “one of the most significant presentations of the season” by Time Out New York.
Saturday at the Jewish Music Cafe (doors open 8:30PM): Special Chanukah Concert with The David Ross Band. with special guests. Shem’s Disciples · Shir Soul a cappella · Dov Hoschander of The Gift and more.
Saturday December 4th at 8PM Launch Pad in Crown Heights: Global Pulse presents “Bridging The Gap” – Peace in Our Community with Guitar player, dancer w/ spoken words, photographer, female drum group. Each presents a piece based on the theme of “Bridging The Gap”
Theater
Through December 12 at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Knee High Theater’s Red Shoes: “No little girl who sees the Kneehigh Theater’s adaptation of “The Red Shoes” (not that any little girl should) will leave with sweet dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. This imaginative, so-ugly-it’s-beautiful production, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn through Dec. 12, is more likely to inspire nightmares involving severed body parts, public humiliation and concentration camps.” Ben Brantley in the NY Times.
Through December 19 at the Gallery Players in Park Slope: Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel’s haunting and beautiful Irish masterpiece opens December 4 under the direction of Heather Siobhan Curran.
Literary
Sunday at 4:40PM at the 440 Gallery: 440 Gallery’s reading and artist talk series takes on two new curators this fall, fiction writer Cathy Chung and poet Cecily Parks. They present author Honor Moore playwright and fiction writer Rosemary Moore and memoirist R. Dwayne Betts.