The weekend is near. Either you’re booked or it’s time to start thinking about what to do. There’s a “knock your socks off reading” at Sunny’s in Red Hook, the St. Petersburgh Ballet at Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, and Treasure Island, a must-see production at the Irondale Ensemble in Ft. Greene. Click on read more for more and all the essential details.
Movies
This weekend at the Pavilion: The Adjustment Bureau, Take Me Home With You, Black Swan, The King’s Speech, Gnomeo and Juliet, Just Go With It, Unknown (with Liam Neeson), Rango
This weekend at BAM: Cedar Rapids, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, True Grit
Oscar Nominated shorts at BAM: A showcase of the live-action and animation short films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards.
This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: The Adjustment Bureau, Rango, Blue Valentine, The King’s Speech, True Grit, Cedar Rapids
Music This Weekend
Check out Now I’ve Heard Everything for some great music this weekend. He’s the man and he knows.
Friday at The Bell House at 8PM: Since forming in Brighton in 2008, Esben and the Witch have forged a sound that springs forth from minds soaked in influences far and beyond any standard set of musical touchstones. Nature and literature, art and science, history and the unknown – the trio eschews the everyday for inspiration drawn from sources weird and wonderful, as well as the occasional Scott Walker and PJ Harvey record.
Saturday at Zora Space at 8PM: Mark Geary and Jake Clemons. I heard Mike Geary at Zora Space and thought he was fantastic and very much worth seeing again. Though his approach is often soft his sound and lyrics form an immediate connection that compels you into a very personal experience. Acclaimed for his great music and performances, the Irish born singer has shared the bill with other greats including Jeff Buckley, Coldplay, Glen Hansard and Elvis Costello.
He’s on a bill with Jake Clemons, who performs a raw mix of rock, folk, honesty and emotion. Known for creating an interactive performance, he’s quick to draw in and engage the audience. Equally influenced by British rock and American folk and soul, his music has a bit of split personality that is surprisingly easy to digest considering his own eclectic nature.
Amazing Russian Ballet:
Sunday March 6 at 3PM at the Kingsborough Performing Arts Center: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see St. Petersburg Classic Ballet Theatre of Marina Medvetskaya, whose extraordinary company of dancers have been trained at the Kirov Ballet’s Vaganova Ballet Academy and have performed at the Kirov, The Maly, and the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre of the late Askold Makarov. In addition to classic works on the gala program, such as “Swan Lake,” and “Carnival of the Animals,” the group will perform “Remember When?” set to the music of George Gershwin!
Literary and Brunchy
Sunday, March 6 at 3PM: They’re shaking things up for the March reading at Sunny’s in Red Hook. Instead of having three authors read from their own work, a larger group of writers (almost all of them alumni of the series) will read from someone else’s writing: a short excerpt of work that influenced them or that they wished they had written, and that knocked their socks off. Come on down to Sunny’s-your socks just might get knocked off too! With Lauren Cenard, Marian Fontana, Ernesto Quinonez, Vijay Seshadri, Ennis Smith, Essayist and blogger, Smokin’ Room, Martha Southgate, Anya Ulinich and Tom Zoellner. $5 admission fee.
Theater
This weekend at BAM: The Diary of a Mad Man with Geoffrey Rush
This weekend at Irondale Ensemble: Treasure Island