Music

Friday, August 3 at 7PM: Ted Leo, Mission of Burma, and Wild Flag at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park.

Friday, August 3 at 8PM at Roulette, which is located on Atlantic Avenue at Third Avenue. John Cage’s Empty Words Varispeed commences Part I of their 12-hour arrangement of John Cage’s Empty Words, a landmark text-based work from the mid-70s that transforms speech into music and brings to light the beauty and power of the human voice. At 2AM there’s a sound walk on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Film

Friday, August 3 at 4:30 and 9:15: The Harder They Come with Jimmy Cliff at BAM.

On-going: Looking for Sugarman at the Angelika Film Center

Festivities

Saturday, August 4 starting at 5PM: Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates the Caribbean. Note there is no dance party on Saturday night. However, at 9PM, Brooklyn-based dance agency League of Unreal Dancing hosts freestyle dance battles and a performance featuring the Afro-Caribbean–inspired dance form “bruk up.”

Theater 

August 1-18 at 7PM: Overturn Theater with artistic director, Kristy Dodson, place Samuel Beckett’s 1953 Godot in an abandoned medical ward in Bushwick, Brooklyn.