FILM: This weekend at BAM: “Soundtrack for a Revolution” tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music—the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality. The film features new performances of the freedom with performances by: John Legend, Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean, and The Roots.
–Also at BAM: A Single Man with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Directed by Tom Ford. Based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood.
MUSIC: Chocolate Chip Chamber Music at Old First Church. Kids orchestra performs “The Cats Meow (More Tails from the Opera) at 10 AM and 11:30 AM on January 22 & 24th.
–All Ages Benefit for Haiti at the Old Stone House with Spencer Breslin & The Wild Children, Bad Teeth, Mother Courage, Passing Bells and Ray will perform at on Saturday, January 23 at 6 PM. $5 admission goes toward Haitian relief efforts. Third Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.
The Clark Sisters, one of the top female gospel groups in the country, at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. Saturday at 8 PM.
READINGS/TALKS: On Sunday: The Dynamic Gastropolis. Jonathan Deutsch leads a panel discussion on the history and culture of food in New York City at the GAP branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at 1:30 PM
THEATER: “Lyrics from Lockdown” is the true story of Brooklyn’s own Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion, Bryonn Bain, is wrongly imprisoned in a New York City jail while studying law at Harvard on Sunday at 3PM at the Kumble Theater at Long Island University.
PUPPET SHOWS: “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “The Snow Queen” presented by Puppetworks. 12:30 and 2:30 PM on Saturday and Sunday.
–On Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 PM at Green-wood Cemetery, Victorian Toy Theater presents a multi-media show that celebrates the history and legends of Coney Island.
ART: Artist Xavier Roux was inspired to create a sixty-foot long sculpture by the poem written by Surrealist Robert Desnos in 1942. This sculpture consists of a giant ant symbolizing the trains transporting Jews and other nazi victims to concentration camps. Opens Saturday, 6-9 PM at the Invisible Dog in Cobble Hill. See picture above.