MUSIC
–Sounds like Brooklyn Festival begins Friday, January 29: Le Savy Fav & Vivian Girls at BAM. Check website for full schedule of all events.

–Friday, January 29 at 10 PM at Barbes : Brooklyn Qawwali Party. Hear what happens when New York jazz musicians play and improvise around the melodies of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

–Saturday, January 30 at 8PM at Barbes: Park Slope’s Danny Kalb is the founder of the legendary 60’s band the Blues Project and has been credited has being one of the very first practitioner of Blues Rock and his sound has been widely immitated for over forty years.

FILM: Crazy Heart and Avatar 3-D at the Pavilion.

ART: Opening party on Friday, January 29, 6PM-9PM for the Black and White show at Metaphor Contemporary Art.

FOOD: Park Slope Farmer’s Market indoors at Makers Market on Sundays. Third Street near Third Avenue.

THEATER: Alice, Alice, Alice at Irondale January 29 through February 20th. The audience follows the ensemble down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, down the nooks, crannies, recesses, and lofts of the Irondale Center in its historic 19th Century building. Wear your most comfortable clothing and get ready to enter strange wonderful worlds that the general public seldom sees with the Irondale company as your guide.

—Caroline or Change at the Gallery Players in Park Slope January 29 – February 21.

ICE SKATE: On Sunday, January 31 from 2 PM – 6 PM, skate to Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five’s greatest hits at Kate Wollman Rink.