Celebrate Brooklyn
On Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:30PM) Allen Toussaint and Davell Crawford bring the sounds of New Orleans to Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. One of the true architects of New Orleans music and a national treasure, Allen Toussaint has produced, arranged for, or collaborated with everyone from Dr. John to the Neville Brothers to Irma Thomas (not to mention the Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, and The Band). Performing on his own, “the generosity and grandeur of his melting pot vision…invokes nothing but joy.” (Down Beat) The electrifying piano player and singer Davell Crawford is a direct descendent—he’s often referred to as “The Prince of New Orleans.”
NYC Writers Coalition Marathon
The NYC Writers Coaltion Marathon provides an opportunity for people to spend the day writing, meet other writers, attend free creative writing workshops, attend a lunch time talk with Nicholas Dawidoff, bestselling author of The Crowd Sounds Happy, and help NYWC’s free creative writing programs for the formerly homelss, at-risk youth, seniors & others.
Film:
The 13th Brooklyn International Film Festival continues into the weekend: For a full schedule of the screenings go here. Films are shown at Brooklyn Heights Cinema and indieScreen in Williamsburg.
Please Give, Solitary Man, Sex and the City at BAM Screenings are in
Dance:
This weekend and next at BAM: Alvin Ailey “By Popular Demand” Program. Jun 11, 12, 16 & 17 at 7:30pm. Jun 12 & 19 at 2pm (ING Family Matinees)* Audience favorites including: In/Side by Robert Battle; Uptown by Matthew Rushing; Revelations by Alvin Ailey
Music
Saturday, June 12 at 8PM at Barbes: Gato Loco plays arrangements of early Cuban son dance hits from the 1920s-1940s. The quartet plays the great compositions of Ignacio Pinero, Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Quarteto Habanero, Casino De La Playa, Maria Teresa Vera, as well as traditional folk songs, all filtered th0rough subsonic instruments played as delicately as possible. tuba, bari sax, baritone acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass guarantees that you feel the music, rather than hear it.
This Sunday and every Sunday at 8PM at Issue Project Room: Share Free Audio and Video Jam. Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into IPR’s system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. IPR will furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
Art
At the 440 Gallery in Park Slope: “Ezra, zichrono l’vracha, May his memory be a blessing” is a powerful installation that chronicles a year of mourning and a painfully altered family life.
At the Brooklyn Museum of Art: “American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection” Featuring over 80 dressed mannequins and a selection of hats, shoes, sketches, and other fashion-related materials. 10 am–5 pm.
At UrbanGlass: “Parenthetical Admission (Things Eventually Recognized After the Fact…)” Artist David Schnuckel presents works based on human fallibility. 647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place • Tel: 718.625.3685
Theater
Tiny Toy Theater Festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse is a big festival of tiny films.
Saturday, June 12, 1 pm
Saturday, June 12, 4:30 pm
Saturday, June 12, 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 12, 10 pm
Sunday, June 13, 11 am
Sunday, June 13, 2 pm
Sunday, June 13, 7:30 pm