It’s Labor Day Weekend, the weekend of Hurricane Earl, but there’s still much to do and the Brooklyn West Indian Parade (on Monday). Press read more for all the scintillating details on the Coney Island Rockabilly Festival and more.
Coney Island Rockabilly Festival
Friday September 3, Saturday September 4th on Coney Island: The 2010 Coney Island Rockabilly Festival features, “…the trashiest, dirtiest rock and roll, the most mind-bending and bizarre sideshow and the most sultry and seductive burlesque that Coney Island has to offer.” The traveling roadshow will play clubs and bars across the United States, concluding over Labor Day Weekend on the boardwalk.
Movies:
Soul Kitchen, The Kids are All Right, Inception, The American at BAM
The Switch, Eat Pray Love, Avatar 3D, The American, Last Exorcism at the Pavilion.
Music:
Sept 3-4, 9-10 Help Save Puppets Jazz Bar Fundraisers 5PM until 3AM at Puppets Jazz bar 481 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.
Friday, Sept 3 at 8PM at Barbes: Oran Ektin has been described as a “great clarinet player” and “excellent improviser” by the New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff and a “woodwind maestro” by PRI’s internationally syndicated show, Afropop Worldwide.
Saturday, Sept 4 at 8PM: New Model Army at the Bell House
Art
Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864 at the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition presents a selection of artworks and historical objects celebrating the contributions of women to the mid-nineteenth-century Sanitary Movement, particularly the highly important Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864. The genesis of the exhibition was a rare doll from the Museum’s collection featuring an elaborate trousseau made by a woman named Eliza Lefferts and sold at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. During the Civil War, sanitary fairs were held to raise money for the war effort in major cities in the Northeast.
Through September 30 at the Skylight Gallery in Bed-Stuy: Eyewitness to: Beautiful Black Brooklyn Photography exhibit at the featuring dozens of rare images from the 1960s to the 1980s Tues. – Fri., 11:00am – 6:00pm; Sat., 1:00pm – 6:00pm.
Through October 15th at The Pratt Institute School of Architecture and the Pratt Library: “Le Corbusier – Miracle Boxes,” a multidisciplinary, three-part exhibition on the work of renowned Swiss-French architect, urbanist, designer, writer, and painter Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), who is considered by many to be the most important architect of the 20th century, starting August 30, 2010. “Miracle Boxes,” the first New York exhibition dedicated entirely to the work of Le Corbusier, is curated by Ivan R. Shumkov, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. Shumkov will deliver an opening lecture that will be followed by a reception on September 13, 2010 at 6 p.m in Higgins Hall Auditorium located at 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn. The exhibition, opening lecture, reception, and an upcoming related symposium will be free and open to the public.
More to come…