Don’t despair, the weekend is here and here’s the list. Movies, theater, music, mulch, fun and frolic at the Brooklyn Museum. Oh and on Sunday Simone Dinnerstein presents her Neighborhood Classics series at PS 321 with Bridgit Kibbey on harp at 2PM. Click on read more for all the essential details…

Movies

At BAM this weekend:The King’s Speech, Black Swan, True Grit, The Fighter

Met Opera LIVE Screening at BAM on Saturday 1/8: In Puccini’s Wild West opera Deborah Voigt (“a soprano of penetrating power and clarity” (The New York Times) sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” opposite Marcello Giordani. A love triangle that takes place during the California Gold Rush.

At the Pavilion this weekend: The Fighter, The Tourist, True Grit, Black Swan, Tangled, Tron, Little Fockers, Yogi Bear, Season of the Witch.

Music

Friday, January 7 at 8PM at the Bell House: Dar Williams is the perfect songwriter for a cold, winter night and her classic song, February,  is probably one of the best statements on that cold, lonely month. She is a highly respected singer-songwriter, who continues to engage her loyal fans and growing audience throughout the country.

Friday, January 7 at 7:30PM at The Rock Shop: Grooms, Zambri, Acrylics, Psychobuildings

Friday, January 7 at 10PM at Barbes: One Ring Zero, led by Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, is a Brooklyn-based band, that has released six CDs, including their critically acclaimed album, As Smart As We Are, a book-cum-CD, featuring songs with lyrics contributed by such authors as Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers and Rick Moody. Their latest album, The Planets, is a journey though our solar system featuring ORZ’s usual assorment of bizarre sounds and instruments and more than a few references to 1970’s progressive rock, as well as nods to Stravinsky, Mahler, and of course, Gustav Holst.

Saturday, January 8 at 3PM at The Rock Shop: Care Bears on Fire, NowwhereNaughts (All ages)

Saturday, January 8 at 8:15 at Jewish Music Cafe: Brezlov Bar Band, The d’Safi Takht Ensemble

Here’s what  Now I’ve Heard Everything recommends this weekend!

On Sunday, January 9th at 2PM at PS 321: the Neighborhood Classics Series at PS 321 presents Bridget Kibbey, the award-winning harpist, who  will perform an international program that includes Benjamin Briten’s “Suite for Harp,” Andre Caplet’s “A L’espanol,” Kati Agocs’s “Every Lover is a Warrior,” and an arrangement of Celtic reels.

It’s a win-win for music lovers and parents, teachers and students at PS 321, who benefit from the proceeds of the concert series.

Theater

Through January 30th at St. Ann’s Warehouse: A British Stand up comedian and storyteller, Daniel Kitson, brings the story of Gregory Church, a story of a death postponed by life, to St. Ann’s Warehouse for its American Premiere.

Theater

Through February 6 at BAM: John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen. Greed is good, according to Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman—until it sends him to prison for embezzlement and leaves him ruined, disgraced, and desperate for a comeback. Three outstanding actors—Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw—join an ensemble from Ireland’s acclaimed Abbey Theatre to tell this timely tale of one man’s undoing in the wake of relentless deception and fraud.

First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum

First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum 5PM until 11PM: This month’s theme “Framing Our History: with the Fat Cat Big Band, The Great Debaters with Denzel Washington, Kalia Brooks on Lorna Simpson, artist talks, a dance party and hands on art.

Mulch, Mulch, Mulch

January 8th and 9th in NYC park near you: Join the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. You can also take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree.