WEDNESDAY 8/22
♥ How to… Shake, Muddle & Stir @ Brooklyn Brewery (79 N 11th St) 8-10pm, learn how to craft the perfect cocktail, Buy Tix
♫ Summerscreen: Raising Arizona & Music by Daniel Higgs / Endless Boogies @ McCarren Park, 6-10pm, FREE
THURSDAY 8/23
* Newtown Creek Celebration: Puppet Parade and Pageant @ McGolrick Park, 3:30pm, FREE, Local young people enrolled in the free summer day camp will perform the parade and pageant as a tool to respond to an environmental concern impacting the area in which they live.
♫ Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars/ Mamarazzi/ Odetta Hartman/ Himalaya @ East River State Park, 5pm, FREE
* Thursday-Sunday – Looky Loo @ Cafe Royal (195 Nassau Ave) 8:30-9:30pm, Free, Set in a Brooklyn cafe—a petri dish of fetid desire and arcane perversity—Looky Loo is a play about people(?) in a Brooklyn cafe. Desiring shit. *
FRIDAY 8/24
• Capoeira (Brazilian dance/martial arts) @ East River State Park, 7-8pm, FREE
♫ Tiny Victories / Neighbors / Starlight Girls @ Delinquency (1031 Grand St.) 8pm
SATURDAY 8/25
• Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament @ McCarren Park, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, FREE, the young and the young-at-heart are invited to craft their finest cardboard breastplates, gauntlets, helmets and cod-pieces and join Personal Space Theatrics for an afternoon of cardboard devastation and geekdom.
• Urban Food Waste Workshop @ 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave) 10am-1pm, Connect into the ethos of fair redistribution. Build a composting bike for a community garden in Brooklyn, and contribute to a movement of sustainable urban living, More info
♫ Avan Lava / Osekre & The Lucky Bastards / Gunfight / WCKids DJ set @ Cheap Storage (49 Wyckoff Ave, Bed-Stuy) 9pm, $5, Open Bar
SUNDAY 8/26
• Pet Portraits @ McGolrick Park Farmers Market, 12-3pm, FREE, bring your pooch or any pet you can leash for free portraits with a professional photographer. Download your pet portrait and enter the “Cutest Pet Contest” to be featured on Greenpointers.com & Greenpoint Veterinary Hospital websites, RSVP
♫ 9th NYC Vintage Motorcycle Show @ North 14th between Berry & Wythe, 11am-4pm, Rain or Shine. Vintage bikes, awesome bands and delicious BBQ! FREE!!!
• Greenpoint Cupcake Competition @ Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave) 4pm, Do you have what it takes to be crowned a cupcake champion? More info
MONDAY 8/27
• Words by the Water @ Transmitter Park (Water & Greenpoint Ave) 7pm, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading: Katie Bellas, Marie-Helene Bertino and Fiona Maazel
TUESDAY 8/28
♥ The Masters of Social Gastronomy Get Tipsy @ Public Assembly (70 No. 6th St) 7-9pm, More info
♫ Rarechild “Night Creep” Single Release Party @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge (89 Varet St) 7pm, $7, More info
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event