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WEDNESDAY 8/26
* Voices of Brooklyn: Build Houses & Plant Gardens @ St. Paul’s Theater (334 South 5th St) 6:30pm, FREE, Latin American songs of love and protest are paired with stories about building a sustainable home from discarded shipping containers, RSVP
☺ Bk Comedy Festival: Fringe With Benefits @ The Gutter (200 North 14th St) 8pm, $5, With Nick Vatterott / Lauren Maul / Julio Torres, and more, Buy tix
THURSDAY 8/27
♦ Vivid Stills @ Cloud City (85 North 1st St) 6:30pm, FREE, An exhibition of posters designed for screenings at Spectacle Theater, RSVP
# Forage + Fire in the Forest @ North Brooklyn Farms (320 Kent Ave) 7pm, $85, A wood-fired tour of wild edibles and August farm bounty, Buy tix
* Kevin Geeks Out About Lady Robots @ Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Ave) 9:30pm, $15, a virtual parade of robots from the last 100 years of science fiction, More info
FRIDAY 8/28
♦ Weird World @ Exit Room (270 Meserole St) 6pm, FREE, Group show by five artists of the Weird Crew: CONE, DXTR, HRVB, LOOK and VIDAM, RSVP
♫ Summer’s End Music Fest @ Aviv (496 Morgan Ave) 8pm, $8, With Evolfo / Oso Oso / PSYMON SPINE / Turnip King / Sojii, Buy tix
☺ Bk Comedy Fest: First Comes Love @ Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave) 11:30pm, $18, Anonymously solicited adult film scenes performed by comedians, with special guest Ron Jeremy, Buy tix
SATURDAY 8/29
* Waku Waku NYC @ Brooklyn Expo Center (72 Noble St) 10am, $45, A Japanese pop culture festival celebrating anime, manga, music, food, film, fashion, and more, Buy tix
* Dada Brunch @ Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Ave) 11:40am, $16, Hans Richter’s Dreams that Money Can Buy plus short films featuring a live score by Parlor Walls, More info
☺ Bk Comedy Fest: Future Potential Amazon Prime Series @ Videology (308 Bedford Ave) 5pm, FREE, Including “Beth & Tim Are Breaking Up” / “Gary Saves the Graveyard” / “Suicide Pact,” and more, RSVP
* Outdoor Cartoon Carnival @ City Reliquary (370 Metropolitan Ave) 7:30, $10, Over a dozen 16mm cartoons from the 1920s to the 1940s, RSVP
SUNDAY 8/30
☺ Two Jewish Guys Talking Mostly About Their Dicks @ Over the Eight (594 Union Ave) 8pm, FREE, Comedy show with co-headliners Matt Koff and Nate Fernald, More info
* In Search Of… @ Muchmore’s (2 Havemeyer St) 9pm, FREE, The reading/ storytelling series that promises definitive answers to the great questions that have plagued humanity for centuries, RSVP
MONDAY 8/31
☺ Totally Normal Open Mic @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) 6:30pm, FREE, Jenn Welch and Tom Lisi host this comedy open mic where comics try out their newest material, More info
* The Freight Residency Show @ Cloud City (85 North 1st St) 7pm, $15, This year’s Freight participants hold a showing of work developed over their residency, RSVP
TUESDAY 9/01
^ The Secrets of Ruling School @ Word (126 Franklin St) 7pm, FREE, Illustrator/author Neil Swaab presents his allegorical primer on surviving the first week of middle school, RSVP
♫ No Nets @ St. Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave) 8pm, $10, With Black River Manifesto / Garbage Brain / Twiga, Buy tix
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