Have you ever wanted to write/photograph/illustrate/make any kind of content for Greenpointers? Come on down and meet with our Editors to express your interest. Come have a beer, chat, and let us know your story ideas, even if they extend beyond our current content this Thursday (July 27) @Brooklyn Bazaar (160 Greenpoint Ave), 7:30PM RSVP
WEDNESDAY 7/26
♦ SummerScreen: Selena @ McCarren Park, 6pm, FREE,Celebrate the legend of Queen of Tejano music (and dance!) Selena. Band plays at 7:15, and the film starts at sundown, More info
♫ Talks and Turntables @ Magick City (37 Box St), 7pm, FREE, Get ready to learn your brains out and dance your face off at a brand new lecture-series-turned-dance-party. This month, the theme is NEW YORK AT NIGHT. Start with 3 fascinating talks about our fair city, then get down with DJ sets til midnight, More info
* Pink Party in the Tinsel Room @ 21 Greenpoint (21 Greenpoint Ave), 8pm, FREE, Dúzsi World Tour 2017 kicks off with a mid-week rager in Greenpoint! Party in the back room with Tomi Dúzsi bartending his rosé and tossing pink tinsel like there’s no tomorrow, More info
THURSDAY 7/27
# Food Karma Feasts @ North Brooklyn Farms (320 Kent Ave), 7pm, $75, Al fresco summer dining experience featuring a menu from Guest chef Alex Sorenson of Blank Slate Kitchen. Waterfront views, outdoor grilling and family-style dinner, with craft beer from Threes Brewing, ciders from Aaron Burr, wines from Natural Wine and a signature cocktail, More info
♫ Mark McGuire, Ancient Ocean, Sleepy Doug Shaw @ The Park Church Co-Op (129 Russell St), 7pm, $12, Buy tix
♦ Drink and Draw @ Brooklyn Home of Music (107 Green St), 7pm, FREE, A night of community and creativity. BYOB and BYOAS (bring your own art supplies), RSVP
* Greenpointers Contributor Happy Hour @ Brooklyn Bazaar (150 Greenpoint Ave), 7:30pm, FREE, Calling all Greenpoint writers, photographers, illustrators, videographers, and content makers! Meet our editorial team and other mega-talented Greenpointers while talking ideas over beers, More info
^ Panels to the People @ WORD (126 Franklin St), 7:30pm, $5, A reading series showcasing the work of comics creators. $% admission includes complimentary drink, More info
FRIDAY 7/28
♦ Cul De Sac: A Suburban War Story @ UnionDocs (322 Union Ave), 7:30pm, $10, Filmmaker Garrett Scott goes far beyond this apparently minor news story and provides extensive political, economic and social context that ties Nelson’s life to the larger story of a working class community in decline, Buy tix
♦ Ghostbusters + Stay Puft Marshmallow Roast @ Videology (308 Bedford Ave), 9:15pm, $20, Watch Ghostbusters & roast marshmallows at your table, it’s just that easy, Buy tix
♫ King Britt presents: Fhloston Paradigm @ National Sawdust (80 North 6th St), 10pm, $20, King Britt’s future forward project Fhloston Paradigm is a manifestation of afro-futurist ideals, based in an electronic music landscape.The purpose is to transmit the omni-versal message of divine abstractions into aural pleasing tones, Buy tix
♫ Motor City Drum Ensemble, Paul Raffaele @ Good Room (98 Meserol Ave), 10pm, $25, Buy tix
♫ MA SHA @ The Bedford (110 Bedford Ave), 10pm, FREE, All vinyl set, grooves, and good vibes, More info
SATURDAY 7/29
* Public Paddle @ North Brooklyn Boat Club (437 McGuinness Blvd), 12pm, FREE, Join trained NBBC guides for short canoe trips on Newtown Creek and often out toward the East River, where we often pause to take in the view of Manhattan, More info
* Queering the Cosmos: Werking the Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower @ New Women Space (188 Woodpoint Rd), 3pm, by Donation, Join Mikaela Xochitl for an afternoon of Grounding, Cleansing and Protective Talisman Making for the Trans, Gender Nonconforming and Queer Community, RSVP
♦ GAMBA Moving Fundraiser & Art-a-thon @ GAMBA Forest (231 Norman Ave), 6pm, by Donation, GAMBA Forest will be moving to a new space in September. The goal is to make sure the artist community will not be lost or displaced. This is the first of two events put in place to raise funds for putting down on a new commercial space in Brooklyn, RSVP
♫ Pop Punk/Emo Live Band Karaoke! @ Saint Vitus Bar (1120 Manhattan Ave), 6:30pm, $10, Buy tix
♫ Isasa + David First @ TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave), 8pm, FREE, More info
SUNDAY 7/30
♦ Artist Marketing Workshop with Moth Dust @ Point Green (260 Java St), 11:30am, $20-50, “Marketing” is often seen as a dirty word – but it is essential to the practices of any artist. At the end of this workshop, you will walk away with new direction and confidence in your work, RSVP
* Farm Market + Open Volunteering Day @ Eagle Street Rooftop Farm (44 Eagle St), 1pm, FREE, The Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is an internationally acclaimed greenroof and commercially operated vegetable farm atop a three story warehouse in Greenpoint. Join them for their market and volunteer day, More info
# Roof to Plate Pizza @ Archestratus (160 Huron St), 4pm, $15-23, Build your own pizza using superfresh, hyperlocal ingredients and edible flowers sourced from Eagle Street’s Sunday market, Buy tix
♫ M A C H I N E L I F E I – an all electribe event @ Muchmore’s (2 Havemeyer St), 9pm, FREE, All electribe performance event. Showcasing the power of Korg’s awesome electribe models (2001- present), More info
MONDAY 7/31
♫ NYCTechno Industry Night @ TBA Brooklyn (395 Wythe Ave), 7pm, FREE, With Christian Voldstad, Juan Jimenez. Robbie Lumpkin plus $5 yvengling pints and $8 moscow mules all night, More info
=) Sloop Jumbly @ Vital Joint (109 Meserole St), 8pm, $5, Comedy show hosted Lorelei Ramirez, Tim Platt, Peter Mills Weiss. Experience the SLOOPIEST and JUMBLIEST time of them all, More info
TUESDAY 8/1
♫ The Garcia Project @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave), 6pm, $15, Jerry Garcia’s 75th Birthday Celebration with performance by The Garcia Project of a complete classic Jerry Garcia Band set list from 1976-1995, Buy tix
♫ London Grammar @ Brooklyn Steel (319 Frost St), 7pm, $25,”London Grammar account for every slippery string, vocal echo, ultrasound heartbeat, and wordless, holy vocal peal on ‘Metal and Rust,’ the second in a so-far immaculate collection.” – Pitchfork, Buy tix
* Incredipole Presents: Twerk It Tuesday @ Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave), 8pm, FREE, Incredipole is getting down and dirty, showing off those fancy and not so fancy dance moves they’ve been working on, More info
* Greenpointers Pick
♫ Music
^ Literary Event
♦ Art & Film
☺ Comedy Event
# Foodie Event
♥ Pheremones Likely