CRUEL SUMMER: 80S + 90S DANCE PARTY takes over 2 rooms of The Bell House, Friday, August 11th at 8pm, with 10-piece cover band The Engagements, Party Like It’s 1999’s DJ Steve Reynolds, music videos and a sing-along with SecretFormula and Music Video Time Machine More info and discounted tix [sponsored]
WEDNESDAY 8/9
♦ SummerScreen: Beetlejuice @ McCarren Park, 6pm, FREE, Join us for an ~audience choice~ selection: BEETLEJUICE! Gates open at 6pm, Sad13 performs at 7:30pm, and the film starts at sundown, More info
* FWTP General Meeting @ McCarren Play Center (776 Lorimer St), 7pm, FREE, Friends of WNYC Transmitter Park is holding a general meeting to converge and discuss all things Transmitter Park, More info
♫ ¡Candela! feat. Talacha @ Bembe (81 South 6th St), 10pm, FREE, ¡CANDELA! is back with resident mami, DJ BEMBONA! AFRO. LATINX. CARIBBEAN. FUEGO!, More info
THURSDAY 8/10
♦ Grants Info Session: Williamsburg @ Spaceworks Williamsburgh Library (240 Division Ave), 11am, FREE, Brooklyn Arts Council’s Community Arts Grants (up to $5,000) are available to support arts and cultural projects taking place across Brooklyn in 2018, More info
* Unpacking the Major Arcana; Part 1 @ Catland (987 Flushing Ave), 7pm, $20, Join Catland and the Book Unbound explore the hidden meanings contained within the Smith-Waite tarot card deck, RSVP
♫ Bowie Bowl with The Band from Mars! @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave), 8pm, $10, The Band from Mars! plays Ziggy Stardust in its entirety, plus hits from all other eras of Bowie, Buy tix
♫ Blaze Bayley (Wolfsbane/Iron Maiden), RESISTANCE, Psychoprism @ Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave), 8pm, $20, Former IRON MAIDEN and WOLFSBANE vocalist BLAZE BAYLEY with very special guests RESISTANCE from California, Buy tix
FRIDAY 8/11
♫ Lenny Dee @ Halcyon The Shop (74 Wythe Ave), 5pm, FREE, “I’m stripping down Disco and electronic music, reaching deep into my archives with an all vinyl set” – Lenny Dee, More info
♫ Hank + Cupcakes, Sharkmuffin, Grim Streaker @ Brooklyn Bazaar (150 Greenpoint Ave), 7:30pm, $10, Buy tix
♫ Honey Soundsystem All Night Long + Love Tempo @ Good Room (98 Meserole Ave), 10pm, $15, Honey Soundsystem will be keeping us going all night long through their mix of house, high energy and disco and classics, Buy tix
♫ Cerrone/ Barbara Tucker/ Jellybean Benitez/ Paul Raffaele @ Output (74 Wythe Ave), 10pm, $25, Dance all night to legendary French disco mogul Cerrone, soulful house aficionado Jellybean Benitez, dance music diva Barbara Tucker and Love Injection founder Paul Raffaele, Buy tix
SATURDAY 8/12
* Clean up Day with Broadway Stages! @ Broadway Stage (203 Diamond St), 10am, FREE, Join Broadway Stages and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth for the third Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint clean-up day of 2017, More info
♫ Resonator Festival 2017 @ National Sawdust (80 North 6th St), 2pm, $20, Jazz, soul, hip-hop, electronic, rock…the artists participating will be playing combined, collaborative sets, More info
♦ Taste Of Dust: Raise The Temple @ The Brooklyn Mirage (140 Stewart Ave), 3pm, $40, The second annual ‘Taste Of Dust’ returns to build of the 18th Incarnation of The Burning Man Temple, More info
♫ Benefit for Bumbah w/ SPIC, Bad Magic (RVA), Namatay Sa Ingay @ Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave), 7pm, $10, A benefit for the family of our friend Bumbah (Heathen/Porvenir Oscuro/Broken English) who passed away recently, Buy tix
♫ Frankie Rose (Album Release Party!) @ Baby’s All Right (146 Broadway), 8pm, $12, Buy tix
SUNDAY 8/13
* Dusty Rose’s 3rd Annual Sidewalk Sale @ Dusty Rose (251 Greenpoint Ave), 12pm, FREE, Dusty Rose brings you deeply discounted one-offs, seconds in ceramics, jewelry, beauty products and other household items, More info
♦ Planting Seeds of Intimacy @ Point Green (260 Java St), 2pm, $20, A workshop with connection-building exercises framed around art making in response to intimacy, RSVP
♫ Classic Album Sundays NYC presents Michael Jackson ‘Off The Wall’ @ Magick City (37 Box St), 4pm, $10, Join Magick City in listening to Michael Jackson’s landmark album “Off the Wall” as never before! Listening guidelines apply, Buy tix
♦ BORING! BOYS! CLUB! Presents The Prelude @ New Woman Space (188 Woodpoint Rd), 7pm, FREE, The Prelude will bring together creative minds for a night of art and socialization. The theme will focus on beginnings, More info
MONDAY 8/14
♦ Vimeo Presents “Ladies with Lenses” @ Videology (308 Bedford Ave), 6:45pm, $8, Vimeo Staff Picks curator Meghan Oretsky plucks the best shorts from “Ladies With Lenses” for a celebration of women who create beauty and magic on film, Buy tix
♫ Baked, Weeping Icon, Dumb Wolves, Long Neck @ Sunnyvale (1031 Grand St), 8pm, $7, Buy tix
TUESDAY 8/15
* NAG’s Environmental Happy Hour @ Muchmore’s (2 Havemeyer St), 6:30pm, FREE, Do you want to get involved with a North Brooklyn neighborhood group? Do you care about environmental issues? Join us for a drink, More info
♫ LPR Presents: GABI, Charlie Looker Ensemble & Teletextile @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave), 8pm, $10, Buy tix
* Greenpointers Pick
♫ Music
^ Literary Event
♦ Art & Film
☺ Comedy Event
# Foodie Event
♥ Pheremones Likely