WEDNESDAY 1/3
♫ Momentum/Rite of Wed: Bodywork / Hunter Vita / Nathan Kersaint @ TBA Brooklyn (395 Wythe Ave), 6pm, FREE, More info
* Kokrobitey Institute Talk @ Wythe Hotel (80 Wythe Ave), 7pm, FREE, Elise McMahon and Sekou Neblett discuss their work together in Ghana surrounding how art and design play a role in the midst of a global discourse around sustainable development, RSVP
* Kundalini Flow with Dani Katz @ Root Mamma (236 Richardson St), 7:30pm, $20, Exercise your body, mind, and spirit, open your channels, and live in a state of flow, RSVP
♫ Limited Resources 13 @ Muchmore’s (2 Havemeyer St), 9pm, $6, Our one year anniversary show! Featuring the soothing sounds of Chris Pitsiokos (Sax Destroyer), Tim Dahl (Bass Wrangler), and Kevin Shea (Drum Machine), More info
THURSDAY 1/4
^ “The Woman in the Window” Book Launch @ Space Ninety 8 (98 N 6th St), 6:30pm, FREE, “The Woman in the Window” is a twisty, Hitchcockian psychological thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house, More info
☺ Branded Content Presents: PETCO @ Pine Box Rock Shop (12 Grattan St), 8pm, FREE, We’ll be wearing Louis Vuitton Leashes, serving complimentary milk bones, and presenting comedy, More info
♫ Frendzone! // Dorisburg (live) / Octo Octa / Kellam Matthews @ Good Room (98 Meserole Ave), 10pm, $10, Buy tix
♫ The Juan MacLean & Friends January Residency @ Rose Gold (96 Morgan Ave), 10pm, $10, Buy tix
♫ An All Star Tribute to ACDC at Brooklyn Bowl @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave), 8pm, $12, Buy tix
FRIDAY 1/5
☺ Drinking & Comedy at…VELVET BROOKLYN???? @ Velvet Brooklyn (174 Broadway), 7pm, FREE, The new bar/lounge says they love comedians! Lineup: Dark Sneak (improv), ’96 Bulls (improv), Road Trip (2prov), Matt Decaro (songs), Alex Pomerantz (songs) and of course, your host team Hephaestus!, More info
* Find Meaning (On the Run) Podcast LIVE with Jessie Zapo @ Brooklyn Running Company (222 Grand St), 8pm, FREE, Jessie Zapo of Bridgerunners helped create a space for women and new runners in New York City’s emerging “urban running” community, More info
♫ Weird Folk Stravaganza @ Terra Firma (119 Ingraham St), 8pm, FREE, Get a head start on your New Year’s resolution to hear more exciting, innovative, and original local songwriting, More info
♫ Directors – Single & video release party plus Ray Mason birthday @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave), 10pm, $10, Ray Mason finally brings a brass band movement that Brooklyn has been waiting for. Unguard your heart and open yourself up to the new year of opportunity, love, and light!, More info
♦ Dark Side of the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz + Dark Side of the Moon) @ Videology (308 Bedford Ave), 12am, $14, Discover eerie moments of synchronicity for yourself as we present The Dark Side of the Rainbow, Buy tix
SATURDAY 1/6
* Mini Astrology Readings @ Myths of Creation (421 Graham Ave), 2pm, $20, Learn about your unique birth chart, or see what the planets have in store for you this month, More info
♫ Too Many Zooz @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave), 8:30pm, FREE, More info
♫ Scupper, Vat of Acid, Pelvi$$, Famous Logs in History @ Gutter Bar (200 N 14th St), 8pm, FREE, More info
♫ Desert Sharks, Scam Avenue, Little Hustle @ Cape House (2 Knickerbocker Ave), 8pm, FREE, More info
♫ More Than Skies, Hide Your Fires, and Mother’s Oven @ Legion Bar (790 Metropolitan Ave), 10pm, FREE, More info
♫ North Brooklyn Angels Mobile Soup Kitchen Benefit Concert @ Brooklyn Brewery (79 North 11th St), 9pm, $40, The Angels invite neighbors to help them fill 50,000 hot meals in 2018. Hear acapella group Harvard Krokodiloes perform sans electrification and over unlimited beers, Buy tix
SUNDAY 1/7
* Arm Knitting Workshop @ Brooklyn Craft Company (165 Greenpoint Ave), 11am, $45, Learn to knit with your arms! In this beginner workshop, you’ll learn to make ultra-chunky knits using your own arms as knitting needles, Buy tix
* Three Kings Day Parade @ Meeker & Graham Aves, 12:30pm, FREE, Celebrate the Epiphany with kids from District 14 and 32. This year’s parade dedicated to the Families of Puerto Rico, More info
^ The Once and Future Poem :: Rhee x Greiner & OS Creators @ Quimby’s Bookstore (536 Metropolitan Ave), 7pm, FREE, Margaret Rhee (Love, Robot) and Peter Milne Greiner (Lost City Hydrothermal Field) will read from their Poetic/SciFi beautiful book creatures, joined by a host of special guests from the OS community, More info
♦ Making/Breaking (your own) Rules: Style+Vérité in The Departure @ UnionDocs (322 Union Ave), 7:30pm, FREE – $10, The story of a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan who specializes in helping those on the brink of suicide find reasons to want to keep moving forward, Buy tix
MONDAY 1/8
* Beginner Shibori with Indigo @ Better Than Jam’s (20 Grattan St), 6:30pm, $65, Create an indigo vat using pre-reduced indigo, while talking about all natural indigo and the history of the process, Buy tix
♫ Motion Studies Residency Night 1 with Dances and Russek @ Sunnyvale (1031 Grand St), 7:30pm, FREE, The year’s just started, you’re not looking forward to your first full work week of the year. But hold the phone, cuz we’ve got a little gift for you…, More info
* Soren Bryce, Harpooner, Myles Avery @ Zone One at Elsewhere (599 Johnson Ave), 8pm, $10, Buy tix
TUESDAY 1/9
* Madame Morbid Presents: Ghost Stories @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St), 7pm, FREE, Join Brooklyn’s dark history tour company and share your best ghost story! The audience will choose the winner, who will receive a pair of free tickets to Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours, More info
♫ Fort Vine // Lets Tokyo // Emma June @ Wayward Social (35 Ingraham St), 7pm, FREE, Emma June is on tour from Northampton, Mass. joining local NYC bands, Fort Vine and Lets Tokyo, for an evening of acoustic duo magic, More info
☺ The Roast of Your 15 Year Old Self @ Baby’s All Right (146 Broadway), 8pm, $10, Some of NYC’s funniest comedians come together for one night only to roast the one person everybody loves to hate: themselves at 15, Buy tix
♫ Verdigrls, Den-Mate, Sur Back, Rich Girls @ Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave), 8pm, $10, Buy tix
* Greenpointers Pick
♫ Music
^ Literary Event
♦ Art & Film
☺ Comedy Event
# Foodie Event
♥ Pheremones Likely