BKLYNER Weekend Events Spotlight: November 11-13
It’s been a tough ride this week. Sometimes the best thing to do is keep yourself busy. BKLYNER is going to keep you very busy. Head out for an open studios weekend, girls reading for girls, a children’s book fair, and more.
Fake Chapter Records 20th Anniversary Show
When: Friday, November 11, 7:30pm doors; 8pm show
Where: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
What: Arms and Sleepers, The Bright Road, Dave Wanamaker, MaryLeigh Roohan.
How Much: $11, tickets available online.
Plexus, a piece by Aurélien Bory for Kaori Ito / Compagnie 111
When: Through, Sunday, November 13; varing times.
Where: BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street
What: Entangled in a dense field of 5,000 black nylon wires, a single body moves, incandescent and strange. In Plexus, derived from the Latin for “intertwining,” French physical theater maverick Aurélien Bory (Sans Objet, 2012 Next Wave; Les sept planches de la ruse, 2008 Next Wave) takes Japanese dancer and choreographer Kaori Ito (a frequent collaborator with James Thierrée and Angelin Preljocaj) as both muse and instrument. Animated by Arno Veyrat’s perception-altering lighting, the wires ripple and shimmer as Ito cleaves and falls against them, then floats delicately in space, radiating an eerie preternatural beauty that’s not quite, or perhaps more than, human.
How much: Prices vary. Tickets available here. Running Time: 1 hour.
Park Slope Windsor Terrace Open Studios
When: Saturday, November 12 – Sunday, November 13, 12pm-6pm
Where: Various studios throughout Park Slope and Windsor Terrace
What: Wander through the neighborhood and enjoy the 35 artists who will open their homes to you. View our preview article here.
How much: Free
10th Annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair
When: Saturday, November 12,12pm-6pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
What: Join us for our Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair featuring your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators. This free event includes storybooks, picture books, graphic novels, author readings, and original hands-on art activities for all ages.
How much: Free
Show & Tale: Soldiers, Sailors & Civilians
When: Saturday, November 12, 4pm-6pm
Where: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues
What: Join us at the Old Stone House – where many hundreds of our patriots once lost their lives defending these United States – to see, hear, and experience some of the history experienced by our many veterans and civilians. You’ll not only learn more about their service, but you’ll make some new friends, and share, if you like, some of your very own stories. Every Thing has a story. Show & Tale is like Antiques Roadshow meets The Moth, or your favorite Pinterest board come to life! Everyone is welcome – veteran & civilian alike – to share their stories with a 3 minute time limit. No judges, no prizes, no competition. And no need to practice! Just show your object and share its tale. Period. Just want to come and listen? Awesome! Observers are always welcome. Read more about personal historian Martie McNabb and her May 2016 “Brooklyn Battles.”
How much: Free
Another Space: Permanent Construction
When: Through Thursday, December 1. Regular hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:00pm-6:00pm.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: After encountering a community of people on the Mediterranean coast who were living in scaffolded structures to avoid housing taxes, the French artist Pierre Huyghe began to develop his own concept for an “unfinished” architecture. It was not only the aesthetics of the half-done houses that had appealed to him, but the form of sociality he believed they prompted: “there is not a fixed moment of completion, you live in a work in progress, life unfolds in a transitory state, permanently under construction.” In a world where precarity reigns and nothing seems exempt from further development, Permanent Construction looks at the complicity of architectural, aesthetic, social, and artistic modes of being under permanent construction.
How Much: Free
Makrokosmos Orchestra / The Awakening Orchestra presents: election year: a Work in progress. – part iii – ethos, pathos, logos.
When: Friday, November 11, 7:00pm
Where: ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place (between 1st and Carroll Streets)
What: The wide-ranging sound pallet of The Makrokosmos Orchestra, playing compositions by saxophonist Tim O’Dell and guitarist Richard Nelson, derives from its distinctive instrumentation: flutes, clarinets, French horn, and euphonium bring rich coloristic contrasts and shadings to their saxophone, trumpet, and bass trombone counterparts. sA versatile rhythm section (guitar, bass, piano/keyboard/sound designs, hand percussion and drum set) flexibly contributes to the mix, serving at times as a creative, highly interactive contemporary jazz/creative rock/”world” music rhythm section, and at others as a “new music” ensemble’s bass, percussion, guitar, and keys/sculpted sounds section, with many gradations in between.
How much: $10, at the door
Project Main St Presents: Rock-a-Relief 7 – A Benefit for ALS Patients & Their Families
When: Saturday, November 12, 7:00pm
Where: Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street (Between Hamilton and Woodhull), Carroll Gardens
What: Featuring: The Lonesome Sea – The Junior Brothers – Daniel King – Ditchweed
How much: $20, tickets available here.
Victoria Behm, 1000 Drawings of NYC
When: Through November 27. Thursdays and Fridays, 4:00-7:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am-7:00pm.
Where: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets
What: 440 Gallery is pleased to present 1,000 Drawings of NYC – a solo exhibition by Victoria Behm. Consisting of 1,000 5” x 5” black-ink drawings and collages on hand-made paper, Behm’s presentation captures fragments of daily life, past and present, in unexpected, idiosyncratic ways. Beam’s wanderings in the five boroughs of her city are the inspiration for this new body of work.
How much: Free.
Girls Read for Girls Readathon
When: Sunday, November 13, 3:00pm-5:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Public Library – Central Branch, 10 Grand Army Plaza
What: Did you know that more than 63 million girls worldwide are out of school? We think this is totally unacceptable, so we’re doing something about it. We hope you’ll join us. Girls Read for Girls is a read-a-thon fundraiser that aims to raise awareness about gender equity issues, generate funds in support of efforts to empower girls through education, and inspire young people to make changes in their community. Last year, we raised $18,000 for The Malala Fund. This year, we hope to raise even more. Supporters can make donations to the Malala Fund here.
How much: Free.
Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality featuring Walter Potter’s Kittens’ Wedding
When: Through, December 6, 12pm-6pm everyday. Closed Tuesdays,
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue at 7th Street
What: This exhibition seeks to illuminate the strange and profound human connection to preserved animals through the exhibition of seldom-seen taxidermied treasures from private collections. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be The Kittens’ Wedding, the final and perhaps most unforgettable of all of the works of Walter Potter, completed in the 1890s. Equal parts perverse and adorable, and utterly spellbinding, The Kittens’ Wedding transcends kitsch through its tenderness and sensitive attention to detail. The Kittens’ Wedding was created by Walter Potter, a self-trained British Victorian country taxidermist best remembered for a series of anthropomorphic tableaux in which he posed stuffed animals such as kittens, rabbits and squirrels as if engaging in human activities. These works were exhibited for nearly 150 years until the museum he founded was divided at auction in 2003. The pieces then moved the homes of private collectors around the world, most of them never shown since.
How much: Admission to the exhibition & library is $12. Seniors and students are $8, and children 12 and under are free.
The Old Stone House: Witness to War – An Exhibit Exploring the Battle of Brooklyn and the Occupation, 1776-1783
When: Permanent Exhibition
Where: Old Stone House & Washington Park, 336 3rd Street (between 4th and 5th Avenues)
What: View the new permanent exhibit at the Old Stone House exploring the Battle of Brooklyn,
as well as family life in Brooklyn during the Revolution and Occupation. View our exhibition review.
Cost: Free
More information: 718-455-5300