Ditmas Park Weekend Events

This weekend will be a warm one–so make sure you wear plenty of sunscreen, drink lots of lemonade, and definitely don’t work hard–if at all.

There are a ton of great events going on over the next few days in and around the neighborhood, including opera, a neighborhood cleanup, and free animal adoptions. Check these events and others out below the jump, and have a blast.

Saturday, June 1

• Play a song on the Sing for Hope piano at the Prospect Park Carousel until June 16.
• Get focused for nothing at Free Meditation with Kathleen, Midwood Martial Arts, 8:30-9am.
• Help keep Ditmas Park gorgeous with the Church Ave. BID and FDC at theirannual graffiti clean-up and neighborhood beautification event, see link for locations, 9am.
• … and stay safe by shredding your sensitive documents at Shredzilla, FDC Offices (1616 Newkirk Ave. between E 16th and E 17th Sts.), 10am-2pm.
• Help the Woodland Corps keep Prospect Park clean and green by the Picnic House, 10am-2pm.
• Learn about adding solar panels to your home at a Solarize Brooklyn meeting, Cortelyou Library, 10:30am-12pm.
• Party with the family at PS 139′s End of School Carnival, PS 139 schoolyard (Argyle between Cortelyou and Beverley Rds.), 10am-4pm.
• Adopt a needy pet for free at Sean Casey Animal Rescue (153 E 3rd St. between Caton Ave. and Fort Hamilton Parkway), Saturday and Sunday from 11am-7pm.
• Learn avian basics at Introduction to Birdwatching, Prospect Park Pop-Up Audubon, 12pm, and hang out after until 5pm.
• Sustainable Flatbush’s Healing Herb Garden Saturday open hours are at 2103 Kenmore Terrace, 10am-2pm (with compost open hours 10am-12pm).
• Learn about 19th Century life at the Lefferts 2nd Floor Tours, Lefferts Historic House, Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-3:30pm (tours every half hour).
• See neighbor Eric Pesso‘s work at the BWAC Spring Show, 499 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook, 1-6pm until June 16.
• Kids can learn about making cloth at History in Your Hands: Flax to Linen, also at the Lefferts Historic House, Saturdays and Sundays from 2-4pm.
• “Honey, Dear” Vintage Jazz is on at Lark, 4-5pm.
• Neighbor Ruth Delaney is playing a show with her band Shane and Ruth, as well as The Whiskey Boys, at Bethlehem House, 566 E 7th St. (between Cortelyou and Ditmas), doors at 7pm.
• Bobby Hawk and Friends are at Bar Chord, 9pm.
• Neighbor Damon Maulucci’s movie Detonator is at indieScreen for the Brooklyn Film Festival, 10:30pm.

Sunday, June 2

• Attend Morning Bird Walk: Marvelous Migrants, starting at the Prospect Park Audubon Center, 8am.
• Toddlers can play and sing at Toddler Time with Mary Jo, Lark, 10-10:30am.
• Enjoy the food trucks at Grand Army Plaza, 11am-5pm.
• The Pop-Up Audubon is open again from 12-5pm.
• Sing along with neighborhood dad Larry May at Lark, 4:30-5pm.
• Watch Opera OGGI New York’s latest performance at the Flatbush Reformed Church (890 Church Ave. on the corner of Flatbush Ave.), 6pm.
• Sit zazen at Third Root, 6:45-7:15pm.

Photo via The Whiskey Boys