Ditmas Park Weekend Events

It’s supposed to be a beautiful weekend, so why not spend some of it outdoors? In Prospect Park there’s yoga and the South Brooklyn Queers Summer BBQ, a local theater company is putting on a free play on the street just over in Park Slope, and if you’re up for a quick ride south, there’s the very popular Mermaid Parade this afternoon in Coney Island.

Saturday, June 22

• Polynesian Canoe Race organized by DP resident April Cantor and New York Outrigger, Pier 26 in Hudson River Park, 8am-5pm.
• Get focused for nothing at Free Meditation with Kathleen, Midwood Martial Arts, 8:30-9am.
• The Lavender Blues Singalong is at Lark, 10-11am.
• Donation-based yoga class with Spring Into Yoga at the Prospect Park Peristyle, 10am Saturdays and 1pm Sundays.
• Pre-register to help Prospect Park’s Weekend Woodland Corps, meeting at the Picnic House parking lot, 10am-2pm.
• Introduction to Birdwatching at 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).
• Alex Levin and guests play jazz at Purple Yam, 12-2:30pm.
• Local theater company Brave New World perform Elmer Rice’s “Street Scene” in Park Slope, with performances at 1 and 5pm.
• Also not in the neighborhood, but fun: The Mermaid Parade is in Coney Island at 1pm!
• Lefferts 2nd Floor Tours, Lefferts Historic House, Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-3:30pm (tours every half hour).
• 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.
• Join W.I.L.D. for a shoreline cleanup at Prospect Park, meeting at the Audubon Center, 2-4pm.
• See short film extravaganza Tropfest in Prospect Park’s Nethermead, 3-11pm.
• “Honey, Dear” Vintage Jazz is on at Lark, 4-5pm.
• Jen Waller and Stephen Jacobs play Bar Chord, 9pm.
• The Lori Behrman Band plays 773 Lounge, 10pm.

Sunday, June 23

• Toddlers can play and sing at Toddler Time with Mary Jo, Lark, 10-10:30am.
• Bring friends and family to the South Brooklyn Queers Summer BBQ at the Prospect Park Peristyle, 12-4pm.
• The Pop-Up Audubon is open again from 12-5pm.
• Party and play at Midwood Mardi Gras, Avenue M between Ocean Ave. and E 13th St., 12-6pm.
• Sit zazen at Third Root, 6:45-7:15pm.
• Attend the Cortelyou Road Sunday Jazz Jam with Michael Vitale, Bar Chord, 9pm.

Photo via Jen Waller