Park Slope Weekend Events Spotlight: January 21-24
Welcome to the weekend, which features many events: galleries, Elvis Costello tunes, and some fantastic chorale singing. Don’t miss some of our favorite events from around the area:
Fred Bendheim: A Retrospective On The Theme Of Water
When: Through Sunday, February 14, 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: This will be Bendheim’s second solo show at 440 Gallery and his first retrospective exhibition. The show will include work from 1978 to the present, and will include paintings on canvas as well as the artist’s trademark work, shapings, shaped paintings on wood and pvc board and painted relief sculptures. The works on view will highlight the artist’s career and stylistic journey from early figurative paintings to his more recent abstractions. Water, in it’s many forms, is the unifying theme of the works.
How much: Free.
House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869-1922
When: Through Sunday, April 3. Thursdays-Sundays 12-6pm (open everyday except Tuesdays)
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue at 7th Street
What: House of Wax will exhibit a selection of waxworks once shown as part of Castan’s Berlin-based Panopticum (1869-1922). The full collection, never before exhibited in the US, will later be installed at the forthcoming Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn.
How much: Regular admission fees: Admission to the exhibition & library is $5. Seniors and students are $3, and children 12 and under are free.
/rive: Anamorphosis
When: Through Saturday, January 30, Open Thursdays-Saturdays, 2pm-6pm
Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue
What: Come view /rive: Anamorphosis, “site-specific and mobile media projects that encourage residents to reflect upon their neighborhood and share their stories,” at Open Source on Saturday. The instillation features the work of Annie Berman, Samara Smith, and A.E. Souzis.
How much: Free.
Roots Poetry Series January 2016 Edition
When: Friday, January 22, 8:00pm
Where: Roots Cafe, 639 5th Avenue, at 18th Street
What: Roots Poetry Series is kicking off 2016 with a superb roster of readers: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Sara Fetherolf, Emily Wallis Hughes, Krista Leahy. Free as always, with beer and wine by cash donation, Roots Cafe food and coffee for sale, and as always, heart and soul in spades!
How much: Free.
Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale: Romanticism and Beyond
When: Friday, January 22, 7:30pm
Where: All Saints Episcopal Church, 286 7th Ave at 7th Street
What: Under the direction of Nelly Vuksic, the Chorale has been developing an increasingly challenging repertoire encompassing music from the Renaissance to the present, including premieres of new works as well as major works for chorus and orchestra such as Mozart’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region, and Brahms’s A German Requiem, presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra and its music director, Dorothy Savitch. In spring 2011, we presented an eclectic program reflecting American music from the 18th to the 20th centuries, from the poetic to bitingly sarcastic social commentary, and our January 2012 concert offers spiritual masterpieces of the Baroque, including Bach’s famous motet “Jesu, meine Freude” and Vivaldi’s Gloria.
How much: $10-15. Tickets available here.
Alpha Band and Mind Open
When: Friday, January 22, 7:00pm
Where: ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place (between 1st and Carroll Streets)
What: The Alpha Band is followed by Mind Open, a psychedelic jazz band.
How much: $10, at the door.
The Frizzy Dizzy Comedy Show
When: Saturday, January 23, 8pm
Where: Dizzy’s on Fifth, 230 5th Avenue at President Street.
What: The monthly stand-up show features some of New York’s best comedians. Featuring: Neil Constantine, Jeffrey Joseph, Derek Humphry, Marie Faustin, Rhonda Hansome, Jessica Watkins, Sean O’Hagan, and Jennifer Salzman.
How much: $10. Tickets are available here.
Accidents Will Happen: The Songs of Elvis Costello
When: Saturday, January 23, 8pm
Where: Freddy’s, 627 5th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
What: Some of New York’s finest musicians join forces to bring to the stage the songs of the great Elvis Costello. Produced by Robin Aigner (who brought last year’s phenomenal Tom Waits Tribute to the stage at Freddy’s.
How much: Free.
This Used To Be My Studio: Paintings By Lance Rutledge
When: Saturday, January 23, 4-7pm
Where: Gowanus Souvenir Shop, 543 Union Street (the entrance is on Nevins Street, and down the alley, and on the left)
What: The recently opened Gowanus Souvenir Shop presents a show that features a small selection of Lance Rutledge’s paintings from the past 25 years, some created in the Souvenir Shop space itself. The newest piece is Canal No. 5, a painting made specifically for the Gowanus Souvenir Shop, which can also be purchased as a limited edition postcard and tote. The show will be on view January 21 through February 21.
How much: Free
Smorgasburg and The Brooklyn Flea at Industry City
When: Saturday, January 23 and Sunday, January 24, 10am-6pm
Where: Industry City, 241 37th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: Smorgasburg has moved down to the booming Industry City, which may be new territory for you. While the move was announced some time ago, Industry City is housing both Smorgasburg and The Brooklyn Flea every Saturday and Sunday until March 27, 2016. Keep in mind that Industry City is big — the entrance address is 241 37th Street. This is just two blocks from the 36th Street D/N/R subway station—only two stops from Manhattan on the D train!—and a short walk from the B35, B38 and B70 bus stops. The 39th Street exit off the Gowanus Expressway/BQE also takes you pretty much to their doorstep (and to the second-busiest Costco in America next door).
Sunday Colloquy: Safe Spaces
When: Sunday, January 24, 11am-12:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street
What: What does it mean to create a safe space? Is it even possible? Debates over trigger warnings versus free speech, trans women in women-only spaces, whitesplaining and mansplaining, using ever-wider language of inclusion, dealing with online trolling, how we best protect our children and ourselves from dangerous situations and predators, dealing with opinions that are different than ours and which we believe to be untrue and maybe even dangerous — these are some modern challenges to actualizing our value of protecting the worth and dignity of every person through creating “safe space.” With Clergy Interim Leader Jone Johnson Lewis.
How much: Free.