Slope Weekday Events Spotlight: February 1-3
The snow has melted, you it’s so easy to get around! We have a bevy of offerings, including a filmmakers festival, stand-up, and a death cafe. Below are some of our favorite events from around the area.
For even more things to do around Brooklyn, and to add your own upcoming events (some of which we’ll feature in this roundup in the future!), check out our calendar.
Gowanus Filmmakers Festival
When: Monday, February 1, Doors at 7:30pm and Show at 8:00pm
Where: Halyard’s, 406 3rd Avenue at 6th Street
What: The first ever local filmmakers event! New and experienced filmmakers from NYC are invited to participate in Halyards Cinematheque’s festival and delight the Gowanus audience with their shorts, features, dramas, comedies, web series and all manner of visual pleasure. This is a great opportunity to create a community of filmmakers and film lovers and find new collaborators.
How much: Free.
Introductions 2016
When: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-6:30pm; Tuesdays, 10am-5pm. Through February 12
Where: Trestle Gallery, 168 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue
What: Introductions is a blow out event to ring in the new year with new exciting art by artists new to Trestle! This show includes over 50 participating artists – it’s something you’ll need to come and experience for yourself!
How much: Free
Jeff Picker
When: Monday, February 1, 7:00pm
Where: Barbes, 376 9th Street at 6th Avenue
What: Picker interprets Western swing, bluegrass, and standards. Followed by Tropical Vortex Mondays at 9:30pm.
How much: $10, at the door.
Brooklyn’s Longest Running Comedy Stand-Up
When: Monday, February 1, 9:00pm
Where: Freddy’s, 627 5th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
What: Comedy stand-up + open mic.
How much: Free
Ask Me Another with Special Guest: The Duplass Brothers
When: Tuesday, February 2, Doors at 6:30pm and Show at 7:30pm
Where: The Bell House, 149 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal walk into a bar… No, it’s not the start of a joke. It’s the essence of Ask Me Another, a rambunctious hour that blends brainteasers and local pub trivia night with comedy and music. Host Ophira Eisenberg invites in-studio guests and listeners alike to stretch their noggins, tickle their funny bones, and enjoy witty banter and guitar riffs from house musician Jonathan Coulton.
How much: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tickets available here.
Death Cafe with Funeral Director Amy Cunningham
When: Tuesday, February 2, 6pm-8pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue (at 7th Street)
What: Morbid Anatomy remains committed to hosting monthly Death Cafes, salon-like gatherings where amazing people meet to sip wine, tea or coffee, and converse with fellow wayfaring strangers on one of our favorite subjects–death and all the lovely conversational tangents death inspires. “Because you are so busy, you do not notice you are dying,” says Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. There’s no better thing to do, at a Morbid Anatomy Death Cafe, than to open-endedly discuss death’s existence. Stop by the museum to converse with fellow wayfaring strangers, sip tea or coffee, and observe all the amazing conversational tangents death inspires. NY funeral director Amy Cunningham takes the reins from past convener Louise Hemmings. First Tuesdays of every month, always six to eight p.m. Amy Cunningham is a Brooklyn funeral director who helps families with green burials, pre-cremation services in Green-Wood’s crematory chapels, home vigils and other sorts of memorials. Her blog, where she discusses these topics, can be found at theinspiredfuneral.com.
How much: Free
Adam Schneit Band
When: Wednesday, February 3, 8:30pm
Where: Threes Brewery, 333 Douglass Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues.
What: The music of the Adam Schneit Band combines the energy and immediacy of free jazz with the visceral directness of American rock and folk music, all held together by a love of strong, plain-spoken melody.
How much: $10 at the door.
Carlos Labbé presents Loquela
When: Wednesday, February 3, 7:00pm
Where: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, between Garfield Place and Carroll Street
What: Loquela, the new novel from Chilean author Carlos Labbé, investigates the fractious nature of genre, writing, and the self. The book stars an author named Carlos (not the author, exactly) and is split into three perspectives, shifting among “The Novel” (the author’s work), “The Recipient” (excerpts from the author’s diary), and “The Sender” (reports from a woman who’s recently been murdered). Recursive and rewarding, Labbé’s novel is a fresh, furious take on the detective story, only the thing that needs detecting is the writing itse
How much: Free