Slope Weekday Events Spotlight: July 25-28
Weekday events heat up with the thermometer. Check out bingo, tarot readings, Captain America, and more!
Tarot Reading, Palmistry and Astrology with The Tarot Society
When: Monday, July 25, 6pm-8pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue (at 7th Street)
What: Join the Members of the Tarot Society on the last Monday of every month for an evening of tarot reading , astrology, palmistry, and other divinatory mediums. Darcey Leonard and her team see fortune telling as a “psychic weather report,” offering the querent a new perspective of the present, and pragmatic advice for the future. Readers read for tips, each reader negotiates their own rates generally from $1 to $2 a minute.
How much: Free admission, $2/minute for readings.
The Westerlies and Friends
When: Tuesday, July, 8-11pm
Where: Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues.
What: The Westerlies are thrilled to announce a weekly residency at Threes Brewing during the month of July – four evenings of music curated by each of us. We are joined each week by a diverse group of artists representing the communities that surround and inspire us. Each Tuesday in July, we will converge for an evening of new collaborations.
How much: Suggested donation — $5-$15.
Park Slope Bingo Club
When: Wednesday, July 27. 7:30pm
Where: Union Hall, 702 Union Street (near 5th Avenue)
What: Dick Swizzle and Perry Combover (best known for their Sudden Death Game Show and internationally famous Park Slope Bingo Club) are joining “Team in Training” teams from around the world in raising funds to continue The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s funding of the breakthrough development of therapies that have already saved and continues to save thousands of lives.
How much: Free to enter, $5 to play.
Summer Movies Under The Stars: Captain America – The Winter Soldier
When: Wednesday, July 27, 7:00pm
Where: Long Meadow North in Prospect Park
What: The second of four family-friendly movie nights under the stars presented by Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adam.
How much: Free. Bring your own blanket. RSVP here.
One Story presents Anna Solomon
When: Thursday, July 27, 7:00pm
Where: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue (between Garfield Place and Carroll Street)
What: In her new novel, Leaving Lucy Pear, Anna Solomon introduces unforgettable characters as their lives collide in the 1920s on the New England coast. When Beatrice Haven returns to her home on Cape Ann to try and restart her life, she comes face to face with her past, embodied by the child she had abandoned years before, Lucy Pear. Set against one of America’s most turbulent decades, Leaving Lucy Pear delves into questions of class, freedom, and family. Presented by One Story magazine, Anna will be in conversation with author and editor Hannah Tinti.
How much: Free
Richard III by William Shakespeare
When: Through Sunday, July 31, schedule varies.
Where: The Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues)
What: Richard III is the final play in Shakespeare’s first attempt at history plays, the four part story of the Wars of the Roses. Its title character, Richard Duke of Gloucester, emerged grinning and bragging from the chaos of those wars in the third part of Henry VI where he announced “I can smile and murder whiles I smile.” Shakespeare gave Richard, Duke of Gloucester, his own play Richard III: a one-man show, presided over by one of Shakespeare’s unforgettable characters, the ‘poisonous bunch-backed toad”, Richard. The play was Shakespeare’s first blockbuster combining in Richard the ruthlessness of the Godfather with the charm of Dracula. Four centuries later the play continues to be one of Shakespeare’s most popular.
How much: $18, $15 for children and seniors. Purchase tickets here.
Site:Lab: Nothing Is Destroyed
When: Exhibit runs through July 30. Regular hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 2pm-6pm.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: Nothing is Destroyed is part of a larger conversation that began in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This exhibit contains objects extracted from and related to previous projects surrounding the church that trace the trajectory of interventions at and with the desanctified Rumsey Street Church. Nothing is Destroyed includes architectural artifacts and work by Paul Amenta, Lora Robertson and Nick Kline. The title of the exhibition, taken from Lorenzo Fusi’s essay on the work of Gordon Matta-Clark nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed, references Matta-Clark’s idea of “anarchitecture,” which described his interest in voids, gaps and leftover spaces related to architecture. Nothing is Destroyed focuses on these concepts, creating, like Matta-Clark, an expanded vision of space and its representation over time. Each recontextualization of the Rumsey Street Church adds a new history, creating new collaborations and connections which contribute to the project through both additions and subtractions.
How Much: Free
Personal Is Political Is Personal
When: Through August 6. 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: A national juried exhibition about the personal effects of politics, curated by celebrated artist and animal-rights activist Sue Coe. In this intensely political year we hear sound bites and promises that can seem abstract unless it affects us personally. Black Lives Matter. Gender Equality. Gun Control. It’s all just words until we see a child’s body washed ashore, a routine traffic stop becomes deadly, or a family home is destroyed at high tide. 440 Gallery’s theme show this year is centered on the personal effects of politics. Artists selected for the exhibition: Max Alper, Hannah Barnhardt, Lynn Benson, Eva M. Capobianco, Gordon Carlisle, Patricia Denys, Elise Dodeles, Richard Ferrari, Igor Gnedo, Mary Hood, Ibn Kendall, Katrina Majkut, Spencer Moore, Harry Newman, Steve Savitz, Nancy Siesel, Nomi Silverman, Stephen Spiller, Ann Stoddard, Bethany Taylor, Doug Turetsky, Divine Williams, Dale Williams.
How much: Free.
Free Yoga in the Park presented by Bend + Bloom Yoga
When: Thursday, July 28, 7pm-8pm
Where: Prospect Park’s Long Meadow, 7pm-8pm. Enter the park at Grand Army Plaza, Garfield, or 3rd Street. Proceed to Long Meadow and look for the sea of mats. Bring your own mat and water bottle plus a friend or two!
What: Join Bend + Bloom Yoga, lululemon athletica Brooklyn, and the Prospect Park Alliance every Thursday night from June 2 through August 25 for free, fresh-air yoga in beautiful Prospect Park. The series draws hundreds of Brooklynites, of all experience levels, each week to celebrate and experience yoga and wellness in our treasured park.
How much: Free, however an RSVP is required to sign the online waiver form.
