Slope Weekday Events Spotlight: October 3-6

October is here, and so are weekday events. Check out a live mystery diagnosis, puns galore, Mott the Hoople mania, and more!

Shofar in the Park
When: Monday, October 3 from 5:30pm-6:00pm
Where: The lawn near the Prospect Park Bandshell. Enter at 9th Street.
What: Rabbi Menashe Wolf and Chabad of Park Slope will be offering Shofar In The Park, a “mini-service,” and the event is free and open to the public. You can “announce your arrival” here. Read our preview article about the event.

The Ryan Carraher Group With EnRah
When: Monday, October 3, 7:00pm
Where: ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place (between 1st and Carroll Streets)
What: Ryan Carraher is a guitarist, composer and educator with a unique improvisational and compositional approach. He has a degree in guitar performance from the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is also the recipient of the Berklee guitar department achievement award. EnRah is a modern jazz quartet aimed to reach into the cracks and fearlessly pull out the obscure. We draw from the living legends of the contemporary jazz scene, impressionist composers, and add our own mixture of tradition and conviction.
How much: $10, purchase tickets online or at the door.

Mystery Diagnosis Live ! An Interactive and Illustrated lecture with pathologist assistant Nicole Angemi
When: Tuesday, October 4, 7pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue (at 7th Street)
What: Tonight, spend an evening playing armchair forensic pathologist with Nicole Angemi of Mystery Diagnosis with an this interactive lecture inspired by her popular Instagram.  Audience participation is encouraged, and merchandise giveaways will take place throughout the night! Nicole Angemi is a Cytotechnologist and a Pathologists’ Assistant and uses her 16+ years experience working in a pathology laboratory to post interesting and sometimes gross photographs to Instagram @ms_angemi to educate her followers about diseases. She is married to photographer and firefighter Gabriel and has three daughters Maria, Lillian and Lucia.
How much: $12, tickets available online.

Punderdome 3000
When: Tuesday, October 4, 7:00pm (door), 8:00pm (show)
Where: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
What: Punderdome® is New York City’s wild & crazy monthly pun competition created and hosted by comedian Jo Firestone and her “Rodney Dangerfield impersonator” alleged dad, Fred. Part of New York’s comedy landscape since 2011, the Punderdome® has been a regular fixture at Littlefield since 2012. The first 18 individuals/duos to sign-up at the door have a chance to participate in competitive spontaneous pun-making. Pun-masters are determined by the “Human Clap-O-Meter” who “accurately and scientifically” assesses levels of audience applause. “Mystery Box” prizes are awarded to the top two competitors. Warning for the faint of heart: the ’Dome is THE spectator sport, it gets loud – decide to attend at your own risk!
How much: $8-$10, available at the door. Tickets available online.

Lidija Dimkovska in conversation with Katie Kitamura
When: Wednesday, October 5, 7pm
Where: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue (between Garfield Place and Carroll Street)
What: Lidija Dimkovska’s A Spare Life is the story of Zlata and Srebra,12-year-old twins conjoined at the head, living in Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Treated as outcasts even by their own family, the twins only want to be normal girls. But after an incident that almost destroys their bond as sisters, they fly to London, determined to be surgically separated. Written in touching prose by a renowned Macedonian author–winner of the 2013 EU Prize for Fiction–A Spare Life is a saga about families, sisterhood, immigration, and the occult influences that shape a life. Translated by Christina E. Kramer. In conversation with critic and novelist Katie Kitamura.
How much: Free

Ian Hunter and The Rant Band
When: Thursday, October 6, Doors at 7:30pm; show at 8pm.
Where: The Bell House, 149 7th Street (at 2nd Avenue)
What: Whilst his achievements during his first decade as a recording artist (Mott the Hoople) would have been more than enough to ensure his iconic status, Hunter has never been one to coast on past glories. Indeed, in the past dozen years, he’s made a series of riveting albums that stand with his best and most resonant work, while making a decisive return to touring, delivering incendiary live performances that show his fire to be burning as brightly as ever.
How much: $30, purchase tickets online; $35 at the door

Up From Under: Video Art by Madeleine Altmann
When: Through October 7. Thursdays-Sundays, 1pm-6pm and by appointment.
Where: Site:Brooklyn, 165 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: Madeleine Altmann’s work interrogates the intersection of nature, technological change, and visual representation. Her video installations, created with reclaimed analog video monitors, re-appropriate seemingly obsolete objects, using them to explore the question of value in modern society. Often, Altmann inserts herself into the frame, disrupting the all too easy notion of a separation between nature and humanity.
How Much: Free

Gypsy, A Musical
When: Through October 9, schedule varies
Where: The Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues)
What: Gypsy is the ultimate story about an aggressive stage mother. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920’s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Jule Styne’s music and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics include Let Me Entertain You, Some People, You’ll Never Get Away from Me, If Momma Was Married, All I Need Is the Girl, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, You Gotta Get A Gimmick and Together Wherever We Go. This is a gripping story of one of the most frightening aspects of show business.
How much: $25, $20 for children and seniors. Purchase tickets here.

Gail Flannery: Tumbled Sky
When: Through October 16. 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: 440 Gallery presents Tumbled Sky by Gail Flanery, an exhibition of mixed-media prints. Flanery’s signature imagery draws from nature; much of it is suggestive of landscape but the geography is rarely specific. The landscapes are invented, inverted or re-imagined and animated by lush color and an expansive sense of space. In this exhibition, Flanery channels nature’s turbulence as her gaze shifts upward, to the sky. Flanery is a graduate of Cooper Union where she was influenced by the painter and colorist Wolf Kahn. She has worked with a number of master printers and presently works at the shop of Master Printer Kathy Caraccio. Flanery’s work is in dozens of private and corporate collections and in the permanent collection of the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Flanery has exhibited extensively with several published reviews to her credit, including in The New York Times.
How much: Free.

i Collective: Once Upon Unfolding Times
When: Through October 22, Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:00pm-6:00pm.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: The steady writing on the sand produced by time is the starting point for a hypnotic tour through a fictional city, in which the individual and the collective merge in order to imagine the possible, enjoy the unpredictable, and write history. With the help of a hypnotist, on weekends throughout Once Upon Unfolding Times i Collective will invite visitors to submerge into parallel universes and take pleasure in envision a city that is constantly being re-shaped by the forces of each community member. Casualties, causalities, futures and pasts compound a history that is not based on the fear of the Other but on the joy of sharing with the others. Hypnotic Tours: October 9 (11am), October 15 (6pm), October 22 (6pm). Please arrive on time. Visitors will not be able to join after the tour has begun.
How Much: Free

Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality featuring Walter Potter’s Kittens’ Wedding
When:  Through Sunday, November 6, 12pm-6pm everyday. Closed Tuesdays,
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue at 7th Street
What: This exhibition seeks to illuminate the strange and profound human connection to preserved animals through the exhibition of seldom-seen taxidermied treasures from private collections. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be The Kittens’ Wedding, the final and perhaps most unforgettable of all of the works of Walter Potter, completed in the 1890s. Equal parts perverse and adorable, and utterly spellbinding, The Kittens’ Wedding transcends kitsch through its tenderness and sensitive attention to detail. The Kittens’ Wedding was created by Walter Potter, a self-trained British Victorian country taxidermist best remembered for a series of anthropomorphic tableaux in which he posed stuffed animals such as kittens, rabbits and squirrels as if engaging in human activities. These works were exhibited for nearly 150 years until the museum he founded was divided at auction in 2003. The pieces then moved the homes of private collectors around the world, most of them never shown since.
How much: Admission to the exhibition & library is $12. Seniors and students are $8, and children 12 and under are free.