Slope Weekend Events Spotlight: February 19-21
Welcome to the weekend, which features many events: A massive book sale, an EMO night, and the Gotham Girls Roller Derby. Don’t miss some of our favorite events from around the area:
23rd Annual Park Slope UMC Book Sale
When: Friday, February 19 – Sunday, February 21. Friday, 7pm-9:30pm; Saturday, 9am-5:30pm; Sunday, 12:30pm-5:30pm
Where: Park Slope United Methodist Church, 410 6th Avenue at 8th Street
What: It’s as easy as one, two, three. The more than 10,000 books offered at this massive annual sale will only cost a buck or two or three each. And what a selection! Few neighborhoods in New York City are arguably more literate than Park Slope, home to many of the city’s writers and editors, so visitors can find almost anything, from the latest whodunit’s to the most arcane how-to’s, from contemporary bestsellers to cutting edge poetry and canon classics. In addition, donors fill tables with children’s games and puzzles, young adult novels, sheet music, maps, and thousands of CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records. That’s why the sale has been dubbed by a Brooklyn blog as one of the 100 best reasons that Park Slope is “a special place to live.”
How much: $5 admission on Friday. Free on Saturday and Sunday.
New Members’ Show at 440 Gallery
When: Thursdays and Fridays, 4:00-7:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am-7:00pm. Exhibit through March 20.
Where: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets
What: 440 Gallery presents the work of six new members of the Gallery. The exhibit is curated by veteran 440 Gallery artist Karen Gibbons. Works by new members Jo-Ann Acey, Eric Banks, Richard Barnet, Leigh Blanchard, Joy Makon, and Amy Weil.
How much: Free.
Prosjektrom Normanns: Transcendental Tactility
When: Thursdays-Saturdays, 2pm-6pm. Through February 27.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: Transcendental Tactility is a group exhibition curated by Norwegian artist-run space Prosjektrom Normanns that will explore abstract, poetic, and lyric expressions of existence and presence. Showcasing works by Norwegian contemporary artists Per Christian Brown, Benedicte Clementsen, Elin Melberg, Margrethe Aanestad, and Kristin Velle-George, Transcendental Tactility will utilize a variety of media, such as film, painting, textile, sculpture, and drawing. Working with a shared interest in materiality and techniques, artists included in this exhibit will explore personal and universal experience through abstraction. Underlining sensibilities, tactility, and fragility inherent in materials, work included in this exhibit excavates timeless and subjective forms. Transcendental Tactility invites the audience to explore the subjective history within objects, their own subjective perceptions, and larger themes of time and presence.
How much: Free.
Kirsten Izer, G.T. Arpe, Danylion, Echoscape, and Baylies Band
When: Friday, February 19, 10pm
Where: Freddy’s, 627 5th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
What: Tunes galor at Freddy’s on Friday night. What more can you ask for?
EMO Night Brooklyn
When: Friday, February 19, 10pm
Where: The Bell House, 149 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: If you spent your formative years feeling all the feels to Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, The Used & Something Corporate — Welcome Home. If you’re flawed, but you’re cleaning up so well, Emo Night Brooklyn is THE place to drink a cold Brooklyn Lager, dance & scream your lungs out to the best of 00’s emo & pop punk. This is about going back to 2004 – when emo was the genre on the tip of everyone’s tongue – and partying your face-off with people who remember it just as fondly as you do.
How much: $8. Tickets available at the door.
Gotham Girls Roller Derby 2016 DerbyTaunt Ball
When:Saturday, February 20, Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
Where: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
What: This annual league tradition is a blow-out event where our fresh crop of incoming skaters is introduced to derby society. Don’t miss their big team assignment reveal. Who’s going to ride with the Gridlock? Shackle up on Mayhem? Staff the Queens dungeon? Go sailing with the Bombshells? Shine bright with the Diamond District? Arrive at 7:30pm for drink specials and snacks from our sponsors. Ceremony at 8:30 pm.
How much: $15-20 at the door.
NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan w/ Cameron Brown Duo & Quintet with WORKS
When: Saturday, February 20, 8pm
Where: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th Avenue (at Lincoln Place)
What: NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan with Cameron Brown Duo & Quintet with Works perform in Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open‘s 9th Season at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The concert is presented by Connection Works.
How much: $15, at the door.
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.
Smorgasburg and The Brooklyn Flea at Industry City
When: Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21, 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). Also this weekend: Annual *mini* Record Fair. The fair will take place over two weekends with 15 vintage vinyl vendors, including longtime Fair favorites like Trash American Style, Jammyland, and Cakeshop/Capeshok.
Sunday Colloquy: Being A Deep Listener w/ Jone Johnson Lewis
When: Sunday, February 14, 11am-12:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street
What: An impressive few can be attentive and can listen deeply during every moment of their life -paying attention to and hearing the meaning of a moment no matter what that moment is. But most of us need a little help! Most of us forget to listen deeply…unless we’re really intentional about it. In this participative format, we’ll share some of our own experiences with deep listening, and also get some practice. Suggestion before the colloquy: find five minutes this week during a naturally arising conversation, and focus your attention, really listening to the other person. Rather than thinking about what you’ll say in response, rather than giving advice, instead pay attention, really focus, without interrupting, perhaps asking helpful question to keep them talking for this time.
How much: Free.