Slope Weekend Events Spotlight: June 17-19

The weekend is here, and the outdoors are calling. Options include classical tunes in the park, hot glass/cold beer, and blisters in the sun!

The Great American Casket Company at Green-Wood Cemetery
When: Friday, June 17 – Sunday, June 19. Closes June 26.
Where: Green-Wood Cemetery, 5th Avene at 25th Street entrance.
What: What is it that makes a good life? And a good death? The Great American Casket Company would like you to believe that they have the answers – but do they? Does anyone? Explore for yourself on this roving, immersive theater experience that uses Green-Wood’s historic landscape as a central, and essential, character. As the sun sets on 478 acres, you’ll be led down a performance rabbit hole, written exclusively for Green-Wood by BREAD Arts Collective. You’ll become a part of the show, too, as you respond and interact to what’s happening around you. By the end of your journey, you may have come to some conclusions about life’s big mysteries. Or perhaps, as is so often the case, your experience may simply raise more questions. Either way, your time with the Great American Casket Company is sure to leave a lasting impression.
How much: $75. Purchase tickets here. $70 for members of Green-Wood Cemetery.

New York Philharmonic Free Concerts In The Park
When: Friday, June 17. Music begins at 6:30
Where: Long Meadow, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Enter at Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park West at 9th Street or Bartel-Pritchard Circle at the intersection of Prospect Park West, Prospect Park Southwest and 15th Street.
What: Join the New York Philharmonic to celebrate their 51th summer of free outdoor programming. Alan Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Overture to Fidelio, Symphony No. 3, Eroica; and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring Anthony McGill on clarinet.The performance will be followed by fireworks.
How much: Free

Hot Glass, Cold Beer
When: Friday, June 17, 7pm-11pm
Where: Brooklyn Glass, 142 13th Street (near 3rd Avenue)
What: Guests for Hot Glass, Cold Beer will receive a unique handmade drinking glass, which will overflow with beverages, while they watch our talented team of artist show off their glass manipulation skills. Advance purchase guarantees you a drinking glass, otherwise, first come first serve while supplies last. Demonstrations in glassblowing, neon and flame-working.
How much: $25, Purchase tickets online.

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival: Bud Light Music Series with Violent Femmes + Kristin Hersh
When: Saturday, June 18, 7:30pm, Doors open at 6:30pm and it is recommended you get there early!
Where: Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park (Enter at 9th Street and Prospect Park West)
What: The first new album in fifteen years from Milwaukee-based acoustic punk originals Violent Femmes, We Can Do Anything, finds frontman Gordon Gano’s seething angst and rueful humor undiminished—the record pulses with “the playful quirkiness, infectious beats and jittery observations of the band’s earliest work.” (NPR Music) Kristin Hersh’s trenchant explorations of “rage, aggression and mental chaos” (NY Times) with Throwing Muses helped define American alt-rock in the ‘90s; now the author of six books, she remains a ferociously intense presence onstage. Look for our concert review next week.
How much: Free. Rain or shine.

Site:Brooklyn presents Landscape: A Sense of Place
When: Through Sunday, June 26. Thursdays-Sundays and by appointment.
Where: Site:Brooklyn, 165 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: How does an artist frame a landscape? Inevitably, it is an act of choosing: what goes in, what goes out? Poussin and Lorraine first brought landscape, which was previously relegated to merely backdrop for other images, into a subject of its own. After the Impressionist revolution, by the 20th century, the definition of “landscape” expanded considerably. Photography became widespread. Also, it included cityscapes and the explosion suburban subjects, conceptualization, abstraction, and gesture. Artists also brought in other materials such as video, collage, or elements earth or city themselves. Fundamentally, landscape posits the challenge of how we view and engage with the world around us. This exhibition seeks to show how contemporary artists take up this challenge. The exhibition is curated by Annette Rose-Shapiro.
How much: $10, at the door.

PS 321 Flea Market
When: Saturdays and Sundays, 9am-5pm
Where: 180 7th Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets – in front of PS 321
What: This market is considered a Park Slope institution by many, and plans to be open year round. The flea is under new management this year.

Jay Friedenberg: The Panoramic Landscape
When: The opening reception is Saturday, June 4 from 6pm-9pm. Exhibit through July 3. 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 will be presenting the second solo show by Jay Friedenberg, featuring large-scale panoramic scenes from around the globe. Friedenberg’s artwork is a combination of traditional and modern photographic techniques that is enhanced by digital effects to create fantastic color and compositions.
How much: Free.

House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869-1922
When:  Through August 5. 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. Read our exhibition preview here.
How much: Regular admission fees: Admission to the exhibition & library is $5. Seniors and students are $3, and children 12 and under are free.

Brooklyn Flea at Grand Army Plaza
When: Every Sunday beginning May 8 through October 23, 11am-6pm.
Where: Grand Army Plaza
What: Care for a few summer orbs for gardening? Fancy some occult jewelry? Feel like biting into a lavender cake donut? You won’t have to travel far at all to do any of these things, as the Brooklyn Flea has set up Sunday shop at Grand Army Plaza.

Smorgasburg at Prospect Park
When: Sundays, 11am-6pm
Where: Prospect Park, Breeze Hill (Located near Lakeside and the Lincoln Road entrance)
What: Smorgasburg begins its warm weather months in our beautiful backyard. Find 100 vendors and food from all over the world every Sunday at Breeze Hill, located near Lakeside and the park’s Lincoln Road entrance.  Find the market on Google Maps here. Presented in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance. Dog friendly.