Slope Weekend Events Spotlight: June 24-26

The weekend is calling you. Options include Pete Sinjin’s record release, Perp Walk punksters, casket theater n Green-Wood, and more!

Perp Walk, a punk bank featuring NY1’s Roger Clark
When: Friday, June 24. Perp Walk goes on at 8:00pm
Where: Hank’s Saloon, 46 3rd Avenue (at Atlantic Avenue)
What: Clark is putting his newscasting acumen aside when his band Perp Walk plays Hank’s Saloon. Perp Walk also features bassist, singer, and songwriter Bunny Hirsch and guitarist Joe O’Carroll. With other sets by Bamboo Kids and M.O.T.O. Check out our review of this excellent band from their show at Hank’s last month.
Tickets: $7 cover.
Listen: Songs by Perp Walk can be heard here. Check out our preview article with Roger Clark.

The Ladies of Excelsior Celebrate Mark’s 50th Birthday Party
When: Friday, June 24, 8:00pm with special show at 11pm
Where: Excelsior Bar, 563 5th Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets)
What: Owner Mark Nayden celebrates his 50th birthday. At 11pm, enjoy a special performance with Lailah Lancing, Lavinia Draper & Louvel.

Parents Who Dance 10th Anniversary Celebratory Performances
When: Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25 at 8pm
Where: Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 5th Avenue (at 8th Street)
What: Parents Who Dance is a group of women who celebrate the accomplishments of dancers and choreographers, and demonstrate that aging does not limit creativity and expression. Dancers/Choreographers Jessica Ames, Barbara Canner, Shawna Kent, Dalienne Majors, Laura Staton and Tomomi Imai have performed in NYC dance venues including 92nd Street Y, Spoke the Hub, Berkeley Carroll School, Soundance, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Gibney Dance. Additionally two commissioned works by veteran choreographer Elizabeth Keen will be performed on the program.
How much: $15. Purchase tickets here. $20 at the door.

The Great American Casket Company at Green-Wood Cemetery
When: Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26. [Closing weekend]
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.

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival: ¡Cubanismo! / Ricardo Lemvo with L’Orchestre Afrisa International
When: Friday, June 24, 7:30pm, Doors open at 6:30pm.
Where: Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park (Enter at 9th Street and Prospect Park West)
What: Led by trumpeter Jesús Alemañy, the sizzling dance band ¡CUBANISMO! approaches Cuban music with both a reverence for tradition and an outward-reaching flare, punctuating every performance with a “rhythmic kick and a sense of adventure.” (AllMusic) The group’s founding was fortuitous timing: Alemañy, a prodigy who attended Havana’s Conservatorio Amadeo Roldan and joined the great son group Sierra Maestra at 15, had moved to London where he connected with the British producer and founder of Hannibal Records, Joe Boyd. With Boyd’s encouragement, Alemañy returned to Havana to organize an all-star jam session to be recorded; the result was the 1996 self-titled debut, an extraordinary album that caught the collective imagination at a moment when Cuban music was finding a new level of global popularity. Through multiple world tours, lineup changes, and subsequent records, ¡Cubanismo! has remained one of the most popular and exciting standard bearers of their country’s music.
How much: Free. Rain or shine.

Pete Sinjin’s ‘The Heart And Compass’ Record Release with Mesiko and Little Silver
When: Saturday, June 25 at 8pm
Where: The Rock Shop, 249 4th Avenue (between Carroll and President Streets)
What: South South neighbor Sinjin is days away from releasing The Heart and Compass. “There’s a mix of styles on the album,” Sinjin tells us. “Country elements, Memphis Soul, and Rockabilly. It’s an Americana record, a summary of this music and all it encapsulates.” Check out our preview article here.
How much: 8, purchase tickets online. $10 at the door.

Summer Camp Open House (Sponsored)
When: Saturday, June 25, 11am-4pm
Where: Aviator Sports and Events Center, 3159 Flatbush Avenue
What: Aviator Sports and Events Center Camps are hosting a free Open House! Come check out all the new programs and activities for 2016!
How much: Free
More info: Contact Jason Vasquez at 718-758-7510 or camps@aviatorsports.com.

Puppetry Arts Park Slope Family Festival
When: Saturday, June 25, 11am-3pm
Where: J.J. Byrne Park, 4th Street at 5th Avenue
What: Brooklyn-Puppetry Arts New York will host its annual Family Festivals in Park Slope and Red Hook Brooklyn this year with an array of crafts, games, prizes and special guests. For over 12 years, known for its family programming and civic outreach, Puppetry Arts has a line up of fun for children of all ages. Activities include puppet making crafts, bounce house, decorate your own tote bag, spin art and more. Meet Tuffy Tiger and characters from Star Wars.
How much: Free Admission $2-$4 activities, $5 tote decorating, $4 Bounce House. First 200 kids get a free Puppetry Arts Trick-or-Treab Goodie Bag.

Site:Brooklyn presents Landscape: A Sense of Place [Closing weekend]
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.

Special Post NYC PRIDE Celebration at Excelsior Bar
When: Sunday, June 26 at 9pm
Where: Excelsior Bar, 563 5th Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets)
What: Celebrate Pride weekend with The House of Mimosa.

Jay Friedenberg: The Panoramic Landscape
When: 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.