Slope Weekend Events Spotlight: March 25-27
Welcome to the weekend, which features many events: the raunchiest show, a cuckoo’s nest on stage, album release parties, and a lot more! Don’t miss some of our favorite events from around the area:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
When: Through March 27. (Check ticket calendar for specific dates and times.) Closes this weekend.
Where: The Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues)
What: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is based on the novel by Ken Kesey, and adapted for the stage by Dale Wasserman. Cuckoo’s Nest continues Gallery’s 49th Season. Directed by Mark Harborth. Read our review here.
How much: $18, $15 for children and seniors.
The Raunchiest Show with Jo and Aparna
When: Friday, March 25, Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
Where: Union Hall, 702 Union Street and 5th Avenue
What: Get ready to get wet! Join Aparna Nancherla (Totally Biased, Asexual Twinkle Light) and Jo Firestone (TCGS, Troll Doll with No Genitals) as they attempt to paint the town blue. Each show, these walking pussies invite their favorite non-sexual friends to try performing their own raunchy material for the first and maybe last time. Remember, there’s no time like your first (wink! wink! anal!)! CUM see the asexual become very, very sexual. With Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla, Anna Drezen, Julio Torres, Chris Duffy, Josh Rabinowitz, and Ashley Brooke Roberts.
How much: $8 in advance. Purchase tickets here.
The Interface Theory Album Release Party
When: Friday, March 25 10pm
Where: Freddy’s, 627 5th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
What: Ethan Cullinan (vocals/piano), Javier F. Urrutia (guitar), Joe Stamm (Bass), and Pepe Benavides (Drums) come together for a night of celebration. The new concept album “Maya” will be released, including their singles: Homeland, Straight Line, and Chromoscope. These talented musicians explore new soundscapes through rich textures, creative compositions, and evocative lyrics. You cannot miss this live show!
Kon Boogie’s Spaceships Album Release Show
When: Friday, March 25, 8:00pm
Where: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
What: Close your eyes and imagine that you had never heard Hip Hop. That you had never been influenced by the culture – the beat box, the clothes, the sound, the graffiti, the DJ, nor the command of the MC. Just think if Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five never gave you “The Message” or if Common never “Used to Love H.E.R”. Who or where or what would you be, because we both know that you wouldn’t be … the person you are now.
How much: $10 in advance. Purchase tickets here.
The Rub
When: Saturday, March 26, 10pm
Where: The Bell House, 149 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: The Rub began in the summer of 2002, as a party where Brooklynites with good taste in music could come together, get wasted and dance until the wee hours of the morning. Even in that first year, it was clearly something special, garnering praise from the Village Voice (“best party in Brooklyn to dance sweatily to smart music”), New York Press (“best party in NYC”) and many others. Ten years later, the original formula still holds true: great dance music mixed well, affordable drinks, and real people; no dress code, no bottle service and no celebrity DJs.
How much: $10 before midnight and $15 after. Tickets available at the door.
Videokaffe presents Para-sites & Proto-types, A Participatory Installation
When: Thursdays-Saturdays, 2pm-6pm. Through March 26. Closes this weekend.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: Videokaffe is an art collective known for occupying spaces for intensive work periods and throughout March will harness their members’ skills and the surrounding’s materials to create artworks acutely engaged with their place at Open Source. Para-sites & Proto-types will transform the gallery into a ‘science-garage-arcade’ using the space as a combination exhibition venue, cafeteria, and workshop open to the public. Videokaffe will work on-site at the gallery, scouring and collecting from the local environment to create work by integrating found and recycled materials with ready-made components. They will exhibit their methods of working, encouraging conversation with the public–and inviting interested viewers to participate in various aspects of the project. Para-sites & Proto-types aims to build artwork uniquely formed from and with their environment by recycling objects and testing environmental possibilities. Instead of installing finished work within the gallery, Para-sites & Proto-types will integrate art into the urban architecture surrounding Open Source, celebrating how art nurtures the environment and how the environment nurtures art.
How much: Free.
House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869-1922
When: Through May 30. 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.
Gowanus Waters: An Exhibition by Steven Hirsch
When: Through April 3. Regular hours, Thursdays and Fridays, 3pm-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-7pm. Through April 3.
Where: Gowanus Souvenir Shop, 543 Union Street (the entrance is on Nevins Street, and down the alley, and on the left)
What: Gowanus Waters is the result of Hirsch’s multi-year effort to capture the Gowanus Canal’s toxic water surfaces and render them as abstract compositions. His painterly images swirl in a frenzy of elusive shapes and bright explosive colors. The result is a meditation on the sublime beauty and remarkable abstractions on the surface of the canal that remains fully aware of the noxious origin.
How much: Free
Smorgasburg and The Brooklyn Flea at Industry City
When: Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26, 10am-6pm [Note: Last weekend at Industry City]
Where: Industry City, 241 37th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
What: Last Fall, Smorgasburg 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). Smorgasburg will be heading back up to Prospect Park on April 3.