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The Katra Film Series [http://www.katrafilmseries.com]returns to the Alamo Drafthouse Theater for its annual Summer Series, featuring original female-driven content highlighting the current political and sociological climate including a single mother running for office in Liberia, a dark comedy about gender in the workplace and a 1940s
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For the past nine years, the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (AoBFF) [https://www.theartofbrooklyn.org/] has been showcasing independent films as former The L Magazine once put it, “For Brooklyn, by Brooklyn and about Brooklyn”. The festival opens on June 1st and runs through June 9 at locations as
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Spend some time outdoors this weekend with a variety of events throughout Brooklyn! Explore Red Hook while enjoying some free barbecue and watching performances during Red Hook Fest. If you know a young reader, kick off the summer with BPL’s summer reading program—the theme this year is Universe
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Retailers along the Franklin Avenue retail corridor are joining the food crawl trend this Sunday with the first-ever Tastes of Franklin Festival. The event runs four hours from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm along Franklin Avenue between Park and Sterling Place on June 2. Try tastings
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CONEY ISLAND – City’s beaches officially open this Saturday, May 25, and Coney Island is again open for visitors all week long, with rides, boardwalk entertainment, and music to remind us there is more to life than just work, work, work, work, work. Best thing – most of it is free,
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There are a handful of indoor and outdoor events throughout Brooklyn this Memorial Day weekend. Dance the night away at a silent disco at The Well or celebrate Memorial Day with a concert featuring The New York City Symphonic Band at Green-Wood Cemetery. This is also the last weekend to
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DUMBO – Live At The Archway [https://dumbo.is/live-at-the-archway], the performance and art series staged under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, returns for a fifth season presenting free programming on Thursday nights for 11 weeks throughout the summer. Live at the Archway, September 15, 2017, © Julienne SchaerThis year’s series
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CLINTON HILL – Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/summer/] will present a packed schedule of outdoor programs this summer including lunchtime concerts, fitness classes, kids’ activities, and more. A live performance at Myrtle Avenue Plaza in 2018 (Photo: Samuel Stuart, courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)All of the
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This is the perfect weekend to spend exploring Brooklyn! With great weather and even greater events, there’s something going on this weekend that the entire family can enjoy. Catch a special screening of Paris to Pittsburgh presented by National Geographic as part of Endangered Species Day or stop by
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RED HOOK – Falconworks Theater Company [https://falconworkstheater.org/] will debut a new original production, I Migration, at Red Hook’s Waterfront Museum [http://waterfrontmuseum.org/home] on Thursday, May 16. Artwork by Yanling (Ivy) Hou and Reg FlowersUsing music and stories culled from historical sources as well as current narratives,
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Several events are planned across the borough in the coming weeks to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth (May 31, 1819). Walt Whitman (Photographer George C. Cox, 1887) via Wikimedia CommonsWhitman lived in Brooklyn for 28 years, working as a printer, teacher, journalist, and an editor for
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DITMAS PARK – Stars of the new filming of the police crime drama “21 Bridges” were just a bit shy with the cameras this past Saturday, especially A-list actor Chadwick Boseman of “Black Panther” fame who emerged from a mock shooting inside a landmark home in a hood with production assistants