Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Weekend

Ditmas Park's Lucius will play at Celebrate Brooklyn this Saturday. Photo by David Brendan Hall Photography, via Lucius.
Ditmas Park’s Lucius will play at Celebrate Brooklyn this Saturday. Photo by David Brendan Hall Photography, via Lucius.

Happy Thursday, everyone! There’s a ton you can do this weekend, including attend a meeting about participatory budgeting tonight, get your groove on at a free concert by Ditmas Park’s Lucius at Celebrate Brooklyn, join thousands of neighbors at the annual Flatbush Avenue Street Fair, chow down at Sycamore’s 6th annual Crawfish Boil, celebrate Coffee Mob’s second anniversary, and lots more! If you have events you’d like added to the calendar, let us know! Email us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com.

And add your events, plus check out more happenings in our neighborhood, on our community calendar!

Thursday, June 11

• Free chocolate & wine tasting at the Brooklyn ARTery, 5-7pm.
• Grab a picnic dinner and head over to PS 217 for a free outdoor concert, 6-7pm.
Queen Cobra Thai serves up their tasty eats at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court, 6pm.
• Join neighbors for a meeting about participatory budgeting in Ditmas Park, 7-9pm.
• Barbados’ legendary Krosfyah performs a free concert at Celebrate Brooklyn, 7:30-10:30pm.
JJ Appleton plays his acoustic roots & blues at Bar Chord, 9pm.

Friday, June 12

• Join the drop-in sing-alongs with Lloyd H. Miller at Lark Café, 10 & 11am.
• Get in shape at Shape Up NYC’s free cardio toning class at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center, 12-1pm.
• Meet fellow moms and dads at the New Parent Meet-Up, Lark Cafe, 1pm.
Johnny Lupiani’s Awesome BBQ is dishing up food at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court, 4pm.
Happy hour with babies and ice cream happy hour are at Lark, 4pm.
• Free wine tasting at Kings County Wines, every Friday from 6-8pm.
• Get your heart rate up and explore the neighborhood with Ditmas Rides, meeting in front of the Cortelyou Library at 7pm.
• Bassist & singer Esperanza Spalding plays a free concert at Celebrate Brooklyn, 7:30-10:30pm.
• Neighbor Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco is at Prospect Park’s Lakeside ($18, buy tickets here), 7:30-10pm.
The Serpentones perform their Brooklyn honky-tonk at Bar Chord, 9pm.
Rahlou is at Sycamore, 10pm.

Saturday, June 13

• Lavender Blues Sing-Along at Lark Cafe, 9:30 & 10:30am.
• Join ShapeUp NYC for a free cardio sculpt class at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center, 11am.
• The Brooklyn Bird Club leads an intro to birdwatching class at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center, 12-1pm.
• Attend a free Sahaja yoga meditation at the Cortelyou Library, 12:30pm.
Burma Noodle Bar whips up their culinary creations at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court, 4pm.
• Join thousands of people for this year’s PopUp Dinner Brooklyn in Prospect Park ($35), 5-10pm.
• Ditmas Park’s Lucius plays at a free concert at Celebrate Brooklyn, 7:30-10:30pm.
Beninghove’s Hangmen play their “surf noir” at Bar Chord, 9pm.

Sunday, June 14

• Check out all the fresh veggies, fruit, and more at the Cortelyou Greenmarket (Cortelyou between Argyle and Rugby), 8am-3pm.
Celebrate Coffee Mob’s second anniversary with free ice cream (for kids), music and more, 10am-4pm.
• Kids yoga with Jen at Lark Café, 10am.
• Sing along with Amy Miles at Lark Café, 11am.
• Join thousands of your neighbors for the annual Flatbush Avenue Street Fair, 12-6pm.
• We are hardcore drooling over the menu for Sycamore’s 6th annual Crawfish Boil (Louisiana-style crawfish boil with Andouille sausage, sweet corn, red potatoes, corn bread pudding, Southern slaw, a Watermelon margarita wedge, to name just some of it). The event is $30; buy tickets here. Seatings at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm.
• Cortelyou Jazz Jam at Bar Chord, 9pm.