Things To Do In Kensington & Windsor Terrace This Weekend

Taylor Mac will perform at Celebrate Brooklyn on Saturday night. Photo courtesy of Celebrate Brooklyn
Taylor Mac will perform at Celebrate Brooklyn on Saturday night. Photo courtesy of Celebrate Brooklyn

Happy Friday, everyone! This weekend, you can go to a free concert at Greenwood Playground, meet your best new furry friend at Adoptapalooza in Prospect Park, and lots more.

If you have an upcoming event you’d like featured in our calendar, or if there’s anything we’ve left off, let us know! Post your events in our community calendar or email us at editor@kensingtonbk.com.

Friday, July 31

• 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, 4-11pm.
Happy hour with babies and ice cream happy hour are at Lark, 4pm.
• Listen to pianist Albert Marques perform at Kettle & Thread, 5:30-7pm.
• Free wine tasting at Kings County Wines, every Friday from 6-8pm.
• See student musicians from across the country perform at the Brooklyn Pipe Organ Encounter recital concert at the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church, 6:30pm.
• Get your heart rate up and explore the neighborhood with Ditmas Rides, meeting in front of the Cortelyou Library at 7pm.
• See the documentary “Life and Debt” for free at All Souls Bethlehem Church, 7:30pm.
• Listen to an evening of jazz at Kettle & Thread, 7:30-9pm.
Big K.R.I.T. performs at Celebrate Brooklyn, 7:30pm.
• Neighbor Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco is at Prospect Park’s Lakeside ($18, buy tickets here), 7:30-10pm.
Jake G & the Soul Vibrance take you on a soul expedition at Bar Chord, 9pm.
Rahlou is at Sycamore, 10pm.

Saturday, August 1

• Bring your pups to Prospect Park’s Long Meadow for the free Coffee Bark, which will include goodies for dogs and their owners, 7-9am.
• Check out all the locally grown fruits, veggies and more at the Kensington Youthmarket, 8am-4pm.
• See our beautiful E. 4th Street Community Garden during its visiting hours, 9am-1pm.
• Check out the toys, clothes and more for sale at Greenwood Playground, 10am-1pm.
• Bring the kids to dance and sing their hearts out at a Brooklyn Bass Daddy concert at Greenwood Playground, 11am.
• Meet more than 150 dogs and cats up for adoption at Prospect Park’s Adoptapalooza, 11am-5pm.
• Go to a free Natural Healthcare Solutions With Essential Oils workshop at the Family of Light Holistic Center (there will be free gifts, samples and tastings!), 11am.
Go rowing for free at Prospect Park Lake, 12-4pm.
• Go foraging in Prospect Park ($30, buy tickets here), 12-2pm.
• The Brooklyn Bird Club leads an intro to birdwatching class at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center, 12-1pm.
• Relax at the free Sahaja yoga meditation at the Cortelyou Library, 12:30pm.
• Kids ages 15 and under can take free fishing clinics at Prospect Park’s Eastwood, 1pm & 3pm.
• Play historic games at the Lefferts Historic House, 2-5pm.
Burma Noodle Bar whips up their culinary creations at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court, 4-11pm.
• Free family bird watching at Prospect Park’s Eastwood, 4:30pm.
Taylor Mac performs at Celebrate Brooklyn, 7:30pm.
Ethoscope performs at Bar Chord, 9pm.
Chevy Lopez performs at Bar Chord, 9pm.

Sunday, August 2

• See our beautiful E. 4th Street Community Garden during its visiting hours, 10am-2pm.
• Sing-along with Amy Miles at Lark Café, 10am.
• Bring the kids to a sing-along with Amy Miles at Elk Coffee ($8 per family), 11am.
• Kids ages 15 and under can take free fishing clinics at Prospect Park’s Eastwood, 1pm & 3pm.
Wig Doctor spins a mix of old Jamaican, funk and soul tunes every Sunday at Coffee Mob, 2-5pm.
• Play historic games at the Lefferts Historic House, 2-5pm.
• Free family bird watching at Prospect Park’s Eastwood, 4:30pm.
• Cortelyou Jazz Jam at Bar Chord, 9pm.