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# Weekend Art Events: August 3-5 (International Day Of Friendship, Hindu Lamp Ceremony, Degraw Fest & More)
- URL: https://bklyner.com/weekend-art-events-august-3-5/
- Published: 2018-08-02T15:18:51.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-02T15:18:51.000Z
- Author: Pamela Wong
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Central Brooklyn, Eastern Brooklyn, Events, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, northern brooklyn, Southern Brooklyn, Western Brooklyn, Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony, Artichoke Dance Company, Barbes, Bedstuy Flea, black panther, BRIC celebrate brooklyn, brooklyn army terminal, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Canal To Coast: Lock Step & Artists On The Erie, #wp

It’s August! Get out and enjoy the dog days of summer before they pass us by.

Catch a movie or a concert, celebrate Brooklyn’s diversity, adopt a furry companion, and more this weekend.

Check the [**BKLYNER Calendar**](/calendar/) for more events happening around town or to list one of your own.

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**[Opera On Tap New Brew Series Presents Quince Ensemble](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oot-new-brew-and-friends-presents-quince-ensemble-tickets-47828257606?ref=bklyner.com) (Sponsored)**  
**When:** Friday, August 3, 8pm  
**Where:** Barbes, 376 9th Street, Park Slope  
**What:** The Opera on Tap New Brew series brings you classical music written by some of today’s most exciting composers, presented in entertaining and irreverent programs by young singers and instrumentalists who relish the direct contact with audiences not inhibited in their reactions by the looming menace of giant chandeliers.

Friday’s program will feature Quince Ensemble, an all-female vocal chamber group, singing works by Kate Soper, Amy Beth Kirsten, Kaija Saariaho, Giacinto Scelsi, Gilda Lyons, Pascal Dusapin, and more!  
**How Much:** $10 suggested donation

[**Canal To Coast: Lock Step & Artists On The Erie**](https://www.artichokedance.org/current-events1/2018/8/3/lock-step-in-canal-to-coast?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Friday, August 3, 7pm to 9pm  
**Where:** Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Red Hook  
**What:** Artichoke Dance Company presents this dance on the barge that celebrates the bicentennial of the Erie Canal while reflecting movement along the waterway and through its lock system. A panel discussion with musician Chris Bell and maritime artist Marie Lorenz will follow the performance.  
**How Much:** [Tickets](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canal-to-coast-lock-step-artists-on-the-erie-tickets-47446132660?ref=bklyner.com) $2 performance, $5 boat ride

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Noname

[**Noname | Topaz Jones | Jazze Belle**](https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival/noname-topaz-jones-jazze-belle?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Friday, August 3, 7:30pm (gates open at 6:30pm)  
**Where:** Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West & 9th Street, Park Slope  
**What:** The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert series continues with a performance by the Chicago MC and poet Noname*.* Brooklyn rapper/singer Topaz Jones and Harlem duo Jazze Belle perform opening sets.  
**How Much:** Free

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[**Adoptapalooza**](http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/events/featured/adoptapalooza/index2018PP.htm?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, August 4, 12pm to 5pm (rain or shine)  
**Where:** Prospect Park, Bartel-Pritchard Square (Prospect Park West and 15th Street), Park Slope  
**What:** Find a new best friend at “NYC’s original mega pet adoption event.” The [Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals](http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/?ref=bklyner.com) hosts the event featuring cats and dogs looking for furever homes. All animals for adoption have been vaccinated, spayed or neutered. Adoption fees vary by organization.

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Via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/events/1988984748079948/)

[**We Are** **Brooklyn: A Community Block Party**](https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/we-are-brooklyn-community-block-party?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, August 4, 1pm to 5pm  
**Where:** Ingersoll Community Center, 177 Myrtle Avenue (on Fleet Place between Myrtle & Willoughby), Fort Greene  
**What:** BRIC, Artist-in-Residence Najee Omar, and The Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC) host this block party that brings together neighbors for a day of creativity, collaboration, and celebration of ICAC’s “core values of passion, liberation, family, courage, vision and truthfulness.” There will be music, dance, art-making, yoga, a community bike tour, and more.  
**How Much:** Free

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Via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/events/2176286532605743/)

[**Degraw Fest**](https://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/1708391?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, August 4, 2pm to 10pm  
**Where:** littlefield, 635 Sackett Street, Gowanus  
**What:** Ben Rice, owner of the recording studio Degraw Sound, hosts this second annual music festival showcasing artists produced by the studio, giving attendees the chance to hear new Brooklyn indie, pop, rock, folk, and Americana-influenced groups. The event will also feature an exhibition of work by music photographer Drew Reynolds, beer specials from Sixpoint Brewery, and a pop-up from Howlin’ Taco serving authentic Austin-style tacos.  
**How Much:** [Tickets](https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1708391?%5Fga=2.61647401.422588752.1533164079-98730619.1532996471&ref=bklyner.com) $10

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Via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynLampCeremony/photos/gm.2086977901550590/1049183638573068/?type=3&theater)

[**The Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony**](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aarti-hindu-lamp-ceremony-tickets-47821110228?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, August 4, 4pm to 8pm  
**Where:** Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pebble Beach  
**What:** All are invited to decorate palm leaf lamps and release them onto the East River with wishes for loved ones at this annual event. The Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony is traditionally presented to “convey gratitude to mother river” and “reflect on our community.” A traditional percussion ensemble will accompany the ceremony. Read about last year’s lamp ceremony [here](/a-new-brooklyn-tradition-aarti-hindu-lamp-ceremony-at-brooklyn-bridge-park/).

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Photo courtesy of Camille Ramos and Rooftop Films

[**Rooftop Films | *Black Panther***](https://www.rooftopfilms.com/event/black-panther/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, August 4, 7:30pm to 11pm  
**Where:** Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, Sunset Park  
**What:** Check out a free screening of Ryan Coogler’s record-breaking superhero film. Read more about the director and the movie [here](/black-panther-brooklyn-bam/).  
**How Much:** Free with [RSVP](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rooftop-films-black-panther-tickets-47487008922?aff=website&ref=bklyner.com)

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[**Brooklyn’s 5th Annual International Day Of Friendship**](http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/event/brooklyns-5th-annual-international-day-of-friendship/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Sunday, August 5, 1pm to 5pm  
**Where:** Brooklyn Borough Hall and Columbus Park, 209 Joralemon Street, Downtown Brooklyn  
**What:** Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosts this event celebrating the various cultures and ethnicities that make the borough so diverse. There will be a unity parade of flags, cultural performances, ethnic foods, and a global dance party. Read more about Brooklyn’s International Day of Friendship [here](/brooklyns-international-day-of-friendship/).  
**How Much:** Free

[**Canal To Coast: Oh! That Low Bridge!**](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canal-to-coast-oh-that-low-bridge-tickets-47557874884?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Sunday, August 5, 7pm to 9pm  
**Where:** Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Red Hook  
**What:** Singer/composer/folklorist George Ward sings and tells stories that illustrate the Erie Canal’s heyday. The grandson of a NYC ship’s chandler, Ward “connects the inland waterway—with its low bridges and mules—to the square riggers and floating grain elevators of New York City’s Upper Harbor.”  
**How Much:** [Tickets](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canal-to-coast-oh-that-low-bridge-tickets-47557874884?ref=bklyner.com) $2 performance, $5 boat ride

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Artist Genesis Tramaine, GOD IS TRANS on view at [Richard Beavers Gallery](https://www.facebook.com/richardbeaversgallery/photos/p.10160416571665319/10160416571665319/?type=1&theater)

[**GOD IS TRANS**](http://richardbeaversgallery.com/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Exhibition on view through Saturday, August 11  
**Where:** Richard Beavers Gallery, 408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard (at Halsey Street), Bed-Stuy  
**What:** Painter Genesis Tramaine presents a series of works that challenges the traditional belief that God is male and encourages viewers to consider God “outside of traditional gender binaries but as ‘trans’ – a spirit that occupies the spectrum between both genders.”

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Via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/bedstuyflea/photos/a.214887425977277.1073741829.202766393856047/214887405977279/?type=3&theater)

[**Bedstuy Flea**](https://bedstuyflea.tumblr.com/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Saturday, June 23 through Saturday, August 11, 11am to 7pm (Saturdays & Sundays)  
**Where:** The Meat Market, 380 Tompkins Avenue (between Putnam & Jefferson Ave.), Bed-Stuy  
**What:** This new summer shopping experience celebrates diversity and will feature more than 30 vendors offering sustainable goods, vintage clothing, handmade items, jewelry, wellness products, arts and crafts, and wares created in the five boroughs and beyond.

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Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus (Photo: courtesy of Public Art Fund)

[**Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus**](https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6641%5Ferwin%5Fwurm%5Fhot%5Fdog%5Fbus?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** On view from Saturday, June 9 through Sunday, August 26, 12pm to 6pm (weekends)  
**Where:** Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 and Pier 5  
**What:** The Austrian artist will be passing out free hot dogs to park visitors all summer from a bright yellow, overstuffed Volkswagen Microbus. The bloated-looking bus will force audiences to consider the relationship between capitalism and consumption in society. The Hot Dog Bus will be on view and serving free hot dogs at BBP’s Pier 1 on Saturdays and Pier 5 on Sundays.

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[**Coney Island Creek and the Natural World**](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/?ref=bklyner.com)  
**When:** Exhibition on view Saturday, May 26 through Monday, September 3 (open Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays)  
**Where:** The Coney Island History Project, 3059 West 12th Street (at the entrance to Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park), Coney Island  
**What:** Organized around a timeline of Coney Island Creek from 1645 to 2018, the exhibition illustrates Coney Island’s original attraction with maps, photographs, posters, art, artifacts, oral history, and video. The exhibition describes the Creek’s environment through history, art, and ecology.  
**How Much:** Free

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Wes Modes Presents A Secret History Of American River People (via [The Waterfront Museum](http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/events/exhibit/wes-modes-secret-history-american-river-people?utm%5Fsource=Eblast+7.24.2018&utm%5Fcampaign=E+blast+7%5F24%5F2018&utm%5Fmedium=email))

[**Wes Modes Presents A Secret History Of American River People**](http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/events/exhibit/wes-modes-secret-history-american-river-people?utm%5Fsource=Eblast+7.24.2018&utm%5Fcampaign=E+blast+7%5F24%5F2018&utm%5Fmedium=email)  
**When:** Exhibition on view Saturday, July 28 through Sunday, September 16  
**Where:** The Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Red Hook  
**What:** California artist Wes Modes traveled down the Hudson River in a recreation of a 1940s-era shantyboat, collecting stories from the people who live and work along the waterway. The artwork on view in this exhibition is part of a larger project spanning several years and covering multiple river communities.