Weekend Art Events: July 27-29 (Tastes of Brooklyn, Animation Fest, Brooklyn Roots Festival & More)

This last weekend of July (!) is packed with events that the whole family can enjoy, including animation, food, music, and more!

Check the BKLYNER Calendar for more events happening around town or to list one of your own.

Tinariwen | Cheick Hamala Diabate
When: Friday, July 27, 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 Grammy Award-winning, “guitar shredding desert blues group” Tinariwen, originally from the Sahara Desert region of Northern Mali. The night’s opener is Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate, playing the n’goni, a plucked lute.
How Much: Free

Animation Block Party
When: Friday, July 27 through Sunday, July 29
Where: BAM, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene
What: Now in its 15th year, the East Coast’s largest animation festival returns to BAM to showcase eclectic programs featuring professional, independent, and student animated films. Read more about the Animation Block Party here.
How Much: Tickets $15, $11 children/seniors

Endangered Heart Quartet
When: Friday, July 27 at 8pm
Where: Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water Street, Brooklyn Bridge Park
What: Check out this “elastic group of composer-musicians” made up of Roy Nathanson on saxophone, Curtis Fowlkes on trombone, Tim Kiah on double-bass, and Jesse Mills on violin. Read more about Endangered Heart Quartet here.
How Much: Tickets $40, $35 seniors, $20 students

Wes Modes Presents A Secret History Of American River People
When: Exhibition on view Saturday, July 28 through Sunday, September 16 (artist reception Thursday, August 2 from 7pm to 9pm)
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.

Concert In Fort Greene Park
When: Saturday, July 28, starting at 9am
Where: Fort Greene Park (Washington Park & Willoughby Ave. entrance), Fort Greene
What: Brooklyn Music School’s talented students perform a free outdoor concert at the Fort Greene Park Artisan Market.

Sip. Shop. Eat!
When: Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29, 12pm to 6pm
Where: Beyond Studios NYC, 272 Siegel Street, East Williamsburg
What: Food, Style, and Drinks are the focus of this weekend pop-up market. Sip custom drinks; shop a curated selection of vintage clothing, art, home goods, beauty products, candles, and more; and sample food and desserts from local vendors.
How Much: Tickets $5 to $25

Downtown Brooklyn Presents: Pop-Up Beach Party
When: Saturday, July 28, 4pm to 6pm
Where: Albee Square (corner of Fulton and Bond Streets), Downtown Brooklyn
What: Live music by reggae performers Meta and the Cornerstones will set the beach party mood while attendees play badminton, make sand art, and pose for pictures at a beach-themed photo booth. Read more here.
How Much: Free

South Slope Summer Stroll, Part 2
When: Saturday, July 28, 5pm to 9pm
Where: 5th Avenue, 12th to 18th Streets, Park Slope
What: Enjoy car-free streets and free activities including a rockwall, bouncy house, face painting, bubbles, a giant chess board, a pop-up park, live music, and vintage cars. At 6:30pm, South Brooklyn Shakespeare will stage a special performance of A Winter’s Tale between 17th and 18th Streets.

Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind | Kaki King Featuring Treya Lam
When: Saturday, July 28, 7:30pm (gates open at 6:30pm)
Where: Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West & 9th Street, Park Slope
What: BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! presents Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli collaborator Isao Takahata’s 1984 animated masterpiece about a warrior princess fighting to save a toxic jungle and its giant insects from “an ancient weapon of unimaginable power.” Brooklyn-based guitarist Kaki King and multi-instrumentalist Treya Lam perform opening sets.
How Much: Free

Everything Old Is New Again!
When: Saturday, July 28 at 8pm
Where: On Stage At Kingsborough, Kingsborough Community College, Kingsborough’s Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Manhattan Beach
What: Jason Prover and The Sneak Thievery Orchestra bring new energy to the tradition of early jazz, performing their interpretations of Jazz Age favorites including “Fascinatin’ Rhythm,” “I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket,” and “West End Blues.”
How Much: Free

Brooklyn Roots Festival
When: Sunday, July 29, 1pm to 7pm
Where: Prospect Park Children’s Corner (Willink entrance at Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard) and Lefferts Historic House (located in the Children’s Corner near the Willink entrance), Prospect-Lefferts Gardens
What: The Prospect Park Alliance and the Brooklyn Arts Council present the Brooklyn Roots Festival as part of BAC’s summer-long Tradition as Resistance Festival. The daylong folk arts fest celebrates Brooklyn’s traditional artists and immigrant communities through performances, workshops, interactive family activities, and more. The festival’s Main Stage will feature Palestinian dance, Haitian drumming, Afro-Puerto Rican drum and dance, and other groups representing Yiddish, Serbian, and the African diaspora. The Lefferts Historic House will present a kid’s section with music, dance, puppets, and more.

Tastes of Brooklyn (Sponsored)
When: Sunday, July 29, 2pm to 6pm
Where: Various locations in Carroll Gardens & Cobble Hill
What: Take a stroll along historic, charming streets at the Carroll Gardens & Cobble Hill Summer Food Crawl. Sample sumptuous food and drink from local culinary talent from more than 15 food establishments—plus doggie tastes and a youth-run Hip2B Healthy Market. Carroll Park will host free family-friendly art, dance, and music activities during the same hours as the food crawl.
How Much: Tickets $20 for 4 tastes, $50 for 11 tastes

Opera On Tap New Brew Series Presents Quince Ensemble (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.

Looking ahead to next Friday, the 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

On Reflection
When: Exhibition on view from Wednesday, May 23 through Saturday, July 28
Where: Urban Glass, Agnes Varis Art Center, 647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene
What: An exhibition bringing together the work of six artists who work with reflective surfaces to explore reflection in the physical sense and to reflect the conditions of contemporary experience.

Pink and Green 2, The Hype Series in 3D | AngelOnce x GoopMassta
When: Exhibition on view from Friday, June 29 through Sunday, July 29
Where: 3RD ETHOS Gallery, 154 Knickerbocker Avenue, Bushwick
What: Two West Coast artists AngelOnce (creator of Angry Charlie, the pink elephant) and GoopMassta (creator of hip hop frog) collaborate in NYC for the first time, transforming 3RD ETHOS gallery into a “3D experience of eye-popping colors, retro themes, and animal prints.”

Fernando Carpaneda “New Portraits”
When: On view from Saturday, June 23 through Sunday, July 29 (appointment only)
Where: MF Gallery, 213 Bond Street (between Baltic & Butler St.), Gowanus
What: An exhibition of new paintings and drawings by the New York-based Brazilian artist depicting the beauty and sensuality of men and women. The works aim to provoke questions about equality and inspire acceptance of diversity in human sexuality.

GOD IS TRANS
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.”

Bedstuy Flea
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.

Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus
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.

Coney Island Creek and the Natural World
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