Weekend Art Events: July 6-8 (Peter Pan, Dance Me, Old Ass Broadway Live! & More)

The weekend will be a bit on the quieter side for those who didn’t go away for the 4th of July, but Pioneer Works is presenting Software For Artists Day, the Brooklyn Museum is hosting its Target First Saturday, and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival continues with dance and musical performances.

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

Wendy Darling & Peter Pan
When: Thursday, July 5 through Saturday, July 21 at 8pm (Thursdays through Saturdays)
Where: Old Stone House & Washington Park, 336 3rd Street, Park Slope
What: Don’t miss Piper Theatre’s 13th annual outdoor show presented at the Old Stone House and Washington Park. This year’s production is an adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that transforms the park into Wendy’s house, Neverland, and the Darling children’s nursery. Read more about Wendy Darling & Peter Pan here.
How Much: Free (donations gladly accepted)

Software for Artists Day
When: Friday, July 6 (7pm to 10pm) through Saturday, July 7 (10am to 7pm)
Where: Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook
What: Now in its fourth year, the Software for Artists Day (S4AD) conference aims to remove the boundaries between artists, technologists, and activists through discussions and demonstrations. Saturday will offer four breakout sessions with “interactive experiences providing insight and inspiration for future art/technology collaborations.”
How Much: Tickets $25, includes drinks and lunch throughout the conference.

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal: Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me
When: Friday, July 6, 8pm (gates open at 7pm)
Where: Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West & 9th Street, Park Slope
What: Originally commissioned before Leonard Cohen’s death in 2016, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal presents, as part of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, the U.S premiere of Dance Me, an homage to the icon’s music.
How Much: Free

Old Ass Broadway Live! At Union Hall
When: Friday, July 6, 8pm
Where: Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Park Slope
What: This musical comedy variety show stars “Broadway legends you’ve never heard of,” Betty Blanche and Crystal Rogers Sr., performing numbers from never-before-seen Broadway shows including “Not Drunk Anymore, Yet!,” “White Thanksgiving”, and Cole Porter’s “Lion Queen.”
How Much: Tickets $5 in advance, $10 at door

Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday: Reimagining Independence
When: Saturday, July 7, 5pm to 10pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights
What: In observance of Independence Day, join the Brooklyn Museum in celebrating the voices of immigrant and diasporic communities, artists, and activists working to redefine independence for their communities. There will be lots of performances throughout the evening including Brooklyn Raga Massive playing works inspired by Indian classical music; Flor de Toloache, NYC’s first and only all-women mariachi group, playing its take on traditional Mexican music; and singer-songwriter Abir performing soulful pop influenced by the jazz and R&B she listened to while growing up in Morocco.
How Much: Free

Rhye / Natalie Prass / Overcoats
When: Saturday, July 7, 7pm (gates open at 6pm)
Where: Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West & 9th Street, Park Slope
What: The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert series continues with performances by the modern R&B collective Rhye, neo-soul singer/songwriter Natalie Prass, and the electro-folk duo Overcoats.
How Much: Free

Boogie Woogie Independence Day!
When: Saturday, July 7, 8pm
Where: On Stage At Kingsborough, Kingsborough Community College, Kingsborough’s Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Manhattan Beach
What: Continue celebrating Independence Day with the trio Duchess who will perform patriotic tunes and American classics from the Andrews Sisters and Boswell Sisters including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Heebie Jeebies, and more.
How Much: Free

3rd Annual Stickball Hall of Fame Day
When: Sunday, July 8, 3pm (gates open at 2:30pm)
Where: MCU Park, 1904 Surf Avenue, Coney Island
What: The Brooklyn Cyclones will host the 3rd Annual Stickball Hall of Fame Game between the Brooklyn and Staten Island stickball teams followed by a screening of Jay Cusato’s 27-minute stickball documentary When Broomsticks Were King. Stick around for the Cyclones game against Staten Island at 4pm.
How Much: Tickets $14

Archipelago New York—A Secret Island World In Plain Sight By Thomas Halaczinsky
When: Exhibition on view through Saturday, July 21
Where: Waterfront Museum, 290 Conover Street, Red Hook
What: This exhibition features images from more than 3,000 nautical miles taken by Thomas Halaczinsky who from 2011 to 2016 retraced the travels of Adriaen Block. In 1614, Block set sail on his 30-foot sailboat Sojourn to map more than 70 islands from the New York City Harbor to Fishers Island Sound bordering Long Island, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

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.

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